What MS have done is sucessfully tax going to work. At least I have a choice about smoking. True, I guess I have a choice about working but my life sucks a lot more if I don't (and yes, I did try).
Yeah, I'll go with this. I'm no audiophile, hell I had to buy a house instead, but what I do know is that my Dad's old Linn Sondek (with all other Linn gear) sounds immeasurably better than any CD based anything I've heard since.
I went shopping for some good but none the less low end HiFi with a few of my favourite CD's. Stuck them on the stuff I wanted to hear - a bit crap. Stuck on something else - a bit crap still. Suggested to the guy in the shop that perhaps the mastering on the CD was shite so he stuck it on a $25k system. Yup, still sounded shite. Precisely shite though.
And besides, nobody takes pride in their mastering anymore. Listened to the chemical brothers recently? Exactly.
AGGGHHH! God dammit record industry, stop suing people for sharing MP3's and start mastering really good quality DVD recordings. MY MONEY IS WAITING FOR YOU! COME AND GET IT!!!!
After all, correlations between the left and right channels is one of the means of eliminating "redundant" information and reducing file sizes.
Now this I didn't know. I was assuming MP3 basically did a DCT on lumps of waveform and threw away the bits you couldn't hear. Has anyone done any tests on wavelet compression for Audio?
I've seen shops where the sa account was kept blank so ASP "programmers" wouldn't have to bother with remembering a password.
In the unlikely event of an ASP programmer:
a, Giving a shit about security and
b, Realising that in all probability the IIS box will be owned at some point, and therefore his source code will become (effectively) public knowledge...
What options do these... delightful individuals... have for not having a plaintext password stored in the.asp source for connecting to the database? Can they, for instance, keep the password in the registry? (and hence it can be changed on a regular basis, good lord)
For extra points, how to do it on php? Yes, I am in the process of developing something under php and am a tad concerned about this.
If you remember the Zelda game for the Nintendo 64, it would run on only 4 MB of RAM.
And this, I think, is the point that is currently being lost on many commentators. Developers get extremely good at using console hardware. The original playstation was (IIRC, which I probably won't) 33MHz, 2Mb of Ram, and a deeply crap 3d accelerator. And yet it runs Gran Turismo 2. The flexibility of the hardware allowed this to happen, and from what I've seen the PS2 is more flexible, not less.
I think we're going to see some outstanding work on the PS2. Even over the last year we've seen some astonishing improvements over the launch titles.
If this is true, then it would seem all you need to do to foil this latest slightly-hare-brained-scheme would be to rename pgp to something else, such as goawayfbi.
I think I'm going to give up and be a rice farmer now...
And that, for me, is the big problem with all this MS Seattlement stuff. The whole thing whittles away at my previously vast enthusiasm for computing in general, and makes it all seem so pointless. Time to go be a sailing instructor.
...and I'll say it again. You have, on the one hand, a goverment that really wants to be able to bug electronic communications. On the other hand, a monopoly software company that controls 99.999% of desktops in the world. Now, the software company owes the government a favour so....
Buildworld takes ages. It's very l33t, but takes ages. I still tend to just install from the CD.
On the subject of DMA I believe that ata write caching (hw.ata.wc) was disabled in 4.3, but re-enabled again in 4.4. Partially as a result of getting hammered in benchmarks. I'd leave it off. Honestly. Turn softupdates on (much easier to do when installing afresh), and leave write caching off.
Not scientific, but I do remember there being some potential difficulties with using hw.ata.wc=1 and softupdates together.
I know, incredible isn't it, below what even the generic kernel ships with. But I think FreeBSD has some problems with MAXUSERS, in that nobody knows what the hell it's for. I believe that as of 4.4 all the parameters that were previously dependent on MAXUSERS are now boot time programmable. Although what they are and some ideal values is news to me. Guess I had better go do some more reading - tuning(5) IIRC.
Dave
KDevelop - blind advocacy.
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10,000 combinations ~= somewhere between 13 and 14 bits of security. It is entirely feasible for a quick P4 to encrypt every single PIN within an hour, with time left over to play Unreal Tournament.
