Quoting the article: Serial ATA integrates CRC on the command and data packet level for enhanced bus reliability. Cyclic redundancy code detects all single and double-bit errors and ensures detection of 99.998% of all possible errors.
So, AFTER, all the data reliability checks ( and those are for the 1 or 2 wrong bits not >= 3 ) the error margin is 99.998%. Now, I might be wrong, but this means that IF, there is an error they only guaranty that if less that 3 bits in any given 300,000 are wrong they will catch that. Doesn't sound very impressive.
I hate browsers that crash on web sites. Supposedly a program is not supposed to crash even if its input is not properly formed. Especially a program such as a browser that gets its input off the internet. My mozilla works fine with this site though.
A man comes into a bar and says "I will bet a 100$ to anyone that I can make my dog talk", so everyone in the bar is making bets with him, he puts the dog on the bar and says "Jessey, say something!" The dog is silent. He tries a few times to make the dog talk but it only barks. So he pays everybody and leaves. When he gets out he tells his dog "Jessey, why the heck wouldn't you say anhything, we have lost a shitload of money today!" And the dog replies, "Just think how much we are going to win tomorrow.":)
Well... lets see suppose that you keep a bank of network boot images somewhere, so you can boot off the network and not need a CDROM. But what if your boot image server AND one of your workstations go down? Lets say a lightning strike?
If you think of it, floppy drive has probably most moving parts in it. I am not a specialist, but from what I saw floppy contains more mechanics than a CDRW. And those things mostly determine the manufacturing cost of a device since chips don't cost almost anything nowadays. So replacing it with a USB pluggable keyring device ( say 20-30$ a piece ) would actually make things profitable for manufacturers. After all, you can store stuff on punch cards, why don't you?
If you don't have a decent internet connection may be stage 1 install is not for you. If you do why do you need ppp? And ppp is on the 1.2 initrd image with pppoe support compiled in.
You seem to miss the point. Surely one should always use trusted code, i. e. either from reliable source or written and tested internally. The problem though is that despite every possible Q&A effort doesn't guarantee a 100% bug free code. OpenBSD is a very good example. The OpenBSD team's primary focus is security, but onsidering the sheer size of the code base there is always some piece of code that has been missed or never considered for proper testing. OpenBSD project source code ( and any fully featured OS for that matter ) comprises hundreds of megabytes of code and considering that number of people doing QA and looking for vulnerabilities is more or less of the same order it is virtually ( and practically ) impossible to guarantee complete security. That is why projects such as grsecurity appear. For example one of the things provided by such modules is a non-executable stack segment, which means that even is the user level code is vulnerable to stack overflows attacker will not be able to exploit it since kernel will not allow execution in stack memory range. Your comment about true source shows only that you have never tried to make secure a program of any significant size. Try to find the lates vulnerability in SSH without looking at the published proof of concept code and then you will gfet some idea as to what kind of effort is involved.
Well, one can certainly rewrite wu-ftpd or bind in java, and it will not have buffer overflows. Unfortunately one will also have to upgrade theyr PIII servers to 256-CPU IBM mainframe to get equal performance.
This is not about browser. This is about encoding. These pages probably have their encoding set to one of russian variants ( KOI8-r or CP1251 ). This way when your browser tries to display it it goes crazy trying to pick up fonts that have russian letters. Try to force encoding back to western.
Perumov? Yaiks!!!! He doesn't know enough russian to write books. Loginov is probably the best modern fantasy author, although I might be missing some of the latest developments. Lukyanenko is fairly good, creative, but with poor literary language. Strugatskie brothers are VERY good, but some ideas are a bit on the primitive side. Also worth mentioning are Gary Oldy ( two russian writers under a pseudonim ), Kyr Bulichev ( writers from soviet times... in my book much too pro-soviet ) Efremov ( "Nebula Andromeda" ). From eastern europ writers in general I would mention Stanislav Lem ( genius )
"It is you, who is mistaken about a great many things."
What they talk about is not computers-not-connected-to-internet, and not about general networks. The article is about ADDRESS SPACE. What they are saying is that there are legitimate internet address ranges owned and used by people to connect their systems to the internet which seem to be inaccessable from major parts of the internet due to misconfigured or restrictive or just plain mean routers.
Unfortunately, if you get a box with Linux preinstalled ( like Dell PowerEdge servers )
you don't have much choise of distros. They
support Red Hat and if you install something else
they will cancel your support contract. That's it.
You can consider yourself lucky if you can get
them not to install RH 7.x but to install 6.2.
Jesus Christ man.
1. Imagine how many people in the world are going to go through with this whole process. A few hundreds at best. One small chemical factory makes emits more dangerous stuff into the air in a day.
2. If we are talking about some guy wh odoes it in his garage, shouldn't you be worried about his health first and about pollution second.
