Sigh, the FBI does rquire a warrant to use Carnivore, and to top it off, it's _really_ hard to get.
Perhaps, but can you tell me when the last time the FBI requested a wiretapping warrant of any kind, and didn't get it?
Also, I may be misinformed/awful at remembering, but can't they request a wiretap warrant from a court in one place, when the warrant is in a different city?
Of course, they must have one. ...wait a sec... *CLICK, CLICK* There, my key is now 4096 bits, problem solved. ^_^
Seriously, I think PGP is too versatile to be cracked so easily. i.e. I have a 2048/1024 DH/DSS key with the CAST cypher, but I also have a 2048 bit RSA key with the IDEA cypher. You can also have custom key sizes, for example Will Price at PGP has a 4000 bit DH key.
Powerful and flexible.
I recommend looking up "PGPDisk." It's easier to use than the already dead-simple normal PGP. It creates a virtual disk volume that's encrypted, and can auto-unmount itself. It's good even when the PC crashes, too. (In tact, data saved until crash is still there when you reboot.)
What makes you so sure it'll be able to find the high-density data past the couple-millimetre long gap that comes after the normal low-density stuff?
Maybe reading the normal data on a GDROM would set the drive into a normal CD reading mode, and keep it from seeing the high-density area even if it could skip over the gap between sections.
PSX discs only have a little proprietary data, and it's circumvented with a modchip. Don't know about PSX2, but I think it's pretty unprotected.
Dreamcast, on the other hand, is quite proprietary, AND has extra copy protection apparently. (I know it's been cracked, but you still won't make a valid GD-ROM with these discs, as GD-ROM is separated into low density, a large gap with text printed on it, and high density. At Sega, they don't just write them differently, they use blank GDRs.)
Actually, I'm wondering about this too. I live in western Canada, and it gets down to -40 degrees (C or F,) here at least once every winter. (Usually, it's only about -20C to -30C, but there are nasty days.) I'm not so worried about the disc being damaged by the cold weather most of the time, (many can be stored at -40 at the coldest,) but what are the effects of starting them up at that temperature, and bringing them up to 10-20C (50-68F) within a few minutes? For one thing, you'd probably have to be sure the breathing hole is open, but I'd imagine condensation could make a mess of the drives in pretty short order.
Couldn't something like this be defeated with Steganographic encryption? (encrypting a file inside another file, so that the cover file is still functional?)
My spelling may be way off here, because I don't really follow it, but I have a program that will automatically split a file into specified file types of specified sizes, and build HTML indexes for them so they can be easily downloaded. For example, a 600k bitmap, that appears to be a single black pixel, but contains 1/6th of an MP3.
Perhaps if a packet filter identified the file by taking samples of the content, it would allow a file like this to be sent?
Some overclockers have been known to use water cooling, though I seriously recommend against it. if you want to get your CPU cold, I suggest sticking with the mainstream, and using a good peltier/fan combo.
Mind you, I don't use either, so I can't guarantee any performance from them. I've heard peltiers use a lot of power themselves.
Cheap components are scary. I know someone who's video card "melted." (...so I've been told by a friend who worked on it.)
I also know someone who's CPU... "made an acrid smell, and bubbled on the underside." Allegedly it was Intel, but we can't confirm whether it was pirated.
Both of these just happened spontaneously after working normally for a long time.
Personally, in my cheapest box, I used to have a Cyrix 6x86, and while it didn't burn or anything, it... decayed, performance-wise. It started making dozens of noticable calculation errors... while running scandisk!;_; It caused about a half-dozen detectable errors.
To get back on topic, I'd say you're safe as long as you use good quality parts, and make sure you've got enough cooling. Still, if you have some kind of monster PC, make sure your house wiring is good enough too.
Hey! Why was this modded down? It's on topic. It's not flamebait or trolling, it's an opinion. Oh wait, it's against Linux... blasphemy!
BTW, I'm not at all surprised that BeOS beat both Windows and Linux. For one thing, it's been proven again and again that Windows outdoes Linux for gaming performance. (...and are you surprised? They probably loaded millions of dollars into DirectX, not to mention parts of the LithTech 3d engine, as I've heard.) Win may have outscored Linux due to an unfair advantage, but it was done nonetheless.
