You are brazenly contradicting your own description of your company's standard contractual obligations. You said,
"I once figured the breaking point is at 9.5 to 10 hours a day. If I require my people to stay 9.5hr/day, I'm not really losing anything."
That's perfectly clear. You specify a minimum number of working hours per day. You also said your contractors must,
"Work in the office on business days (M-F): This means that the contactor can't work from home or decide to work tue, wed, thu."
That's clear too. Not only must your contractors work your specified minimum number of hours per day but they must also work at your office every weekday.
So, what you are saying now is that you have another term, which you omitted to mention in your first comment, in your company's contracts which specifies a deliverable and a due date for that deliverable.
A more accurate description of what you pay for is to say you pay your contractors for fulfilment of all their contractual obligations. You do not pay them for end product alone. That difference is important.
In my opinion, you are not managing your contractors effectively. Find other managers who are using "time-less" contracts to see how they work. If you set up your contracts to require your contractors to complete deliverables by specified dates to agreed standards with as many intermediate milestones as you consider necessary for feedback purposes but without specifying minimum hours of work and arbitrary attendance for attendance's sake, you would still get the contracted deliverables but because you are offering a more attractive package you would be able to attract better contractors to fill your vacancies, improve staff motivation, suffer lower staff turnover, and get better results.
"So if I contract for 4 days, and the work takes him 2, then effectivly [sic], he gets paid to [sic] two days he didn't have to work. Or to look at it another way, I didn't make him stay around the aditional [sic]48 hours."
You appear to be contradicting what you said in your previous post, i.e., your contracts have a term requiring your contractors to:
"Work in the office on business days (M-F): This means that the contactor [sic] can't work from home or decide to work tue, wed, thu."
So, if one of your contractors finished a contract of four-days of work in only two days, he/she cannot stay home because he/she is required by your contract to work in your office for the remaining two days. So, really you do make them stay around the additional 48 hours.
The article clearly says the team was at Los Alamos National Laboratory. LANL has the authority for this type of work. Sarrao is not some random university professor. He works for LANL.
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My point is documentation about speedups in X is often missing, incomplete or lacks detail.
MITSHM is probably the most important speedup method for X applications because it is actually fully implemented across all graphics cards (unlike XRender whose implementation is apparently incomplete according to the website) but despite MITSHM being over 11 years old it still lacks complete documentation. Its adoption is being held back by poor documentation. I know XFree86 is mostly undertaken by volunteer programmers, but X and some of its extensions like MITSHM itself wasn't developed in that way. MITSHM was written by people who were paid to write the code. I just wish they had been required to write complete documentation.
Thanks for the info. Are there any cards that might fit the following description?
I'd like to find a Linux-supported replacement for my current card which has all of the following on a single addon card:
analog video input with dual-standard PAL/NTSC,
analog video output with dual-standard PAL/NTSC,
2 Firewire ports for digital video I/O.
Unfortunately, Fast Electronics, the only maker I know of such multifunction single cards, only supports Windows and doesn't release programming info. I'd prefer not to use up 2-3 PCI slots by having multiple cards to do separately the tasks of video digitisation, video output and Firewire I/O.
No, what is being proposed is that your access to a free website is conditional upon delivery of popup ads not being blocked.Always read terms and conditions carefully.
Ralsky is not claiming the recipients of spam emails are bound by contract to read them. Nonetheless it is conceivable a legally binding contract to read spam could be offered.
Actually it is really being pushed as a legal issue, at least by Sigmund Solares, the Swedish CEO of Intercosmos Media Group, Inc. (recent litigation described here) He says breaching a website's terms and conditions by blocking popup ads is theft. That argument may hold. Whether he's planning to make a legal test case, who knows. He's no stranger to litigation.
The connection to Ralsky is that Ralsky is interested in diversifying from email into supplying popup ads, not necessarily only Windows Messenging popups. Imagine Ralsky working with Sigmund Solares to make free websites with hundreds of popup ads it is illegal to block!
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"Those people who do know the extensions well are VERY busy improving XFree."
The MITSHM documentation was written by Jonathan Corbet (of Linux Weekly News?) and Keith Packard in 1991. That's over 11 years ago! Is there a lack of good documentation because people are really too busy to write the documentation or is it because they do not want to write documentation?
Nowadays there are plenty of cheap monitors that can do 75Hz+ refresh at 1600x1200. I'm using a 19" Iiyama Vision Master which can do 72Hz refresh at 1600x1200. Similar 19" monitors cost about USD130 on. There's no noticeable flicker.
