I was looking through the NSA website and noticed that everything was rather vague in the descriptions of the exhibits. Why isn't there links to more information on say for example the code talkers or the DF Tractors? Where can more information be found on the exhibits that are in this museum like:
How the items came to the museum? How were these items developed? ... and what were some of the previous designs?
It has something to do with the driver architecture of Windows 2000. So you should be bitching at Microsoft, not ATI. Anyway, bitching at Microsoft might gain you Slashdot karma points.
I would like to see ATI at least give a little more detail on why they are having some problems. If they could just say why and a pointer to the programming specifications for Win2K that would relate to this I would try to write the driver myself.
As for the bitching at Microsoft, well, I think that in this case it is sorta like silent e. It turns a man into a mane, and pan into a pane, and so on...;) sorry... listening to Lehrer recently and seemed to fit.
I'm not asking for the support of the 2nd chip. I will be happy with just one of them working right now.
The problem is (if I remember the specs) that the chips run in 3d accel mode by alternating which chip is doing the processing. A sort of double buffering so while one chip is rendering the current frame the other is displaying and preparing to run it. This is were the problem is.
My life is complete. It's the feature I've always wanted!
Not yet, there is still the fact that it will take approximately 6 months for them to get the product to market, and 6 months to get working drivers. And once they get the working drivers all bets are off in case you have a hardware failure as there is a two+ week waiting period on support (Phone, email,...). Oh yeah, and once you get support they just tell you to read non-existant information on their site.
Sorry I got a ATI Rage Fury MAXX and I'm rather pissed that the card works in Win 9x/NT and Linux/*BSD with XFree86 3.3.6+ but doesn't work under Windows 2000 because they cannot get windows to activate the second chip? WTF?
Now when I used to run a shopping site that had a decent volume of traffic for such a start up there were many web crawlers running through our site. The only reason I ever blocked their access via the robots.txt file was when they started becoming a problem for the server/link capacity. Those very ill behaved services I added to the firewall deny rules for a month until they learned to behave.
I personally didn't care if someone wanted to use some search engine against the site. My only concern was that they play nicely and 1) not flood our line, 2) not kill the server, and 3) obey the robots.txt file.
I find this all very amusing since they are opening themselves up via public ports with known services and asking people to use there service. Now if people are allowed to use their public services having people using robotic spidering shouldn't be a problem so long as they method and results are not harmful. What I don't see is how can the free advertising being generated by this company be harmful?
Sure they don't get the number of hits and advertising viewing they would have as before, but what they get in return is a higher purchasing ratio to browsing ratio. What does this mean? It means that those going to the site are spending money and in many cases lots of it on items they really want.
Ok now that said user is on the site are they going to see the ebay banner ads? Of course they are and they might even start looking around for other things. Impulse buying, got to love it!
The only reason I can see for ebay to be upset about this is that they spider is killing their servers by trying to index everything to quickly. eBay should just get over it, consign themselves to realizing that they are offering a publicly available service and cannnot discriminate on their customer base. Doing so would likely bring the wrath of the various consumer organizations.
Whats next? The blind sueing eBay, MSN, AOL,... for not using ALT tags on their images or making their sites unusabe for the blind with screen readers? So just how good is their conformance to the Americans with Disabilities Act anyways? (And everyone else for that matter...)
Since the chip comes out in the middle of next year I would be intrested in seeing just what type of support is provided by the various compiler groups and OS groups to support native 64bit mode of this chip. Sure it isn't needed to run, but I'm intrested in known just what the differences in performance are going to be between the 32bit instructions and the 64bit instructions this chip is supposed to support.
I'm currently hearing about all this support for the Intel Itanium, or whatever it shall be called this week, from Linux and some compiler groups and yes MS too. I haven't looked that hard yet but I don't see any mention of who will be supporting the 64bit extentions.
Now making the assumption here that the 64bit extentions are not supported immediately it may mean that Intel can market its chips more effectively and provide a bit of FUD that will hurt AMD in this. Then again since this AMD chip will support all the old 32bit applications and appears to not require much of a hardware change that the Intel chip, AMD might be able to take a larger chunk of the market away from Intel.
Now just when can I expect to see one of these chips with a motherboard and decent chipset?
Back during 1996 I took a job as a web developer. The product the website was written in was ColdFusion 1.0 with some specific areas in 1.5. Coming from a programming background in C/C++ and pascal I found the shit to ColdFusion rather a pain.
Complete lack of programming structure, and the so called DBM/DBML files with their bad attempt at integration into HTML tag structures. With this language there was much that could be done and I decided to finish the site and clean things up. Part of this clean up with the installation and bug fixes for the Forums product.
