This biggest problem is not the distrobutions, Linux64 have been avaialble for more than a year. The problem is with the hardware manufacturers. Except for server class hardware, most commodity hardware will not have 64bit drivers untill windows reaches Gold stage. This means that there is limited driver support for linux on the 64bit platform as well, since many drivers have to be reverse engineered.
Here in Florida, we had timewarner (not brighthouse) cable for years. About a year after DTV came out we switch because of the "better picture" ads, and the quality was much better. At the time we still had to keep cable sicne we could not get locals and antenna was terrible where I live.
Of course since we dropped to "Basic cable" they came out and installed these huge ugly filters on our line to prevent us from reciving anything above channel 11 (it was suppsoed to be 13 but 12 and 13 got fuzzed out by he filteres as well, but we did not care.)
Once DTV got local channels and we switched from cable to DSL for internet, we dropped calbe entierly and have neve been happier. We now have 1 2d gen DTV Tivo and 3 (+ 2 1/2s) 1st gen DTV Tivo's (had some issues with two but managed to combine and rebuild thanks to the dealdatabase.com forum.)
As for signal. If heavy rain is coming in fro mthe west coast of florida we tend to loose signal for its duration (of being heavy not for the entire rain period), but we use this as an early warning device to know when the rain will be heavy. Ufortunalty it is the opposite on those rare occasions that the rain is comign from the east instead.
All in all, we are very happy with the service. There tends to be more of an initial cost than cable, but given how slow most cable companies are for fixing/replacing equipment, it is nice to be able to go out and buy new stuff if you "have to".
Palladium Books, They are about the cheapest of the "retail" RPG guys out there (not counting Gurps.) I never bought into the minature thing because I thoguh it was a waste of money. A character sheet, pennies and a good imagination are all that is needed for decent roleplaying!
After reading this and some of the comments from the old posting, I realised the MD5 hash is not a bad approach. When a client scans its HD it creates MD5 checksums of its files. when some one requets a file the checksum is sent with the reply. when the file is d/l'ed the checksum is checked. if the checksum fails the user is notified and they can either re-try the d/l or accept it. after they can test the file. if (with a valid checksum) the file is corrupt, the client can store the checksum and filter it from future requests, also they can be shared to prevent others from d/l'in as well. this system could still be temerarily defeted by having many versions of the same file, but again that could be tested as well (too many bad files flags a bad host, etc)
Well, unfortunalty, the line gets drawn at the anti-censorship. No matter how vile, immoral, or socially depraved an act is if you think it is bad and try to stop it that is censorship. censorship is not really about right or wrong, but forcing your moral values on others. Now you do not have to be against morality ot be anti-censorship, but you do have to be willing to let others forgo your moral values and adhere to their own. Otherwise you should claim you are against censorship that does not go against your own morals.
Liability is a bad idea... Who would be liable if a company used Linux and they got hacked....?
But I do think that companys that release software should "warrenty" it. Basicaly like with UPSs and surge protectord, they should bakc up their software with some kind of damages package when when it fails.
of course there would probably be so many restrictions on how you could claim damages that it would not be worth it.
I used to think that splitting them would be as a good idea as well, but unless there was some deal between the two( or three) new miniMS's to allow the "free" sharing of code the whole business, OS/Apps/everythign would collapse. And since MAC is the only other viable destop solution for the masses, the PC market would actually collapse shorty there after. (Sure niches like linux woulse exist and the old software and hardware would be there but nothing new would happen for years.)
I think forcing microsoft to release all current source code prior to win2k (including prior NT) to public, and requireing thm to fully document any new API's and file formats as public RFCs for a few years is a better idea.
1) forcing the release of "old" code would not hurt XP as much since it would be a year before any "emulator" would be ready. Plus since MS touts Win2K and XP as rewrites there should be no complaints.
2) forcing the release of APIs and file formats would allow current alternative OS's to keep up software compatability until the industry stabilizes.
Course these are just my though, and I have a 512bit random number generator installed in my head.
