I'm in agreement here. We've got a bunch of people running around trying to buy network security stuff and typically everytime they come up with something, it merely does what some other freely ported piece of software does.
And the Snort guys are working on your request, at least according to an older slashdot article.
In addition, Microsoft tends to release their patches in a fairly timely manner (there are exceptions, but for the most part they've slowed down their path release schedule because sys admins were getting overwhelmed with the weekly patch-test-roll to production-test-begin again cycle)
The majority of compromises are for already-released patches that people simply haven't applied to their machines. While it's Microsoft's fault that the bugs existed to begin with, there's really not much they can do to force these users to patch their boxes.
Raid 5 is good middle ground. Raid 5 stores 1 drive's worth of parity. When you lose a drive, your system goes down (if you don't have a hot spare), but you throw another disk in and it'll come back up
Actually, with any proper implementation of RAID 5 you wouldn't lose functionality during a single drive failure, but you would suffer a performance hit because every read would require the drive controller to reconstruct the missing data from the checksums.
Replace the bad drive very quickly, though, because a second drive failure will result in wiped drives, effectively.
winipcfg hasn't been around since WinME, and wasn't really used to do anything but show you the config.
fdisk is also no longer included with Windows and users haven't needed to use it since before Windows 95
netsh is new and very powerful, but the average user never needs to know it's there.
Truthfully, for everyday tasks, windows users need to know how to click the start button, find their program and save their documents to places they can remember them.
I have often wondered about this, is this a valid approach??
No.
By definition, a RAM disk is kept in RAM. Therefore, you'd be swapping out of RAM... into RAM. It's the same as if you would put a divider in a storage shed because you were running out of room. You can move stuff on either side of it, but in the end, you still only have a fixed amount of space.
Surely you can mark certain pages as "non-pagable," right? (I'm not a linux guru, so I really am interested in the answer to that question)
If so, set up about 256MB as non-pagable, run a ramdisk mounted as/swp, and go to town with 768MB left over in userspace.
Mine also reads DVD+R media just fine. Have you tried burning at a slower speed? some of the original media I got would coaster at 4x writes for xbox stuff. Dropping the speed down to 2x seemed to work fine, though getting better media (I now use TDK almost exclusively) seemed to really do the trick.
Yup, did that. It appears a plugin would need to be written. I'm basing this off Firefox 0.8 for Windows, where the relevant setting appears to be under Tools | Options | Downloads
Maybe so, but when I tried to open one in Firefox, it fired up a copy of IE.
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Well, Microsoft created a format that doesn't require tar and zip..mht files are complete webpages (images and all) bundled up at once so you can deliver them as a single file.
Combining that with bittorrent should be relatively easy.
Of course, you'll probably have to view the result in IE, as the mozilla project hasn't quite worked out.mht yet, I don't think.
Notes: Do not use SonicStage while logged on to a domain user account under Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition.
SonicStage should be installed while logged on to an account with administrator privileges.
So I can't be logged into a domain while using the software? so much for the "at-work" crowd.
The employees of the company are in the same situation as the company itself -- they're selling something that people just aren't willing to buy at the prices they need to ask in order to be profitable. The company's selling (for example) software, the employees are selling labor specific to that software.
The difference is that the employees are also customers. Maybe not for the company employing them, but they are consumers, nonetheless. Corporations as a whole need to take some responsibility for keeping the economy flowing. Outsourcing a job to another country hurts our tax base and our economy, but companies do it because it helps their immediate bottom line. If enough companies did it, we'd quickly be in a recession, and then everyone (corporations and consumers) would suffer.
When inventory control is good, and specifically when it will be good for Walmart and few other companies at the moment, the added profit will be pocketed by the company, not the consumer.
Until enough competing companies are benefitting from the reduced cost, then they should be trying to undercut the other guy again.
At least in the instance of RFID tags, I don't see this as being a particularly bad effect. It's a savings through efficiency.
The same thing tends to happen with off-shoring of labor, but that's a bad thing for the economy because it reduces costs by eliminating workers. It saves the first company money for a bit, until all their competitors are doing the same thing. And then when an entire industry has made it the norm, we'll see a lot of unemployed consumers.
