XBox 360 is windows based and running on a PowerPC variant.
Let me know when you can go to the store and pick up a copy of that OS.
Oh and lets not forget that Windows NT4.0 was available on RISC, Alpha, PPC.
Let me know when you can put Windows XP on a box running one of those chips.
And we could go on with Windows Embedded technologies that are also running Windows NT or a variant on everything from Network switches to Cable Boxes.
Let me know when you can purchase any of those OS'es without the associated hardware.
The whole point of this article is how well you can run Windows XP or 2k3 (i.e., the *currently available* versions of Windows, not the old stuff) on legacy hardware.
Yeah, here's the thing: My computer doesn't directly connect to the internet. My router does and hands out IP addresses to the computers in my household (which aren't all solely used by me).
Yeah, but your router, which needs to connect to an ISP that uses TPM, will be required to have TPM support built in (time for a router upgrade). Therefore, your router will require that all machines that connect to it support TPM.
I have you beat. I can find 6 halfway-decent stations for my car radio. Granted, one of them is from Orlando (comes through in many areas of Tampa), and two of the others have been known to play the exact same (often overplayed) song at the exact same time...
Fuddruckers can sue. They have damages. This guy went out of his way to cause as much harm to Fuddruckers as he could. This guy knew about the "theft" and he did nothing, he waited for a three day weekend to show how smart he was, how he out-smarted a big company. Boo-hoo.
On what grounds can Fuddruckers sue? There was no legal agreement between Fuddruckers and Briggster.com to provide access to an online flash game. Fuddruckers put themselves at risk by presenting material that appeared to be their own without a disclaimer saying that the content is hosted externally and not under their control. Nobody is required to guarantee that a piece of information hosted on a web site is always guaranteed to be there.
Show me the RFC that says that I can't filter postmaster... Oh that's right, it doesn't exist. I just need to HAVE a postmaster addresss.
Due to spammer activity, I filter postmaster too, but my rejection message give a pointer to a web page that has an ALTERNATIVE address that is not filtered.
Section 3.6
...snip...
While some systems also identify their contact point for mail problems, this is not a substitute for maintaining the required "postmaster" address (see section 4.5.1).
Section 4.5.1
...snip...
The reserved mailbox name "postmaster" may be used in a RCPT command without domain qualification (see section 4.1.1.3) and MUST be accepted if so used.
Don't be obtuse. You put the power stations where the requirement for heat and electricity is. i.e. locally.
In many parts of rural USA, 200 miles is considered "local". And in other cases, it is not feasable to build a power plant "locally" due to geographical limitations. Try putting a bunch of power plants in the middle of a mountain range. Besides, it will cost less to run the power in over transmission lines from a larger plant far away than to build a bunch of 50MW power plants (do they come that small?) to handle a small city. Also, Hoover Dam generates 2GW of power and sends most of it to Los Angeles over 250 miles away. (Try calculating the power losses on that much cable.) There is no point of building a hydro plant of that size in that part of the country without sending it hundreds of miles away because there just aren't enough people anywhere near it that need that much power.
*Lossy* infrastructure? It's *WASTE* heat. You're pumping this waste heat into rivers, the oceans and the atmosphere *right* now! Anything which is used is saved energy.
This does not cover how to recover power lost from transmission lines that are hundreds of miles long.
Who mentioned coal? Coal's just one of the fuels used excruciatingly inefficiently, even nuclear power is only 40% efficient. Hell, coal can even be turned into gas if necessary and the gas can be pumped directly to homes to fire central heating.
This assumes that the homes are within a short enough distance from the power plants for this to be economical, which in the USA, will most likely not be the case.
It's called the bus, and it can go just about anywhere the car can go.