A dropped frame is a visual symptom. It doesn't tell you how much data was lost. A dropped frame doesn't necessarily mean all of the data or even any of the data for that particular frame is actually unreadable on the tape. Dropped frames have many temporary causes like dust particles on the magnetic tape, faulty cables, cosmic rays or strong RF interference hitting the electronics, buggy software, drivers or slow CPU in the case of computer DV decoding, etc. Granted, it could be a patch of tape is really damaged, causing tens or even x hundreds of bits to be lost.
Whatever the cause, a camcorder's builtin error correction can usually recover from small amounts of bad data. That's good enough for making videos but not for making backups. By using an additional layer of Reed-Solomon error correction as used in Rsbep DV Backup bad data up to 12240 consecutive bytes can be recovered, not counting any additional lower-level bad data the camcorder's internal FEC may have seen and corrected. The Rsbep guy found he could make up to 0.5mm diameter pinholes in the tape without losing data! I've seen professional data-grade backup tapes lose data after damage to a much smaller spot of 0.2mm diameter. I would say backups on MiniDV with RS error correction are feasible and cost-effective at 4USD/10GB. At 3.6Mbps, DV backups are also fast.
IANAFS but I've used a lot of different MiniDV equipment and I've never had a problem like yours with dropped frames. Maybe your DV camcorder has dirty/misaligned/worn heads any of which could cause dropped frames.
To anyone using Firewire with Linux, which PCI card or motherboard would you recommend as the best most Linux-compatible solution to get Firewire ports?
"Intercosmos Media Group, Inc., which has registered
nearly 1.3 million domain names and is one of the fastest growing registrars of Internet domain
names, today announced that it filed suit against Internet giant and competitor VeriSign, Inc. The suit alleges unfair trade practices and
violations of the computer fraud and abuse act were engaged in over recent months by publicly held VeriSign.
"At first, Intercosmos management thought perhaps the tactics were the marketing ploy of a novice
team or employee at VeriSign," Sigmund Solares, CEO and co-owner of Intercosmos, said. "Our
company waited to see if actions would be taken to correct the matter by higher-ups at VeriSign.
Instead, the deceitful marketing efforts only mounted to an egregious level."
Folks love to comment how ugly they think GUIs look under X in Netscape/Mozilla, and the same folks often suggest the solution is to use anti-aliased fonts. Sure, anti-aliased fonts are good.
However, I'd like to share my experience with a very simple alternative method of getting really great looking fonts in X without installing or changing any software.
Change your X11 display resolution so pixels are about the same size as the dot pitch of your monitor. The jagged edges of the unaliased X fonts totally disappear. Quasi font anti-aliasing is as good as true anti-aliased fonts but without the hassle! If I had my macro lens handy I'd take a photo of my monitor screen running 1600x1200 and show you the incredibly smooth font outlines I've got with this very ordinary variable width Times Roman 18pt font. If I reduce X to anything less than 1600x1200 like 1024x768, of course, the jagged edges return.
The submitter is right, I think. The data capacity for a 60-minute MiniDV tape is about 12GB. However, for 80-minute tapes, the nominal maximum data storage capacity is 80/60 * 12 = 15GB per tape, which might reduce after FEC overhead to 12GB per tape.
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In an earlier comment somebody said, "Fresco is not X: Yes, we do not extend X. X is good, we do think so too, but it has certain shortcommings we do want to adress. Improving X is not an option: We'd need
to carry along tons of code we do not need and blow the code size out of proportion (example: xlib, networking code)."
X may be good but sometimes it is simply too slow and, worse, the documentation does not go out of its way to explain properly the speedups that are available.
When you need speed and don't care about hardware-dependency you can use Direct Graphics Access module - DGA. But where's good documentation for DGA? Is there anything faster than DGA in X? Where's the good documentation?
New software should be designed not to run on existing hardware. The electronics market badly needs a new software direction to keep alive the demand for new hardware. Most software for the mass market, even the huge latest version of MS-Office, is using similar amounts of central processing power to software of a year ago. You guys upgrade your hardware regularly. But for the average user using average software, how could you persuade them they really need to upgrade their PC/settop box/games console or whatever? I think demand cannot grow without fundamentally new types of CPU intensive applications.
Imagine bidirectional broadband services at affordable prices, certainly way below leased line costs, without volume limits and other technical restrictions.
Imagine ultra-high resolution 4096x2048 broadband video and hifi audio streaming webcams with 50ms latency costing no more than USD50/month to own and run.
Imagine no-mouse no-keyboard 3d-visual gesture recognition games that understand in realtime the player's movements and expressions in 3D.
