Transactions? Who said anything about transactions? What was the last time that you saw a scientist, say, doing a presentation, and he/she needed to RENDER something during his/her presentation? "But what about calculating the results of hypothetically an asteroid impact?" you might say. Yes, the processing power you need, but not necessarily the displaying power. Displaying is usually a very slow process compared to calculating, so for real-time 3D games, hardware is based upon the games' requirements.
Games are very important in the computing world! Why do you think we have all these high-end video cards and 3D accelerators? For scientific imaging? No . . . If you need to render something scientific, I doubt you need it in real time. You can leave something rendering at night, whereas for 3D games you NEED real time 3D acceleration. Games really set hardware standards for the computer industry, so lighten up.
Your company wants you to improve their web site . . . which many open source authors do for free for millions of sites by writing their software. The difference is your company pays you to do it. There shouldn't be much of a problem - if your company wanted to use an SQL server, but you had to modify it for some special purpose, would they object to you working on some open source server's code? It just happens to be your own, which makes it that much easier! -LLM
Actually, after a thorough study of alien communication protocols and network topologies, I have determined that this is not likely. Their computing systems are based on ternary numbering (their equivalent to bytes, which they call munches, are 9 ternary integers, or tits, wide). Furthermore, they have not developed star based network topologies - all of their systems connect using token ring topologies. Also, they are more advanced than us in certain areas: they never developed stupid connectionless protocols like UDP - they always had sockets and streams. Go figure. With the tits and everything, it is doubtful they will send a virus that is even executable on whatever processor is in there. We're safe for now.
First off, I consider myself a hacker, not a cracker. I don't go in for specific information or anything, it is just a learning experience. Second of all, you stating that it (cracking - i don't crack, I hack - code mostly) is boring and uneventful only goes to show that your experiences were uneventful because you weren't good enough. Also, I'm not a stupid skript kiddie. You think I don't know what FSF is? Ok go get a less stuck up opinion of others and get rid of your self-righteousness. I think I would know a LITTLE bit about the culture . ..just a LITTLE! So stop taking out your lack of skill on others - you only reveal your patheticness.
Let me tell you about the little "situation" at my HS... Last year, one of the math teachers (interesting trend, eh?) decided that, after much persuasion from a-stupid-girl-I-know-and-her-little-friend-who-thi nk-they-know-computers-but-don't, she would try to get a so-called "Computer Club", which by the beginning of this year (we had no meetings last year) became the "Web Club". Our school has nothing but Windoze boxes (they're pretty fast but the "security" programs slow them down to jack) and a few Macs in the Art department and the Architecture dept., who don't seem to use them now. I decided, along with my friend (we actually know computers and programming and networks and linux etc.) to see what was up, so we came and realized they were all a bunch of morons - they were using front page to make the web page. And when the same girl who started the club, found a Java Applet online that creates a little popup menu on your screen which looks like the windoze start menu - and when she figured out how to edit the menu definition file on this thing (ok she read the README) she thought that she now knew how to program in java. The "Advisor" for this club (who now hates me, by the way - I avoid her at all costs) was a stupid math teacher, and at the slightest mention of linux (which she knows nothing about except that she thinks it is used for hacking) she thought I was going to hack into the school's servers and crash the network or something (yes, I have already exploited their systems without any of their knowledge but nothing malicious:) ). She hates me because I stopped coming to the "club", knowing fully that my friend and I were the only ones who could actually help them (yes, he abandoned too). My suggestion to them was that, since they wanted a consistent "look-and-feel" on all of their pages that I script the thing for them with a little bit of CGI magic:) but they thought I was going to compromise server security (granted I would have put a little but of "magic" in there but I would never do anything malicious with it). So I decided that they were totally ignorant and stupid. My school recently got a new "network technician" or "computer expert" (he's just a guy who dances around in the wiring closet and hits the button when the windoze boxes crash), and I knew that the only way I would ever get any linux influence at school would be if I were to befriend him (though he is dumb too). It turns out he is yet more foolish - I was talking to him after school one day after lab when he decided to copy the contents of one computer's hard drive onto another one that got f@*$ed up (he accidentally copied the messed up one onto the good one, too) and I mentioned the Crusoe processor, and I also mentioned slashdot (the story was on here, I told him he could find a link here) - and he said something along the lines of "Oh, is that the Liiii-nucks place?" I have considered him a fool since then from his Ignorance and his mispronunciation of the word Linux. Luckily, my physics teacher is installing linux-PPC on his Mac on school, so I have a friend around there. Maybe we can get some X-terminals someday (wait, even though that is cheaper than paying for all that windoze hardware and all the liscences, and it is smarter overall, the are scared . ..). Anyway, just wait till you get to college! I can almost definitely assure that there will be some unix system somewhere there. I know that only then will I have knowledge about me. Others' Ignorance is not my bliss.
