I have been using VNC for years in one form or another, but I still need to go back to PCAnywere for one single feature that no VNC that I am aware of has. That is a 'callback' type capability.
With PCAnywhere, you can have it connect to a remote IP, and have that IP take you over. As was said above, this alleviates on of the major pains of VNC, NAT.
In fact, I am running into this with one of my networks now, poke holes in the firewall to allow the once a week remote connection, or go the other way. No VNC that I can find does this. If there is one, I would love it if someone points it out, it would allow me to throw PCA out once and for all.
"With 3 18-ton rotor blades pumping out 5 MW I wonder if my neighbours would mind one in my backyard?"
Ummmm.... Why? To power your Tesla coils that can't have ANY latency from power gerneration to use or other pseudo-scientific mubmo jumbo?
There is this invention called wires that can actually TRANSMIT the power over a DISTANCE with minimal losses. It would work just as well in a park down the street away from buildings sapping the airflow, but that would be nit-picking.
I read the CNN article about the changes, and it strikes me that Lucas wasn't satisfied with dumbing it down, so he did more. The part about Greedo shooting first is simply inexcusable (yes, I know it is old).
Then he said the origionals won't be re-released. Come on now, I know Lucas has decided to turn in his testicles and make things all happy and pretty and safe, but why do you have to taint things that are already done?
I saw the midnight showing of PM, and the noon showing, and waked away wondering what went wrong. Later viewings only confirmed that it was indeed pablum. The midnight showing of AOTC was similarly painfull, but much less so. It took me further down the road of 'why god, why' rather than back 'OK, we are heading down the right path'.
The news from ROTS doesn't fill me with, wait for it, a new hope either. Someone put Lucas out of our misery before he directs again.
Then I read about the DVD. Yup, he wasn't satisfied with ruining only the memories, he has to ruin history. Does it seem cowardly to you that he won't allow the origionals to be put out for side by side comparison? Someone should lock him in a small cell with a copy of 1984 until he writes "I am soory for being so stupid and arrogant' on the walls once for every memory he killed.
"F: Wonder why you have a PhD and you're still sharing a cubicle like a code monkey. "
I don't know, a sense of charity, lack of greed, or general goodness? In fact, what is it with you Sun types that kills off the ability to do any of the above? Civility never kills, except in Congress.
-Charlie
Disclaimer: I write for the Inquirer, so I don't need to wear pants.
Disclaimer 2: I am kidding, but slashdot does not support either the irony or humor tags.
I was at the IDF Keynote, and I bounced some questions off Gelsinger afterwards. There are two problems with this that make it a non-starter in my opinion.
First, they are talking about layering another level of obfuscation on top of the net as a fix for the underlying problems. Rather than dealing with the problems, they ignore them, and make a shiny thing. Wow, that's architecture for you!
Next, with the innovation fom HP lately, and the fact that they are going commercial with it rather than open and standards based, it is doomed to be a niche idea at best. As one questioner afterwards pointed out, the internet was built on open ideas. This is looking to go the opposite way. NEXT!
Vint Cerf was cool though. They said there would be a special guest, but to my horror, they only meant Vint. No telletubbies in bondage gear this year. I can only hope for spring 2005 IDF....
I plan to rant about this on the Inq as soon as I recover from last week.
Everyone misses the point of these. A supercomputer under your desk is pretty pointless to most folk. No neon lights, so the boss won't want one to show off. Real workers most likely value decent single thread performance more than many CPUs running many threads miserably.
For the tasks that it could do well, performance will be stunted by miserable disk performance. You can fit 96 CPUs under your desk, but they all share a 4500RPM notebook HD. Heh, yeah. Does Fedora Core have a countdown timer for measuring time till disk swap? Does it have an hours digit? Two of them?
Seriously though, this box will be stunningly good for two things. First is testing code for the next gen of gaming consoles. The more important one is that it will be really good at simulating the performance of the 'next big thing' in desktop CPUs, the massively multicore stuff.