Ahh, but you forgot that we geeks have a secret weapon... (albeit tenitivly)
Phillips, the owner of most CD and CD audio patents, is on our side. They feel that there is no way to truly copyprotect a CD w/o breaking thier patents and licenses. Because of this they want any media that does break them to be marked as such and not be sold anywhere near true CDs.
Remeber they own the rights so they can leagally tell the RIAA to go screw themselves. (and they actaully have the money to do it.)
You gotta love it when corperations fight the good fight because they are afraid of loosing face.
The main point of clustering is to take a bunch of "cheap" computers and make them work like a super computer.
If you really want a performance comparison look at the minimum sys req for the clusters:
Linux i386+ with 16mb ram and 200mb hd space. (unlimited nodes/users)
Windows Win2k/XP server p2/300 64mb ram 800mb hd space. (+$200 per node/+$500 per every 5 users)
with all of the overhead for windows gui and other apps (whihc are mostly usless in a cluster) you would need three times the system for a windows box to get the same perfrom as a *nix/bsd box.
Unless of course you can cluster DOS then whoa buddy watch out!
actuall I just had a worse though... the article did not say what effect this had on SSL or other encryped traffic. If this device spoofed SSL certs then they now have your credit card and other personal info. (at least they not have the data that "could" be brute forced at a later date.)
I know that the SSL spoofing would be extremly difficult given the nature of how SSL works, but it could be possiable. I am just glad I do not have comcrap though a friend of mine does.
so basically what you saying is...
The goverment should control the internet and that our tax dollars should fund access for anyone who has a computer.
Ok that may sound like a good thing but...
Now the infrastructure is reliant on local/national govt agencies for maitnenace and upkeep(usually leased out to private firms.)
So in your neighborhood you get basic 336-52k, but you could get up to as much as 128k on the larger nets. but if you really want to shell out the cash you go on the toll net and have no traffic problems..
On top of all of this you would have to have a license for your computer to permit this, not to mention electronic papers for goign overseas!
Thankyou but no. I do not want the inernet to be like the current road system we have.
But major backbones should not. That would equate to being told you cannot drive on the highway because you are from city X, and city X is known for speeders. If city Y wanted to prevent you from entering because you are from city X it could be understantable, but to prevent you from going anywhere... that is ludicrus!
Thats all I need... being forced to buy a DVD with 38min of audio and 4.5gigs of wasted space! or maybe they will start providing full concert footage and vidoes on them? Well, at least Imagine the MP3's you could fit o nthe bastard! Whoo hoo music for days!
You could use Postfix Maildir support and "force" storage of users email in a MySQL file system. Then you could provide a php front end and your users have "instant" web mail w/o a whole lot of fancy coding..
Kinda like a poor-mans web email upgrade for those w/o a lot of time.
No I know that many previous posts covered this but here is my personal experience.
A short while ago I purchased Baulders Gate (I already had the sequel) And I went to install it. Unfortunalty I could not install it because my CD-Rom was too fast to read the CD correctly. I then took the CD to my Linux Server dd'ed it and burned an image to a new CD. That CD installed fine.
Not if the Baulders Gate CD was copyprotected (luckily it was not) If I managed to make a copy I would have broken the DMCA, but if I did not I would not even be able to get my FAIR USE out if the game in the first place.
Do you know how hard it is to get AT to run batch files?!?! I mean come on!
They had to use VB since then needed to run it as a service. Otherwise they would have to install IE4 so they could have scheduler, but then they would only get around 32hrs out of the box.
I do agree with the paranoid/conspiracy guys with the B.F. quotes. The FBI is trying to weasle there way in now since the internet is still "young." At least some Reps in Congress lisened and brought this to trial. Just imagine if we had to fight to remove it, not fight to prevent it's installation.
Is it just me or is Volusia county (where I live) the only county that uses scan-tron style ballots and not punch cards. we have not used punches for years because of the problems people had with both the cards and the machines. Now I know some areas of FLA are back asswards, but I consider where I live to be pretty backwards. Hell some areas around me dont have digital cable and have really crappy phone lines. I think the major problem here is that each county controls how its elections are handled instead of having a state standard for the method of casting ballots. of couse maybe we have a patent on the ballot method here...?
