UT AI impressed me. The bots fire in the direction youre running, not where you are. And they actually hide and make mistakes like people do too. I wished the aimbots of counterstrike 1.5 had that kind of intelligence, rather than vibrating all around and having a really good aim
The client must know the combination to communicate at all. If the client is specialized, and trusted enough with the combination, why the heavy security? If we're dealing with public clients, they wont know how to port knock, at least the combination.
In general if the TCPIP stack is clean and basic, along with a good packet filter ruleset (dont allow telnet), things will be pretty tough for a hacker. Why add overhead that makes the box secure only in theory (if that even).
Children will always starve. This is what we call the great 'rat race', there will always be a tail to the bell curve. It doesnt mean we should stop doing what we like, or stop sending men to Mars. Children will always starve, only in smaller and smaller numbers the more effort we put in
Sure but the name of the browser is FirstWave Connect, while FF was named 'Phoenix' which violates the trademark of the Phoenix company name itself, not its product.
So the author was wrong still here, and the fact that the german database is called Firebird. I remember those days, FF was really unstable and I thought it would go the way of Mozilla and Netscape 6.
But I'm using Opera now instead of FF, that LITTLE bit of speed difference matters to me.
What else is out there anyway? The main contenders are PPC and Intel. Both Intel and AMD produce x86/64 chips only. Sure everyone also produces arm/strongarm chips, but theyre still weak, the fastest strongarm from Intel is used on higher end PDAs.
Whats left is MIPS, Ultrasparc, PA-RISC, Alpha and special purpose FPGA chips.
MIPS is dead. SGI was producing servers on Itanium which also died.
Ultrasparc is dying in favor of x64. Sun guards its IP jealously. Low throughput but high floating and thread performance.
PA-RISC gives the best bang for the MHz. Good float, everything else runs too hot for now. Old old architecture.
Alpha was killed by HP. They'll try to sell you Itanium or PARISC before they sell you an Alpha. Development on it has completely stopped since 21264c. And I mean COMPLETELY.
FPGA chips are less efficient, and better use an ARM than an fpga chip.
So the two champions are PPC (and its derivative, Cell) and x86/x64.
Architecturally, PPC, and a 64-bit-only x64 are efficient. But IBM has been trying to push PPC in the market, working hard on a grand plan to take the market dominance away from x86. Look at all their offerings for Linux on PPC. They're prepping up this combination against wintel... and any usage of PPC means profits for them and Motorola, mostly to IBM in the higher end.
The choice is rather easy. If you will not use an IBM chip for a higher-end game console, what will you choose?
You mean a MICROCONTROLLER. Its already a microprocessor/processor/cpu.
Yeah I agree. I'm hoping to see a linux-capable MCU, although most 32-bit or 64-bit MCUs are too big to be easily used by themselves... too many pin counts and high frequencies etc. They then come on development boards with lots of connectors like pci, cpci, pc104, isa and the likes.
If they could really reduce the pin count, include the mem and flash on board and make a DIP chip for breadboards, now THAT would kick arse.
(1) Port GCC to it, optionally another much more optimized compiler that is compatible with gcc. (2) Give it to taiwanese motherboard makers to make microatx mobos on the cheap. Aim for $40 for lower speed ones and $100 for full speed Cells. (3) Put out all the specs of the Cell and any possible firmware sources online, and put them under the BSD license. (4) Provide licenses to other devleopers to make cheaper versions of the Cell. (5) Watch Linux and NetBSD grow on it. Watch cisco use it on their high-throughput routers and other manufacturers use it. Watch the app base grow. (6) Profit!
Alternatively sit on it and let it rot like Palm is doing with BeOS.
I strongly doubt consciousness itself will be copied. But its still cool since you'll have other 'personalities' in the computer with the same point of view and memory as you, so you can multiply your work whether youre a physicist or poet or priest.
One funny part will be these personalities will fight over your wife/girlfriend. Imagine youre suddenly locked in a machine, and some other dude out there is going out with your girl. Thats how the computer personality will act, possibly will try to get her out of your hands.
Virues will spread nicely. Each running on the brain of the smartest person that century.