But if you read their page about how PIN works it becomes aparrent that you still need the derivation key, which is the hard bit to get.
Fake ATMs have been installed in shopping malls, collecting PINs and ATM cards from unsuspecting victims
LOL! Someone did a whole bunch of these in the UK a couple of years ago. Looked and smelled like an ATM, but took the PIN then complained that the card was borked, or something. Easy EASY kill.
because PINless credit card fraud is still so easy.
Exactly. 1e6+1 easier ways of stealing money than opening an ATM with an oxy-acetylene, spending two days cracking it with an FPGA and using all that to hack the banks comms. Easier to just look over some lamers shoulder then pick their pocket. Not that I would know. Not at all.
"banks are vulnerable to a dishonest branch manager whose teenager has $995 and a few hours to spend in duplicating our work."
If you have a teenager who can hack FPGA's sufficiently well to brute force into a cash machine, you're really not going to have any problems making money in years to come. Either that or your problems are just beginning.
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OMG. Is it a troll? I really cannot tell.
:) Go make a cup of coffee.
Errrr, FreeBSD is dead easy to install. It's dead easy to get KDE2 going on it too. But not pretty. Just ncurses, sorry.
something built in to play while slow parts of the install proceed
What slow parts of the install? Get a faster computer
How bizarre.
Dave
This is not a fucking skript kiddie quick hack.
Yeah, but it can become one soon enough. All they need is for someone to release a... errrr... script.
If you're a true BOFH, you shouldn't have any trouble with this hole, because you've already disabled wu-ftpd.
Well, yeah. That's obviously job number 1. Job 2 is to find an ftp daemon that doesn't suck.
Dave
put Sun back on the line as the company of the internet
I never said I trusted Sun either.
Dave
What's MS done?
What MS have done is sucessfully tax going to work. At least I have a choice about smoking. True, I guess I have a choice about working but my life sucks a lot more if I don't (and yes, I did try).
Dave
Quite. One is half a notch up from from those all-in-one stereo's you get, and the other is showoff fodder for the polished concrete floor brigade.
Dave
An optical-out sound card runs about US$1000
It does not, bottom end sound blasters are starting to sprout digital out. And it doesn't need to be optical either.
Dave
Yeah, I'll go with this. I'm no audiophile, hell I had to buy a house instead, but what I do know is that my Dad's old Linn Sondek (with all other Linn gear) sounds immeasurably better than any CD based anything I've heard since.
I went shopping for some good but none the less low end HiFi with a few of my favourite CD's. Stuck them on the stuff I wanted to hear - a bit crap. Stuck on something else - a bit crap still. Suggested to the guy in the shop that perhaps the mastering on the CD was shite so he stuck it on a $25k system. Yup, still sounded shite. Precisely shite though.
And besides, nobody takes pride in their mastering anymore. Listened to the chemical brothers recently? Exactly.
AGGGHHH! God dammit record industry, stop suing people for sharing MP3's and start mastering really good quality DVD recordings. MY MONEY IS WAITING FOR YOU! COME AND GET IT!!!!
Dave
After all, correlations between the left and right channels is one of the means of eliminating "redundant" information and reducing file sizes.
Now this I didn't know. I was assuming MP3 basically did a DCT on lumps of waveform and threw away the bits you couldn't hear. Has anyone done any tests on wavelet compression for Audio?
Dave
Yes. The covering on anechoic chambers makes for a very safe creche.
Dave
I've seen shops where the sa account was kept blank so ASP "programmers" wouldn't have to bother with remembering a password.
.asp source for connecting to the database? Can they, for instance, keep the password in the registry? (and hence it can be changed on a regular basis, good lord)
In the unlikely event of an ASP programmer:
a, Giving a shit about security and
b, Realising that in all probability the IIS box will be owned at some point, and therefore his source code will become (effectively) public knowledge...
What options do these... delightful individuals... have for not having a plaintext password stored in the
For extra points, how to do it on php? Yes, I am in the process of developing something under php and am a tad concerned about this.