The attempt was being made to use Forums to provide technical support, when they worked, for our customers. I remember recieving copies of updates and bugfixes on a semi regular basis, most of which broke something new and different each time.
After dealing with this for a short while we (ok I) decided to yank them down and re-write them because I was getting tired of users (customers) calling in and complaining about not understanding how to use forums.
I still wonder just where they got their initial design for the forums software. It would have been nice if they could have just ripped the perfectly usable and understandable system from Renegade or Maximus BBS systems. Atleast those I could very easily convice the users on how to use since it resembled the 3270 and 5250 green screens they were used to.
Also performance was horrid. On the Pentium 133, 128MB RAM (and if I remeber it cost us a few grand) with 2 4GB SCSI drives running Windows NT 3.51 (yes, real performance software I know) we could only get 1 page view every 3 - 5 seconds if someone was using the forums. After re-writing and converting/upgrading to ColdFusion 2.0 (which ran as a service instead of multi MB CGI) performance started increasing. Performance wasn't acceptable until leaving ColdFusion and another site re-write in InternetFacotry's SMX (running CommerceBuilder for the www server).
Now there is a good case for an abandond product as well. CommerceBuilder provided speed and integrated programming language, and much of what Apache and PHP on linux now provide. Too bad it too went the way of the scrap heap back in 1998.
Now merchant builder was a fun product to run, complete store with source and it was fast. It ran in code inside the server and was pretty. After the webserver war of netscape and microsoft started they became one of the casualties. Sure they ported their SMX to a IIS ISAPI module and moved merchant builder to it, which is all good, but they stoped supporting Commerce Builder.
Then Crack.Com in 99. They run out of money and "do-the-right-thing"(tm). They opensource their game with a $100,000 musical score and work on it, on their own dime, after the company ran out of money to finish it. Most famous for Abuse and getting many of us started using Linux (Mostly because slackware 2.x included Abuse and Doom), it is kind of sad to see this company go.
This pretty much shows the three basic ideas for a product when support is no longer available. Allaire drops it on the opensource people well after it could have been usefull and after alienating those long standing customers. Internet Factory in just completely dropping off the face of the planet and telling the customers to microsoft for their fix. And finally Crack.Com which gave their game away to the public domain.
I just hope Allaire in releasing this code realizes what they are doing and the PR appearnce they get from this. Not the kind bunch of every day geeks (a la Crack.Com), but the arrogance of holier-than-thou-I-got-rich-quick-and-you-didn't-m y-product-sucks-your-on-your-own-you-fix -the-problems attitude I have come to know and loath from Allaire once again.
PS. Yes I admit it, I still write applications in ColdFusion, if and only if I get hourly pay and 50% on top of that for headache medicine in order to deal with the language's lack of programming structures. (Yes I know it is starting to get some structure with the 4.x branch, but it still is no where close to speed, performance, and stability as Apache/PHP and dare I say it IIS/ASP.)
I see some problems with letting this happen. Some are technical problems and some are legal problems.
Example is that some software written right now checks the validity of your email address to make sure it contains the right type of characters, an "@" and something with a period following and ending in something. Some of this software erringly expects that this is a three letter code in the form of ".com", ".net", ".gov", ".mil".
Now I see a problem as this software already breaks if you toss it a ".org" domain or a ".us" as the TLD involved. Many websites with new programmers just fresh from highschool or college here in the US have this problem of assuming all the world is a ".com" running on WinNT.
Who remembers AlterNIC? They have been allowing people to use new TLDs since 1995 or so. Unfortunately they didn't always work for everyone due to not everyone adding them into their dns cache file.
Now for the fun legal issue. What if it is legal to sell cocaine in your country and even export it. Well lets say you want to use the domain name coke.com and then CocaCola decides they want coke.com... Remember the etoy.com vs. etoys.com thing.
So now we have a new TLD of say.ARF and your company legally owning the trademark for Coke in the country of Usa (not the US) registers COKE.ARF and then CocaCola decides they have to use COKE.ARF to protect their trademark in the US. Sounds like we are going to have some fun legal issues here.
My vote is ignore the trademark issues, Anyone can use any name in DNS that they want. If someone has a domain name you want buy it from then and don't threaten legal action. If you buy a domain name and don't actually use it, then it should be taken back and you loose it.
In reading the documentation to NTFS a while back I noticed it had fields available to do Symbolic and Hard links since NT 3.51. If I'm to be remembering correctly there is specific mention of this in the NT 4.0 Resource Kit. The documentation states that Symbolic links can be used if created but that no tools exist that allow their creation.