But consiousness itself will die with you, cant put that into bits.
All the packages in OpenBSD 3.7 packages directory are bad. They all expect libraries of previous releases, makes me think they were simply copied from 3.6, and older in a few cases. I had to make links to libc.so.39 as libc.so.38, libc.so.37 and libc.so.36 to make various apps work, same for ssl, crypt, libstdc++ and a bunch of other libs.
At least the core OpenBSD 3.7 is complete and I imagine the packages will be brought up to date in time. Till then, compile your own or use ports.
Its a good idea that its geographically localized. I also think it should only have laws that are technically in effect, not replaced/removed laws and bylaws.
I'm interested in the dumber laws of Toronto, Ontario, that I can sue people over, bring the laws in court, and have them removed from the books, for instance I can sue a friend and he can sue me for the same amount against two different 'dumb' laws. As soon as theyre challenged in court, I suspect they will be removed.
If the card only returns hashed results, and has a limitation of say 1 result per 5 seconds, it'll take many swipes to figure out the private key. If the private key is properly saved.. ie, cannot be 'read' through certain pins on the IC, then we have something here. If this technology is combined with a keycode like the Interac of canada, I think its the best solution.
All these negatives on slashdot, and none of the posts has convinced me why this is less secure than a credit card, which has numbers printed on the front and nobody checks the signature.
My only real beef is that crypto hashing takes cpu power, and I'll get warm, and I'll have to slap on a tiny heatsink in the hotter countries.
I have vonage too, and to sign up for the 911, I had to give my address, and wait till they 'validated' the address, meaning I suppose they can enter it in google maps and find a clear path to my address... Legibility.
This service is not 2 years old, more like 6 months old I think. At least here in Canada, it should work flawlessly, although I havent used it
Heres a mistake I made from a recent 3.7 snapshot....
In the fdisk program, if you press a key to reset the partition table, it resets it AND writes it. Most other partition changes require 'W' to write before exiting, so you can back off your errors... but the reset partition table resets and writes permanently... at least on amd64.
I tried it to check if it was completely zeroing out the table, or fixing the MBR, like fdisk/mbr in DOS... and I had to shift-pgup and write down the partition table display, and manually reconstruct it.
So for that price, I can buy 3 PS3s, or a PS3 with a large TV, or a PS3 with LOTS of titles.
I have a geforce4ti, and wonder why will I need more GPU power anyway. HL2 and doom3 run fine, and seem to need more memory and cpu bandwidths than triangle-pushers.
Theres a major lackage of a physics processor right now. Given the nice placement of GPU cards... on a high bandwidth bus of the northbridge, I'd say put the physics chip on the video card. Otherwise on a PCIX card.
Anyone care to comment where a card like this Geforce will be REQUIRED?
The steps beyond walking him out should be done by another techie, and not just an MCSE.
ALL passwords should be obtained before he leaves, and ALL should be changed immediately to randomized strings.
All user accounts should be audited.. if its not supposed to be there, remove it or change its passwd.
Audit all incoming ports.
Force EVERYONE at the company to change their passwords to newer better ones. Any techie at a company remembers many others' passwords, especially if its like their last name etc.
Take immediate backups of important servers and keep em seperate.
Or you could simply give him a fat severance package.
Never bought one, although I think I'll buy this one. It smacks of the original donkey kong nintendo devices.... just what people will buy for a quick game, not a game-console on the run (running fast games, running hot and shutting down after what 4 hours of play).
Now if this thing can do wireless multiplayer, and if I can play DOOM and quake on it, and maybe the atari2600 games, I'm all set.
I've been wondering about the actual int95 rates on the Cell itself. The L2 seems rather small, but I suppose thats making it efficient for media output. The whole aim of the Cell seems to be throughput like MIPS rather than data churning, like the PA-RISC or Ultrasparc.
In a shootout between Cell, Itanium2, Athlon64 FX-55, I think the Cell will fall short in int95, will beat others in float95, and absolutely trample everyone in int and float rates. I just dont know about cache-intensive work. Its cache may be small, but its blazingly fast, which might give it a performance similar to a cpu with 1mb L2. Pa-RISC and Itanium2 have 8MB L2, but much slower. In fact, I think the latest PA-RISCs have more like 32MB maximum in L2.