4.33.83.223 Earthlink, Atlanta GA, USA 4.60.159.101 GTE Intelligent Network Services, Irving TX, USA 10.50.1.38 private IP address, source spoofed 12.150.128.146 Peedee EMC Services, Raleigh NC, USA 12.154.4.211 Georgia Power Company, Atlanta GA, USA 12.36.76.226 John O Butler Company, Chicago IL, USA 24.151.39.7 Charter Comms, St Louis MO, USA 24.171.89.158 Knology Net, West Point GA, USA 24.26.0.120 Road Runner, Herndon VA, USA 24.83.60.100 Shaw Fiberlink, Calgary, Canada 35.12.18.162 Michigan State University, MI, USA 38.201.161.201 Performance Systems Int Inc, Herndon VA, USA 61.126.144.68 OCN Open Computer Network, Osaka, Japan 61.147.90.136 Chinanet Jiangsu-Yangzhou, Nanjing, China 61.161.177.11 Chinanet Liaoning, Beijing, China 61.175.87.199 Chinanet Zhejiang, Beijing, China 61.177.25.249 Chinanet Jiangsu-Suzhou, Nanjing, China 61.183.199.207 Chinanet Hubei, Beijing, China 61.186.207.253 Chinanet Chongqing, Beijing, China 61.216.170.48 Chungwa Telecom, Taipei, Taiwan 61.220.54.142 Hsu-Jeng Liang Net, Taipei, Taiwan 61.243.153.193 China United Telecom, Beijing Railway Station, China 61.243.192.228 Cyberworld, Pusan, Korea 61.34.104.112 Dacom Boranet, Seoul, Korea 61.59.168.165 Hsinchu DP-S, Taipei, Taiwan 61.61.110.36 KG Telecomms, Taipei, Taiwan 61.72.241.65 Jongleeng Pc Room, Seoul, Korea 61.77.75.234 Korea Telecom, Seoul, Korea 62.0.42.89 Medison Parma, Petach Tikva, Israel 62.103.247.125 OTEnet SA, Athens, Greece 62.112.219.134 Enternet 2001 Ltd, Budapest, Hungary 62.114.120.129 Nile Online, Giza, Egypt 62.179.40.212 Chello Broadband GmbH, Vienna, Austria 62.193.71.87 Internet Egypt Network, Cairo, Egypt 62.21.21.40 Internet Cable Net, Poznan, Poland 62.211.39.229 Interbusiness, Rome, Italy 62.219.123.94 Bezeq International, Petach Tikva, Israel 62.234.8.184 EuroNet Internet BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands 62.31.29.109 Telewest Broadband, Woking, UK 62.42.218.110 Cableuropa - Ono, Madrid, Spain 62.47.223.196 Telekom Austria AG, Vienna, Austria 62.5.241.102 OOO MAD Design, Moscow, Russia 62.7.17.119 BTnet Support, St Albans, UK 62.82.208.202 Retevision SA, Barcelona, Spain 63.145.36.83 Qwest Comms, Denver CO, USA 63.193.145.169 ADSL BASIC, San Francisco CA, USA 63.205.150.170 S. California Ortopedic Institute, Van Nuys CA, USA 63.224.103.159 US West/Qwest Internet, Denver CO, USA 64.123.138.177 Martin Wright Dba, ?, USA 64.158.70.189 Level 3 Comms Inc, Broomfield CO, USA 64.166.183.164 St Cyril'S School, San Francisco CA, USA 64.167.151.161 PPPoX Pool, San Francisco CA, USA 64.180.209.177 New Westminster Consumer ADSL, Alberta, Canada 64.204.204.140 Law Offices Of Lauri Silver, Monterey CA, USA 64.213.57.126 Cable Onda, Miami FL, USA 64.220.50.162 Xo Comms, San Jose CA, USA 64.223.152.125 Verizon Internet Services, Reston VA, USA 64.228.111.154 Sympatico, Toronto, Canada 64.252.100.28 PPPoX Pool, Plano TX, USA 64.76.85.143 UOL Colombia, Bogota, Columbia 64.79.80.235 Mich.com, Sterling Heights MI, USA 65.17.92.10 Birch Telecom, Kansas City MO, USA 65.174.239.102 Plateau Internet, Clovis NM, USA 65.238.85.65 GridNet Int, Colorado Springs CO, USA 65.32.29.18 RoadRunner SW, Herndon VA, USA 65.38.131.148 VailNet, Avon CO, USA 65.69.35.51 Mid Missouri Online, Inc, Laurie MO, USA 65.71.4.197 GPC Net Inc, Plano TX, USA
You mentioned `brasil.pif' which is interesting because perhaps 30% of the netbios probes I see (there were so many I didn't bother to list them in my other post) seem to come from Latin American countries, frequently from Brazil. Perhaps the worm started in Brazil because the worm author is Brazilian or perhaps they just have less well secured PCs connected to the net. I suppose large nets are getting the worst of this attack. It's going to be a tough problem to crack but I really hope law enforcement can identify the culprit(s) soon.