Again, not in the USA. The mass transit comparisons between the USA and Europe come up all the time, even though the layout of the USA is nothing like the layout of any country in Europe. The USA is not "built" with mass transit in mind. The country is way too large to build a mass transit system that can effectively serve the entire population. Many areas don't have sufficient population density to support it. Mass transit is only really effective here in the largest metropolitan areas. In medium sized metros it exists, but service is usually so spread out and inconsistent that it is almost unuseable. (Buses and trains do *not* go everywhere.) Many small metro areas (and all rural areas) don't even have any mass transit at all, and not everyone can travel 50 miles a day on a bicycle.
Just turn off javascript in the browser you use. If a site requires javascript then don't go there.
That is not a viable option. 95% of the sites I (and almost every other web user) visit use javascript in some way, shape, or form. I don't want to take the mindset of "Flash is evil, images are a waste of bandwidth, java is pathetic (even though it is, but that's beside the point). The Internet is full of crap so I should just use Lynx." I like to see things other than plain text and images. I can deal with a couple of pop-up ads here and there until the next version of Firefox comes out.
That's what I get for posting after being up all night working...
Well, a couple of my points still apply. Such as the fact that a server owner may or may not be aware of the content hosted on their customers' web sites until after their box has been flooded off the Internet. I actually read through the site to see how it works, but right now one of the links (from the FAQ page) that lists their targets is 404'ed at the moment. The other one (which is also showing PHP errors) lists over 2000 taken down, but given the ease of which a new domain name could be acquired, redesigned, and pushed online, this appears to only be a stopgap measure anyway.
Of course, this will have no real impact on taking down phishing sites. The people that set up most phishing sites follow these simple steps:
1) Find a vulnerable server and root it, or get just enough access (through something like a phpBB exploit) to upload a phishing site to the right directory. They will end up with a URL that probably looks like "http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/online/wamu.html". Phishing sites don't bother with mundane details like DNS or domains (waste of time and energy) because the URL will be conviently hidden with javascript by your favorite HTML email client anyway.
2) Repeat the above step as often as you like to have a "cluster" of phishing sites.
3) Send out tons of spam advertising the phishing sites, randomly picking one of the above URLs to use for the login page.
4) By the time the phishing sites are detected, reported, and disabled (could be as long as a week or two or four), hundreds of people could have attempted to log into each of the fake login sites.
5) In most cases, the owner of the server being used for the phishing site is completely oblivious of the phishing site. (The rest of their web sites are working fine, so why should they be aware of any problems?) DDoS'ing them will only attack a confused victim.
People are not going to buy longhorn if they need to buy a graphics card too. They will look for something else and find linux!
People are not going to flock to linux on the basis of a video card being slow. (That is the kind of migration that would be based on principles more than convenience, and most people don't care about principles when it comes to computers.) They expect some things to be slower, and if a new video card is the only thing that they have to change, then they will just go down the street to the nearest Best Buy/CompUSA/Circuit City/WalMart and get one. It is a lot easier than trying to learn how to install linux, then learn how to use linux, then learn how to install (equivalent) software that they were using in Windows, then learn how to copy their data over from Windows, then learn how to update linux, especially since they will not know where to get help doing all of that.
I really fail to see how this will be useful, and help productivity. Personally, i dont think an operating system needs to be that fancy. Just like those who use the console now, "back in my day, we had to use 2d interfaces"
Then you are not in their target market, and therefore you are unimportant to them. The people that will want to run Longhorn will be people who be excited about the new pretty interface. It doesn't matter if it improves productivity or not. People still pay money for software that is actually slower and more cumbersome than what they already have (i.e., each new version of MS Office) just because it is the "new" version. And those are the people that are willing to send Microsoft lots of money. Those are the only people that they are concerned with.
Actually the "Monster $OBJECT" shows are on Discovery - along with many "American $OBJECT" shows.
You are forgetting about Double Agents... Where rich people debate whether or not a 5 bedroom house is big enough for them, their two children, and their dog...
I'm no elevator engineer, but as far as I recall, more complex elevators do know (for example) "It's 9am - when I'm doing nothing I'd be best served by going to the bottom of the building, since people are going to be arriving."