I remember IBM or Toshiba touting the Cell to be used in other places too, like desktops. For a simple desktop I think it'll be nice, but I wont quite build my next server on the Cell.
I used a model M until recently. Threw it out in favor of other IBM keyboards because of its noise.
I had to wash the keyboard multiple times in its lifetime... popped up all keys, removed hte circuitery, wash all plastic, dry and reassemble. Always worked.
Nothing else clicks like it, although the Commodore 64 keyboard comes close
See light travels at the speed of light. You cant travel faster, or even AT the speed of light.
But if youre zipping by an object that emits light, and its light doesnt travel in the same direction as you, its speed component in that direction is also slower than the speed of light, and you can catch up and see the object after you're past it.
Lets try that again.
Imagine youre on a bike, zipping past a lamppost. The light the lamppost emits travels in all directions. Now take the photos that are emitted in the same direction youre going, at the same time that youre just crossing the lamppost... now youre travelling parallel to that photon, although it beats you in speed.
However, if the lamppost was say 10m away from you when you zipped past, the photon you'd see is the photon the lamp emits not in the same direction youre travelling, but slightly towards you. If youre travelling north, the photon is travelling northwest, towards you. After youve crossed the lamppost, some distance later, the photon reaches you, because it had to travel a bigger distance, going in your travel direction (north) as well as towards you (west), and we all know the hypotenuse is longer than the base or height.If you travelled faster than the photon's north speed component, you'll see greater than 180 degrees around you... but never 360.
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UT AI impressed me. The bots fire in the direction youre running, not where you are. And they actually hide and make mistakes like people do too. I wished the aimbots of counterstrike 1.5 had that kind of intelligence, rather than vibrating all around and having a really good aim
The client must know the combination to communicate at all. If the client is specialized, and trusted enough with the combination, why the heavy security? If we're dealing with public clients, they wont know how to port knock, at least the combination.
In general if the TCPIP stack is clean and basic, along with a good packet filter ruleset (dont allow telnet), things will be pretty tough for a hacker. Why add overhead that makes the box secure only in theory (if that even).
Children will always starve. This is what we call the great 'rat race', there will always be a tail to the bell curve. It doesnt mean we should stop doing what we like, or stop sending men to Mars. Children will always starve, only in smaller and smaller numbers the more effort we put in
Replace that with "Russ Nelson rules OK", increment the version number and redistribute the driver on p2p...
you never know where you'll end up.
Sure but the name of the browser is FirstWave Connect, while FF was named 'Phoenix' which violates the trademark of the Phoenix company name itself, not its product.
So the author was wrong still here, and the fact that the german database is called Firebird. I remember those days, FF was really unstable and I thought it would go the way of Mozilla and Netscape 6.
But I'm using Opera now instead of FF, that LITTLE bit of speed difference matters to me.
So only the 'best' hackers are allowed into Stanford, ones who werent caught?
What else is out there anyway? The main contenders are PPC and Intel. Both Intel and AMD produce x86/64 chips only. Sure everyone also produces arm/strongarm chips, but theyre still weak, the fastest strongarm from Intel is used on higher end PDAs.
Whats left is MIPS, Ultrasparc, PA-RISC, Alpha and special purpose FPGA chips.
MIPS is dead. SGI was producing servers on Itanium which also died.
Ultrasparc is dying in favor of x64. Sun guards its IP jealously. Low throughput but high floating and thread performance.
PA-RISC gives the best bang for the MHz. Good float, everything else runs too hot for now. Old old architecture.
Alpha was killed by HP. They'll try to sell you Itanium or PARISC before they sell you an Alpha. Development on it has completely stopped since 21264c. And I mean COMPLETELY.
FPGA chips are less efficient, and better use an ARM than an fpga chip.
So the two champions are PPC (and its derivative, Cell) and x86/x64.
