no they haven't "hacked around tcp". Newer kernels have a feature called "Packet Generator", which is completely unrelated to the TCP/IP stack, and can be used to throw whatever you want on the wire, even bastardized TCP/IP packets. But can be used for UDP, IPX, AppleTalk, or you can even invent your own transport and use it;-)
Unless they are *not* using the standard sockets interface... rather using some undocumented hack inside win32 that does this (hey, linux has something like this, its called the "Packet Generator"(LOL), but it is atleast documented (and has its usage higly counter-recommended)). Man, if this is the case, I see some ppl getting pretty pissed off. Thats why closed-source monopoly software is not a Good Thing (TM). Anyone remember the stories about M$ using undocumented windows APIs in Office to be faster than the competition?
I am no TCP guru, but this looks a bit odd. From the text I understand they say IE establish a connection without sending a SYN packet.... I may be wrong, but this is totally impossible to do over TCP/IP. SYN is required, in order to establish a new TCP sequence and inform the server that it is a *NEW* connection, not something related to an old one. If all this guy claims is true, the screwup is below IIS and IE. It is in the windows TCP/IP stack. And I am really puzzled how they manage to do connection tracking this way. Ah, and for sure, if it really works this way, it can't be called TCP/IP.
Ofcourse if it just opens the connection in a normal SYN way and keeps it open for all the HTTP requests, nothing is wrong. These are new features of HTTP/1.1 called keep-alive and pipelining, and even Mozilla supports them (check preferences/advanced/HTTP networking).
I find this puzzling. Sun's StarOffice runs on every distro (x86 ones, ofcourse, its binary...). VMWare, which I consider more complicated than an Office suite (kernel interation, hardware virtualization...) runs on every distribution. Why wouldn't M$ office be able to? Just make it self-contained in its own directory, or make an installer, whatever is easier.
Extradition is a totally different beast... It would work if the guy was an american citizen doing bad shit in the UK, or, even not being american, did some shit in the USA and fled away to UK. But since he appears to be english, and did nothing wrong in USA territory, the point is moot.
Yeah, don't have any e-books to test it, but a simple hack like this must run just fine (unless it uses the M$ crypto API in advapi32.dll, which is mostly unsupported under wine). But I think it will work fine, since e-book proprietary crypto is a totally different beast than advapi32.dll crypto.
hehe, that's why I only play no-brainer FPS these days (UrT, CS, DoD). They may be a little bit addictive, but it is so much easier to just turn the shit off and go do something else... with RPGs you just get sucked more and more into the gameplay to the point you cannot leave until you complete some shit, that leads to another, and you lose too much of your fscking time there. Games (for me these days) are just about braindead fun, like sniping nazis on some street, being hit with a shovel on the head, dying, and coming back to the game with the same gear some seconds after... much less stress this way, and still tons of fun.
(and before someone mentions, yeah , I am a dirty camper;-)
dude, the most advanced 3d engine over there (quake3) and the most advanced still not out there (doom3) are based on OpenGL, nod D3D. And a lot of kick ass games and mods are based on it (ok, kick-ass if you are into FPS...). Carmack's stuff does not even support D3D, for a good reason, it is not cross-platform like OpenGL. I am yet to see a D3D game looking better than MOH-AA or UrT (which I play on Linux, mind ya). I use a GF4Ti4600, 4xFSAA and level-8 anisotropic filtering, and still get more than 60 FPS. Anisotropic texture filtering rocks, and I have never seen a D3D setup for something similar. Actually, I find D3D textures a bit cheesy-looking. (try half-life, it supports both, but it is abit old, I must concur).
This optimizations may be nvidia-specific stuff, since I never used other 3D hardware than nvidia. But that seems to be the beauty of OpenGL, one can extend it since it is open...
MOBO : ASUS a7v266-e (with athlon 1.8, a bit old, 8 months)
GC : MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4600 with 128 megs (4 months old)
Agp is at 4x, everything runs fine, and I am currently running 2 X servers, one for gnome and other to play Urban Terror, this way I can go back and read/. or respond IMs when I am dead.
Also worth mentioning, this videogame has a ton of pci cards in (3com, dxr2, an old Aureal AU8830 that kicks ass) along with all on-board shit enabled, and all the IRQs are fine and dandy. The mobo is awesome.
Ah, and the OS is Mandrake 8.2, with linus kernel 2.19
not quite true... i tweaked linux krnl some times to get around some dodgy hardware I have (shitty dvd player and au8830 card). Pretty easy if you know C. Also tweaked it for Oracle, but it is a no-brainer since Oracle docs teach how to do it;-)
Sparcs are not the best processor in any way. They have that odd register windows, 14-stage pipeline (too damn long for RISC!) and only one load/store unit...
