Sky in the UK have cottoned on this sort of thing as well. With SKY if you order PPV the box dials up sky to get authorisation. People realised this, unplugged the phone and found that they sky box would then grant them access as it gave them the benefit of doubt.
What they didn't realise that they box has a £50 credit limit so if you hit this then it stops. So people then plugged the box back in, it dial sky and they get a bill for £50:) Fantastic
I've always been taught that if you want to have a reliable backup of your OS do it in single user mode (if possible, although normally not really practicle). For real world backup one nice way I found of doing a *full* backup is the following, Some might say it is risky but it does works
Have a backend storage system which has redundancy. Say two NetApps that replicate each other. When you want to do you backup of data take one of the machines out of the cluster so that there is no I/O. Back it up using your favourite software. (Amanda, Veritas, dd, cpio,tar...). Put it back in the cluster and let it sync up and there you go.
Looking over the article is says that TRON supports SH, MR, ARM, and MIPS. These I can understand and am happy with the idea. Now I'm not trolling but would there be any benefit or using linux's x86 code and running embedded systems on Intel/AMD or are they to big/hot/complicated/etc to be of any use in embedded systems?
IF you got for a Nokia 7650 (which is Sybian ER6 as the P800 is ER7) then you can actually get Doom
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Could it be that it did actually find a Windows server and tried to boot off that? Its the only thing I can think of as to actually build the MBR to know about NTDLR from a NIC. Nah can't see it happening
If you want really cheap you still might be able to get a SL5000 which is below SL5500. I love my Zaurus, running Open Zaurus which give you Konquerer and with a CF Wifi gives a really cool portable table like client. Mixed with VNC for remote admin and SSH for cli interfaces. Also make a cool MP3 player with cheap SD cards. There is so much I could write. Just get one. It rocks
Lucky for the author his family lived at least some distance away. I'm doing support for the gf who is trying to learn HTML and use word and excel and powerpoint etc. It can get quite wearing explaining how it all works a couple of times.
"This doesn't work please can you fix this? What about this? No I'm still not sure", Arghhhhh:)
Am I the only one who sees a problem with the interface of something like the iPhone. Taking it is going ot go round you wrist the only reasonable interfaces are very small button, or voice recognition. Button would be to small and I don't like the idea of having to stand in the street shouting "Ring Wife".
Also how do you speak? Do you have to shout at the braclet or will you have to hold it up to your ear and look like a prat? OK it does have an earphone but its still a fun image:)
I like many other people hear will download songs to sample them and will normally go on to buy the CD. The reasoning behind this is that if you actually do do MP3 -> CD and then play it on a decent hifi it sounds awful. There is no depth to it, no soul. CD's can provide that and that for me is 1/2 the expierence
I've seriouly been looking for this for my home box. Of course its only part of the way of hiding the real OS your running. One part of eunermation is to look at the banners that network servers show. For example telneting to my home box
[rghf@localhost rghf]$ telnet foo.wibble 22 Trying foo.wibble... Connected to foo.wibble Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1
Shows I'm running debian (or am I?:). So changing these as well could give those l33t script kiddies some fun:)
I don't want to sound miserable but let me explain my recent story. I had/have a Nokida 7650. A new smartphone that has camera/pda/java/internet gprs/colour screen and all great stuff. Its a cool gadget which was admitally a bit bulky. Now I lost it a few weeks ago and fell back on my trusty old Siemens SL45. Its old, mono, slimline and can play MP3's. So which phone is better? Well the SL45 and this is why
The 7650 is a big phone (and I'm not sure A760 so this might not count) so I found that instead of keeping it in my pocket I took it out as it was uncomfortable so I kept forgetting to pick it up. No such problem with the little SL45. Also its battery lasted 2 days if I was lucky. The SL45 has gone 7 days and still has 1/2 battery less.
What I've decided I want is a small phone. Colour would be nice, with a camera but something which is stable, works well and doesn't need charging every couple of days. Well hopefully the A760 will be stable, and that includes apps but I will reserve judgment until I can play with it
Yeah this is cool and such like but what if you want to mount it across two machine using two FCA's? You need software that allows file locking (such as SGI's CXFS) and that costs. Mind you if you only wanted it on one machine why not just buy a load of disks because in honesty when are you going to need such high amounts of bandwidth?
For me its the 8 way SMP that excites me but I do have to wonder if they have any performance enhancements in? Do they have some sort of shared cache so they can talk cache->cache without have to do a lookup (TLB?) in main memory. Also what is the performace like, say compared to an Itanium 2 or Xeon? Anyone got any recent benchmarks?