Architecturally, PPC, and a 64-bit-only x64 are efficient. But IBM has been trying to push PPC in the market, working hard on a grand plan to take the market dominance away from x86. Look at all their offerings for Linux on PPC. They're prepping up this combination against wintel... and any usage of PPC means profits for them and Motorola, mostly to IBM in the higher end.
The choice is rather easy. If you will not use an IBM chip for a higher-end game console, what will you choose?
"If they could turn it into a microprocessor"
You mean a MICROCONTROLLER. Its already a microprocessor/processor/cpu.
Yeah I agree. I'm hoping to see a linux-capable MCU, although most 32-bit or 64-bit MCUs are too big to be easily used by themselves... too many pin counts and high frequencies etc. They then come on development boards with lots of connectors like pci, cpci, pc104, isa and the likes.
If they could really reduce the pin count, include the mem and flash on board and make a DIP chip for breadboards, now THAT would kick arse.
(1) Port GCC to it, optionally another much more optimized compiler that is compatible with gcc.
(2) Give it to taiwanese motherboard makers to make microatx mobos on the cheap. Aim for $40 for lower speed ones and $100 for full speed Cells.
(3) Put out all the specs of the Cell and any possible firmware sources online, and put them under the BSD license.
(4) Provide licenses to other devleopers to make cheaper versions of the Cell.
(5) Watch Linux and NetBSD grow on it. Watch cisco use it on their high-throughput routers and other manufacturers use it. Watch the app base grow.
(6) Profit!
Alternatively sit on it and let it rot like Palm is doing with BeOS.
"Perhaps AJAX will finally deliver what Java promised"
Java IIRC promised something else.
AJAX might deliver what Javascript promised.
Lost count how many times I've had to explain the difference.
Wow I've never met a router programmer. Never knew the title existed.
What language do you use?
I strongly doubt consciousness itself will be copied. But its still cool since you'll have other 'personalities' in the computer with the same point of view and memory as you, so you can multiply your work whether youre a physicist or poet or priest.
One funny part will be these personalities will fight over your wife/girlfriend. Imagine youre suddenly locked in a machine, and some other dude out there is going out with your girl. Thats how the computer personality will act, possibly will try to get her out of your hands.
Virues will spread nicely. Each running on the brain of the smartest person that century.
But consiousness itself will die with you, cant put that into bits.
All the packages in OpenBSD 3.7 packages directory are bad. They all expect libraries of previous releases, makes me think they were simply copied from 3.6, and older in a few cases. I had to make links to libc.so.39 as libc.so.38, libc.so.37 and libc.so.36 to make various apps work, same for ssl, crypt, libstdc++ and a bunch of other libs.
At least the core OpenBSD 3.7 is complete and I imagine the packages will be brought up to date in time. Till then, compile your own or use ports.
Its a good idea that its geographically localized. I also think it should only have laws that are technically in effect, not replaced/removed laws and bylaws.
I'm interested in the dumber laws of Toronto, Ontario, that I can sue people over, bring the laws in court, and have them removed from the books, for instance I can sue a friend and he can sue me for the same amount against two different 'dumb' laws. As soon as theyre challenged in court, I suspect they will be removed.
A nice GPL 'many eyeballs' way of cleaning laws.
These laws will certainly not achieve a blockage of information, only will illegalize moving the information back.
Which will only give the US legal ammunition whenever they need it against foreign companies, governments and technologies.
Makes me wonder if downloading linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2 from USA will be illegal.
If the card only returns hashed results, and has a limitation of say 1 result per 5 seconds, it'll take many swipes to figure out the private key. If the private key is properly saved.. ie, cannot be 'read' through certain pins on the IC, then we have something here. If this technology is combined with a keycode like the Interac of canada, I think its the best solution.
All these negatives on slashdot, and none of the posts has convinced me why this is less secure than a credit card, which has numbers printed on the front and nobody checks the signature.
My only real beef is that crypto hashing takes cpu power, and I'll get warm, and I'll have to slap on a tiny heatsink in the hotter countries.
I have vonage too, and to sign up for the 911, I had to give my address, and wait till they 'validated' the address, meaning I suppose they can enter it in google maps and find a clear path to my address... Legibility.