BeOS on the other hand... Well, being closed source, they have much less driver support, but of course it'll beat the other 2 OSes... it was built to be a lean, fast, multimedia OS. Not to run webservers, check mail, etc... Not to be backwards compatible 20 years or more. Even though the BeOS demo doesn't support my 3dfx card, it does software OpenGL rendering so smoothly while playing 6-8 mp3s at once. (Useless, but fun to show off.)
So remind me again... exactly WHY did Bruce get modded to -1? There may be a definite Linux slant for the readers here, but look at the/. title. It's not "News for Linux. Linux that matters."
I hear ya... The first thing I thought was "cool, I can imagine some of the Slashdot servers running in lego cases..."
Then again, you could take the lego mech idea from an earlier post and make a lego server-mech. =P Who cares if it doesn't move? It'd be awesome to show people!
"And in here, we keep our office server..." "AIEEE!!!! Um... what IS that thing?"
Actually, I really used to like Diablo, but it came to a point where it was even more hollow than having the most ears. I'd be killed by a god-mode, super-powered, 3-dot level 1 PK, so I'd just fire up a trainer and dump copies of all of his items at him, then throw 8 or 10 of his own ears at him just to show how pointless it was with hacks. ...then the PK would shoot a few WinNuke packets at my IP... which had been patched months earlier.
...that is, before autokill came out, and the PK didn't even have to be in the same screen as you to kill you with mere whim, then resurrect and re-kill. wheeee... are we havin' fun yet?
I really hope Blizzard makes sure they have good security on Diablo 2.
(...and upgrades their servers. I stopped playing Diablo online because StarCraft came out and made battle.net unusable to Diablo players.)
At work, we have a small UPS on our server. It doesn't need to stay up if the power goes out, but it's great for filtering out power bumps, and shutting the server down safely.
At home, since my PC has an ATX power supply, I set the BIOS to leave the computer off if the power goes out. Very useful considering I have 3 hard drives instead of one huge one.
(There are few things you want to hear less than the PC's fans slowing down for a second, and 1 or 2 hard drives going *SMACK* as the power somes back while they're spinning down.)
(It caused no damage, but it was certainly unpleasant to think about what might have happened.)
I have the @Home cable modem service through Shaw (a cable carrier in western Canada,) and I almost lost my account for portscanning someone who was looking for trojan horse programs. (In the case that got in in trouble, I believe it was SubSeven.)
I had some personal firewall software, and I decided I'd portscan anyone who tried to get into my system since if they had even the most basic defenses, they'd know I saw them.
Either way, apparently, any use of portscanners on systems I don't own is explicitly prohibited in the TOS.
Ah well, it doesn't bother me that they were scanning me for vulnerabilities; it bothers me that one would scan me, then report me when I scan them back. -_-;
I actually know someone who has an ATI Rage 128, and ATI All-in-wonder (?), and a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, and his system seems to work pretty well. (Though he had to re-flash a chip on the Voodoo to make it work with his Mac.)
...That's right... 3 monitors and a TV at once... It's just freaky.
Wow... have you read any studies on that? I used to play the old Space Quest games (like 1-3) when I was little. The first thing I learned on computers was moving around in DOS so I could get to the games. (Our XT was blessed with a 40MB HD, so we could actually fit quite a few games and stuff on there.)
The comment about music is really interesting though... Right now I'm hooked on the Japanese "Beatmania" game series. (Beatmania, Pop'n Music, DDR, BM98 on the PC, etc etc...) and I wonder if there's a kind of proven corelation. (I've also found that after all that coding I did in BASIC in my early days, learning Japanese was very easy... of course you can only learn so much in 4 years...)
I remember I got started with a copy of MS QBASIC. It was awesome, forgiving of little mistakes, and the online help system was the best I've seen for any programming interface yet. I think I was about in grade 4, but I took right to it and made all sorts of little beginner apps. (Screensavers, practical jokes, joystick scribbling programs...)
It helped out immensely when I took the C++ programming course in grade 12 because I already had the theory down for writing a program, and the right train of thought for laying out the code. I only lost marks for things like not writing out a planning sheet, or failing to document my code in an easy to follow manner.
I'd say start with some kind of BASIC for sure... It also made my TI-83 calculator easy to use straight out of the box. ^_^
It's too bad that in my experience 3dfx has the same quality problem that MS has. They make some very sweet hardware at times, but software support? ha!