Well depending on how it was implemented, they could be, but unless they have a static IP or DNS entry it would be as difficult as any other gnutella user to prosecute.
Taking off of the supernode idea I have one to offer..
How about reversing the gnutella protocol. have two types of clients a standard client and an indexing client. the standard clients can only forge connections to indexing clients (except for file d/l). when a client connects to the index, it could upload an index of its shared directory(s) and all serches could be agains the index clients instead of the induviduals. Basically a client would tell the indexs that it is attached to what to search for and they would search their index and the indexs of other index servers they know. this would be a quasi centralized system, but stil lbe dynamic. Also it would limit the amount of ping/serach traffic that gnutella currently employs.
Well, not really. The PSX has the origional controller of the PS in it, and uses that to run PS games. Thus, it does not emulate the controll, but runs it nativly, It does how ever emulate the graphics and sound processors that the old one used, but the core is the origional. Kind of a reverse emulation of the origional playstation. IMOH of course.
Does anybody have any ideas for obfuscating or introducing security to these new "connectivity" options?
Just put a firewall between your network and the outside, and deny your fridge access! Of course this means that AMD will come out with a version of your fridge that runs faster and cheaper. And your Cyrx Toaster will have a tendacy to burn toast since it cooks it with the CPU instead of heating coils.
To me this is interesting, but I agree with some of the questions of practicality. The best I can see is for notification of events.
Would it be nice to have your fridge email you when it beaks down, so you know to empty it before everythign spoils. Or have your stove let you know your food is burning, while you are on your computer?
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This biggest problem is not the distrobutions, Linux64 have been avaialble for more than a year. The problem is with the hardware manufacturers. Except for server class hardware, most commodity hardware will not have 64bit drivers untill windows reaches Gold stage. This means that there is limited driver support for linux on the 64bit platform as well, since many drivers have to be reverse engineered.
Here in Florida, we had timewarner (not brighthouse) cable for years. About a year after DTV came out we switch because of the "better picture" ads, and the quality was much better. At the time we still had to keep cable sicne we could not get locals and antenna was terrible where I live.
Of course since we dropped to "Basic cable" they came out and installed these huge ugly filters on our line to prevent us from reciving anything above channel 11 (it was suppsoed to be 13 but 12 and 13 got fuzzed out by he filteres as well, but we did not care.)
Once DTV got local channels and we switched from cable to DSL for internet, we dropped calbe entierly and have neve been happier. We now have 1 2d gen DTV Tivo and 3 (+ 2 1/2s) 1st gen DTV Tivo's (had some issues with two but managed to combine and rebuild thanks to the dealdatabase.com forum.)
As for signal. If heavy rain is coming in fro mthe west coast of florida we tend to loose signal for its duration (of being heavy not for the entire rain period), but we use this as an early warning device to know when the rain will be heavy. Ufortunalty it is the opposite on those rare occasions that the rain is comign from the east instead.
All in all, we are very happy with the service. There tends to be more of an initial cost than cable, but given how slow most cable companies are for fixing/replacing equipment, it is nice to be able to go out and buy new stuff if you "have to".
There is.
Palladium Books,
They are about the cheapest of the "retail" RPG guys out there (not counting Gurps.) I never bought into the minature thing because I thoguh it was a waste of money. A character sheet, pennies and a good imagination are all that is needed for decent roleplaying!
After reading this and some of the comments from the old posting, I realised the MD5 hash is not a bad approach. When a client scans its HD it creates MD5 checksums of its files. when some one requets a file the checksum is sent with the reply. when the file is d/l'ed the checksum is checked. if the checksum fails the user is notified and they can either re-try the d/l or accept it. after they can test the file. if (with a valid checksum) the file is corrupt, the client can store the checksum and filter it from future requests, also they can be shared to prevent others from d/l'in as well. this system could still be temerarily defeted by having many versions of the same file, but again that could be tested as well (too many bad files flags a bad host, etc)
Well, unfortunalty, the line gets drawn at the anti-censorship. No matter how vile, immoral, or socially depraved an act is if you think it is bad and try to stop it that is censorship. censorship is not really about right or wrong, but forcing your moral values on others. Now you do not have to be against morality ot be anti-censorship, but you do have to be willing to let others forgo your moral values and adhere to their own. Otherwise you should claim you are against censorship that does not go against your own morals.