Well, if the clock fails, then all will happen is that people have to wait an extra minute or two for an elevator. As long as the elevator doesn't fall down the shaft, everything will be okay.
you could always use your time on public transport productively. Got a laptop? Read Books? listen to talking books, even?
You must not have had to ride on older buses that run on low quality roads. Many cities have roads that are in varying states of disrepair, and have buses that are in less than perfect condition. That combination would make it fairly difficult to type on a small laptop keyboard or follow small text in a book.
Besides, a hundred thousand messages is still only about a hundred megabytes worth of messages, or two hundred megs, which is a drop in the bucket on a real server
You must have missed the part where the parent poster said "shared hosting". Many shared hosting providers don't like for you to keep *any* mail on their mail servers. They want you to download it as often as possible. And to make sure you do that, you sometimes only get around a 50MB (or less) quota. If he had the time, patience, and skill to run his own server, then there would be no issues with disk space.
you do realise that this lycos operation is really mostly just increasing costs on normal isp's, who won't even probably be able to bill the actual spammers for the bandwith in the first place
There are some hosting providers that only bill on outgoing bandwidth, so incoming connections can't be billed. Many of the providers that host these spammers have ton's of available incoming bandwith anyway, so it is possible that nobody will even notice the floods. Also, if a spam outfit has a dedicated line and are nowhere near their incoming bandwith limits, then there is very little that can affect them short of an all out DDOS.
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I believe that it might be 6. However, to be fair, it really is more like 4 + 2, but they are all talking about the same thing.
XBox 360 is windows based and running on a PowerPC variant.
Let me know when you can go to the store and pick up a copy of that OS.
Oh and lets not forget that Windows NT4.0 was available on RISC, Alpha, PPC.
Let me know when you can put Windows XP on a box running one of those chips.
And we could go on with Windows Embedded technologies that are also running Windows NT or a variant on everything from Network switches to Cable Boxes.
Let me know when you can purchase any of those OS'es without the associated hardware.
The whole point of this article is how well you can run Windows XP or 2k3 (i.e., the *currently available* versions of Windows, not the old stuff) on legacy hardware.
Maybe they think people really are that stupid. :-/
Well, in many cases, yes, people really are that stupid.
Yeah, here's the thing: My computer doesn't directly connect to the internet. My router does and hands out IP addresses to the computers in my household (which aren't all solely used by me).
Yeah, but your router, which needs to connect to an ISP that uses TPM, will be required to have TPM support built in (time for a router upgrade). Therefore, your router will require that all machines that connect to it support TPM.
No more running server from that old p166 lying around.
You mean "no more running server from that old P4 2.8GHz lying around."
Strangely, you can get Xine (and Mplayer I hear but its code is for sh*t) to play WMV just fine.
Try playing a DRM-locked WMV file on anything other than the latest version of Windows Media Player.
I have you beat. I can find 6 halfway-decent stations for my car radio. Granted, one of them is from Orlando (comes through in many areas of Tampa), and two of the others have been known to play the exact same (often overplayed) song at the exact same time...
Fuddruckers can sue. They have damages. This guy went out of his way to cause as much harm to Fuddruckers as he could. This guy knew about the "theft" and he did nothing, he waited for a three day weekend to show how smart he was, how he out-smarted a big company. Boo-hoo.
On what grounds can Fuddruckers sue? There was no legal agreement between Fuddruckers and Briggster.com to provide access to an online flash game. Fuddruckers put themselves at risk by presenting material that appeared to be their own without a disclaimer saying that the content is hosted externally and not under their control. Nobody is required to guarantee that a piece of information hosted on a web site is always guaranteed to be there.
"As soon as you make something idiot-proof, the world builds a better idiot."
Sorry, all that was copied from RFC 2821.
Show me the RFC that says that I can't filter postmaster... Oh that's right, it doesn't exist. I just need to HAVE a postmaster addresss.