I got the Voodoo 3 3500AGP when it came out, and while it runs Glide games like it should, there's still no OpenGL support. (No, I mean FULL support... for Windows.) and maybe I'll get windowed Glide rendering one day... yeah right.
The video capture sucks royally too. My ($300+ CDN) 3500 on an AGP bus, in my P3-450 with 128MB of RAM (and AGP aperture set properly,) barely manages to get 20 frames per second at 320x240 truecolor, set it any higher and it chops like crazy.
Funny that an $80 CDN PCI Hauppauge WinTV tuner card in my... Cyrix 200MX with 32MB RAM (before the CPU wore out,) was able to capture 30fps at the same quality settings!
Also, I'm sure many of you have heard of the "DVD acceleration." This is... a hardware video overlay. That's it. Luckily I didn't trust them and got a full hardware decoder card anyhow.
Personally while you can count on game companies supporting 3dfx, I won't expect quality until I see it from them.
(BTW, when the card works for 3d, it's awesome, it just sorely lacks in some major points that you should expect from any decent manufacturer.)
Here it is! http://www.vm3.com/MotionWare/option01.html Motionware... and they plan on making them under $100. Sure it sounds like vaporware potential, but if it comes out, I'm getting one.
Here's a low cost neuromapping tool called the Mindset. http://www.aquathought.com/mindset.html -An Open Standard- Mindset is based on a completely open software architecture. Through ActiveX, third-party developers and end users have unlimited access to extend or customize Mindset. In addition, the Mindset data record format is an open and published standard.
...ah, now if only Ono-Sendai hadn't gone out of business... (Sega VR HMD, sourceless orientation sensor... went bankrupt.) This link is as close as I can get to finding the original company history. http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/vitae.html
Slashdot Mirror
Awesome! I remember a page like that from years ago, but it disappeared!
... "Hydric Acid"... hee hee hee. ^o^
Sigh, the FBI does rquire a warrant to use Carnivore, and to top it off, it's _really_ hard to get.
Perhaps, but can you tell me when the last time the FBI requested a wiretapping warrant of any kind, and didn't get it?
Also, I may be misinformed/awful at remembering, but can't they request a wiretap warrant from a court in one place, when the warrant is in a different city?
Of course, they must have one.
...wait a sec...
*CLICK, CLICK*
There, my key is now 4096 bits, problem solved. ^_^
Seriously, I think PGP is too versatile to be cracked so easily. i.e. I have a 2048/1024 DH/DSS key with the CAST cypher, but I also have a 2048 bit RSA key with the IDEA cypher. You can also have custom key sizes, for example Will Price at PGP has a 4000 bit DH key.
Powerful and flexible.
I recommend looking up "PGPDisk." It's easier to use than the already dead-simple normal PGP. It creates a virtual disk volume that's encrypted, and can auto-unmount itself. It's good even when the PC crashes, too. (In tact, data saved until crash is still there when you reboot.)
...however I don't know if it's out for Linux.
What makes you so sure it'll be able to find the high-density data past the couple-millimetre long gap that comes after the normal low-density stuff?
Maybe reading the normal data on a GDROM would set the drive into a normal CD reading mode, and keep it from seeing the high-density area even if it could skip over the gap between sections.
PSX discs only have a little proprietary data, and it's circumvented with a modchip.
Don't know about PSX2, but I think it's pretty unprotected.
Dreamcast, on the other hand, is quite proprietary, AND has extra copy protection apparently. (I know it's been cracked, but you still won't make a valid GD-ROM with these discs, as GD-ROM is separated into low density, a large gap with text printed on it, and high density. At Sega, they don't just write them differently, they use blank GDRs.)
I wonder how long your knees/ankles would last if these were used regularly? It can't be a smooth ride.
Actually, I'm wondering about this too. I live in western Canada, and it gets down to -40 degrees (C or F,) here at least once every winter. (Usually, it's only about -20C to -30C, but there are nasty days.) I'm not so worried about the disc being damaged by the cold weather most of the time, (many can be stored at -40 at the coldest,) but what are the effects of starting them up at that temperature, and bringing them up to 10-20C (50-68F) within a few minutes? For one thing, you'd probably have to be sure the breathing hole is open, but I'd imagine condensation could make a mess of the drives in pretty short order.
Couldn't something like this be defeated with Steganographic encryption? (encrypting a file inside another file, so that the cover file is still functional?)
