Have you read the article??? It does not even mention Microsoft at all. Actually, they are switching from Unix machines: Sun, etc. Can we do something besides bashing Microsoft?
I have problem with GeForce 2 with View Sonic LCD monitor (connected with DVI input). Installed Mandrake 8.0, it even listed my monitor in settings. But it obviusly could not sync to my monitor. I did not even think DVI can have sync problem, after all it is DIGITAL! NVidia drivers did not help either. After spending a day I fixed this by removing XConfig-4, and tweaking old config file. Tried installing Mandrake 8.1 later - still not good. So now I type this on XP, sorry.
But if you have non-LCD monitor, you should be safe.
I doubt this. To make antimatter you need energy, and where do you get it in space?
Basically the only benefit of antimatter for space travel is that you can store large amount of energy (taken from Earth) in compact form.
If you already have an energy in space, why use it to create antimatter and then burn antimatter, when you can burn your original form of energy without losing it in the process of making antimatter?
> Interestingly, the article asserts that Microsoft have already given up on IIS, the proof being its absence in XP Home and its non-standard presence in XP Pro.
It is not installed by default in XP to avoid security risks associated with IIS. So users who don't use it, don't have to worry about installing security patches, administering it, etc. It is not about phasing out IIS, it is about mininizing security risks and exposure surface.
>Who are you referring to with that? Nazi propaganda on French radio? Not likely. Please explain yourself and perhaps give some examples and god forbid a link.
He is probably refering to US propaganda broadcast on shortwave radio to other counties (mainly former Soviet block, China etc). Most of those radios are still active now.
Links: http://www.svoboda.org/ - broadcasts US government propaganda to Russia right now. This radio was good during Soviet era, but now it is very dull. And actually free speech is protected much better in Russia. You can say a lot on Russian TV/Radio that you can never say in US - due to political correctness, DMCA, etc.
You will care when government start using those IDs for purposes other then stated. How many times FBI was spying for opposition parties by the order of US presidents? Heard stories about IRS employes selling individual's tax information?
Any power that is given to goverment will be abused some time, and this is the reason to avoid giving them this power.
Otherwise, you will end wearing video cameras that will record all you actions, movements and talks 24 hours a day, and passes them to gov. - just so that gov. agencies can be sure you did not commit any crime. Are you OK with that? Why, you are not a criminal, you have nothing to hide!
>It would also solve the problem of all these illegal workers stealing jobs from us, and living off of welfare and so on and so forth.
No, it would not. SSN is supposed to be THE card that prevents it, and is required to get the job, etc. However, it does not help for obvious reasons (because only legal workers use it, and but illegals find a job where it is not required). Another card would not help either. It will only help Big Brother to know what you buy, where you go, who you talk to, etc.
>I think we need a National ID card to fight terrorism, theres no other way to know whos a terrorist and who isnt.
So you think the terrorists will wait to receive an ID card, and ask to print "I am a terrorist" on it? National ID card is good to help FBI and the like to spy for locals (that is why it is "National"), but will fail short of helping fight terrorist.
> So I guess Russian sci-fi.. includes.. the freedom of uncensored thought?
No, that is more modern American sci-fi, the freedom of publishing uncensored thoughts without fearing CMDA, being politically incorrect, trademark violations, etc.
With in-car MP3 XM and Sirius are... great technology that solves no problems
There are people (like me) who like to listen to something that they did not know before, like new artist that I never heard of (so it is not in my MP3 collection), or an interesting opinion on NPR, so on. MP3 is just static set of data, you will never get anything new there. MP3 will never completely replace radio, it will only replace your CD-player.
>But what prevents Administrator from changing your password, and signing into your account to read your files? I suppose this leaves a trail... but still.
It would not work in W2k for domain users, and it would not work in WinXP for local user either. When you reset password of another user in XP, you are warned that the user will lose access to her sertificates, EFS files, etc.
And this is actually true, since sertificates are encripted with user's password. When you change password in regular way, sertificates are re-encripted. When resetting, it can't be done (no old password is available).
The difference between SOAP and old RPC protocols is its Request-Responce model, that is similar to HTTP. So Firewall can read a request, inspect it, send it to server, receive responce, and send it to client. You don't have any long open TCP connection, server can't send anything itself without explicit request, only one response to one request, so on. So it is easy for firewall to check this interaction, which was impossible with RPC.
Since this model is similar enough to HTTP, it makes sence to use port 80, because even simple firewalls that don't know anything about SOAP can do some work with SOAP firewalling.
That is idiotic idea, written by somebody who does not understand how SMP works. Compare datacenter with IBM's mods of Linux kernel that allows it to scale up better (as a result Linux with IBM's mods scales down bad). If you think all IBM did is changing couple of defines - go for it.