As a person who only studies economics by being a consumer [and I may be totally wrong]
same here. Friday afternoon, armchair economics are fun.
This actually highlights one of the things that chafes my ass about piracy "damages:"
The assumption that every downloaded copy of a program or album is a lost sale.
When a college student downloads $50,000 worth of pirated software (which easily could be 40-50 programs depending on what he's grabbing) there's no way in hell he would have been able to buy them all, but the damages are based on full retail.
Because standardizing installation packages is a good thing. Especially if you have to install an app across a huge Windows webfarm. There's no reason _not_ to make this an open project, really.
Actually, I think the 3D FPS realm is one of the last places in commercial software where they ARE tweaking the code trying to eke out every little perfomrance gain they can. some of those engines are lovingly handcracfted.
That said, I always get a kick out of people who get the latest whiz bang graphics accelerator and then turn off all the special features when they go online to play.
I think there are sourceforge projects somewhere to enable this. but I've never explored them. The core idea is to have one "dumb" tivo with no guide data that can read the filesystem (through NFS or somesuch) of the "live" tivo and stream stuff off it's drive. Running more than one or two dumb tivos this way would probably cause performance problems for the live one.
Some quick googling turned up the O'Reilly tivo hacking book as well.
Telnet to the tivo, start TyServer. Launch the TyServer client on my windows machine. Select the shows I want. click "grab"
They are pulled down as seperate streams, one for audio, one for video. You can directly import these files into several DVD creation programs, that automatically recode them to the DVD spec, or you can edit the files with a program such as TMPEnc to remove commercials and such. Re-ecoding such files gets a bit tricky, I'm still trying to find the best parameters to fit about 4 hours of acceptable quality video onto a 4GB DVD-R
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I'm in agreement here. We've got a bunch of people running around trying to buy network security stuff and typically everytime they come up with something, it merely does what some other freely ported piece of software does.
And the Snort guys are working on your request, at least according to an older slashdot article.
In addition, Microsoft tends to release their patches in a fairly timely manner (there are exceptions, but for the most part they've slowed down their path release schedule because sys admins were getting overwhelmed with the weekly patch-test-roll to production-test-begin again cycle)
The majority of compromises are for already-released patches that people simply haven't applied to their machines. While it's Microsoft's fault that the bugs existed to begin with, there's really not much they can do to force these users to patch their boxes.
Raid 5 is good middle ground. Raid 5 stores 1 drive's worth of parity. When you lose a drive, your system goes down (if you don't have a hot spare), but you throw another disk in and it'll come back up
Actually, with any proper implementation of RAID 5 you wouldn't lose functionality during a single drive failure, but you would suffer a performance hit because every read would require the drive controller to reconstruct the missing data from the checksums.
Replace the bad drive very quickly, though, because a second drive failure will result in wiped drives, effectively.
If that's the case, then at least pick commands that are used commonly in the current version of Windows.
And given the number of commands in *nix that fail silently, I'm still going to question the validity of the error message statement.
Insightful? unlikely.
winipcfg hasn't been around since WinME, and wasn't really used to do anything but show you the config.
fdisk is also no longer included with Windows and users haven't needed to use it since before Windows 95
netsh is new and very powerful, but the average user never needs to know it's there.
Truthfully, for everyday tasks, windows users need to know how to click the start button, find their program and save their documents to places they can remember them.
You could make a big ramdisk and swap to that!
/swp, and go to town with 768MB left over in userspace.
I have often wondered about this, is this a valid approach??
No.
By definition, a RAM disk is kept in RAM. Therefore, you'd be swapping out of RAM... into RAM. It's the same as if you would put a divider in a storage shed because you were running out of room. You can move stuff on either side of it, but in the end, you still only have a fixed amount of space.
Surely you can mark certain pages as "non-pagable," right? (I'm not a linux guru, so I really am interested in the answer to that question)
If so, set up about 256MB as non-pagable, run a ramdisk mounted as
Higher, but not taller. The French one has enormous... um... pillars.
KEKEKE
You said NO ZERG RUSH 5 MIN!
^_^
Come to Virginia. We tax everything. (sigh)
Mine also reads DVD+R media just fine. Have you tried burning at a slower speed? some of the original media I got would coaster at 4x writes for xbox stuff. Dropping the speed down to 2x seemed to work fine, though getting better media (I now use TDK almost exclusively) seemed to really do the trick.
