It's anything that keeps you from being able to offer your service to the net, hence a "Denial of Service" attack.
Exploiting all the bandwidth of an ftp is certainly a DoS attack if it keeps others from being able to download those files, same as having thousands repeatedly hit a web site to take it down is a DoS.
Typcially DoS's are accomplished through pingfloods and the like, but that's not the only definition.
The dreamcast has an EXCELLENT community built up around homebrew.
There is an awesome library/miniOS called KOS which gives you hooks into everything, you compile with an SH4/ARM crosscompiled gcc, and it's easy to do once you're set up.
http://dcdev.allusion.net/
The PS2 homebrew crowd is JUST STARTING to get off the ground, but there's still problems of having to hack your ps2 with a soldering iron to get it to boot a cdr/etc, as well as very weak library support.
Homebrew console programming is very fun, but go for dreamcast, ESPECIALLY with how cheap dc's are right now.
There's even ways to get a serial cable hooked up, so you get debug info and can upload your program without burning a disc every revision.
Looking at the code red virus it was obvious it was going for a hole in the indexing server.
What's this one going after?
Just IIS web server itself?
It'd be almost amusing if this was just some script kiddie with a bunch of zombies trying to cause a virus "scare" (ie hitting a bunch of boxes with a peculiar looking URL, making everyone think it's a worm).
I'm not saying it's not a virus, just it would be amusing...
Considering that vmware is 300$, I doubt they even care about your typical linux enthousiast who wants to play some windows games. You could ALMOST buy a good cheap game playing box for that 300$ nowadays.
I work doing integrations, and would almost not be able to work without VMWare. We have gigs and gigs of vm's here, already set up. You can use it almost like a quick ghost, only you can have 2, 3, 4 on 1 machine, and don't have to blow away the base machine.
Plus if one goes down, just do like someone said earlier, doubleclick the.vmx and restart it.
If I need to do testing with version x of our product and version y of another product with theirs on linux and ours on winnt4 SP4, it's no problem. Just load up the vms, change the configs, and test away.
Buying copies of VMWare for game playing or to run Office is just rediculous! Talk about wrong tool for the wrong job...
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"Removed the cost of distribution" ?
I can almost guarantee that this slashdotting will cost him 500$ or more in bandwidth fees.
Lowtax of sa.com (not the real site, i'm not gonna have him slashdotted too, you either know the site or you don't) has said that it costs him up to 2-4k$ a month in bandwidth fees. Possibly more, as he won't tell anyone an exact number.
Check out penny arcade's donation page with the meter... they're paying almost 5k$ a month.
This is out of pocket. Many are going to micropayments now, for obvious reasons.
But once you get more than 20-30 regular readers, cost of distribution becomes HUGE. It used to be that you could get some cheap ads to at least cover bandwidth, but unless you're willing to go popup crazy, ads will only pay a small %. The rest is out of these people's pockets.
My company aweseome with training (motive communications, www.motive.com).
We have a great internal training department with constant ongoing classes for our own software (new releases/detailed technical classes/overviews/etc) that we can schedule any time out to take.
We've also just sent some of our dude's to solaris training for a week.
We're not the gung ho "send EVERYONE to training for a month" type, but if you need to know something and don't, we just ask teh manager and he hooks us up.
They're doing the FreeBSD port for free and giving it out.
They probably thought "hey, we could do osx, linux, bsd, solaris, or xyz. I like freebsd, and we want to throw our support behind the bsd license, so lets do that one"
Plus it's a nice "we're gonna stay distanced from linux" type stance. They're not forbidding you to make your own (he even says the community can make their own) THEY'RE just not going to do it for you.
This is a powerVR chip.
And specs ARE available. I'm not going to do your searching for you, but check out libdream and KOS. They are bsd licensed dev libraries/OS kernel that allow use of the pvr Tile Accelerator.
The people doing the porting just wanted to get it working i'm sure, and it'd be good if they look at the docs/etc to make the next release fast.