Damn, sometimes I just get carried away.
I dont think it will work, they stole most of their code from the BSD guys, since their liceense allows that sort of thing.
If so then Sid Myer has a jump on the industry!
Dammit!
Don't give them any ideas!
Liability is a bad idea... Who would be liable if a company used Linux and they got hacked....?
But I do think that companys that release software should "warrenty" it. Basicaly like with UPSs and surge protectord, they should bakc up their software with some kind of damages package when when it fails.
of course there would probably be so many restrictions on how you could claim damages that it would not be worth it.
I used to think that splitting them would be as a good idea as well, but unless there was some deal between the two( or three) new miniMS's to allow the "free" sharing of code the whole business, OS/Apps/everythign would collapse. And since MAC is the only other viable destop solution for the masses, the PC market would actually collapse shorty there after. (Sure niches like linux woulse exist and the old software and hardware would be there but nothing new would happen for years.)
I think forcing microsoft to release all current source code prior to win2k (including prior NT) to public, and requireing thm to fully document any new API's and file formats as public RFCs for a few years is a better idea.
1) forcing the release of "old" code would not hurt XP as much since it would be a year before any "emulator" would be ready. Plus since MS touts Win2K and XP as rewrites there should be no complaints.
2) forcing the release of APIs and file formats would allow current alternative OS's to keep up software compatability until the industry stabilizes.
Course these are just my though, and I have a 512bit random number generator installed in my head.
Ahh, but you forgot that we geeks have a secret weapon... (albeit tenitivly)
Phillips, the owner of most CD and CD audio patents, is on our side. They feel that there is no way to truly copyprotect a CD w/o breaking thier patents and licenses. Because of this they want any media that does break them to be marked as such and not be sold anywhere near true CDs.
Remeber they own the rights so they can leagally tell the RIAA to go screw themselves. (and they actaully have the money to do it.)
You gotta love it when corperations fight the good fight because they are afraid of loosing face.
The main point of clustering is to take a bunch of "cheap" computers and make them work like a super computer.
If you really want a performance comparison look at the minimum sys req for the clusters:
Linux i386+ with 16mb ram and 200mb hd space.
(unlimited nodes/users)
Windows Win2k/XP server p2/300 64mb ram 800mb hd space.
(+$200 per node/+$500 per every 5 users)
with all of the overhead for windows gui and other apps (whihc are mostly usless in a cluster) you would need three times the system for a windows box to get the same perfrom as a *nix/bsd box.
Unless of course you can cluster DOS then whoa buddy watch out!
I just want to be invited to the bris!
:)
Otherwise congrats....
Though it would suck if you got rejected in front of 5 million people, but that was your angle wasn't it?
actuall I just had a worse though... the article did not say what effect this had on SSL or other encryped traffic. If this device spoofed SSL certs then they now have your credit card and other personal info. (at least they not have the data that "could" be brute forced at a later date.)
I know that the SSL spoofing would be extremly difficult given the nature of how SSL works, but it could be possiable. I am just glad I do not have comcrap though a friend of mine does.
so basically what you saying is... The goverment should control the internet and that our tax dollars should fund access for anyone who has a computer. Ok that may sound like a good thing but... Now the infrastructure is reliant on local/national govt agencies for maitnenace and upkeep(usually leased out to private firms.) So in your neighborhood you get basic 336-52k, but you could get up to as much as 128k on the larger nets. but if you really want to shell out the cash you go on the toll net and have no traffic problems.. On top of all of this you would have to have a license for your computer to permit this, not to mention electronic papers for goign overseas! Thankyou but no. I do not want the inernet to be like the current road system we have.
True private companies should have that choice.
But major backbones should not. That would equate to being told you cannot drive on the highway because you are from city X, and city X is known for speeders. If city Y wanted to prevent you from entering because you are from city X it could be understantable, but to prevent you from going anywhere... that is ludicrus!