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I was looking through the NSA website and noticed that everything was rather vague in the descriptions of the exhibits. Why isn't there links to more information on say for example the code talkers or the DF Tractors? Where can more information be found on the exhibits that are in this museum like:
How the items came to the museum?
How were these items developed?
... and what were some of the previous designs?
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It has something to do with the driver architecture of Windows 2000. So you should be bitching at Microsoft, not ATI. Anyway, bitching at Microsoft might gain you Slashdot karma points.
I would like to see ATI at least give a little more detail on why they are having some problems. If they could just say why and a pointer to the programming specifications for Win2K that would relate to this I would try to write the driver myself.
As for the bitching at Microsoft, well, I think that in this case it is sorta like silent e. It turns a man into a mane, and pan into a pane, and so on... ;) sorry... listening to Lehrer recently and seemed to fit.
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I'm not asking for the support of the 2nd chip. I will be happy with just one of them working right now.
The problem is (if I remember the specs) that the chips run in 3d accel mode by alternating which chip is doing the processing. A sort of double buffering so while one chip is rendering the current frame the other is displaying and preparing to run it. This is were the problem is.
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My life is complete. It's the feature I've always wanted!
Not yet, there is still the fact that it will take approximately 6 months for them to get the product to market, and 6 months to get working drivers. And once they get the working drivers all bets are off in case you have a hardware failure as there is a two+ week waiting period on support (Phone, email, ...). Oh yeah, and once you get support they just tell you to read non-existant information on their site.
Sorry I got a ATI Rage Fury MAXX and I'm rather pissed that the card works in Win 9x/NT and Linux/*BSD with XFree86 3.3.6+ but doesn't work under Windows 2000 because they cannot get windows to activate the second chip? WTF?
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Now when I used to run a shopping site that had a decent volume of traffic for such a start up there were many web crawlers running through our site. The only reason I ever blocked their access via the robots.txt file was when they started becoming a problem for the server/link capacity. Those very ill behaved services I added to the firewall deny rules for a month until they learned to behave.
I personally didn't care if someone wanted to use some search engine against the site. My only concern was that they play nicely and 1) not flood our line, 2) not kill the server, and 3) obey the robots.txt file.
I find this all very amusing since they are opening themselves up via public ports with known services and asking people to use there service. Now if people are allowed to use their public services having people using robotic spidering shouldn't be a problem so long as they method and results are not harmful. What I don't see is how can the free advertising being generated by this company be harmful?
Sure they don't get the number of hits and advertising viewing they would have as before, but what they get in return is a higher purchasing ratio to browsing ratio. What does this mean? It means that those going to the site are spending money and in many cases lots of it on items they really want.
Ok now that said user is on the site are they going to see the ebay banner ads? Of course they are and they might even start looking around for other things. Impulse buying, got to love it!
The only reason I can see for ebay to be upset about this is that they spider is killing their servers by trying to index everything to quickly. eBay should just get over it, consign themselves to realizing that they are offering a publicly available service and cannnot discriminate on their customer base. Doing so would likely bring the wrath of the various consumer organizations.
Whats next? The blind sueing eBay, MSN, AOL, ... for not using ALT tags on their images or making their sites unusabe for the blind with screen readers? So just how good is their conformance to the Americans with Disabilities Act anyways? (And everyone else for that matter...)
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Since the chip comes out in the middle of next year I would be intrested in seeing just what type of support is provided by the various compiler groups and OS groups to support native 64bit mode of this chip. Sure it isn't needed to run, but I'm intrested in known just what the differences in performance are going to be between the 32bit instructions and the 64bit instructions this chip is supposed to support.
I'm currently hearing about all this support for the Intel Itanium, or whatever it shall be called this week, from Linux and some compiler groups and yes MS too. I haven't looked that hard yet but I don't see any mention of who will be supporting the 64bit extentions.
Now making the assumption here that the 64bit extentions are not supported immediately it may mean that Intel can market its chips more effectively and provide a bit of FUD that will hurt AMD in this. Then again since this AMD chip will support all the old 32bit applications and appears to not require much of a hardware change that the Intel chip, AMD might be able to take a larger chunk of the market away from Intel.
Now just when can I expect to see one of these chips with a motherboard and decent chipset?
Back during 1996 I took a job as a web developer. The product the website was written in was ColdFusion 1.0 with some specific areas in 1.5. Coming from a programming background in C/C++ and pascal I found the shit to ColdFusion rather a pain.
Complete lack of programming structure, and the so called DBM/DBML files with their bad attempt at integration into HTML tag structures. With this language there was much that could be done and I decided to finish the site and clean things up. Part of this clean up with the installation and bug fixes for the Forums product.
The attempt was being made to use Forums to provide technical support, when they worked, for our customers. I remember recieving copies of updates and bugfixes on a semi regular basis, most of which broke something new and different each time.