Netbios probe epidemic sample of unique netblocks:
12.79.164.132 ATT WorldNet Services, Bridgeton MO, USA 61.63.51.132 Koos Broadband Telecom Co Ltd, Taipei, Taiwan 61.66.23.153 Hoshin Gigamedia Center Inc, Taipei, Taiwan 61.84.155.229 Bukkwangju Node, Kwangju, Korea 62.82.150.12 Retenet SA, Barcelona, Spain 63.238.201.181 Qwest Communications, Denver CO, USA 64.128.228.13 Telocity Delaware Inc, Hermosa Beach CA, USA 64.221.167.233 XO Communications, San Jose CA, USA 64.28.67.150 SLASHDOT!! Exodus Comms, Santa Clara CA, USA 66.139.73.8 ServerBeach, San Antonia TX, USA 66.231.36.202 Coldwater Board of Public Utilities, Coldwater MI, USA 66.50.81.233 Coqui.net Corp, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA 67.119.49.16 HisAndHerHairGoods, San Francisco CA, USA 80.36.162.80 Telefonica de Espana, Madrid, Spain 130.225.41.146 Danish CC for Research & Education, Copenhagen, Denmark 140.186.101.246 Cambridge Entrepreneurial Network, Quincy MA, USA 144.232.4.246 Sprint Comms, Overland Park KA, USA 148.76.64.119 Spacenet, Inc, McLean VA, USA 158.152.204.252 Pilsbury, Demon Internet, London, UK 162.39.227.110 Central Telephone Company, Little Rock AR, USA 193.195.224.1 Demon Internet, London, UK 194.38.141.141 CMCin2, Lisbon, Portugal 196.30.233.120 UUNET Internet Africa, Johannesburg, South Africe 200.161.93.37 Comite Gestor da Internet no Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil 200.24.101.125 Unitel SA, Cali, Columbia 200.44.17.59 CANTV Servicios, Caracas, Venezuala 200.67.91.103 Uninet SA, Jardines del Pedregal, Mexico 200.75.195.174 CableOnda CableModem, Panama City, Panama 202.239.162.34 Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan 203.249.50.165 Wonkwang University, Chonbuk, Korea 203.250.139.23 PaiChai University, Taejon, Korea 207.249.143.232 Instituto Sup.Autonoma de Occ., Flores, Mexico 210.212.250.67 Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, Tiruchirapalli, India 210.214.24.49 Satyam Infoway Pvt.Ltd, Chennai, India 210.255.9.145 Dion (KDDI Corp), Tokyo, Japan 211.142.185.132 China Mobile Comms Corp, Beijing, China 211.158.48.138 Chongqing BoardBand Networks Co, Chongqing, China 211.197.12.211 Nexen Tire Co, Seoul, Korea 217.164.246.17 Emirates Telecomms Group, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 217.216.216.43 Supercable, Seville, Spain 217.58.146.195 Interbusiness, Florence, Italy 218.54.251.250 Cyberia Woosong, Taejon, Korea
Yes, something funny is definitely going on right now on the net. These statistics are solid and based on 4 years of data going back to 1998: my firewall has detected on average 1 probe every 3 hours.
On 28th September this year I made the mistake of visiting the website of Taiwanese motherboard maker QDI Groupwebsite to download a newer BIOS. Literally within seconds my firewall started getting hit by netbios probes. It's been about two probes a minute all day every day from sites all over the world since 28th September.That's a 400-fold increase! It's getting worse. They're from all over the place but always TCP to netbios port 137.
Does anyone else want to try vsiiting www.qdigrp.com?? Has anyone else seen the same pattern? I'll post a few of the IPs here. Maybe someone will recognise them.
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"protects against rm *"
unless rm is called via an alias or script as rm [option...] -- *
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The initial state of the armor before a hit is presumably pairs of parallel metal plates connected to an extremely low impedance electricity supply capable of extremely high current delivery. I wonder how it would survive more than one nearby puncture by an RPG? The first puncture through the outer plate makes a shortcircuit causing a massive current. Wouldn't a second hit on the same damaged area avoid any current because the plates are already shortcircuited?
Or is the current so high and the structure cleverly arranged so that the first pair of plates is totally vaporised, neatly clearing away the shortcircuit shrapnel and exposing another clean pair of plates underneath ready to take another hit? Maybe there is a stack of plates. Perhaps the plates are the same size as the largest possible impact damage, say 15cm, i.e. small enough that it is difficult to hit the same spot twice and not too big that a hit shortcircuits more than one pair of plates.
% tune2fs -j/dev/hda1
tune2fs 1.26
Creating journal inode: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 10 mounts or
10 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
There are other options like non-ordered for using EXT3 which make it run a bit faster, but it's still at least 1.5 times slower than EXT2. If you decide to run EXT2 and put up with regular fscks, just disable manual mode in fsck so it runs automatically on reboot without user intervention required. An EXT2 filesystem used like this will typically live for years before it finally collapses. Keep regular backups and you'll be fine.