Am I the only one who finds our government being a tad ethnocentric here? It's also very noble . . . More surprising is that the openly admit their own bigotry. Wow. I'm proud to be in this country. Go Uncle Sam!
It's legal crap like this that almost makes me sick - people contorting the truth for their own benefit and screwing with others' lives. Can't we all just get along? Well, most of us, with the small exception of murderers, rapists, serial killers . . . Well, I'm sure the LAWYER is not the epitome of the american citizen the founding fathers had in mind . . .
I think we need to see more open communication protocols - life is so much easier. The success of the already open protocols is readily evident - yet there are still closed standards which take considerable effort to reverse engineer. You'd think people would see that the protocols can be strengthened when the are opened up and security problems or whatnot are reaveled - it is easier to fix with a large community of knowledgable users than with a small group. When will we see more of this? We really need to.
God! You're forgetting about the excluded middle! This logic does NOT follow!! Next time try to think efore you make a post eveyone will laugh at. -llm
The trick is to keep the important stuff safe - I wouldn't keep my tax documents on my computer. Plus if I did, I would make sure my system was damn well secured.
The information is not the personal info . . . "Oooh, somebody will steal my electronic recipes!!" I encrypt and guard what I think necessary. The information we will gain about how to keep them from breaking in will outweigh those that they may gain, if they get in -- if we are careful with our personal data and do a good job of securing it.
I think anything that doesn't harm (too much) and spreads knowledge and information is good . . . as long as they all play nice, it will help the computer world a lot - we'll all learn a little about security.
This is simply an example of how scared M$ is. They fear the possibility that Linux will steal their customers. Mickeysoft should get their facts straight before releasing something like this. All or nothing security? BS. Not designed from the ground up is partially true, but they aren't taking into consideration the big picture. And all those "independent" tests done by PC Mag? We all know how "indifferent" they are. -Leo the LionMan
And therefore you use telnet and type at the command line: C:\> telnet www.networksoultions.com 43 you used to be able to go to the normal telnet port at internic.net, but no, they just have to insist on networksolutions.com
Yet the amazing thing is, though Network solutions has a domain name under all three TLDs, they totally disregard the fact that they mean something..com is commercial - they can go ahead and use it for all I care, they charge bucks for names..net is for networks - they are after all a network. Yet.org used to be for non-profit organizations. www.networksolutions.org? they are not like any other non-profit org i ever heard of. They will continue to amaze me.
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"... like 10,000 "transactions" per _second_."
Transactions? Who said anything about transactions? What was the last time that you saw a scientist, say, doing a presentation, and he/she needed to RENDER something during his/her presentation? "But what about calculating the results of hypothetically an asteroid impact?" you might say. Yes, the processing power you need, but not necessarily the displaying power. Displaying is usually a very slow process compared to calculating, so for real-time 3D games, hardware is based upon the games' requirements.
Games are very important in the computing world! Why do you think we have all these high-end video cards and 3D accelerators? For scientific imaging? No . . . If you need to render something scientific, I doubt you need it in real time. You can leave something rendering at night, whereas for 3D games you NEED real time 3D acceleration. Games really set hardware standards for the computer industry, so lighten up.
This we really need.
Your company wants you to improve their web site . . . which many open source authors do for free for millions of sites by writing their software. The difference is your company pays you to do it. There shouldn't be much of a problem - if your company wanted to use an SQL server, but you had to modify it for some special purpose, would they object to you working on some open source server's code? It just happens to be your own, which makes it that much easier!
-LLM
Actually, after a thorough study of alien communication protocols and network topologies, I have determined that this is not likely. Their computing systems are based on ternary numbering (their equivalent to bytes, which they call munches, are 9 ternary integers, or tits, wide). Furthermore, they have not developed star based network topologies - all of their systems connect using token ring topologies. Also, they are more advanced than us in certain areas: they never developed stupid connectionless protocols like UDP - they always had sockets and streams. Go figure.
With the tits and everything, it is doubtful they will send a virus that is even executable on whatever processor is in there. We're safe for now.
First off, I consider myself a hacker, not a cracker. I don't go in for specific information or anything, it is just a learning experience. .just a LITTLE!
Second of all, you stating that it (cracking - i don't crack, I hack - code mostly) is boring and uneventful only goes to show that your experiences were uneventful because you weren't good enough.
Also, I'm not a stupid skript kiddie. You think I don't know what FSF is? Ok go get a less stuck up opinion of others and get rid of your self-righteousness.
I think I would know a LITTLE bit about the culture . .
So stop taking out your lack of skill on others - you only reveal your patheticness.