I will not pass judgement, I will just provide a few quotes and mention a few historical facts:
1. Criminal societies are farely relaxed in their morals and internal laws. Mostly it is stronger wins rule. Snitching though is an undisputable crime punishable by the worst death executioners can think of.
2. In stalinist russia of 1930s anonymous informing was very very much encouaraged to get at so called "enemies of the people". This, in many cases, lead to a neighbour reporting a neighbour as a imperialist spy for not turning lights off in the bathroom. Such report would generally result in arrest, torture and death sentence.
3. Recently I have seen a discussion on FOX about school shootings and I have heard a phrase that I have found funny and scary at the same time: "... although we recognize that parents have certain amount of responsibility for their child's moral and ethical growth..."
That's it folks. You think, since I lack appropriate organs to do so.
If parsing headers of spam messages and attacking the server that posted it will help. If sending a spam message means to be DOSed for the provider, they will listen more carefully. We could even design a DDOS module that would use everyone's resources to spam the spammer. If we cannot get to the guy himself we can get to somebody who let him through.
OK, let's forget windows vs. linux debates with all the blood and spilled guts. There is ( IMHO ) a more general problem that causes these "It is too difficult to use" monologues. Computers are not end-user friendly. Whatever you do, but end-user doesn't want to know about... hmmm... doesn't want to know period. They want to run programs, but words "executable file" give them shudders. They want to save files, but words "file system" make them hysterical. Somehow, I miss good old DOS times. The ideology,at the time, was if you want computer at home you will have to learn how to use it. IF you are in corp environment you get your text menu with 3 apps you need to use and no more.
That's what I call user-friendly. Cannot mess up. You either choose word perfect, lotus 123, or Exit to DOS. And you never exit to DOS, cause that's for tech people and yo don't want to understand it. Now , everyone seems to think that he can operate computer without any prior knowledge or anything, while thesame people cannot set time on their VCRs or use their new camera. Back to the main point. Computers are difficult to use. They are complicated. More complicated then most other home appliances. Developers and engineers around theworld strive to make computers easier to use ( wether any particular attempt is succesfull is not the point ). As with most other things of this order of complexity you need AT LEAST to read a manual to use your computer. What is needed to make computers easier is a more abstract interface, i.e less chained to computer realities. Both windows and unix/linux made steps in this direction. For example windows "folders" are pretty good but "C: drive" is bad. Icons are good, but shortcuts are bad. Start menu in all of them is bad. It is not intuitive. Even if it is called start. Desktop menu ( fvwm style ) is more intuitive then start menu.
> People never die here at work
Yes, fatality is low in IT world, construction workers still have accidents.
> Hell, I'm making more now than my dad did when > he finally retired... and he was well paid!
Yeah, right. Physical labor hasn't been paid well ever since before the roman empire. Brains pay, not muscles. And salaries in non-IT jobs are still miserable. And you do not consider inflation.
>Man, it annoys me when the richest generation in > the world's history whine about how bad they
> got it.
That's the point of the text. If you work your ass off to make yourself the richest generation you probably will not have time or energy to spend your riches. Go eat your apple pie and shut up.
I follow bugtraq pretty close and I have never heard of a particular "format string" security vulnerability. Especially in many different unixes. There were quite a few different bugs exploited by sending a particularly formatted string to a certain program. The wording of the article tells me that the guywho wrote it doesn't have a slightest clue what he is talking about, but wants to scre everyone in sight to death. Looks very much like a fake or a misunderstanding so complete that mind starts spinning trying to grasp the depth of it.
OK, first, the browser is not making DNS ( name resolution calls by itself ). It generally uses some API that in turn makes DNS calls. Under *NIX the API is called gethostbyname() I am not sure about other OSs. SO the difference is not really in how old your browser is, but how bad is your TCP/IP implementation. Oh, well if you use MS DOS 3.3 with LAN manager client you might have a problem... but I don't know any web browsers for this platform except of the lynx port. Anyways, the other thing is that there is already a so called standard so called IPv6 which is a version of IP protocol that uses 6 byte addresses. It is though REALLY difficult to make a change like this transparent especially if your users are not under your direct control. I mean if you have two different addressing schemes, you either have to make translating gateways or force people to use new one over old one. There is no way to force the Internet community to do anything, and someone has to build the gateways without any hope to get paid for it. I hope you see the problem now.
As far as spiders go, this was a silly old belief that if tarantula bites you, you should put aside all other activities and dance at the top speed until completely exhausted. Otherwise lethal outcome is to be expected. Hence the name of the dance.
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Quoting the article:
Serial ATA integrates CRC on the command and data packet level for enhanced bus reliability. Cyclic redundancy code detects all single and double-bit errors and ensures detection of 99.998% of all possible errors.