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You are brazenly contradicting your own description of your company's standard contractual obligations. You said,
That's perfectly clear. You specify a minimum number of working hours per day. You also said your contractors must,
That's clear too. Not only must your contractors work your specified minimum number of hours per day but they must also work at your office every weekday.
So, what you are saying now is that you have another term, which you omitted to mention in your first comment, in your company's contracts which specifies a deliverable and a due date for that deliverable.
A more accurate description of what you pay for is to say you pay your contractors for fulfilment of all their contractual obligations. You do not pay them for end product alone. That difference is important.
In my opinion, you are not managing your contractors effectively. Find other managers who are using "time-less" contracts to see how they work. If you set up your contracts to require your contractors to complete deliverables by specified dates to agreed standards with as many intermediate milestones as you consider necessary for feedback purposes but without specifying minimum hours of work and arbitrary attendance for attendance's sake, you would still get the contracted deliverables but because you are offering a more attractive package you would be able to attract better contractors to fill your vacancies, improve staff motivation, suffer lower staff turnover, and get better results.
You appear to be contradicting what you said in your previous post, i.e., your contracts have a term requiring your contractors to:
So, if one of your contractors finished a contract of four-days of work in only two days, he/she cannot stay home because he/she is required by your contract to work in your office for the remaining two days. So, really you do make them stay around the additional 48 hours.
The article clearly says the team was at Los Alamos National Laboratory. LANL has the authority for this type of work. Sarrao is not some random university professor. He works for LANL.
My point is documentation about speedups in X is often missing, incomplete or lacks detail.
MITSHM is probably the most important speedup method for X applications because it is actually fully implemented across all graphics cards (unlike XRender whose implementation is apparently incomplete according to the website) but despite MITSHM being over 11 years old it still lacks complete documentation. Its adoption is being held back by poor documentation. I know XFree86 is mostly undertaken by volunteer programmers, but X and some of its extensions like MITSHM itself wasn't developed in that way. MITSHM was written by people who were paid to write the code. I just wish they had been required to write complete documentation.
I'd like to find a Linux-supported replacement for my current card which has all of the following on a single addon card:
Unfortunately, Fast Electronics, the only maker I know of such multifunction single cards, only supports Windows and doesn't release programming info. I'd prefer not to use up 2-3 PCI slots by having multiple cards to do separately the tasks of video digitisation, video output and Firewire I/O.
No, what is being proposed is that your access to a free website is conditional upon delivery of popup ads not being blocked.Always read terms and conditions carefully.
Ralsky is not claiming the recipients of spam emails are bound by contract to read them. Nonetheless it is conceivable a legally binding contract to read spam could be offered.
Actually it is really being pushed as a legal issue, at least by Sigmund Solares, the Swedish CEO of Intercosmos Media Group, Inc. (recent litigation described here) He says breaching a website's terms and conditions by blocking popup ads is theft. That argument may hold. Whether he's planning to make a legal test case, who knows. He's no stranger to litigation.
The connection to Ralsky is that Ralsky is interested in diversifying from email into supplying popup ads, not necessarily only Windows Messenging popups. Imagine Ralsky working with Sigmund Solares to make free websites with hundreds of popup ads it is illegal to block!
So if Blocking Popup Ads is Theft, anyone wanna bet he has a good business model?
"Those people who do know the extensions well are VERY busy improving XFree."
The MITSHM documentation was written by Jonathan Corbet (of Linux Weekly News?) and Keith Packard in 1991. That's over 11 years ago! Is there a lack of good documentation because people are really too busy to write the documentation or is it because they do not want to write documentation?
Nowadays there are plenty of cheap monitors that can do 75Hz+ refresh at 1600x1200. I'm using a 19" Iiyama Vision Master which can do 72Hz refresh at 1600x1200. Similar 19" monitors cost about USD130 on. There's no noticeable flicker.
A dropped frame is a visual symptom. It doesn't tell you how much data was lost. A dropped frame doesn't necessarily mean all of the data or even any of the data for that particular frame is actually unreadable on the tape. Dropped frames have many temporary causes like dust particles on the magnetic tape, faulty cables, cosmic rays or strong RF interference hitting the electronics, buggy software, drivers or slow CPU in the case of computer DV decoding, etc. Granted, it could be a patch of tape is really damaged, causing tens or even x hundreds of bits to be lost.