Let me tell you about the little "situation" at my HS...i nk-they-know-computers-but-don't, she would try to get a so-called "Computer Club", which by the beginning of this year (we had no meetings last year) became the "Web Club". Our school has nothing but Windoze boxes (they're pretty fast but the "security" programs slow them down to jack) and a few Macs in the Art department and the Architecture dept., who don't seem to use them now. I decided, along with my friend (we actually know computers and programming and networks and linux etc.) to see what was up, so we came and realized they were all a bunch of morons - they were using front page to make the web page. And when the same girl who started the club, found a Java Applet online that creates a little popup menu on your screen which looks like the windoze start menu - and when she figured out how to edit the menu definition file on this thing (ok she read the README) she thought that she now knew how to program in java. The "Advisor" for this club (who now hates me, by the way - I avoid her at all costs) was a stupid math teacher, and at the slightest mention of linux (which she knows nothing about except that she thinks it is used for hacking) she thought I was going to hack into the school's servers and crash the network or something (yes, I have already exploited their systems without any of their knowledge but nothing malicious :) ). She hates me because I stopped coming to the "club", knowing fully that my friend and I were the only ones who could actually help them (yes, he abandoned too). My suggestion to them was that, since they wanted a consistent "look-and-feel" on all of their pages that I script the thing for them with a little bit of CGI magic :) but they thought I was going to compromise server security (granted I would have put a little but of "magic" in there but I would never do anything malicious with it). So I decided that they were totally ignorant and stupid. .).
Last year, one of the math teachers (interesting trend, eh?) decided that, after much persuasion from a-stupid-girl-I-know-and-her-little-friend-who-th
My school recently got a new "network technician" or "computer expert" (he's just a guy who dances around in the wiring closet and hits the button when the windoze boxes crash), and I knew that the only way I would ever get any linux influence at school would be if I were to befriend him (though he is dumb too). It turns out he is yet more foolish - I was talking to him after school one day after lab when he decided to copy the contents of one computer's hard drive onto another one that got f@*$ed up (he accidentally copied the messed up one onto the good one, too) and I mentioned the Crusoe processor, and I also mentioned slashdot (the story was on here, I told him he could find a link here) - and he said something along the lines of "Oh, is that the Liiii-nucks place?" I have considered him a fool since then from his Ignorance and his mispronunciation of the word Linux.
Luckily, my physics teacher is installing linux-PPC on his Mac on school, so I have a friend around there. Maybe we can get some X-terminals someday (wait, even though that is cheaper than paying for all that windoze hardware and all the liscences, and it is smarter overall, the are scared . .
Anyway, just wait till you get to college! I can almost definitely assure that there will be some unix system somewhere there. I know that only then will I have knowledge about me. Others' Ignorance is not my bliss.
Am I the only one who finds our government being a tad ethnocentric here? It's also very noble . . .
More surprising is that the openly admit their own bigotry. Wow. I'm proud to be in this country. Go Uncle Sam!
They got him!!!! ARGH!!!!! -LLM
It's legal crap like this that almost makes me sick - people contorting the truth for their own benefit and screwing with others' lives. Can't we all just get along? Well, most of us, with the small exception of murderers, rapists, serial killers . . . Well, I'm sure the LAWYER is not the epitome of the american citizen the founding fathers had in mind . . .
I think we need to see more open communication protocols - life is so much easier. The success of the already open protocols is readily evident - yet there are still closed standards which take considerable effort to reverse engineer. You'd think people would see that the protocols can be strengthened when the are opened up and security problems or whatnot are reaveled - it is easier to fix with a large community of knowledgable users than with a small group. When will we see more of this? We really need to.
God! You're forgetting about the excluded middle! This logic does NOT follow!! Next time try to think efore you make a post eveyone will laugh at. -llm
The trick is to keep the important stuff safe - I wouldn't keep my tax documents on my computer. Plus if I did, I would make sure my system was damn well secured.
The information is not the personal info . . . "Oooh, somebody will steal my electronic recipes!!" I encrypt and guard what I think necessary. The information we will gain about how to keep them from breaking in will outweigh those that they may gain, if they get in -- if we are careful with our personal data and do a good job of securing it.
I think anything that doesn't harm (too much) and spreads knowledge and information is good . . . as long as they all play nice, it will help the computer world a lot - we'll all learn a little about security.
This is simply an example of how scared M$ is. They fear the possibility that Linux will steal their customers. Mickeysoft should get their facts straight before releasing something like this. All or nothing security? BS. Not designed from the ground up is partially true, but they aren't taking into consideration the big picture. And all those "independent" tests done by PC Mag? We all know how "indifferent" they are.
-Leo the LionMan
And therefore you use telnet and type at the command line:
C:\> telnet www.networksoultions.com 43
you used to be able to go to the normal telnet port at internic.net, but no, they just have to insist on networksolutions.com
Yet the amazing thing is, though Network solutions has a domain name under all three TLDs, they totally disregard the fact that they mean something. .com is commercial - they can go ahead and use it for all I care, they charge bucks for names. .net is for networks - they are after all a network. Yet .org used to be for non-profit organizations. www.networksolutions.org? they are not like any other non -profit org i ever heard of. They will continue to amaze me.