Names like Conroe, Tukwila and AMDAskedMeNotToSay all come to mind. So do PS3, XBox2 and Nintendo Somethingorother. What do you develop on to test your code that needs to synchronise 8 threads across 5 CPUs? How do you test that? Simulations only go so far.
These boxes are a great way to test far future algorithms on far future platforms using safe x86/iAMD64 instructions. Would you rather buy shitloads of PS3 dev stations to write platform neutral algorithms, or a cheap box your devs already understand.
All this said, I don't see a huge market for the box, but it sounds nifty. And it is black. Black is goth, and goth is ummm, it is black though.
I have been following this company from the initial reports that they are a scam to the lawsuit to E3. I sat down with their head rep at E3 and had a long chat with them.
My short take is a low-end PC with a pay-per play rental model for old games. Yee-friggin haw, sign me up. There was nothing there that I couln't do myself with only spending a little money on a plastics prototype shop and a flash interface for the UI. Oh yeah, an auto body shop for a spiffy paint job also.
Then there is the more troubling aspect. They sued Kyle/HOCP for a negative report. From my perspective, it looks like they picked a fight for no reason. The story on HOCP was 6 months old and pretty much forgotten. If they had come up with a prototype and sent it to Kyle and said 'see, we are real, print a retraction please', I would bet good money that Kyle would have done so.
No, these morons, and I use the term with no disrepect meant toward anyone who is a clinical moron, sued HOCP. There is nothing in my mind that cemented the fact that they are indeed a scam with a lot to cover up than this fact.
Then it gets better. Read the letters that their lawyers sent Kyle, they are laughable. They are typo ridden, somewhat contradictory, and leave you with the distinct impression that the Infinium legal squad is a bunch of chucklefscks. Go read Kyles account of it, and the legalish stuff he was sent. Then go check out www.whereisphantom.com for a more up to date list.
I think the lawsuit will obliterate them, not that they were real to begin with, they are acting WAY to much like they have a mass grave full of skeletons, and the Iraqi WMDs to hide.
So, moving right along, back to E3. I write for The Inquirer, and I went to the Infinium booth at E3. I told them my concerns, and as a writer I told them I would never write something objective about them, IE no coverage for anything but news about the lawsuit, until they dropped the lawsuit AND apologized to Kyle.
Why? Simple, they sued Kyle for in my opinion, a well researched, fair article about their state of being. Imagine you get a review copy, could you be honest under those circumstances? If they sue for negative reviews, how can you be sure any review is even close to honest? Think about that as a chilling effect.
No, the short answer is Infinium by its actions and inactions appears to be a scam. I said roughly the same thing about CDs when the RIAA launched the Napster suit, no purchases until it is resolved. If it is resolved in the favor of Napster, I would buy again. If it isn't, no more music sales. I have not missed the music I no longer buy. The other analogy is SCO, would you buy a copy of Openserver knowing they sue their clients? Same with Infinium. Drop the suit guys, and backpedal hard, or you get no lovin from me.
Sadly, I don't think you will live long enough to ever make a purchasable product, the HOCP article says most of what I need to know, and your confirmation of it's accuracy with your actions tells the rest. Stick a fork in Infinium, they are done.
I ranted about this a few weeks ago here: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16999 The short summary, ATRAC and the McDonalds give away will turn people off, and turn them off to the concept of buying music on the net.
To me, that is a win/win:) Sony has always been the assholes of the group, trying to bend you to their will throught proprietary standards. Memory stick, Betamax, and other leap to mind.
The funny thing is that is simply doesn't work, again and again and again. Superior hardware, crippled by corporate greed and lack of vision. Gotta love capitalism.
No-name POS EPS power supply. I got the board, needed to run some tests asap, and didn't have a PS. I went down to the local store and said 'Give me the cheapest EPS supply you have'. Ran like a tank.