Whatever the cause, a camcorder's builtin error correction can usually recover from small amounts of bad data. That's good enough for making videos but not for making backups. By using an additional layer of Reed-Solomon error correction as used in Rsbep DV Backup bad data up to 12240 consecutive bytes can be recovered, not counting any additional lower-level bad data the camcorder's internal FEC may have seen and corrected. The Rsbep guy found he could make up to 0.5mm diameter pinholes in the tape without losing data! I've seen professional data-grade backup tapes lose data after damage to a much smaller spot of 0.2mm diameter. I would say backups on MiniDV with RS error correction are feasible and cost-effective at 4USD/10GB. At 3.6Mbps, DV backups are also fast.
IANAFS but I've used a lot of different MiniDV equipment and I've never had a problem like yours with dropped frames. Maybe your DV camcorder has dirty/misaligned/worn heads any of which could cause dropped frames.
To anyone using Firewire with Linux, which PCI card or motherboard would you recommend as the best most Linux-compatible solution to get Firewire ports?
There is interesting background material on the Swedish company Intercosmos Media Group, Inc which owns the domain anti-leech.com:
Google cache of Yahoo news on "Intercosmos Media Group sues Verisign"
"Intercosmos Media Group, Inc., which has registered nearly 1.3 million domain names and is one of the fastest growing registrars of Internet domain names, today announced that it filed suit against Internet giant and competitor VeriSign, Inc. The suit alleges unfair trade practices and violations of the computer fraud and abuse act were engaged in over recent months by publicly held VeriSign.
"At first, Intercosmos management thought perhaps the tactics were the marketing ploy of a novice team or employee at VeriSign," Sigmund Solares, CEO and co-owner of Intercosmos, said. "Our company waited to see if actions would be taken to correct the matter by higher-ups at VeriSign. Instead, the deceitful marketing efforts only mounted to an egregious level."
Folks love to comment how ugly they think GUIs look under X in Netscape/Mozilla, and the same folks often suggest the solution is to use anti-aliased fonts. Sure, anti-aliased fonts are good.
However, I'd like to share my experience with a very simple alternative method of getting really great looking fonts in X without installing or changing any software.
Change your X11 display resolution so pixels are about the same size as the dot pitch of your monitor. The jagged edges of the unaliased X fonts totally disappear. Quasi font anti-aliasing is as good as true anti-aliased fonts but without the hassle! If I had my macro lens handy I'd take a photo of my monitor screen running 1600x1200 and show you the incredibly smooth font outlines I've got with this very ordinary variable width Times Roman 18pt font. If I reduce X to anything less than 1600x1200 like 1024x768, of course, the jagged edges return.
The submitter is right, I think. The data capacity for a 60-minute MiniDV tape is about 12GB. However, for 80-minute tapes, the nominal maximum data storage capacity is 80/60 * 12 = 15GB per tape, which might reduce after FEC overhead to 12GB per tape.
In an earlier comment somebody said, "Fresco is not X: Yes, we do not extend X. X is good, we do think so too, but it has certain shortcommings we do want to adress. Improving X is not an option: We'd need to carry along tons of code we do not need and blow the code size out of proportion (example: xlib, networking code)."
X may be good but sometimes it is simply too slow and, worse, the documentation does not go out of its way to explain properly the speedups that are available.
Ok, there's shared memory pixmaps and shared memory images but the documentation is incomplete.
When you need speed and don't care about hardware-dependency you can use Direct Graphics Access module - DGA. But where's good documentation for DGA? Is there anything faster than DGA in X? Where's the good documentation?
New software should be designed not to run on existing hardware. The electronics market badly needs a new software direction to keep alive the demand for new hardware. Most software for the mass market, even the huge latest version of MS-Office, is using similar amounts of central processing power to software of a year ago. You guys upgrade your hardware regularly. But for the average user using average software, how could you persuade them they really need to upgrade their PC/settop box/games console or whatever? I think demand cannot grow without fundamentally new types of CPU intensive applications.
There's a huge amount of open-source NLP resources and software for many languages on the web.
Last but not least:
Will.