XMAME at 9fps with 8frameskip is NOT really usable:P
All I see here is a rambling few paragraphs by a college student who needs to learn how to write a paper. He goes on and on for paragraphs about mp3's then closes his statements with a few lines about XP's WPA.
There's nothing here that any of us can argue about, as there's no real point to the article!
IIS is not installed by default for win2k professional, which is what most people run. Win2kserver is for...... SERVERS! And if you're running a web server, you know it's running.
It's not like everyone running win2kprof has a rogue web server running, you have to stick the disk back in after install, say "install addons," choose IIS, etc.
Heard of ACPI? It's been the standard for a while, and Win2k is the only OS that really supports it. If your hardware wont work sharing IRQ's, blame the hardware, not win2k.
I'm running a gf2mx, sblive, nic all on irq 11 through acpi, no hitches.
You can go to your bios and tell it "NO" for plug and play OS, and "NO" for ACPI support, and win2k will go into legacy mode and let you set irq's yourself.
My work used verio for hosting/etc for a while and finally dumped them. Our "T1" line was maxing out at 20KBps TOTAL combined, and the link to our servers went down at least once a week, and upon calling tech support we'd get put on hold for 1 1/2 - 2 hours. We affectionatly referred to them as "VeriSlo" also.
Just FYI, it was announced quite a while ago that the PSX2 WILL indeed support DVD playback, and even has an optical DTS/DolbyDigital output for direct hookup into a reciever. Check http://www.playstation.com for details, as well as http://psx.ign.com .
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His point is saying it's a network NOT ATTACHED TO THE INTERNET.
He's not saying "oh look I have a firewall/NAT/etc and I'm secure."
He's saying "I have 4 computers hooked together by a hub and not connected to anything else, lets see you hack it".
A DOS attack does not HAVE to be a ping flood.
It's anything that keeps you from being able to offer your service to the net, hence a "Denial of Service" attack.
Exploiting all the bandwidth of an ftp is certainly a DoS attack if it keeps others from being able to download those files, same as having thousands repeatedly hit a web site to take it down is a DoS.
Typcially DoS's are accomplished through pingfloods and the like, but that's not the only definition.
Problem:
The network stack for the dreamcast has some serious delay.
Something along the lines of 10ms+.
This is due to interrupt problems or somesuch, I'm not certain about the details, I just know it's there.
The dreamcast has an EXCELLENT community built up around homebrew.
There is an awesome library/miniOS called KOS which gives you hooks into everything, you compile with an SH4/ARM crosscompiled gcc, and it's easy to do once you're set up.
http://dcdev.allusion.net/
The PS2 homebrew crowd is JUST STARTING to get off the ground, but there's still problems of having to hack your ps2 with a soldering iron to get it to boot a cdr/etc, as well as very weak library support.
Homebrew console programming is very fun, but go for dreamcast, ESPECIALLY with how cheap dc's are right now.
There's even ways to get a serial cable hooked up, so you get debug info and can upload your program without burning a disc every revision.
Better support will not be found!
Looking at the code red virus it was obvious it was going for a hole in the indexing server.
What's this one going after?
Just IIS web server itself?
It'd be almost amusing if this was just some script kiddie with a bunch of zombies trying to cause a virus "scare" (ie hitting a bunch of boxes with a peculiar looking URL, making everyone think it's a worm).
I'm not saying it's not a virus, just it would be amusing...
I'm predicting about 15k "BUT THAT MEANS IT'S NOT FREE!" replies to that comment!
Considering that vmware is 300$, I doubt they even care about your typical linux enthousiast who wants to play some windows games. You could ALMOST buy a good cheap game playing box for that 300$ nowadays.
.vmx and restart it.
I work doing integrations, and would almost not be able to work without VMWare. We have gigs and gigs of vm's here, already set up. You can use it almost like a quick ghost, only you can have 2, 3, 4 on 1 machine, and don't have to blow away the base machine.
Plus if one goes down, just do like someone said earlier, doubleclick the
If I need to do testing with version x of our product and version y of another product with theirs on linux and ours on winnt4 SP4, it's no problem. Just load up the vms, change the configs, and test away.
