The exploit apparently allows an attacker to disconnect TCP sessions, so really home users won't have much to fear except perhaps to get more trouble connecting to their various sites than usual, and that is in case they would be under active attack.
Service providers on the other hands, must protect their routers because the BGP protocol used to distribute Internet routes between them, massively uses TCP. And when routes go missing, it is hundreds if not thousands of routes to your favourite places that go unreacheable.
The problem in the case of BGP is made worse by dampening, i.e. keeping the flapping routes out of the routing table for a certain amount of time (up to several hours). BGP routes dampening is not always configured. A determined attacker with this knowlege would be able to knock large portions of the Internet offline for hours.
I'll second that. Mozilla has the same problems so it could be in all Gecko derivatives and not just in Fox.. Sometimes, amazingly, reloading the page makes the problem less obvious.
Domotics in other words. Perhaps I'm way off but this is what the phrase makes me think of. I can't really figure why they've added "computing", but the utilities are pretty clear in that sense.
Funny I was going to quote the exact same paragraph.
I've got some 5000+ family photographs (and obligatory pr0n stashed away but that doesn't count;) and I have yet to find of an easy, quick & efficient way of indexing everything.
Often I find myself looking for a particular photograph which I remember well, but just browsing directory after directories of thumbnails, not really looking at any in the end, is just a superb waste of time and of course I seldom find what I'm looking for, of after several minutes and a peak of stress.
So this in the end is just a glorified but poor quality digital camera hanging at your neck (no thanks) snapping rubbish all day long. Wow... And to speak more about my indexing problem, unless the device user was prompted some vocal comments about every picture (or to type in keywords) then I hardly see how this will enable her to remember obscure colleague or bottle of wine. and EVEN IF they did so, they won't be inputing the correct ones, would they ? Or they'll smash the thing to pieces after 10 minutes of intense interrupting while prompting for keywords.
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I think the words you're looking for are Beagle 2.
We saw (or rather not) what happened when the lander crashed on Mars. Seriously, what did they expect;)
Skype is awesome. I've got two PCs on DSL at home: one behind a NAT router but otherwise directly connecting ont othe Internet, and another one first plugging into a VPN box to work, from there it goes out the Corporate firewall, such that both PCs are visible from the outside.
I've had my dad call from Africa, and chatted with friend in the USA (I'm in Europe myself) and everyone was baffled at how good the quality was. On a moderate to fast link (128K or higher) one can easilly achieve true full-duplex, decent quality audio. And that's with a cheap Creative mic and my PC speakers. A headset makes sound even better, but the basic quality is already so good that the improvement is hardly noticeable.
a virus which attacks the SCO website may well have been written by someone with a grudge against SCO, ie. 100% of Linux users.
Great troll. And yes indeed, 100% linux zealots might belong to the set of people angry at SCO. But the set of people angry at SCO (superset) is much greater than just the Linux zealots (subset). From Maths-101 !
Hey I was going frenetically thorugh the list, searching for TA... Not 10tjh, not 9th, and so on. I was already thinking, "how could they NOT include TA in the top 10" until I finally clicked o nthe last link almost in desperation.... and there it was !!!!
I don't know if I would have ra,ked it 1str, because the others listed in there are serious competition. but it's cool to see my best game ever as #1 ! For once things go my way, heh:) Some of you must know the feeling..
TA and extension packs (TA:CC, TA:BT) are the last games that I bought, and I still have them installed on my current computer, 2 generations later. I'm still playing it occasionnally, although not quite as much as I was in '97/98 !
The timing of this article couldn't be more unfortunate as I just installed Skype... Well, I'm grabbin' it and keepin' my copy safe just in case:) Who knows, free* P2P telephony might be the next app on the radar ?!
I wrote my own experience with IP over 1394 some time ago, you can read it here. It's working just fine on my case, slightly better than FastEthernet with ~150Mbits/s practical transfer rates, but not quite as good as GigabitEthernet. If you have a couple of Macs with built-in GigabitEthernet, then you'll be better off plugging a crossover Ethernet cable (Cat6 for Gigabit) between them, configure IP, and enjoy even greater speed.
I got about 50 sent to various mailing lists, very few to my email address. This was in the first 4h of the outbreak, because since then our IT dept has implemented the extra signature on the email gateway to detect & strip off the virus and I haven't seen a single one.
However I now get notification failures and bounces of people whom must have received the virus with a forged sender address (mine).
Yeah, good analogy. Going through the SLT article reminded me of the Iraqi Information Minister..... Same kind of FUD and empty threats. Do you believe any of it ? I know I don't.