Id bet my $$ on POWER or MIPS archs as the best, but the hammer and itanium look quite promising too.
Here is a good article about 64-bit cpus. Bookmarked the page they start talking about sparcs, but the complete article is worth a read.
in this country, most from HUGE hydro-electric plants. Does not pollute anything, but one can't say that they don't "hurt" the environment either, those behemoths;-)
as for me, my car is diesel, and the next one that I pretend to buy also is;-)
gas can suck my nuts. diesels are much more reliable (and in the troller it can work even underwater because of the snorkel). im longin to see if I can contract such an oil supply for me, so I can import one of those kits and give it a try. Will pay itself in months if I can get the oil for free or almost free (diesel costs amost $1/liter here)
I have no prob with this thanks to my shitty battery that dies before any damage can happen, if I happen to forget to apm-s before store the lappy, and the lid sensor does not suceed in suspending it (rare but happens). Pisses me off tough.
just be *pretty* sure on the decisions you make, and make the right ones (or the ones that approximate "right" the most), not like some dumbasses that call themselves management and make critical decisions based purely marketing hype (or worse - because "the market uses this" - argh) and you will be ok.
the right tool for the job usually works - and well;-)
(btw, I am the original poster, but could not reply using that account because of the new/. troll policy - poor me, having to use this lame good-karma login:-P)
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no they haven't "hacked around tcp". Newer kernels have a feature called "Packet Generator", which is completely unrelated to the TCP/IP stack, and can be used to throw whatever you want on the wire, even bastardized TCP/IP packets. But can be used for UDP, IPX, AppleTalk, or you can even invent your own transport and use it ;-)
cheers
Unless they are *not* using the standard sockets interface... rather using some undocumented hack inside win32 that does this (hey, linux has something like this, its called the "Packet Generator"(LOL), but it is atleast documented (and has its usage higly counter-recommended)). Man, if this is the case, I see some ppl getting pretty pissed off. Thats why closed-source monopoly software is not a Good Thing (TM). Anyone remember the stories about M$ using undocumented windows APIs in Office to be faster than the competition?
cheers.
Hmmm this smells bad to me.
I am no TCP guru, but this looks a bit odd. From the text I understand they say IE establish a connection without sending a SYN packet....
I may be wrong, but this is totally impossible to do over TCP/IP. SYN is required, in order to establish a new TCP sequence and inform the server that it is a *NEW* connection, not something related to an old one.
If all this guy claims is true, the screwup is below IIS and IE. It is in the windows TCP/IP stack. And I am really puzzled how they manage to do connection tracking this way. Ah, and for sure, if it really works this way, it can't be called TCP/IP.
Ofcourse if it just opens the connection in a normal SYN way and keeps it open for all the HTTP requests, nothing is wrong. These are new features of HTTP/1.1 called keep-alive and pipelining, and even Mozilla supports them (check preferences/advanced/HTTP networking).
cheers
At least they are doing the exception handling.
All I found on code form my monkeys here is:
"On Error Resume Next" (or something like that, I am clueless about VB)
disgusting if you ask me.
cheers.
I find this puzzling. Sun's StarOffice runs on every distro (x86 ones, ofcourse, its binary...). VMWare, which I consider more complicated than an Office suite (kernel interation, hardware virtualization...) runs on every distribution. Why wouldn't M$ office be able to? Just make it self-contained in its own directory, or make an installer, whatever is easier.
cheers.
Extradition is a totally different beast... It would work if the guy was an american citizen doing bad shit in the UK, or, even not being american, did some shit in the USA and fled away to UK. But since he appears to be english, and did nothing wrong in USA territory, the point is moot.
cheers.
Yeah, don't have any e-books to test it, but a simple hack like this must run just fine (unless it uses the M$ crypto API in advapi32.dll, which is mostly unsupported under wine). But I think it will work fine, since e-book proprietary crypto is a totally different beast than advapi32.dll crypto.
cheers
hehe, that's why I only play no-brainer FPS these days (UrT, CS, DoD). They may be a little bit addictive, but it is so much easier to just turn the shit off and go do something else... with RPGs you just get sucked more and more into the gameplay to the point you cannot leave until you complete some shit, that leads to another, and you lose too much of your fscking time there. Games (for me these days) are just about braindead fun, like sniping nazis on some street, being hit with a shovel on the head, dying, and coming back to the game with the same gear some seconds after... much less stress this way, and still tons of fun.