I have a Tyan S2882 here and it rocks hard. It runs Win64 quite well, I occasionally throw it on to test something. Since the beta they handed out at the A64 launch, there have been no problems, drivers are all on the CD. It is VERY stable, no crashes for me yet, but I have not done all that much with it.
As for WOW64, the people who say it is emulation don't have a clue, it is not. It is a simple thunking layer. Ugly? A bit. Slow? Nope. Kiss of death? Hell no. WOW32 doesn't screw XP all that hard does it? There is no software emulation, it is just trollish FUD.
Short summary, Tyan+AMD64 is a damn good bet. No compatibility worries, no problems. Have fun, mine is great.
I wrote the piece linked in the main article as: "At least one person at Intel says they did not ask Microsoft to delay the release" It suggests that only Intel people told me that it wasn't them. That is not exactly what I would call persuasive evidence. In fact it was AMD people who told me flat out that Intel had nothing to do with it. I then asked Intel, and they said 'yup, we a innocent'. MS also said it wasn't Intel.
Now, if Intel WAS behind it, AMD would have told me, and the other two would have denied it. That didn't happen.
As I posted above, I wrote the Inq piece that is one of the links in the main story. Unlike you, I went and asked the players on both sides, very high up players. They contradict what you are implying.
Now, who do you believe, high ups at AMD AND Intel, with a couple of Microsofties thrown in for color, or an anonymous person on/. speculating.
There was a reason I wrote the article, it was to keep posts like this from coming up every few hours. I now see my fatal mistake was assuming the trolls can read.
Most of the problems are SP2 related. MS decided to base Win iAMD64 off of XP SP2, and SP2 is having 'issues'. From what I hear, they are pulling people in to get it out the door, and those people are mainly coming from Longhorn.
They are taking security seriously, but they are realizing exactly how impossible it is to do what they announced, IE lock things down. The deeper they dig, the more problems they find. The more they find, the more people they pull in.
People tell me that it is a quagmire of monumental proportions. Golly, who would have guessed.
-Charlie
(I write for the Inq, and I talk to people, this is more than idle speculation)
You are the kind of person I was talking about when I wrote the article about the bridge dwellers in the article linked as 'one person at Intel....'. Read it, there really is no conspiracy.
You are so close to the right solution. Spam almost universally will have a spoofed address, so sending something back to the 'sender' will not net you any more spam. Sending back is OK.
The trick is to put useful info into the reply. Try setting up a message in the 'this address does not exist' autoreply. Put in something like 'bob@domain.com does not exist. If you are trying to reach Robert Smith, please resend to robert@domain.com. If you want to reach someone in an administrative capacity, send an e-mail to admin@domain.com'.
You can extend this to all the positions that matter, postmaster, webmaster etc, and a few key people at the domain. The bad guys shouldn't get it, and the poor twinks who have their domain name spoofed will probably ignore it.
The people who DO need to contact you and did either screw up or guess wrong will simply get the info that they need to do right. Win/Win.
No, it is clearly for 1U servers you troll. The laptop one is almost a cm shorter. There is also a new line of fitted luggage to go with the thin and light versions.
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I have been using VNC for years in one form or another, but I still need to go back to PCAnywere for one single feature that no VNC that I am aware of has. That is a 'callback' type capability.
With PCAnywhere, you can have it connect to a remote IP, and have that IP take you over. As was said above, this alleviates on of the major pains of VNC, NAT.
In fact, I am running into this with one of my networks now, poke holes in the firewall to allow the once a week remote connection, or go the other way. No VNC that I can find does this. If there is one, I would love it if someone points it out, it would allow me to throw PCA out once and for all.
-Charlie
"With 3 18-ton rotor blades pumping out 5 MW I wonder if my neighbours would mind one in my backyard?"
Ummmm.... Why? To power your Tesla coils that can't have ANY latency from power gerneration to use or other pseudo-scientific mubmo jumbo?