Datacenter goes beyond IBM's mods in that it customizes Windows for particular hardware. This does gives good performance, but has its disadvantages (see the original post)
You got the point: IRIX runs on a special hardware, that allows it to scale. If you want to scale that good on PC, you need special hardware support beyond standard chipsets. If you have specialized hardware, you get specialized code in Windows (or Linux, or whatever) that knows about that hardware and can utilize it. So you get a customized version of Windows.
IRIX runs on a single hardware design, so it is always customized for it.
On NT he creates a buffer with size equal to the total size of transmission data (up to hunderds Megs). He is actually mesuring the speed of paging to swap file, not speed of pipes.
What he had to do is create small buffer, like 64 Kbytes, or just like Linux's 4 Kb buffer, and work with it. This comparision has nothing to do with pipes, just with stupidity of some people.
What a shame for IBM, I've read some very good articles there, but this one is total crap.
One of the features that Freenet is supposed to implement, when it's completed, is exactly like the dynamic caching of popular web pages mentioned in the Microsoft article
Have you seen recently any popular web page that is not customized for evey visitor? Maybe there were a lot of them 3 years ago, but now all of them provide custom content. Would caching of slashdot be any good? No, because I don't want to see the same set of links as you do.
You are also half right.
Yes, Java as a language and JVM are different things, but when it comes to security, they are very related.
Secure VM defines bytecodes and object operations in a way that it can easily verify. Any language that can compile down to these bytecodes and object operations is OK for this VM.
Restrictions of JVM bytecode make it impossible to compile C++ code to effective JVM-code. On the other hand, Java can be compiled down to these bytecodes (actually they were designed to work together). So while Java and JVM are distinct things, they are very related.
Pointer operations in C dictate completely different design for secure C/C++ VM. You can't trust any code in user space anymore, and you have to design VM similar to modern OS: trusted kernel + untrusted isolated user process. This will make its performance even more horrible than performance of Java.
He may persuade management by showing "customer satisfaction" numbers or numbers of technical support calls. If satistaction is dropping or number of techsupport calls grows rapidly, it is easy to persuade management that something should be done about this. In this case management will probably allocate more money to ensure good quality.
You moron.
Mir lasted on its orbit for 15 year. No wonder there were some failures during last couple of years, but do you have many stuff still working since 1986? Now imagine it operating in space conditions.
Mir deserves great respect and honor.
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Have you read the article???
It does not even mention Microsoft at all. Actually, they are switching from Unix machines: Sun, etc.
Can we do something besides bashing Microsoft?
I have problem with GeForce 2 with View Sonic LCD monitor (connected with DVI input). Installed Mandrake 8.0, it even listed my monitor in settings. But it obviusly could not sync to my monitor. I did not even think DVI can have sync problem, after all it is DIGITAL! NVidia drivers did not help either. After spending a day I fixed this by removing XConfig-4, and tweaking old config file. Tried installing Mandrake 8.1 later - still not good.
So now I type this on XP, sorry.
But if you have non-LCD monitor, you should be safe.
Why would you like to spend 5M on cracking smartcards?
It would be much cheaper to threaten smartcard's owner, and make him use it the way you want.
The simplest ways to crack network:
A. Use hammer to mount DoS attack.
B. Capture network's admin, and torture him until he gives out all passwords.
How you define 'immediately'?
Is one month that bug in zlib was hidden from public before being released 'immediately'?
Or 'immediately' only applies to Microsoft?
Why does this article appears under 'Patent pending' topic?
I doubt this. To make antimatter you need energy, and where do you get it in space?
Basically the only benefit of antimatter for space travel is that you can store large amount of energy (taken from Earth) in compact form.
If you already have an energy in space, why use it to create antimatter and then burn antimatter, when you can burn your original form of energy without losing it in the process of making antimatter?
> Interestingly, the article asserts that Microsoft have already given up on IIS, the proof being its absence in XP Home and its non-standard presence in XP Pro.
It is not installed by default in XP to avoid security risks associated with IIS. So users who don't use it, don't have to worry about installing security patches, administering it, etc. It is not about phasing out IIS, it is about mininizing security risks and exposure surface.
>Who are you referring to with that? Nazi propaganda on French radio? Not likely. Please explain yourself and perhaps give some examples and god forbid a link.
He is probably refering to US propaganda broadcast on shortwave radio to other counties (mainly former Soviet block, China etc). Most of those radios are still active now.
Links: http://www.svoboda.org/ - broadcasts US government propaganda to Russia right now. This radio was good during Soviet era, but now it is very dull. And actually free speech is protected much better in Russia. You can say a lot on Russian TV/Radio that you can never say in US - due to political correctness, DMCA, etc.
You will care when government start using those IDs for purposes other then stated. How many times FBI was spying for opposition parties by the order of US presidents? Heard stories about IRS employes selling individual's tax information?
Any power that is given to goverment will be abused some time, and this is the reason to avoid giving them this power.
