Hmmm. Reading the intro I thought it would be similar to the cube of doom thing: i.e. mapping the port and src/dst IP to some frequency/harmonics map. But it will probably generate the same noise as your old 2400 baud modem on/dev/ttyS0.
Back to the days where listening to your network was a normal thing:
"Hey Bob, quiet! Listen to modem 1. I think I hear a telnet session coming in."
Recently, a friend of mine expressed an interest in running Linux on his machine. Sick and tired of endless spyware and viruses, he wanted a way out -- so I gave him a copy of Mandrake 10.0 Official. A couple of days later, he got back to me with the sad news I was prepared for: it's just too slow. His box, an 600 MHz 128MB RAM system, ran Windows XP happily, but with Mandrake it was considerably slower.
Maybe it's too obvious, but what's wrong with giving the man an older distro? I'm not too familiar with the evolution of Mandrake, but I can assume that Mandrake 8, or even 9, would already run a little smoother. Go back to the KDE 3.0 or even 2.x / GNOME 2.0 time and the 'performance' would be even better.
Sure, you'd miss out on numerous fixes and improvements, and maybe the interface will be less fluid for newcomers. But as a parallel: I know Windows-users who keep re-installing their Pentium -II 350 MHz with Windows 98 in stead of WinXP, just because it performs better.
Why could one not adopt this strategy with Linux? Most newcomers as described in the article don't need bleeding-edge 2.6 kernels or flashy KDE 3.2 high-color icons.
Does that mean that there will be a multi-threaded, SMP-enabled High-Performance version of MSN messenger available in the future?!?
I'm currently admin for a HPC system, and in those long 'hours' of POST-ing several CPU boards, I'd really welcome such an innovation to help me pass the time...
On my PIII-733 with RedHat 6.2 I couldn't help but notice that Netscape's use crept up from 80 to 300+ Mb !!! Thank god I didn't try running this on a smaller system.
For now, I think I'm gonna stick to 4.7x thank you.
See those 'borderless' frames in for example the left 'bar'? Are we indeed heading toward a 'Star Trek' type window interface? Sure this 'll look nice on my Star Trek desktop theme...
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Hmmm. Reading the intro I thought it would be similar to the cube of doom thing: i.e. mapping the port and src/dst IP to some frequency/harmonics map. But it will probably generate the same noise as your old 2400 baud modem on /dev/ttyS0.
Back to the days where listening to your network was a normal thing:
"Hey Bob, quiet! Listen to modem 1. I think I hear a telnet session coming in."
Maybe it's too obvious, but what's wrong with giving the man an older distro? I'm not too familiar with the evolution of Mandrake, but I can assume that Mandrake 8, or even 9, would already run a little smoother. Go back to the KDE 3.0 or even 2.x / GNOME 2.0 time and the 'performance' would be even better.
Sure, you'd miss out on numerous fixes and improvements, and maybe the interface will be less fluid for newcomers. But as a parallel: I know Windows-users who keep re-installing their Pentium -II 350 MHz with Windows 98 in stead of WinXP, just because it performs better.
Why could one not adopt this strategy with Linux? Most newcomers as described in the article don't need bleeding-edge 2.6 kernels or flashy KDE 3.2 high-color icons.
Does that mean that there will be a multi-threaded, SMP-enabled High-Performance version of MSN messenger available in the future?!?
I'm currently admin for a HPC system, and in those long 'hours' of POST-ing several CPU boards, I'd really welcome such an innovation to help me pass the time...
As the post states, I don't think NSA will reveal all methods.
DOD: could you sec-test our network?
NSA: sure.
NSA: we've found these holes
DOD: fixed
DOD: hey, now even you guys can't get in!
NSA: Doh!
Same here.
On my PIII-733 with RedHat 6.2 I couldn't help but notice that Netscape's use crept up from 80 to 300+ Mb !!! Thank god I didn't try running this on a smaller system.
For now, I think I'm gonna stick to 4.7x thank you.
See those 'borderless' frames in for example the left 'bar'? Are we indeed heading toward a 'Star Trek' type window interface? Sure this 'll look nice on my Star Trek desktop theme...