...snip...
...snip...
Due to spammer activity, I filter postmaster too, but my rejection message give a pointer to a web page that has an ALTERNATIVE address that is not filtered.
Section 3.6
While some systems also identify their contact point for mail problems, this is not a substitute for maintaining the required "postmaster" address (see section 4.5.1).
Section 4.5.1
The reserved mailbox name "postmaster" may be used in a RCPT command without domain qualification (see section 4.1.1.3) and MUST be accepted if so used.
So, instead of just not reading the article, I am also refusing to read the summary before posting. :)
Don't be obtuse. You put the power stations where the requirement for heat and electricity is. i.e. locally.
In many parts of rural USA, 200 miles is considered "local". And in other cases, it is not feasable to build a power plant "locally" due to geographical limitations. Try putting a bunch of power plants in the middle of a mountain range. Besides, it will cost less to run the power in over transmission lines from a larger plant far away than to build a bunch of 50MW power plants (do they come that small?) to handle a small city. Also, Hoover Dam generates 2GW of power and sends most of it to Los Angeles over 250 miles away. (Try calculating the power losses on that much cable.) There is no point of building a hydro plant of that size in that part of the country without sending it hundreds of miles away because there just aren't enough people anywhere near it that need that much power.
*Lossy* infrastructure? It's *WASTE* heat. You're pumping this waste heat into rivers, the oceans and the atmosphere *right* now! Anything which is used is saved energy.
This does not cover how to recover power lost from transmission lines that are hundreds of miles long.
Who mentioned coal? Coal's just one of the fuels used excruciatingly inefficiently, even nuclear power is only 40% efficient. Hell, coal can even be turned into gas if necessary and the gas can be pumped directly to homes to fire central heating.
This assumes that the homes are within a short enough distance from the power plants for this to be economical, which in the USA, will most likely not be the case.
It's called the bus, and it can go just about anywhere the car can go.
Again, not in the USA. The mass transit comparisons between the USA and Europe come up all the time, even though the layout of the USA is nothing like the layout of any country in Europe. The USA is not "built" with mass transit in mind. The country is way too large to build a mass transit system that can effectively serve the entire population. Many areas don't have sufficient population density to support it. Mass transit is only really effective here in the largest metropolitan areas. In medium sized metros it exists, but service is usually so spread out and inconsistent that it is almost unuseable. (Buses and trains do *not* go everywhere.) Many small metro areas (and all rural areas) don't even have any mass transit at all, and not everyone can travel 50 miles a day on a bicycle.
Why would a cell phone company be silly enough to offer you a plan that could possibly prevent them from charging you more money?
Just turn off javascript in the browser you use. If a site requires javascript then don't go there.
That is not a viable option. 95% of the sites I (and almost every other web user) visit use javascript in some way, shape, or form. I don't want to take the mindset of "Flash is evil, images are a waste of bandwidth, java is pathetic (even though it is, but that's beside the point). The Internet is full of crap so I should just use Lynx." I like to see things other than plain text and images. I can deal with a couple of pop-up ads here and there until the next version of Firefox comes out.
How about someone sits them down and explains what would happen to the web if everyone had this policy?
Typical PHB response:
"Screw wha the rest of the Internet thinks, this is our web site!"
That's what I get for posting after being up all night working...
Well, a couple of my points still apply. Such as the fact that a server owner may or may not be aware of the content hosted on their customers' web sites until after their box has been flooded off the Internet. I actually read through the site to see how it works, but right now one of the links (from the FAQ page) that lists their targets is 404'ed at the moment. The other one (which is also showing PHP errors) lists over 2000 taken down, but given the ease of which a new domain name could be acquired, redesigned, and pushed online, this appears to only be a stopgap measure anyway.