Today's netbios probes up to IP 65.X.X.X:
4.33.83.223 Earthlink, Atlanta GA, USA
4.60.159.101 GTE Intelligent Network Services, Irving TX, USA
10.50.1.38 private IP address, source spoofed
12.150.128.146 Peedee EMC Services, Raleigh NC, USA
12.154.4.211 Georgia Power Company, Atlanta GA, USA
12.36.76.226 John O Butler Company, Chicago IL, USA
24.151.39.7 Charter Comms, St Louis MO, USA
24.171.89.158 Knology Net, West Point GA, USA
24.26.0.120 Road Runner, Herndon VA, USA
24.83.60.100 Shaw Fiberlink, Calgary, Canada
35.12.18.162 Michigan State University, MI, USA
38.201.161.201 Performance Systems Int Inc, Herndon VA, USA
61.126.144.68 OCN Open Computer Network, Osaka, Japan
61.147.90.136 Chinanet Jiangsu-Yangzhou, Nanjing, China
61.161.177.11 Chinanet Liaoning, Beijing, China
61.175.87.199 Chinanet Zhejiang, Beijing, China
61.177.25.249 Chinanet Jiangsu-Suzhou, Nanjing, China
61.183.199.207 Chinanet Hubei, Beijing, China
61.186.207.253 Chinanet Chongqing, Beijing, China
61.216.170.48 Chungwa Telecom, Taipei, Taiwan
61.220.54.142 Hsu-Jeng Liang Net, Taipei, Taiwan
61.243.153.193 China United Telecom, Beijing Railway Station, China
61.243.192.228 Cyberworld, Pusan, Korea
61.34.104.112 Dacom Boranet, Seoul, Korea
61.59.168.165 Hsinchu DP-S, Taipei, Taiwan
61.61.110.36 KG Telecomms, Taipei, Taiwan
61.72.241.65 Jongleeng Pc Room, Seoul, Korea
61.77.75.234 Korea Telecom, Seoul, Korea
62.0.42.89 Medison Parma, Petach Tikva, Israel
62.103.247.125 OTEnet SA, Athens, Greece
62.112.219.134 Enternet 2001 Ltd, Budapest, Hungary
62.114.120.129 Nile Online, Giza, Egypt
62.179.40.212 Chello Broadband GmbH, Vienna, Austria
62.193.71.87 Internet Egypt Network, Cairo, Egypt
62.21.21.40 Internet Cable Net, Poznan, Poland
62.211.39.229 Interbusiness, Rome, Italy
62.219.123.94 Bezeq International, Petach Tikva, Israel
62.234.8.184 EuroNet Internet BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
62.31.29.109 Telewest Broadband, Woking, UK
62.42.218.110 Cableuropa - Ono, Madrid, Spain
62.47.223.196 Telekom Austria AG, Vienna, Austria
62.5.241.102 OOO MAD Design, Moscow, Russia
62.7.17.119 BTnet Support, St Albans, UK
62.82.208.202 Retevision SA, Barcelona, Spain
63.145.36.83 Qwest Comms, Denver CO, USA
63.193.145.169 ADSL BASIC, San Francisco CA, USA
63.205.150.170 S. California Ortopedic Institute, Van Nuys CA, USA
63.224.103.159 US West/Qwest Internet, Denver CO, USA
64.123.138.177 Martin Wright Dba, ?, USA
64.158.70.189 Level 3 Comms Inc, Broomfield CO, USA
64.166.183.164 St Cyril'S School, San Francisco CA, USA
64.167.151.161 PPPoX Pool, San Francisco CA, USA
64.180.209.177 New Westminster Consumer ADSL, Alberta, Canada
64.204.204.140 Law Offices Of Lauri Silver, Monterey CA, USA
64.213.57.126 Cable Onda, Miami FL, USA
64.220.50.162 Xo Comms, San Jose CA, USA
64.223.152.125 Verizon Internet Services, Reston VA, USA
64.228.111.154 Sympatico, Toronto, Canada
64.252.100.28 PPPoX Pool, Plano TX, USA
64.76.85.143 UOL Colombia, Bogota, Columbia
64.79.80.235 Mich.com, Sterling Heights MI, USA
65.17.92.10 Birch Telecom, Kansas City MO, USA
65.174.239.102 Plateau Internet, Clovis NM, USA
65.238.85.65 GridNet Int, Colorado Springs CO, USA
65.32.29.18 RoadRunner SW, Herndon VA, USA
65.38.131.148 VailNet, Avon CO, USA
65.69.35.51 Mid Missouri Online, Inc, Laurie MO, USA
65.71.4.197 GPC Net Inc, Plano TX, USA
etc
You mentioned `brasil.pif' which is interesting because perhaps 30% of the netbios probes I see (there were so many I didn't bother to list them in my other post) seem to come from Latin American countries, frequently from Brazil. Perhaps the worm started in Brazil because the worm author is Brazilian or perhaps they just have less well secured PCs connected to the net. I suppose large nets are getting the worst of this attack. It's going to be a tough problem to crack but I really hope law enforcement can identify the culprit(s) soon.