My spelling may be way off here, because I don't really follow it, but I have a program that will automatically split a file into specified file types of specified sizes, and build HTML indexes for them so they can be easily downloaded. For example, a 600k bitmap, that appears to be a single black pixel, but contains 1/6th of an MP3.
Perhaps if a packet filter identified the file by taking samples of the content, it would allow a file like this to be sent?
Some overclockers have been known to use water cooling, though I seriously recommend against it. if you want to get your CPU cold, I suggest sticking with the mainstream, and using a good peltier/fan combo.
Mind you, I don't use either, so I can't guarantee any performance from them. I've heard peltiers use a lot of power themselves.
Cheap components are scary.
;_; It caused about a half-dozen detectable errors.
I know someone who's video card "melted." (...so I've been told by a friend who worked on it.)
I also know someone who's CPU... "made an acrid smell, and bubbled on the underside." Allegedly it was Intel, but we can't confirm whether it was pirated.
Both of these just happened spontaneously after working normally for a long time.
Personally, in my cheapest box, I used to have a Cyrix 6x86, and while it didn't burn or anything, it... decayed, performance-wise. It started making dozens of noticable calculation errors... while running scandisk!
To get back on topic, I'd say you're safe as long as you use good quality parts, and make sure you've got enough cooling. Still, if you have some kind of monster PC, make sure your house wiring is good enough too.
Hey! Why was this modded down? It's on topic. It's not flamebait or trolling, it's an opinion. Oh wait, it's against Linux... blasphemy!
/. title. It's not "News for Linux. Linux that matters."
BTW, I'm not at all surprised that BeOS beat both Windows and Linux. For one thing, it's been proven again and again that Windows outdoes Linux for gaming performance. (...and are you surprised? They probably loaded millions of dollars into DirectX, not to mention parts of the LithTech 3d engine, as I've heard.) Win may have outscored Linux due to an unfair advantage, but it was done nonetheless.
BeOS on the other hand... Well, being closed source, they have much less driver support, but of course it'll beat the other 2 OSes... it was built to be a lean, fast, multimedia OS. Not to run webservers, check mail, etc... Not to be backwards compatible 20 years or more. Even though the BeOS demo doesn't support my 3dfx card, it does software OpenGL rendering so smoothly while playing 6-8 mp3s at once. (Useless, but fun to show off.)
So remind me again... exactly WHY did Bruce get modded to -1? There may be a definite Linux slant for the readers here, but look at the
C:\>_
I hear ya...
The first thing I thought was "cool, I can imagine some of the Slashdot servers running in lego cases..."
Then again, you could take the lego mech idea from an earlier post and make a lego server-mech. =P
Who cares if it doesn't move? It'd be awesome to show people!
"And in here, we keep our office server..."
"AIEEE!!!! Um... what IS that thing?"
Actually, I really used to like Diablo, but it came to a point where it was even more hollow than having the most ears. I'd be killed by a god-mode, super-powered, 3-dot level 1 PK, so I'd just fire up a trainer and dump copies of all of his items at him, then throw 8 or 10 of his own ears at him just to show how pointless it was with hacks.
...then the PK would shoot a few WinNuke packets at my IP... which had been patched months earlier.
...that is, before autokill came out, and the PK didn't even have to be in the same screen as you to kill you with mere whim, then resurrect and re-kill. wheeee... are we havin' fun yet?
I really hope Blizzard makes sure they have good security on Diablo 2.
(...and upgrades their servers. I stopped playing Diablo online because StarCraft came out and made battle.net unusable to Diablo players.)
At work, we have a small UPS on our server. It doesn't need to stay up if the power goes out, but it's great for filtering out power bumps, and shutting the server down safely.
At home, since my PC has an ATX power supply, I set the BIOS to leave the computer off if the power goes out. Very useful considering I have 3 hard drives instead of one huge one.
(There are few things you want to hear less than the PC's fans slowing down for a second, and 1 or 2 hard drives going *SMACK* as the power somes back while they're spinning down.)
(It caused no damage, but it was certainly unpleasant to think about what might have happened.)
I have the @Home cable modem service through Shaw (a cable carrier in western Canada,) and I almost lost my account for portscanning someone who was looking for trojan horse programs. (In the case that got in in trouble, I believe it was SubSeven.)
I had some personal firewall software, and I decided I'd portscan anyone who tried to get into my system since if they had even the most basic defenses, they'd know I saw them.