Of course, this will have no real impact on taking down phishing sites. The people that set up most phishing sites follow these simple steps:
1) Find a vulnerable server and root it, or get just enough access (through something like a phpBB exploit) to upload a phishing site to the right directory. They will end up with a URL that probably looks like "http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/online/wamu.html". Phishing sites don't bother with mundane details like DNS or domains (waste of time and energy) because the URL will be conviently hidden with javascript by your favorite HTML email client anyway.
2) Repeat the above step as often as you like to have a "cluster" of phishing sites.
3) Send out tons of spam advertising the phishing sites, randomly picking one of the above URLs to use for the login page.
4) By the time the phishing sites are detected, reported, and disabled (could be as long as a week or two or four), hundreds of people could have attempted to log into each of the fake login sites.
5) In most cases, the owner of the server being used for the phishing site is completely oblivious of the phishing site. (The rest of their web sites are working fine, so why should they be aware of any problems?) DDoS'ing them will only attack a confused victim.
People are not going to buy longhorn if they need to buy a graphics card too. They will look for something else and find linux!
People are not going to flock to linux on the basis of a video card being slow. (That is the kind of migration that would be based on principles more than convenience, and most people don't care about principles when it comes to computers.) They expect some things to be slower, and if a new video card is the only thing that they have to change, then they will just go down the street to the nearest Best Buy/CompUSA/Circuit City/WalMart and get one. It is a lot easier than trying to learn how to install linux, then learn how to use linux, then learn how to install (equivalent) software that they were using in Windows, then learn how to copy their data over from Windows, then learn how to update linux, especially since they will not know where to get help doing all of that.
I really fail to see how this will be useful, and help productivity. Personally, i dont think an operating system needs to be that fancy. Just like those who use the console now, "back in my day, we had to use 2d interfaces"
Then you are not in their target market, and therefore you are unimportant to them. The people that will want to run Longhorn will be people who be excited about the new pretty interface. It doesn't matter if it improves productivity or not. People still pay money for software that is actually slower and more cumbersome than what they already have (i.e., each new version of MS Office) just because it is the "new" version. And those are the people that are willing to send Microsoft lots of money. Those are the only people that they are concerned with.
Actually the "Monster $OBJECT" shows are on Discovery - along with many "American $OBJECT" shows.
You are forgetting about Double Agents... Where rich people debate whether or not a 5 bedroom house is big enough for them, their two children, and their dog...
I'm no elevator engineer, but as far as I recall, more complex elevators do know (for example) "It's 9am - when I'm doing nothing I'd be best served by going to the bottom of the building, since people are going to be arriving."
Well, if the clock fails, then all will happen is that people have to wait an extra minute or two for an elevator. As long as the elevator doesn't fall down the shaft, everything will be okay.
you could always use your time on public transport productively. Got a laptop? Read Books? listen to talking books, even?
You must not have had to ride on older buses that run on low quality roads. Many cities have roads that are in varying states of disrepair, and have buses that are in less than perfect condition. That combination would make it fairly difficult to type on a small laptop keyboard or follow small text in a book.
Besides, a hundred thousand messages is still only about a hundred megabytes worth of messages, or two hundred megs, which is a drop in the bucket on a real server
You must have missed the part where the parent poster said "shared hosting". Many shared hosting providers don't like for you to keep *any* mail on their mail servers. They want you to download it as often as possible. And to make sure you do that, you sometimes only get around a 50MB (or less) quota. If he had the time, patience, and skill to run his own server, then there would be no issues with disk space.
you do realise that this lycos operation is really mostly just increasing costs on normal isp's, who won't even probably be able to bill the actual spammers for the bandwith in the first place
There are some hosting providers that only bill on outgoing bandwidth, so incoming connections can't be billed. Many of the providers that host these spammers have ton's of available incoming bandwith anyway, so it is possible that nobody will even notice the floods. Also, if a spam outfit has a dedicated line and are nowhere near their incoming bandwith limits, then there is very little that can affect them short of an all out DDOS.