Netbios probe epidemic sample of unique netblocks:
12.79.164.132 ATT WorldNet Services, Bridgeton MO, USA
61.63.51.132 Koos Broadband Telecom Co Ltd, Taipei, Taiwan
61.66.23.153 Hoshin Gigamedia Center Inc, Taipei, Taiwan
61.84.155.229 Bukkwangju Node, Kwangju, Korea
62.82.150.12 Retenet SA, Barcelona, Spain
63.238.201.181 Qwest Communications, Denver CO, USA
64.128.228.13 Telocity Delaware Inc, Hermosa Beach CA, USA
64.221.167.233 XO Communications, San Jose CA, USA
64.28.67.150 SLASHDOT!! Exodus Comms, Santa Clara CA, USA
66.139.73.8 ServerBeach, San Antonia TX, USA
66.231.36.202 Coldwater Board of Public Utilities, Coldwater MI, USA
66.50.81.233 Coqui.net Corp, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
67.119.49.16 HisAndHerHairGoods, San Francisco CA, USA
80.36.162.80 Telefonica de Espana, Madrid, Spain
130.225.41.146 Danish CC for Research & Education, Copenhagen, Denmark
140.186.101.246 Cambridge Entrepreneurial Network, Quincy MA, USA
144.232.4.246 Sprint Comms, Overland Park KA, USA
148.76.64.119 Spacenet, Inc, McLean VA, USA
158.152.204.252 Pilsbury, Demon Internet, London, UK
162.39.227.110 Central Telephone Company, Little Rock AR, USA
193.195.224.1 Demon Internet, London, UK
194.38.141.141 CMCin2, Lisbon, Portugal
196.30.233.120 UUNET Internet Africa, Johannesburg, South Africe
200.161.93.37 Comite Gestor da Internet no Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
200.24.101.125 Unitel SA, Cali, Columbia
200.44.17.59 CANTV Servicios, Caracas, Venezuala
200.67.91.103 Uninet SA, Jardines del Pedregal, Mexico
200.75.195.174 CableOnda CableModem, Panama City, Panama
202.239.162.34 Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan
203.249.50.165 Wonkwang University, Chonbuk, Korea
203.250.139.23 PaiChai University, Taejon, Korea
207.249.143.232 Instituto Sup.Autonoma de Occ., Flores, Mexico
210.212.250.67 Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, Tiruchirapalli, India
210.214.24.49 Satyam Infoway Pvt.Ltd, Chennai, India
210.255.9.145 Dion (KDDI Corp), Tokyo, Japan
211.142.185.132 China Mobile Comms Corp, Beijing, China
211.158.48.138 Chongqing BoardBand Networks Co, Chongqing, China
211.197.12.211 Nexen Tire Co, Seoul, Korea
217.164.246.17 Emirates Telecomms Group, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
217.216.216.43 Supercable, Seville, Spain
217.58.146.195 Interbusiness, Florence, Italy
218.54.251.250 Cyberia Woosong, Taejon, Korea
Yes, something funny is definitely going on right now on the net. These statistics are solid and based on 4 years of data going back to 1998: my firewall has detected on average 1 probe every 3 hours.
On 28th September this year I made the mistake of visiting the website of Taiwanese motherboard maker QDI Group website to download a newer BIOS. Literally within seconds my firewall started getting hit by netbios probes. It's been about two probes a minute all day every day from sites all over the world since 28th September. That's a 400-fold increase! It's getting worse. They're from all over the place but always TCP to netbios port 137.
Does anyone else want to try vsiiting www.qdigrp.com?? Has anyone else seen the same pattern? I'll post a few of the IPs here. Maybe someone will recognise them.
unless rm is called via an alias or script as rm [option ...] -- *
The initial state of the armor before a hit is presumably pairs of parallel metal plates connected to an extremely low impedance electricity supply capable of extremely high current delivery. I wonder how it would survive more than one nearby puncture by an RPG? The first puncture through the outer plate makes a shortcircuit causing a massive current. Wouldn't a second hit on the same damaged area avoid any current because the plates are already shortcircuited?
Or is the current so high and the structure cleverly arranged so that the first pair of plates is totally vaporised, neatly clearing away the shortcircuit shrapnel and exposing another clean pair of plates underneath ready to take another hit? Maybe there is a stack of plates. Perhaps the plates are the same size as the largest possible impact damage, say 15cm, i.e. small enough that it is difficult to hit the same spot twice and not too big that a hit shortcircuits more than one pair of plates.
Create EXT3 journal in ordered data mode:
% unmount
% tune2fs -j
tune2fs 1.26
Creating journal inode: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 10 mounts or
10 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
% mnt -t ext3
% cd
% time dd if=/dev/zero of=test count=1000k
3.900u 39.540s 1:10.53 61.5% 0+0k 0+0io 103pf+0w
% unmount
Mount as EXT2 filesystem:
% mnt -t ext2
% cd
% time dd if=/dev/zero of=test count=1000k
2.540u 11.960s 0:38.58 37.5% 0+0k 0+0io 105pf+0w
EXT3 is 1.8 (71/39) times slower than EXT2!
There are other options like non-ordered for using EXT3 which make it run a bit faster, but it's still at least 1.5 times slower than EXT2. If you decide to run EXT2 and put up with regular fscks, just disable manual mode in fsck so it runs automatically on reboot without user intervention required. An EXT2 filesystem used like this will typically live for years before it finally collapses. Keep regular backups and you'll be fine.