Frankly, the Ultra 5 was a hunk of junk even on release.
Aha, you must be one of these Sun sysadmin elite described in the article...:) Choice quotes below:
As a result, the Ultra 5 was the target of much derision by more refined Sun system admins. "IDE? Well I never!"
Despite increasingly clever derogatory puns (such as "hung like an IDE bus untarring a file") by the Sun sysadmin elite, the Ultra 5 was a huge success.
Support parent post ! To rephrase, being listed in SPEWS should provide ISPs with a good incentive to do something about the problem (not allow spammers in the first place). I know I wouldn't want to be hosted by or near one of these guys, because who knows what can happen next.
Plus, SPEWS doesn't block anyone. SPEWS provide listing of IP addresses ranges used by spam operations. It is then under the reponsibility of the individual email admins to either implement and enforce the blocks, or not. Many don't, some do, very few implement Level2 so what's the big deal here ?
In other words still, people criticizing SPEWS for their admirable efforts should go back and do their homework... Yes SPEWS is like squashing a fly with a sledgehammer, but when I do 50 a day I'm quite happy to have big guns.
Well I don't mean to be flamebait, this happened at a major bank's headquarters in Los Angeles. I didn't understand either why the security staff enforced this policy which seemed moronic; so it struck me as odd, that's all.
I must admit that I never had other problems elsewhere in LA during my 2-weeks stay, so that could have been an isolated case.
I was on business trip to the USA a few years ago and being early at my customer's, I chose to park the rental car in reverse into the parking slot, thus thinking "ready to leave".
As soon as I was done and ready to leave, I had one security guard on my tail who told me that I wasn't allowed to park in reverse. I didn't understand why I was being challenged at first, since this policy was indicated nowhere. The guard answered that if other drivers saw my car parked in reverse, they might attempt to do the same and that would create problems. [he didn't elaborate further]. On this I stopped arguing and turned the car around...
It struck me that something like this could only happen in the USA ! In europe people generally don't give a damn how you park, as long as you're not blocking somebody's driveway or garage.
This superb 21" CRT monitor is "only" 6 years old... But with an average of 10-hours/day of use, the display is still as bright & crisp today as it was back on the first day I got it. These were surely the best 2500 German Marks I have ever spent on computer hardware. I cannot praise Iiyma enough for the monitors they are manufacturing !!@
Waking up in the morning is a matter of self-control !
To help to the task, my old Nokia 6150 was very loud for the bell volume when used as alarm clck. Its rings gradually got louder until really loud and annoying. My current 6310i isn't quite as loud, which is a pity.
The trick is to keep the phone sufficiently close to the bed that it will bother you enormously if you don't stop it, but far enough that you can't just extend your arm and turn it off without having to get up first. One person's desk (if in the bedroom) is a good place to be. Once up, don't even _think_ about your bed anymore.. instead, forceyourself to navigate to the shower while in radar/semi-sleep mode.
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Service providers on the other hands, must protect their routers because the BGP protocol used to distribute Internet routes between them, massively uses TCP. And when routes go missing, it is hundreds if not thousands of routes to your favourite places that go unreacheable.
The problem in the case of BGP is made worse by dampening, i.e. keeping the flapping routes out of the routing table for a certain amount of time (up to several hours). BGP routes dampening is not always configured. A determined attacker with this knowlege would be able to knock large portions of the Internet offline for hours.
I'll second that. Mozilla has the same problems so it could be in all Gecko derivatives and not just in Fox.. Sometimes, amazingly, reloading the page makes the problem less obvious.
Domotics in other words. Perhaps I'm way off but this is what the phrase makes me think of. I can't really figure why they've added "computing", but the utilities are pretty clear in that sense.
cheers...
I've got some 5000+ family photographs (and obligatory pr0n stashed away but that doesn't count ;) and I have yet to find of an easy, quick & efficient way of indexing everything.
Often I find myself looking for a particular photograph which I remember well, but just browsing directory after directories of thumbnails, not really looking at any in the end, is just a superb waste of time and of course I seldom find what I'm looking for, of after several minutes and a peak of stress.
So this in the end is just a glorified but poor quality digital camera hanging at your neck (no thanks) snapping rubbish all day long. Wow... And to speak more about my indexing problem, unless the device user was prompted some vocal comments about every picture (or to type in keywords) then I hardly see how this will enable her to remember obscure colleague or bottle of wine. and EVEN IF they did so, they won't be inputing the correct ones, would they ? Or they'll smash the thing to pieces after 10 minutes of intense interrupting while prompting for keywords.