Yup, did that. It appears a plugin would need to be written. I'm basing this off Firefox 0.8 for Windows, where the relevant setting appears to be under Tools | Options | Downloads
Maybe so, but when I tried to open one in Firefox, it fired up a copy of IE.
Well, Microsoft created a format that doesn't require tar and zip. .mht files are complete webpages (images and all) bundled up at once so you can deliver them as a single file.
.mht yet, I don't think.
Combining that with bittorrent should be relatively easy.
Of course, you'll probably have to view the result in IE, as the mozilla project hasn't quite worked out
Notes:
Do not use SonicStage while logged on to a domain user account under Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition.
SonicStage should be installed while logged on to an account with administrator privileges.
So I can't be logged into a domain while using the software? so much for the "at-work" crowd.
The employees of the company are in the same situation as the company itself -- they're selling something that people just aren't willing to buy at the prices they need to ask in order to be profitable. The company's selling (for example) software, the employees are selling labor specific to that software.
The difference is that the employees are also customers. Maybe not for the company employing them, but they are consumers, nonetheless. Corporations as a whole need to take some responsibility for keeping the economy flowing. Outsourcing a job to another country hurts our tax base and our economy, but companies do it because it helps their immediate bottom line. If enough companies did it, we'd quickly be in a recession, and then everyone (corporations and consumers) would suffer.
When inventory control is good, and specifically when it will be good for Walmart and few other companies at the moment, the added profit will be pocketed by the company, not the consumer.
Until enough competing companies are benefitting from the reduced cost, then they should be trying to undercut the other guy again.
At least in the instance of RFID tags, I don't see this as being a particularly bad effect. It's a savings through efficiency.
The same thing tends to happen with off-shoring of labor, but that's a bad thing for the economy because it reduces costs by eliminating workers. It saves the first company money for a bit, until all their competitors are doing the same thing. And then when an entire industry has made it the norm, we'll see a lot of unemployed consumers.
As a person who only studies economics by being a consumer [and I may be totally wrong]
same here. Friday afternoon, armchair economics are fun.
This actually highlights one of the things that chafes my ass about piracy "damages:"
The assumption that every downloaded copy of a program or album is a lost sale.
When a college student downloads $50,000 worth of pirated software (which easily could be 40-50 programs depending on what he's grabbing) there's no way in hell he would have been able to buy them all, but the damages are based on full retail.
Because standardizing installation packages is a good thing. Especially if you have to install an app across a huge Windows webfarm. There's no reason _not_ to make this an open project, really.
Nono, but the one above it was...
Unless your posting was sarcastic, too.
Where's that damned tag?
Slashdot really needs a tag
Actually, I think the 3D FPS realm is one of the last places in commercial software where they ARE tweaking the code trying to eke out every little perfomrance gain they can. some of those engines are lovingly handcracfted.
That said, I always get a kick out of people who get the latest whiz bang graphics accelerator and then turn off all the special features when they go online to play.
Actually, Google's v2 toolbar for IE DOES allow you to do that. It's quite nice.
I think there are sourceforge projects somewhere to enable this. but I've never explored them. The core idea is to have one "dumb" tivo with no guide data that can read the filesystem (through NFS or somesuch) of the "live" tivo and stream stuff off it's drive. Running more than one or two dumb tivos this way would probably cause performance problems for the live one.
Some quick googling turned up the O'Reilly tivo hacking book as well.
My experience is solely with a Series 1 Sony SVR-2000. I've helped two friends mod the same equipment. Never done a Series 2 yet.
Here's what I do to rip tv shows off my tivo:
Telnet to the tivo, start TyServer.
Launch the TyServer client on my windows machine.
Select the shows I want. click "grab"
They are pulled down as seperate streams, one for audio, one for video. You can directly import these files into several DVD creation programs, that automatically recode them to the DVD spec, or you can edit the files with a program such as TMPEnc to remove commercials and such. Re-ecoding such files gets a bit tricky, I'm still trying to find the best parameters to fit about 4 hours of acceptable quality video onto a 4GB DVD-R