I just wonder if it would be possible to use the ethernet connection to dump programs from the hard disk to the PC and re-encode them. As much as I love my PVR (Sky+) I would like to really be able to make quicker than real time archieve. i.e. not have to spool it off to VHS with a loss of quality. Anyone got any ideas?
Now of course you can take *some* supplies with you but not necessarily an entire space shuttle of spares. So what would happen if they find a problem that would stop re-entry but can't fix whilst in orbit? Of course you would hope that they would detect this sort of thing before lift off but you never know. Has NASA ever had two shuttles up at once?
If you look at your modern computer the technology is still basically the same as from 30 years ago. CRT's still use the same basic princible. Hard disks are smaller but still have heads. If anything I would say that hard disks are worse in that you can only get a years guarentee on some now.
So what happens 30 years from now when my Athlon is sitting in the museum. Will they still have to clean out my keyboard? I expect so. Also what about a hard disk head crashing? Yup still would. So I ask what do we need to do now to make sure that we still can access our data in 30 years?
I'm on the battlefield, killing the enemy then my battery runs out. Great I feel so much safer. Least with chemical based (i.e. normal guns) least you know there are to work as long as you have ammo
I mean the US military is funding it. Commercial software I might be a bit wary of. Least with Open Source other people can vet the code to make sure there isn't any backdoors. You get the best of both worlds so all in all I'm up for this
Looking over the site it looks like a nice program but can it run other x86 Operating System like Linux or FreeBSD. It would just be nice to know as I'm thinking about a powerbook and would like to know my options. Of course I know OS-X is BSD based but just wondered about other flavours of *NIX
I know what I would like to see in that we are all on internet2 living in a free society however I think what we might actually have is that everyones 10GB fibre optic links which will be saturated by people streaming porn onto the 3d holographic projectors and pop-ups will be sales men who literally pop up.
Also spam will acount for 99% of all email which will all be in XHTML v9.0 and people will still be trying to get FP on slashdot:)
But surely the wedding ring is to show love for each other and not just another gadget. Why not just enjoy something that is beautiful but not necessarily useful
Slashdot Mirror
Sky in the UK have cottoned on this sort of thing as well. With SKY if you order PPV the box dials up sky to get authorisation. People realised this, unplugged the phone and found that they sky box would then grant them access as it gave them the benefit of doubt.
:) Fantastic
What they didn't realise that they box has a £50 credit limit so if you hit this then it stops. So people then plugged the box back in, it dial sky and they get a bill for £50
Rus
I've always been taught that if you want to have a reliable backup of your OS do it in single user mode (if possible, although normally not really practicle). For real world backup one nice way I found of doing a *full* backup is the following, Some might say it is risky but it does works
:)
Have a backend storage system which has redundancy. Say two NetApps that replicate each other. When you want to do you backup of data take one of the machines out of the cluster so that there is no I/O. Back it up using your favourite software. (Amanda, Veritas, dd, cpio,tar...). Put it back in the cluster and let it sync up and there you go.
Now I would like a beowolf of those
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Looking over the article is says that TRON supports SH, MR, ARM, and MIPS. These I can understand and am happy with the idea. Now I'm not trolling but would there be any benefit or using linux's x86 code and running embedded systems on Intel/AMD or are they to big/hot/complicated/etc to be of any use in embedded systems?
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Are there any know exploits for this yet? Has anyone scene this in practice?
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IF you got for a Nokia 7650 (which is Sybian ER6 as the P800 is ER7) then you can actually get Doom
Rus
Could it be that it did actually find a Windows server and tried to boot off that? Its the only thing I can think of as to actually build the MBR to know about NTDLR from a NIC. Nah can't see it happening
Rus
Yes I know my own comment is off topic and I've even switched off my Karma Bonus :)
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If you want really cheap you still might be able to get a SL5000 which is below SL5500. I love my Zaurus, running Open Zaurus which give you Konquerer and with a CF Wifi gives a really cool portable table like client. Mixed with VNC for remote admin and SSH for cli interfaces.
Also make a cool MP3 player with cheap SD cards. There is so much I could write. Just get one. It rocks
Rus
Lucky for the author his family lived at least some distance away. I'm doing support for the gf who is trying to learn HTML and use word and excel and powerpoint etc. It can get quite wearing explaining how it all works a couple of times.
:)
"This doesn't work please can you fix this? What about this? No I'm still not sure", Arghhhhh
Rus
Am I the only one who sees a problem with the interface of something like the iPhone. Taking it is going ot go round you wrist the only reasonable interfaces are very small button, or voice recognition. Button would be to small and I don't like the idea of having to stand in the street shouting "Ring Wife".