Buying copies of VMWare for game playing or to run Office is just rediculous! Talk about wrong tool for the wrong job...
"Removed the cost of distribution" ?
I can almost guarantee that this slashdotting will cost him 500$ or more in bandwidth fees.
Lowtax of sa.com (not the real site, i'm not gonna have him slashdotted too, you either know the site or you don't) has said that it costs him up to 2-4k$ a month in bandwidth fees. Possibly more, as he won't tell anyone an exact number.
Check out penny arcade's donation page with the meter... they're paying almost 5k$ a month.
This is out of pocket. Many are going to micropayments now, for obvious reasons.
But once you get more than 20-30 regular readers, cost of distribution becomes HUGE. It used to be that you could get some cheap ads to at least cover bandwidth, but unless you're willing to go popup crazy, ads will only pay a small %. The rest is out of these people's pockets.
My company aweseome with training (motive communications, www.motive.com).
We have a great internal training department with constant ongoing classes for our own software (new releases/detailed technical classes/overviews/etc) that we can schedule any time out to take.
We've also just sent some of our dude's to solaris training for a week.
We're not the gung ho "send EVERYONE to training for a month" type, but if you need to know something and don't, we just ask teh manager and he hooks us up.
They're doing the FreeBSD port for free and giving it out.
They probably thought "hey, we could do osx, linux, bsd, solaris, or xyz. I like freebsd, and we want to throw our support behind the bsd license, so lets do that one"
Plus it's a nice "we're gonna stay distanced from linux" type stance. They're not forbidding you to make your own (he even says the community can make their own) THEY'RE just not going to do it for you.
I love robotech for the same reason you hate it.
I'm a macross fan as well as a mospeada fan (sc wasn't bad, but i'm not a huge fan) and I LOVE what Macek did with robotech.
He took 3 unrelated bits of video, and with clever editing and completely new sound, he made a new series with a rich, deep storyline.
He made an epic tale spanning 3 generations rather than a single series.
Exactly which parts of the current reccomended standard (xhtml1.1) does IE6 not properly comply to?
Or html 4.01 for that matter.
This is a powerVR chip.
:P
And specs ARE available. I'm not going to do your searching for you, but check out libdream and KOS. They are bsd licensed dev libraries/OS kernel that allow use of the pvr Tile Accelerator.
The people doing the porting just wanted to get it working i'm sure, and it'd be good if they look at the docs/etc to make the next release fast.
XMAME at 9fps with 8frameskip is NOT really usable
Or even an article that makes sense?
All I see here is a rambling few paragraphs by a college student who needs to learn how to write a paper. He goes on and on for paragraphs about mp3's then closes his statements with a few lines about XP's WPA.
There's nothing here that any of us can argue about, as there's no real point to the article!
IIS is not installed by default for win2k professional, which is what most people run. Win2kserver is for...... SERVERS! And if you're running a web server, you know it's running.
It's not like everyone running win2kprof has a rogue web server running, you have to stick the disk back in after install, say "install addons," choose IIS, etc.
Heard of ACPI? It's been the standard for a while, and Win2k is the only OS that really supports it. If your hardware wont work sharing IRQ's, blame the hardware, not win2k.
I'm running a gf2mx, sblive, nic all on irq 11 through acpi, no hitches.
You can go to your bios and tell it "NO" for plug and play OS, and "NO" for ACPI support, and win2k will go into legacy mode and let you set irq's yourself.
*rofl*
Only on slashdot could an acticle on a "tape" drive turn into a linux vs windows metaphore (i must admit it was damned witty, though)
My work used verio for hosting/etc for a while and finally dumped them. Our "T1" line was maxing out at 20KBps TOTAL combined, and the link to our servers went down at least once a week, and upon calling tech support we'd get put on hold for 1 1/2 - 2 hours. We affectionatly referred to them as "VeriSlo" also.
Just FYI, it was announced quite a while ago that the PSX2 WILL indeed support DVD playback, and even has an optical DTS/DolbyDigital output for direct hookup into a reciever. Check http://www.playstation.com for details, as well as http://psx.ign.com .