After dealing with this for a short while we (ok I) decided to yank them down and re-write them because I was getting tired of users (customers) calling in and complaining about not understanding how to use forums.
I still wonder just where they got their initial design for the forums software. It would have been nice if they could have just ripped the perfectly usable and understandable system from Renegade or Maximus BBS systems. Atleast those I could very easily convice the users on how to use since it resembled the 3270 and 5250 green screens they were used to.
Also performance was horrid. On the Pentium 133, 128MB RAM (and if I remeber it cost us a few grand) with 2 4GB SCSI drives running Windows NT 3.51 (yes, real performance software I know) we could only get 1 page view every 3 - 5 seconds if someone was using the forums. After re-writing and converting/upgrading to ColdFusion 2.0 (which ran as a service instead of multi MB CGI) performance started increasing. Performance wasn't acceptable until leaving ColdFusion and another site re-write in InternetFacotry's SMX (running CommerceBuilder for the www server).
Now there is a good case for an abandond product as well. CommerceBuilder provided speed and integrated programming language, and much of what Apache and PHP on linux now provide. Too bad it too went the way of the scrap heap back in 1998.
Now merchant builder was a fun product to run, complete store with source and it was fast. It ran in code inside the server and was pretty. After the webserver war of netscape and microsoft started they became one of the casualties. Sure they ported their SMX to a IIS ISAPI module and moved merchant builder to it, which is all good, but they stoped supporting Commerce Builder.
Then Crack.Com in 99. They run out of money and "do-the-right-thing"(tm). They opensource their game with a $100,000 musical score and work on it, on their own dime, after the company ran out of money to finish it. Most famous for Abuse and getting many of us started using Linux (Mostly because slackware 2.x included Abuse and Doom), it is kind of sad to see this company go.
This pretty much shows the three basic ideas for a product when support is no longer available. Allaire drops it on the opensource people well after it could have been usefull and after alienating those long standing customers. Internet Factory in just completely dropping off the face of the planet and telling the customers to microsoft for their fix. And finally Crack.Com which gave their game away to the public domain.
I just hope Allaire in releasing this code realizes what they are doing and the PR appearnce they get from this. Not the kind bunch of every day geeks (a la Crack.Com), but the arrogance of holier-than-thou-I-got-rich-quick-and-you-didn't-m y-product-sucks-your-on-your-own-you-fix -the-problems attitude I have come to know and loath from Allaire once again.
PS. Yes I admit it, I still write applications in ColdFusion, if and only if I get hourly pay and 50% on top of that for headache medicine in order to deal with the language's lack of programming structures. (Yes I know it is starting to get some structure with the 4.x branch, but it still is no where close to speed, performance, and stability as Apache/PHP and dare I say it IIS/ASP.)
Try this instead. The previous poster left out the less than and greater than in the while clause. DNS... the next great file system...
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c..\..*A' | sort | cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while() { print pack("H32", $_) }' | gzip -d | less
I see some problems with letting this happen. Some are technical problems and some are legal problems.
Example is that some software written right now checks the validity of your email address to make sure it contains the right type of characters, an "@" and something with a period following and ending in something. Some of this software erringly expects that this is a three letter code in the form of ".com", ".net", ".gov", ".mil".
Now I see a problem as this software already breaks if you toss it a ".org" domain or a ".us" as the TLD involved. Many websites with new programmers just fresh from highschool or college here in the US have this problem of assuming all the world is a ".com" running on WinNT.
Who remembers AlterNIC? They have been allowing people to use new TLDs since 1995 or so. Unfortunately they didn't always work for everyone due to not everyone adding them into their dns cache file.
Now for the fun legal issue. What if it is legal to sell cocaine in your country and even export it. Well lets say you want to use the domain name coke.com and then CocaCola decides they want coke.com... Remember the etoy.com vs. etoys.com thing.
So now we have a new TLD of say .ARF and your company legally owning the trademark for Coke in the country of Usa (not the US) registers COKE.ARF and then CocaCola decides they have to use COKE.ARF to protect their trademark in the US. Sounds like we are going to have some fun legal issues here.
My vote is ignore the trademark issues, Anyone can use any name in DNS that they want. If someone has a domain name you want buy it from then and don't threaten legal action. If you buy a domain name and don't actually use it, then it should be taken back and you loose it.
In reading the documentation to NTFS a while back I noticed it had fields available to do Symbolic and Hard links since NT 3.51. If I'm to be remembering correctly there is specific mention of this in the NT 4.0 Resource Kit. The documentation states that Symbolic links can be used if created but that no tools exist that allow their creation.