:)
Also how do you speak? Do you have to shout at the braclet or will you have to hold it up to your ear and look like a prat? OK it does have an earphone but its still a fun image
Rus
I like many other people hear will download songs to sample them and will normally go on to buy the CD. The reasoning behind this is that if you actually do do MP3 -> CD and then play it on a decent hifi it sounds awful. There is no depth to it, no soul. CD's can provide that and that for me is 1/2 the expierence
rus
I've seriouly been looking for this for my home box. Of course its only part of the way of hiding the real OS your running. One part of eunermation is to look at the banners that network servers show. For example telneting to my home box
:). So changing these as well could give those l33t script kiddies some fun :)
[rghf@localhost rghf]$ telnet foo.wibble 22
Trying foo.wibble...
Connected to foo.wibble
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1
Shows I'm running debian (or am I?
Rus
I don't want to sound miserable but let me explain my recent story. I had/have a Nokida 7650. A new smartphone that has camera/pda/java/internet gprs/colour screen and all great stuff. Its a cool gadget which was admitally a bit bulky. Now I lost it a few weeks ago and fell back on my trusty old Siemens SL45. Its old, mono, slimline and can play MP3's. So which phone is better? Well the SL45 and this is why
The 7650 is a big phone (and I'm not sure A760 so this might not count) so I found that instead of keeping it in my pocket I took it out as it was uncomfortable so I kept forgetting to pick it up. No such problem with the little SL45. Also its battery lasted 2 days if I was lucky. The SL45 has gone 7 days and still has 1/2 battery less.
What I've decided I want is a small phone. Colour would be nice, with a camera but something which is stable, works well and doesn't need charging every couple of days. Well hopefully the A760 will be stable, and that includes apps but I will reserve judgment until I can play with it
Rus
Not showing on the UK scifi channel feed. Oh well least we have new futurama and Simpsons on Sky 1 tonight
Yeah this is cool and such like but what if you want to mount it across two machine using two FCA's? You need software that allows file locking (such as SGI's CXFS) and that costs. Mind you if you only wanted it on one machine why not just buy a load of disks because in honesty when are you going to need such high amounts of bandwidth?
Rus
For me its the 8 way SMP that excites me but I do have to wonder if they have any performance enhancements in? Do they have some sort of shared cache so they can talk cache->cache without have to do a lookup (TLB?) in main memory. Also what is the performace like, say compared to an Itanium 2 or Xeon? Anyone got any recent benchmarks?
Rus
I just wonder if it would be possible to use the ethernet connection to dump programs from the hard disk to the PC and re-encode them. As much as I love my PVR (Sky+) I would like to really be able to make quicker than real time archieve. i.e. not have to spool it off to VHS with a loss of quality. Anyone got any ideas?
Rus
Now of course you can take *some* supplies with you but not necessarily an entire space shuttle of spares. So what would happen if they find a problem that would stop re-entry but can't fix whilst in orbit? Of course you would hope that they would detect this sort of thing before lift off but you never know. Has NASA ever had two shuttles up at once?
Rus
If you look at your modern computer the technology is still basically the same as from 30 years ago. CRT's still use the same basic princible. Hard disks are smaller but still have heads. If anything I would say that hard disks are worse in that you can only get a years guarentee on some now.
So what happens 30 years from now when my Athlon is sitting in the museum. Will they still have to clean out my keyboard? I expect so. Also what about a hard disk head crashing? Yup still would. So I ask what do we need to do now to make sure that we still can access our data in 30 years?
Rus
I'm on the battlefield, killing the enemy then my battery runs out. Great I feel so much safer. Least with chemical based (i.e. normal guns) least you know there are to work as long as you have ammo
Rus
I mean the US military is funding it. Commercial software I might be a bit wary of. Least with Open Source other people can vet the code to make sure there isn't any backdoors. You get the best of both worlds so all in all I'm up for this
Rus
Looking over the site it looks like a nice program but can it run other x86 Operating System like Linux or FreeBSD. It would just be nice to know as I'm thinking about a powerbook and would like to know my options. Of course I know OS-X is BSD based but just wondered about other flavours of *NIX
Rus
People do seem to forget that there were things before the www like gopher which you can still access today http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet /Gopher/?tc=1 is a good place to start.
:P
And away I used a 386 dx 25 with 4 MB of ram with two cups and a bit of string
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I know what I would like to see in that we are all on internet2 living in a free society however I think what we might actually have is that everyones 10GB fibre optic links which will be saturated by people streaming porn onto the 3d holographic projectors and pop-ups will be sales men who literally pop up.
:)
Also spam will acount for 99% of all email which will all be in XHTML v9.0 and people will still be trying to get FP on slashdot
Rus
But surely the wedding ring is to show love for each other and not just another gadget. Why not just enjoy something that is beautiful but not necessarily useful
Rus