Either way, apparently, any use of portscanners on systems I don't own is explicitly prohibited in the TOS.
Ah well, it doesn't bother me that they were scanning me for vulnerabilities; it bothers me that one would scan me, then report me when I scan them back. -_-;
Actually, I heard ADV got the rights to the OAV series, and while the sub will be "Rurouni Kenshin," the dub will be... "Samurai X" (AUGHHH!)
I can't remember who got the TV series, but I think it was one of the smaller new companies. (Media Blasters?)
I actually know someone who has an ATI Rage 128, and ATI All-in-wonder (?), and a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, and his system seems to work pretty well. (Though he had to re-flash a chip on the Voodoo to make it work with his Mac.)
...That's right... 3 monitors and a TV at once... It's just freaky.
It's funny, (kind of...) /. and the flood of traffic drags the server to a crawllll.
We Slashdotters ARE a DDoS attack. Site gets posted to
die.
You could try something with a GameBoy?
http://pages.prodigy.net/fischer-john/
...then consider this "post" an act of civil disobedience. =P
Seriously, there HAS to be a mistake there. A misinterpretation? It would be too funny if that story were true. (who would enforce it?)
Wow... have you read any studies on that? I used to play the old Space Quest games (like 1-3) when I was little. The first thing I learned on computers was moving around in DOS so I could get to the games. (Our XT was blessed with a 40MB HD, so we could actually fit quite a few games and stuff on there.)
The comment about music is really interesting though... Right now I'm hooked on the Japanese "Beatmania" game series. (Beatmania, Pop'n Music, DDR, BM98 on the PC, etc etc...) and I wonder if there's a kind of proven corelation. (I've also found that after all that coding I did in BASIC in my early days, learning Japanese was very easy... of course you can only learn so much in 4 years...)
I remember I got started with a copy of MS QBASIC.
It was awesome, forgiving of little mistakes, and the online help system was the best I've seen for any programming interface yet. I think I was about in grade 4, but I took right to it and made all sorts of little beginner apps. (Screensavers, practical jokes, joystick scribbling programs...)
It helped out immensely when I took the C++ programming course in grade 12 because I already had the theory down for writing a program, and the right train of thought for laying out the code. I only lost marks for things like not writing out a planning sheet, or failing to document my code in an easy to follow manner.
I'd say start with some kind of BASIC for sure... It also made my TI-83 calculator easy to use straight out of the box. ^_^
It's too bad that in my experience 3dfx has the same quality problem that MS has. They make some very sweet hardware at times, but software support? ha!
I got the Voodoo 3 3500AGP when it came out, and while it runs Glide games like it should, there's still no OpenGL support. (No, I mean FULL support... for Windows.) and maybe I'll get windowed Glide rendering one day... yeah right.
The video capture sucks royally too. My ($300+ CDN) 3500 on an AGP bus, in my P3-450 with 128MB of RAM (and AGP aperture set properly,) barely manages to get 20 frames per second at 320x240 truecolor, set it any higher and it chops like crazy.
Funny that an $80 CDN PCI Hauppauge WinTV tuner card in my... Cyrix 200MX with 32MB RAM (before the CPU wore out,) was able to capture 30fps at the same quality settings!
Also, I'm sure many of you have heard of the "DVD acceleration." This is... a hardware video overlay. That's it. Luckily I didn't trust them and got a full hardware decoder card anyhow.
Personally while you can count on game companies supporting 3dfx, I won't expect quality until I see it from them.
(BTW, when the card works for 3d, it's awesome, it just sorely lacks in some major points that you should expect from any decent manufacturer.)
Here it is!
http://www.vm3.com/MotionWare/option01.html
Motionware... and they plan on making them under $100. Sure it sounds like vaporware potential, but if it comes out, I'm getting one.
Here's a low cost neuromapping tool called the Mindset.
http://www.aquathought.com/mindset.html
-An Open Standard-
Mindset is based on a completely open software architecture.
Through ActiveX, third-party developers and end users have
unlimited access to extend or customize Mindset. In addition,
the Mindset data record format is an open and published
standard.
...ah, now if only Ono-Sendai hadn't gone out of business...
(Sega VR HMD, sourceless orientation sensor... went bankrupt.)
This link is as close as I can get to finding the original company history.
http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/vitae.html