Otherwise, you will end wearing video cameras that will record all you actions, movements and talks 24 hours a day, and passes them to gov. - just so that gov. agencies can be sure you did not commit any crime. Are you OK with that? Why, you are not a criminal, you have nothing to hide!
>It would also solve the problem of all these illegal workers stealing jobs from us, and living off of welfare and so on and so forth.
No, it would not. SSN is supposed to be THE card that prevents it, and is required to get the job, etc. However, it does not help for obvious reasons (because only legal workers use it, and but illegals find a job where it is not required). Another card would not help either. It will only help Big Brother to know what you buy, where you go, who you talk to, etc.
>I think we need a National ID card to fight terrorism, theres no other way to know whos a terrorist and who isnt.
So you think the terrorists will wait to receive an ID card, and ask to print "I am a terrorist" on it? National ID card is good to help FBI and the like to spy for locals (that is why it is "National"), but will fail short of helping fight terrorist.
> So I guess Russian sci-fi .. includes .. the freedom of uncensored thought?
No, that is more modern American sci-fi, the freedom of publishing uncensored thoughts without fearing CMDA, being politically incorrect, trademark violations, etc.
The classic must read are books by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the modern popular writer is Victor Pelevin.
There are people (like me) who like to listen to something that they did not know before, like new artist that I never heard of (so it is not in my MP3 collection), or an interesting opinion on NPR, so on. MP3 is just static set of data, you will never get anything new there. MP3 will never completely replace radio, it will only replace your CD-player.
>But what prevents Administrator from changing your password, and signing into your account to read your files? I suppose this leaves a trail... but still.
It would not work in W2k for domain users, and it would not work in WinXP for local user either. When you reset password of another user in XP, you are warned that the user will lose access to her sertificates, EFS files, etc.
And this is actually true, since sertificates are encripted with user's password. When you change password in regular way, sertificates are re-encripted. When resetting, it can't be done (no old password is available).
The difference between SOAP and old RPC protocols is its Request-Responce model, that is similar to HTTP. So Firewall can read a request, inspect it, send it to server, receive responce, and send it to client. You don't have any long open TCP connection, server can't send anything itself without explicit request, only one response to one request, so on. So it is easy for firewall to check this interaction, which was impossible with RPC.
Since this model is similar enough to HTTP, it makes sence to use port 80, because even simple firewalls that don't know anything about SOAP can do some work with SOAP firewalling.
That is idiotic idea, written by somebody who does not understand how SMP works. Compare datacenter with IBM's mods of Linux kernel that allows it to scale up better (as a result Linux with IBM's mods scales down bad). If you think all IBM did is changing couple of defines - go for it.
Datacenter goes beyond IBM's mods in that it customizes Windows for particular hardware. This does gives good performance, but has its disadvantages (see the original post)
You got the point: IRIX runs on a special hardware, that allows it to scale. If you want to scale that good on PC, you need special hardware support beyond standard chipsets. If you have specialized hardware, you get specialized code in Windows (or Linux, or whatever) that knows about that hardware and can utilize it. So you get a customized version of Windows.
IRIX runs on a single hardware design, so it is always customized for it.
On NT he creates a buffer with size equal to the total size of transmission data (up to hunderds Megs). He is actually mesuring the speed of paging to swap file, not speed of pipes.
What he had to do is create small buffer, like 64 Kbytes, or just like Linux's 4 Kb buffer, and work with it. This comparision has nothing to do with pipes, just with stupidity of some people.
What a shame for IBM, I've read some very good articles there, but this one is total crap.
Don't use command line for integration. VSS has a COM that is much more convinient to use. It is not perfect, but working.
Secure VM defines bytecodes and object operations in a way that it can easily verify. Any language that can compile down to these bytecodes and object operations is OK for this VM.
Restrictions of JVM bytecode make it impossible to compile C++ code to effective JVM-code. On the other hand, Java can be compiled down to these bytecodes (actually they were designed to work together). So while Java and JVM are distinct things, they are very related.
Pointer operations in C dictate completely different design for secure C/C++ VM. You can't trust any code in user space anymore, and you have to design VM similar to modern OS: trusted kernel + untrusted isolated user process. This will make its performance even more horrible than performance of Java.
He may persuade management by showing "customer satisfaction" numbers or numbers of technical support calls. If satistaction is dropping or number of techsupport calls grows rapidly, it is easy to persuade management that something should be done about this. In this case management will probably allocate more money to ensure good quality.
You moron.
Mir lasted on its orbit for 15 year. No wonder there were some failures during last couple of years, but do you have many stuff still working since 1986? Now imagine it operating in space conditions.
Mir deserves great respect and honor.
I think OEMs should put smth like "Produces 60 Quake frames per second at 1024x768 resolution".
This is the horsepower everybody interested in.
Who need magahertz'es?