We saw (or rather not) what happened when the lander crashed on Mars. Seriously, what did they expect ;)
I misread the title at first and thought to myself, "Don't Mess With the Money; how appropriate coming from Peter Jackson and co." =)
"Future of Phones. An in-depth overview of IP Telephony and WiFi phones, and how this technology will revolutionize the office and our lives."
I've had my dad call from Africa, and chatted with friend in the USA (I'm in Europe myself) and everyone was baffled at how good the quality was. On a moderate to fast link (128K or higher) one can easilly achieve true full-duplex, decent quality audio. And that's with a cheap Creative mic and my PC speakers. A headset makes sound even better, but the basic quality is already so good that the improvement is hardly noticeable.
Yay for P2P thru NAT and firewalls !
Great troll. And yes indeed, 100% linux zealots might belong to the set of people angry at SCO. But the set of people angry at SCO (superset) is much greater than just the Linux zealots (subset). From Maths-101 !
I don't know if I would have ra,ked it 1str, because the others listed in there are serious competition. but it's cool to see my best game ever as #1 ! For once things go my way, heh :) Some of you must know the feeling..
TA and extension packs (TA:CC, TA:BT) are the last games that I bought, and I still have them installed on my current computer, 2 generations later. I'm still playing it occasionnally, although not quite as much as I was in '97/98 !
*free as in Beer
I wrote my own experience with IP over 1394 some time ago, you can read it here. It's working just fine on my case, slightly better than FastEthernet with ~150Mbits/s practical transfer rates, but not quite as good as GigabitEthernet. If you have a couple of Macs with built-in GigabitEthernet, then you'll be better off plugging a crossover Ethernet cable (Cat6 for Gigabit) between them, configure IP, and enjoy even greater speed.
However I now get notification failures and bounces of people whom must have received the virus with a forged sender address (mine).
Yeah, good analogy. Going through the SLT article reminded me of the Iraqi Information Minister..... Same kind of FUD and empty threats. Do you believe any of it ? I know I don't.
Aha, you must be one of these Sun sysadmin elite described in the article...:) Choice quotes below:
As a result, the Ultra 5 was the target of much derision by more refined Sun system admins. "IDE? Well I never!"
Despite increasingly clever derogatory puns (such as "hung like an IDE bus untarring a file") by the Sun sysadmin elite, the Ultra 5 was a huge success.
Plus, SPEWS doesn't block anyone. SPEWS provide listing of IP addresses ranges used by spam operations. It is then under the reponsibility of the individual email admins to either implement and enforce the blocks, or not. Many don't, some do, very few implement Level2 so what's the big deal here ?
In other words still, people criticizing SPEWS for their admirable efforts should go back and do their homework... Yes SPEWS is like squashing a fly with a sledgehammer, but when I do 50 a day I'm quite happy to have big guns.
I must admit that I never had other problems elsewhere in LA during my 2-weeks stay, so that could have been an isolated case.
Don't know about you, but I praise power steering every day :)
As soon as I was done and ready to leave, I had one security guard on my tail who told me that I wasn't allowed to park in reverse. I didn't understand why I was being challenged at first, since this policy was indicated nowhere. The guard answered that if other drivers saw my car parked in reverse, they might attempt to do the same and that would create problems. [he didn't elaborate further]. On this I stopped arguing and turned the car around...
It struck me that something like this could only happen in the USA ! In europe people generally don't give a damn how you park, as long as you're not blocking somebody's driveway or garage.
This superb 21" CRT monitor is "only" 6 years old... But with an average of 10-hours/day of use, the display is still as bright & crisp today as it was back on the first day I got it. These were surely the best 2500 German Marks I have ever spent on computer hardware. I cannot praise Iiyma enough for the monitors they are manufacturing !!@
As far as they are concerned with choice, it is a very one-sided thing....
Robert Brewster (the character) in T3
Here. The version free for non-commercial use is no longer available, though (pity!)
To help to the task, my old Nokia 6150 was very loud for the bell volume when used as alarm clck. Its rings gradually got louder until really loud and annoying. My current 6310i isn't quite as loud, which is a pity.
The trick is to keep the phone sufficiently close to the bed that it will bother you enormously if you don't stop it, but far enough that you can't just extend your arm and turn it off without having to get up first. One person's desk (if in the bedroom) is a good place to be. Once up, don't even _think_ about your bed anymore.. instead, forceyourself to navigate to the shower while in radar/semi-sleep mode.