This service is not 2 years old, more like 6 months old I think. At least here in Canada, it should work flawlessly, although I havent used it
Heres a mistake I made from a recent 3.7 snapshot....
/mbr in DOS... and I had to shift-pgup and write down the partition table display, and manually reconstruct it.
In the fdisk program, if you press a key to reset the partition table, it resets it AND writes it. Most other partition changes require 'W' to write before exiting, so you can back off your errors... but the reset partition table resets and writes permanently... at least on amd64.
I tried it to check if it was completely zeroing out the table, or fixing the MBR, like fdisk
So for that price, I can buy 3 PS3s, or a PS3 with a large TV, or a PS3 with LOTS of titles.
I have a geforce4ti, and wonder why will I need more GPU power anyway. HL2 and doom3 run fine, and seem to need more memory and cpu bandwidths than triangle-pushers.
Theres a major lackage of a physics processor right now. Given the nice placement of GPU cards... on a high bandwidth bus of the northbridge, I'd say put the physics chip on the video card. Otherwise on a PCIX card.
Anyone care to comment where a card like this Geforce will be REQUIRED?
The steps beyond walking him out should be done by another techie, and not just an MCSE.
ALL passwords should be obtained before he leaves, and ALL should be changed immediately to randomized strings.
All user accounts should be audited.. if its not supposed to be there, remove it or change its passwd.
Audit all incoming ports.
Force EVERYONE at the company to change their passwords to newer better ones. Any techie at a company remembers many others' passwords, especially if its like their last name etc.
Take immediate backups of important servers and keep em seperate.
Or you could simply give him a fat severance package.
Never bought one, although I think I'll buy this one. It smacks of the original donkey kong nintendo devices.... just what people will buy for a quick game, not a game-console on the run (running fast games, running hot and shutting down after what 4 hours of play).
Now if this thing can do wireless multiplayer, and if I can play DOOM and quake on it, and maybe the atari2600 games, I'm all set.
I've been wondering about the actual int95 rates on the Cell itself. The L2 seems rather small, but I suppose thats making it efficient for media output. The whole aim of the Cell seems to be throughput like MIPS rather than data churning, like the PA-RISC or Ultrasparc.
In a shootout between Cell, Itanium2, Athlon64 FX-55, I think the Cell will fall short in int95, will beat others in float95, and absolutely trample everyone in int and float rates. I just dont know about cache-intensive work. Its cache may be small, but its blazingly fast, which might give it a performance similar to a cpu with 1mb L2. Pa-RISC and Itanium2 have 8MB L2, but much slower. In fact, I think the latest PA-RISCs have more like 32MB maximum in L2.
I remember IBM or Toshiba touting the Cell to be used in other places too, like desktops. For a simple desktop I think it'll be nice, but I wont quite build my next server on the Cell.
I used a model M until recently. Threw it out in favor of other IBM keyboards because of its noise.
I had to wash the keyboard multiple times in its lifetime... popped up all keys, removed hte circuitery, wash all plastic, dry and reassemble. Always worked.
Nothing else clicks like it, although the Commodore 64 keyboard comes close
Sure.
See light travels at the speed of light. You cant travel faster, or even AT the speed of light.
But if youre zipping by an object that emits light, and its light doesnt travel in the same direction as you, its speed component in that direction is also slower than the speed of light, and you can catch up and see the object after you're past it.
Lets try that again.
Imagine youre on a bike, zipping past a lamppost. The light the lamppost emits travels in all directions. Now take the photos that are emitted in the same direction youre going, at the same time that youre just crossing the lamppost... now youre travelling parallel to that photon, although it beats you in speed.
However, if the lamppost was say 10m away from you when you zipped past, the photon you'd see is the photon the lamp emits not in the same direction youre travelling, but slightly towards you. If youre travelling north, the photon is travelling northwest, towards you. After youve crossed the lamppost, some distance later, the photon reaches you, because it had to travel a bigger distance, going in your travel direction (north) as well as towards you (west), and we all know the hypotenuse is longer than the base or height.If you travelled faster than the photon's north speed component, you'll see greater than 180 degrees around you... but never 360.
Try harder drinks at the pub next time. You'll see it.