So, AFTER, all the data reliability checks ( and those are for the 1 or 2 wrong bits not >= 3 ) the error margin is 99.998%. Now, I might be wrong, but this means that IF, there is an error they only guaranty that if less that 3 bits in any given 300,000 are wrong they will catch that. Doesn't sound very impressive.
I am probably dumb.
I hate browsers that crash on web sites. Supposedly a program is not supposed to crash even if its input is not properly formed. Especially a program such as a browser that gets its input off the internet. My mozilla works fine with this site though.
I heard a bit different version of this joke:
:)
A man comes into a bar and says "I will bet a 100$ to anyone that I can make my dog talk", so everyone in the bar is making bets with him, he puts the dog on the bar and says "Jessey, say something!" The dog is silent. He tries a few times to make the dog talk but it only barks. So he pays everybody and leaves. When he gets out he tells his dog "Jessey, why the heck wouldn't you say anhything, we have lost a shitload of money today!" And the dog replies, "Just think how much we are going to win tomorrow."
Well... lets see suppose that you keep a bank of network boot images somewhere, so you can boot off the network and not need a CDROM. But what if your boot image server AND one of your workstations go down? Lets say a lightning strike?
Everyone should get a separate rack to mount floppy arrays to get a /dev/floppy/99 ( hehe devfs rules )
If you think of it, floppy drive has probably most moving parts in it. I am not a specialist, but from what I saw floppy contains more mechanics than a CDRW. And those things mostly determine the manufacturing cost of a device since chips don't cost almost anything nowadays. So replacing it with a USB pluggable keyring device ( say 20-30$ a piece ) would actually make things profitable for manufacturers. After all, you can store stuff on punch cards, why don't you?
If you don't have a decent internet connection may be stage 1 install is not for you. If you do why do you need ppp? And ppp is on the 1.2 initrd image with pppoe support compiled in.
You seem to miss the point. Surely one should always use trusted code, i. e. either from reliable source or written and tested internally. The problem though is that despite every possible Q&A effort doesn't guarantee a 100% bug free code. OpenBSD is a very good example. The OpenBSD team's primary focus is security, but onsidering the sheer size of the code base there is always some piece of code that has been missed or never considered for proper testing. OpenBSD project source code ( and any fully featured OS for that matter ) comprises hundreds of megabytes of code and considering that number of people doing QA and looking for vulnerabilities is more or less of the same order it is virtually ( and practically ) impossible to guarantee complete security. That is why projects such as grsecurity appear. For example one of the things provided by such modules is a non-executable stack segment, which means that even is the user level code is vulnerable to stack overflows attacker will not be able to exploit it since kernel will not allow execution in stack memory range. Your comment about true source shows only that you have never tried to make secure a program of any significant size. Try to find the lates vulnerability in SSH without looking at the published proof of concept code and then you will gfet some idea as to what kind of effort is involved.
Well, one can certainly rewrite wu-ftpd or bind in java, and it will not have buffer overflows. Unfortunately one will also have to upgrade theyr PIII servers to 256-CPU IBM mainframe to get equal performance.
This is not about browser. This is about encoding. These pages probably have their encoding set to one of russian variants ( KOI8-r or CP1251 ). This way when your browser tries to display it it goes crazy trying to pick up fonts that have russian letters. Try to force encoding back to western.
Perumov? Yaiks!!!! He doesn't know enough russian to write books. Loginov is probably the best modern fantasy author, although I might be missing some of the latest developments. Lukyanenko is fairly good, creative, but with poor literary language. Strugatskie brothers are VERY good, but some ideas are a bit on the primitive side. Also worth mentioning are Gary Oldy ( two russian writers under a pseudonim ), Kyr Bulichev ( writers from soviet times... in my book much too pro-soviet ) Efremov ( "Nebula Andromeda" ). From eastern europ writers in general I would mention Stanislav Lem ( genius )
Now THAT would be interesting. If anyone knows of any resources that compare alphas to intel compatible processers, post a link.
Let's break Miguel's legs!!!!!
"It is you, who is mistaken about a great many things."
What they talk about is not computers-not-connected-to-internet, and not about general networks. The article is about ADDRESS SPACE. What they are saying is that there are legitimate internet address ranges owned and used by people to connect their systems to the internet which seem to be inaccessable from major parts of the internet due to misconfigured or restrictive or just plain mean routers.
Unfortunately, if you get a box with Linux preinstalled ( like Dell PowerEdge servers ) you don't have much choise of distros. They support Red Hat and if you install something else they will cancel your support contract. That's it. You can consider yourself lucky if you can get them not to install RH 7.x but to install 6.2.
Jesus Christ man.
1. Imagine how many people in the world are going to go through with this whole process. A few hundreds at best. One small chemical factory makes emits more dangerous stuff into the air in a day.