There is this invention called wires that can actually TRANSMIT the power over a DISTANCE with minimal losses. It would work just as well in a park down the street away from buildings sapping the airflow, but that would be nit-picking.
-Charlie
I read the CNN article about the changes, and it strikes me that Lucas wasn't satisfied with dumbing it down, so he did more. The part about Greedo shooting first is simply inexcusable (yes, I know it is old).
Then he said the origionals won't be re-released. Come on now, I know Lucas has decided to turn in his testicles and make things all happy and pretty and safe, but why do you have to taint things that are already done?
I saw the midnight showing of PM, and the noon showing, and waked away wondering what went wrong. Later viewings only confirmed that it was indeed pablum. The midnight showing of AOTC was similarly painfull, but much less so. It took me further down the road of 'why god, why' rather than back 'OK, we are heading down the right path'.
The news from ROTS doesn't fill me with, wait for it, a new hope either. Someone put Lucas out of our misery before he directs again.
Then I read about the DVD. Yup, he wasn't satisfied with ruining only the memories, he has to ruin history. Does it seem cowardly to you that he won't allow the origionals to be put out for side by side comparison? Someone should lock him in a small cell with a copy of 1984 until he writes "I am soory for being so stupid and arrogant' on the walls once for every memory he killed.
-Charlie
Yeah, you drop it out of your airplane with a guy riding it waving his cowboy hat around. It then goes boom.
-Charlie
"F: Wonder why you have a PhD and you're still sharing a cubicle like a code monkey. "
I don't know, a sense of charity, lack of greed, or general goodness? In fact, what is it with you Sun types that kills off the ability to do any of the above? Civility never kills, except in Congress.
-Charlie
Disclaimer: I write for the Inquirer, so I don't need to wear pants.
Disclaimer 2: I am kidding, but slashdot does not support either the irony or humor tags.
You mean like.... umm.... Nope, can't think of an example on this planet. You have one?
-Charlie
Cool, thanks. I was just about to go searching for that article I wrote, and you saved me the trouble. Time for a followup.
-Charlie
"That's why I use ROT-13 for my encryption needs."
Igpa atinla oobna!
-Arliecha
I was at the IDF Keynote, and I bounced some questions off Gelsinger afterwards. There are two problems with this that make it a non-starter in my opinion.
First, they are talking about layering another level of obfuscation on top of the net as a fix for the underlying problems. Rather than dealing with the problems, they ignore them, and make a shiny thing. Wow, that's architecture for you!
Next, with the innovation fom HP lately, and the fact that they are going commercial with it rather than open and standards based, it is doomed to be a niche idea at best. As one questioner afterwards pointed out, the internet was built on open ideas. This is looking to go the opposite way. NEXT!
Vint Cerf was cool though. They said there would be a special guest, but to my horror, they only meant Vint. No telletubbies in bondage gear this year. I can only hope for spring 2005 IDF....
I plan to rant about this on the Inq as soon as I recover from last week.
-Charlie
What, 1100000 reversed is 0000011. Is there something I am missing here? Clue me in.
-Charlie
Everyone misses the point of these. A supercomputer under your desk is pretty pointless to most folk. No neon lights, so the boss won't want one to show off. Real workers most likely value decent single thread performance more than many CPUs running many threads miserably.
For the tasks that it could do well, performance will be stunted by miserable disk performance. You can fit 96 CPUs under your desk, but they all share a 4500RPM notebook HD. Heh, yeah. Does Fedora Core have a countdown timer for measuring time till disk swap? Does it have an hours digit? Two of them?
Seriously though, this box will be stunningly good for two things. First is testing code for the next gen of gaming consoles. The more important one is that it will be really good at simulating the performance of the 'next big thing' in desktop CPUs, the massively multicore stuff.