Thats all I need... being forced to buy a DVD with 38min of audio and 4.5gigs of wasted space! or maybe they will start providing full concert footage and vidoes on them? Well, at least Imagine the MP3's you could fit o nthe bastard! Whoo hoo music for days!
Actually I can think of one good benefit.
You could use Postfix Maildir support and "force" storage of users email in a MySQL file system. Then you could provide a php front end and your users have "instant" web mail w/o a whole lot of fancy coding..
Kinda like a poor-mans web email upgrade for those w/o a lot of time.
Actually since it is a merger you would either have a summation or a multiplication...
TurboLinux + LinuxCare
(Turbo * Linux) + (Linux * Care)
=
(Turbo + Care) * Linux
or
TurboLinux*LinuxCare
(Turbo * Linux) * (Care * Linux)
=
TurboCareLinux
So we either get Turbo and Care Linux or We get Turbocare Linux Squared!
No I know that many previous posts covered this but here is my personal experience.
A short while ago I purchased Baulders Gate (I already had the sequel) And I went to install it. Unfortunalty I could not install it because my CD-Rom was too fast to read the CD correctly. I then took the CD to my Linux Server dd'ed it and burned an image to a new CD. That CD installed fine.
Not if the Baulders Gate CD was copyprotected (luckily it was not) If I managed to make a copy I would have broken the DMCA, but if I did not I would not even be able to get my FAIR USE out if the game in the first place.
Just my 2c.
Do you know how hard it is to get AT to run batch files?!?! I mean come on!
They had to use VB since then needed to run it as a service. Otherwise they would have to install IE4 so they could have scheduler, but then they would only get around 32hrs out of the box.
I do agree with the paranoid/conspiracy guys with the B.F. quotes. The FBI is trying to weasle there way in now since the internet is still "young." At least some Reps in Congress lisened and brought this to trial. Just imagine if we had to fight to remove it, not fight to prevent it's installation.
Is it just me or is Volusia county (where I live) the only county that uses scan-tron style ballots and not punch cards. we have not used punches for years because of the problems people had with both the cards and the machines. Now I know some areas of FLA are back asswards, but I consider where I live to be pretty backwards. Hell some areas around me dont have digital cable and have really crappy phone lines. I think the major problem here is that each county controls how its elections are handled instead of having a state standard for the method of casting ballots. of couse maybe we have a patent on the ballot method here...?
Well depending on how it was implemented, they could be, but unless they have a static IP or DNS entry it would be as difficult as any other gnutella user to prosecute.
Taking off of the supernode idea I have one to offer..
How about reversing the gnutella protocol. have two types of clients a standard client and an indexing client. the standard clients can only forge connections to indexing clients (except for file d/l). when a client connects to the index, it could upload an index of its shared directory(s) and all serches could be agains the index clients instead of the induviduals. Basically a client would tell the indexs that it is attached to what to search for and they would search their index and the indexs of other index servers they know. this would be a quasi centralized system, but stil lbe dynamic. Also it would limit the amount of ping/serach traffic that gnutella currently employs.
Just a though but I think it is a good one
(Yes, it is a PSX emulator)
Well, not really.
The PSX has the origional controller of the PS in it, and uses that to run PS games. Thus, it does not emulate the controll, but runs it nativly, It does how ever emulate the graphics and sound processors that the old one used, but the core is the origional. Kind of a reverse emulation of the origional playstation. IMOH of course.
Does anybody have any ideas for obfuscating or introducing security to these new "connectivity" options?
Just put a firewall between your network and the outside, and deny your fridge access!
Of course this means that AMD will come out with a version of your fridge that runs faster and cheaper.
And your Cyrx Toaster will have a tendacy to burn toast since it cooks it with the CPU instead of heating coils.
To me this is interesting, but I agree with some of the questions of practicality. The best I can see is for notification of events.
Would it be nice to have your fridge email you when it beaks down, so you know to empty it before everythign spoils. Or have your stove let you know your food is burning, while you are on your computer?