2. If we are talking about some guy wh odoes it in his garage, shouldn't you be worried about his health first and about pollution second.
I will not pass judgement, I will just provide a few quotes and mention a few historical facts:
1. Criminal societies are farely relaxed in their morals and internal laws. Mostly it is stronger wins rule. Snitching though is an undisputable crime punishable by the worst death executioners can think of.
2. In stalinist russia of 1930s anonymous informing was very very much encouaraged to get at so called "enemies of the people". This, in many cases, lead to a neighbour reporting a neighbour as a imperialist spy for not turning lights off in the bathroom. Such report would generally result in arrest, torture and death sentence.
3. Recently I have seen a discussion on FOX about school shootings and I have heard a phrase that I have found funny and scary at the same time: "... although we recognize that parents have certain amount of responsibility for their child's moral and ethical growth..."
That's it folks. You think, since I lack appropriate organs to do so.
see subject.
If parsing headers of spam messages and attacking the server that posted it will help. If sending a spam message means to be DOSed for the provider, they will listen more carefully. We could even design a DDOS module that would use everyone's resources to spam the spammer. If we cannot get to the guy himself we can get to somebody who let him through.
There is a certain lie. Win98 full install takes about 120-150 MB. But it is basically unusable in that state.
OK, let's forget windows vs. linux debates with all the blood and spilled guts. There is ( IMHO ) a more general problem that causes these "It is too difficult to use" monologues. Computers are not end-user friendly. Whatever you do, but end-user doesn't want to know about... hmmm... doesn't want to know period. They want to run programs, but words "executable file" give them shudders. They want to save files, but words "file system" make them hysterical. Somehow, I miss good old DOS times. The ideology ,at the time, was if you want computer at home you will have to learn how to use it. IF you are in corp environment you get your text menu with 3 apps you need to use and no more.
That's what I call user-friendly. Cannot mess up. You either choose word perfect, lotus 123, or Exit to DOS. And you never exit to DOS, cause that's for tech people and yo don't want to understand it. Now , everyone seems to think that he can operate computer without any prior knowledge or anything, while thesame people cannot set time on their VCRs or use their new camera. Back to the main point. Computers are difficult to use. They are complicated. More complicated then most other home appliances. Developers and engineers around theworld strive to make computers easier to use ( wether any particular attempt is succesfull is not the point ). As with most other things of this order of complexity you need AT LEAST to read a manual to use your computer. What is needed to make computers easier is a more abstract interface, i.e less chained to computer realities. Both windows and unix/linux made steps in this direction. For example windows "folders" are pretty good but "C: drive" is bad. Icons are good, but shortcuts are bad. Start menu in all of them is bad. It is not intuitive. Even if it is called start. Desktop menu ( fvwm style ) is more intuitive then start menu.
> People never die here at work
Yes, fatality is low in IT world, construction workers still have accidents.
> Hell, I'm making more now than my dad did when > he finally retired... and he was well paid!
Yeah, right. Physical labor hasn't been paid well ever since before the roman empire. Brains pay, not muscles. And salaries in non-IT jobs are still miserable. And you do not consider inflation.
>Man, it annoys me when the richest generation in > the world's history whine about how bad they
> got it.
That's the point of the text. If you work your ass off to make yourself the richest generation you probably will not have time or energy to spend your riches. Go eat your apple pie and shut up.
I follow bugtraq pretty close and I have never heard of a particular "format string" security vulnerability. Especially in many different unixes. There were quite a few different bugs exploited by sending a particularly formatted string to a certain program. The wording of the article tells me that the guywho wrote it doesn't have a slightest clue what he is talking about, but wants to scre everyone in sight to death. Looks very much like a fake or a misunderstanding so complete that mind starts spinning trying to grasp the depth of it.
OK, first, the browser is not making DNS ( name resolution calls by itself ). It generally uses some API that in turn makes DNS calls. Under *NIX the API is called gethostbyname() I am not sure about other OSs. SO the difference is not really in how old your browser is, but how bad is your TCP/IP implementation. Oh, well if you use MS DOS 3.3 with LAN manager client you might have a problem... but I don't know any web browsers for this platform except of the lynx port. Anyways, the other thing is that there is already a so called standard so called IPv6 which is a version of IP protocol that uses 6 byte addresses. It is though REALLY difficult to make a change like this transparent especially if your users are not under your direct control. I mean if you have two different addressing schemes, you either have to make translating gateways or force people to use new one over old one. There is no way to force the Internet community to do anything, and someone has to build the gateways without any hope to get paid for it. I hope you see the problem now.
As far as spiders go, this was a silly old belief that if tarantula bites you, you should put aside all other activities and dance at the top speed until completely exhausted. Otherwise lethal outcome is to be expected. Hence the name of the dance.