Names like Conroe, Tukwila and AMDAskedMeNotToSay all come to mind. So do PS3, XBox2 and Nintendo Somethingorother. What do you develop on to test your code that needs to synchronise 8 threads across 5 CPUs? How do you test that? Simulations only go so far.
These boxes are a great way to test far future algorithms on far future platforms using safe x86/iAMD64 instructions. Would you rather buy shitloads of PS3 dev stations to write platform neutral algorithms, or a cheap box your devs already understand.
All this said, I don't see a huge market for the box, but it sounds nifty. And it is black. Black is goth, and goth is ummm, it is black though.
-Charlie
I have been following this company from the initial reports that they are a scam to the lawsuit to E3. I sat down with their head rep at E3 and had a long chat with them.
My short take is a low-end PC with a pay-per play rental model for old games. Yee-friggin haw, sign me up. There was nothing there that I couln't do myself with only spending a little money on a plastics prototype shop and a flash interface for the UI. Oh yeah, an auto body shop for a spiffy paint job also.
Then there is the more troubling aspect. They sued Kyle/HOCP for a negative report. From my perspective, it looks like they picked a fight for no reason. The story on HOCP was 6 months old and pretty much forgotten. If they had come up with a prototype and sent it to Kyle and said 'see, we are real, print a retraction please', I would bet good money that Kyle would have done so.
No, these morons, and I use the term with no disrepect meant toward anyone who is a clinical moron, sued HOCP. There is nothing in my mind that cemented the fact that they are indeed a scam with a lot to cover up than this fact.
Then it gets better. Read the letters that their lawyers sent Kyle, they are laughable. They are typo ridden, somewhat contradictory, and leave you with the distinct impression that the Infinium legal squad is a bunch of chucklefscks. Go read Kyles account of it, and the legalish stuff he was sent. Then go check out www.whereisphantom.com for a more up to date list.
I think the lawsuit will obliterate them, not that they were real to begin with, they are acting WAY to much like they have a mass grave full of skeletons, and the Iraqi WMDs to hide.
So, moving right along, back to E3. I write for The Inquirer, and I went to the Infinium booth at E3. I told them my concerns, and as a writer I told them I would never write something objective about them, IE no coverage for anything but news about the lawsuit, until they dropped the lawsuit AND apologized to Kyle.
Why? Simple, they sued Kyle for in my opinion, a well researched, fair article about their state of being. Imagine you get a review copy, could you be honest under those circumstances? If they sue for negative reviews, how can you be sure any review is even close to honest? Think about that as a chilling effect.
No, the short answer is Infinium by its actions and inactions appears to be a scam. I said roughly the same thing about CDs when the RIAA launched the Napster suit, no purchases until it is resolved. If it is resolved in the favor of Napster, I would buy again. If it isn't, no more music sales. I have not missed the music I no longer buy. The other analogy is SCO, would you buy a copy of Openserver knowing they sue their clients? Same with Infinium. Drop the suit guys, and backpedal hard, or you get no lovin from me.
Sadly, I don't think you will live long enough to ever make a purchasable product, the HOCP article says most of what I need to know, and your confirmation of it's accuracy with your actions tells the rest. Stick a fork in Infinium, they are done.
-Charlie
I ranted about this a few weeks ago here:
The short summary, ATRAC and the McDonalds give away will turn people off, and turn them off to the concept of buying music on the net.
:) Sony has always been the assholes of the group, trying to bend you to their will throught proprietary standards. Memory stick, Betamax, and other leap to mind.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16999
To me, that is a win/win
The funny thing is that is simply doesn't work, again and again and again. Superior hardware, crippled by corporate greed and lack of vision. Gotta love capitalism.
-Charlie
No-name POS EPS power supply. I got the board, needed to run some tests asap, and didn't have a PS. I went down to the local store and said 'Give me the cheapest EPS supply you have'. Ran like a tank.