Dave
Cor, fsck me, the number of people who took this seriously. What's up with slashdot today?
Dave
If you remember the Zelda game for the Nintendo 64, it would run on only 4 MB of RAM.
And this, I think, is the point that is currently being lost on many commentators. Developers get extremely good at using console hardware. The original playstation was (IIRC, which I probably won't) 33MHz, 2Mb of Ram, and a deeply crap 3d accelerator. And yet it runs Gran Turismo 2. The flexibility of the hardware allowed this to happen, and from what I've seen the PS2 is more flexible, not less.
I think we're going to see some outstanding work on the PS2. Even over the last year we've seen some astonishing improvements over the launch titles.
Dave
If this is true, then it would seem all you need to do to foil this latest slightly-hare-brained-scheme would be to rename pgp to something else, such as goawayfbi.
Quack3.exe
I think I'm going to give up and be a rice farmer now...
And that, for me, is the big problem with all this MS Seattlement stuff. The whole thing whittles away at my previously vast enthusiasm for computing in general, and makes it all seem so pointless. Time to go be a sailing instructor.
Dave
Money where mouth is, good lad. If I had a background in DSP I might be interested. But I don't.
Dave
Bollocks to that, it'd make a brutal cheapo webserver.
Dave
...and I'll say it again. You have, on the one hand, a goverment that really wants to be able to bug electronic communications. On the other hand, a monopoly software company that controls 99.999% of desktops in the world. Now, the software company owes the government a favour so....
Dave
Buildworld takes ages. It's very l33t, but takes ages. I still tend to just install from the CD.
On the subject of DMA I believe that ata write caching (hw.ata.wc) was disabled in 4.3, but re-enabled again in 4.4. Partially as a result of getting hammered in benchmarks. I'd leave it off. Honestly. Turn softupdates on (much easier to do when installing afresh), and leave write caching off.
Not scientific, but I do remember there being some potential difficulties with using hw.ata.wc=1 and softupdates together.
Dave
MAXUSERS was set to 20!!
I know, incredible isn't it, below what even the generic kernel ships with. But I think FreeBSD has some problems with MAXUSERS, in that nobody knows what the hell it's for. I believe that as of 4.4 all the parameters that were previously dependent on MAXUSERS are now boot time programmable. Although what they are and some ideal values is news to me. Guess I had better go do some more reading - tuning(5) IIRC.
Dave
I use KDevelop loads. It kicks arse.
Dave
10,000 combinations ~= somewhere between 13 and 14 bits of security. It is entirely feasible for a quick P4 to encrypt every single PIN within an hour, with time left over to play Unreal Tournament.
But if you read their page about how PIN works it becomes aparrent that you still need the derivation key, which is the hard bit to get.
Fake ATMs have been installed in shopping malls, collecting PINs and ATM cards from unsuspecting victims
LOL! Someone did a whole bunch of these in the UK a couple of years ago. Looked and smelled like an ATM, but took the PIN then complained that the card was borked, or something. Easy EASY kill.
because PINless credit card fraud is still so easy.
Exactly. 1e6+1 easier ways of stealing money than opening an ATM with an oxy-acetylene, spending two days cracking it with an FPGA and using all that to hack the banks comms. Easier to just look over some lamers shoulder then pick their pocket. Not that I would know. Not at all.
Dave
"banks are vulnerable to a dishonest branch manager whose teenager has $995 and a few hours to spend in duplicating our work."
If you have a teenager who can hack FPGA's sufficiently well to brute force into a cash machine, you're really not going to have any problems making money in years to come. Either that or your problems are just beginning.
Dave
I'm missing out.
Is there some troll-o-bot perl script kicking around? Have you had some kind of trolling archive from which to pick quotations?
OMG. It's glorious, but - unfortunately - a shade obvious to be a real troll.
Dave
All your thermal death are belong to us.
Dave
Another vote for 'good troll'. And increased calls for a slashdot troll archive, for these truly are the art on slashdot.
Dave