;-)
(and before someone mentions, yeah , I am a dirty camper
cheers
oh my god, I hope you are not reading it at -1 with your family...
cheers and merry xmas
dude, the most advanced 3d engine over there (quake3) and the most advanced still not out there (doom3) are based on OpenGL, nod D3D. And a lot of kick ass games and mods are based on it (ok, kick-ass if you are into FPS...). Carmack's stuff does not even support D3D, for a good reason, it is not cross-platform like OpenGL. I am yet to see a D3D game looking better than MOH-AA or UrT (which I play on Linux, mind ya). I use a GF4Ti4600, 4xFSAA and level-8 anisotropic filtering, and still get more than 60 FPS. Anisotropic texture filtering rocks, and I have never seen a D3D setup for something similar. Actually, I find D3D textures a bit cheesy-looking. (try half-life, it supports both, but it is abit old, I must concur).
This optimizations may be nvidia-specific stuff, since I never used other 3D hardware than nvidia. But that seems to be the beauty of OpenGL, one can extend it since it is open...
cheers.
The combo is:
/. or respond IMs when I am dead.
MOBO : ASUS a7v266-e (with athlon 1.8, a bit old, 8 months)
GC : MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4600 with 128 megs (4 months old)
Agp is at 4x, everything runs fine, and I am currently running 2 X servers, one for gnome and other to play Urban Terror, this way I can go back and read
Also worth mentioning, this videogame has a ton of pci cards in (3com, dxr2, an old Aureal AU8830 that kicks ass) along with all on-board shit enabled, and all the IRQs are fine and dandy. The mobo is awesome.
Ah, and the OS is Mandrake 8.2, with linus kernel 2.19
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not very useful, since with no AGP things get really slow in Q3...
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me
no crash in the latest 4 releases.
(I have quality Athlon MOBO, tough. They crash a lot on crappy MOBOs and shitty agp controllers).
Cheers.
np.
btw, thats pretty old (back from the glorious NT server days... NO!)
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yeah pretty New Technology...
see this pic
cheeers.
It's called "Innovation(TM)", dude.
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not quite true.
Dual boot Linux/Win2k, palomino@1667, 512 megs, Geforce4Ti4600.
Same framerates on Q3/RTCW under win2k and linux (using the same breed of drivers from nVidia).
You are prolly not using hardware acceleration under linux. Check your drivers.
cheers.
You can't hear the difference, but your dog or cat will be able to. Maybe SACD is target at pets rather than humans....
cheers.
actually, believing in some god is what makes it exist... if noone believes, there is no such god.
(makes sense? i dunno)
Cheers.
not quite true... i tweaked linux krnl some times to get around some dodgy hardware I have (shitty dvd player and au8830 card). Pretty easy if you know C. Also tweaked it for Oracle, but it is a no-brainer since Oracle docs teach how to do it ;-)
cheers.
Don't think so.
Sparcs are not the best processor in any way. They have that odd register windows, 14-stage pipeline (too damn long for RISC!) and only one load/store unit...
Id bet my $$ on POWER or MIPS archs as the best, but the hammer and itanium look quite promising too.
Here is a good article about 64-bit cpus. Bookmarked the page they start talking about sparcs, but the complete article is worth a read.
Cheers.
in this country, most from HUGE hydro-electric plants. Does not pollute anything, but one can't say that they don't "hurt" the environment either, those behemoths ;-)
regards.
well, sorry about ya.
;-)
as for me, my car is diesel, and the next one that I pretend to buy also is
gas can suck my nuts. diesels are much more reliable (and in the troller it can work even underwater because of the snorkel).
im longin to see if I can contract such an oil supply for me, so I can import one of those kits and give it a try. Will pay itself in months if I can get the oil for free or almost free (diesel costs amost $1/liter here)
regards.
I have no prob with this thanks to my shitty battery that dies before any damage can happen, if I happen to forget to apm-s before store the lappy, and the lid sensor does not suceed in suspending it (rare but happens). Pisses me off tough.
regards.
just be *pretty* sure on the decisions you make, and make the right ones (or the ones that approximate "right" the most), not like some dumbasses that call themselves management and make critical decisions based purely marketing hype (or worse - because "the market uses this" - argh) and you will be ok.
;-)
/. troll policy - poor me, having to use this lame good-karma login :-P)
the right tool for the job usually works - and well
(btw, I am the original poster, but could not reply using that account because of the new
cheers.