-Charlie
I have a Tyan S2882 here and it rocks hard. It runs Win64 quite well, I occasionally throw it on to test something. Since the beta they handed out at the A64 launch, there have been no problems, drivers are all on the CD. It is VERY stable, no crashes for me yet, but I have not done all that much with it.
As for WOW64, the people who say it is emulation don't have a clue, it is not. It is a simple thunking layer. Ugly? A bit. Slow? Nope. Kiss of death? Hell no. WOW32 doesn't screw XP all that hard does it? There is no software emulation, it is just trollish FUD.
Short summary, Tyan+AMD64 is a damn good bet. No compatibility worries, no problems. Have fun, mine is great.
-Charlie
I wrote the piece linked in the main article as:
"At least one person at Intel says they did not ask Microsoft to delay the release"
It suggests that only Intel people told me that it wasn't them. That is not exactly what I would call persuasive evidence. In fact it was AMD people who told me flat out that Intel had nothing to do with it. I then asked Intel, and they said 'yup, we a innocent'. MS also said it wasn't Intel.
Now, if Intel WAS behind it, AMD would have told me, and the other two would have denied it. That didn't happen.
-Charlie
As I posted above, I wrote the Inq piece that is one of the links in the main story. Unlike you, I went and asked the players on both sides, very high up players. They contradict what you are implying.
/. speculating.
Now, who do you believe, high ups at AMD AND Intel, with a couple of Microsofties thrown in for color, or an anonymous person on
There was a reason I wrote the article, it was to keep posts like this from coming up every few hours. I now see my fatal mistake was assuming the trolls can read.
-Charlie
Most of the problems are SP2 related. MS decided to base Win iAMD64 off of XP SP2, and SP2 is having 'issues'. From what I hear, they are pulling people in to get it out the door, and those people are mainly coming from Longhorn.
They are taking security seriously, but they are realizing exactly how impossible it is to do what they announced, IE lock things down. The deeper they dig, the more problems they find. The more they find, the more people they pull in.
People tell me that it is a quagmire of monumental proportions. Golly, who would have guessed.
-Charlie
(I write for the Inq, and I talk to people, this is more than idle speculation)
You are the kind of person I was talking about when I wrote the article about the bridge dwellers in the article linked as 'one person at Intel....'. Read it, there really is no conspiracy.
-Charlie
It is called Prescott, aka P4E. Launches monday in 64 bit guise. I outed it last September on the Inq, see the links below.
: //www.theinquirer.net/?article=11781
-Charlie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11668
http
You are so close to the right solution. Spam almost universally will have a spoofed address, so sending something back to the 'sender' will not net you any more spam. Sending back is OK.
The trick is to put useful info into the reply. Try setting up a message in the 'this address does not exist' autoreply. Put in something like 'bob@domain.com does not exist. If you are trying to reach Robert Smith, please resend to robert@domain.com. If you want to reach someone in an administrative capacity, send an e-mail to admin@domain.com'.
You can extend this to all the positions that matter, postmaster, webmaster etc, and a few key people at the domain. The bad guys shouldn't get it, and the poor twinks who have their domain name spoofed will probably ignore it.
The people who DO need to contact you and did either screw up or guess wrong will simply get the info that they need to do right. Win/Win.
-Charlie
I guess you are one of those people who decry both Curling AND Ballroom Dancing as Olympic sports. Basement dwelling trogledyte.
-Charlie
(Yes, sarcasm folks....)
No, it is clearly for 1U servers you troll. The laptop one is almost a cm shorter. There is also a new line of fitted luggage to go with the thin and light versions.
-Charlie
I caught a pic of the heatsink for this beast at Computex, so it must be real.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16426
-Charlie
(for the humor impared, think humor - haha, not humor - I don't get it)
"So, like, where's the Hexium, Heptium, Octium?"
I believe the term you are groping for is 'Opteron'.
-Charlie
(Apologies, I couldn't resist such low hanging fruit).