Everyone seems to be criticizing this guy and telling him to just go buy some Alpha's or something faster in the first place instead of spending so much time trying to make it work.
It's called a hobby. Even though he uses the machine for his job, I'm sure overclocking is sort of a hobby to him, just like it is to many others. People spend lots of time and money doing things they don't need to do because it is fun and helps them learn.
What if a product (i.e. php3), is given away for free? Even though this product still infringes upon a patent, can anything be done about it? No one is making money off of it, and there could be a hundred different developers, from some bright 10 year old on his dad's computer, to a 90 year old guy with nothing better to do. You can't just sue some of them, can you?
And you can't charge them royalties because they are not selling anything.
What if it is just the source code that is distributed? The source code, in itself, does not infringe upon the patent because it doesn't do anything. Only the compiled binary would infringe upon the patent. With the recent ruling that encryption source code is considered free speech, wouldn't source code to php be considered free speech also? If so, banning people from releasing it would be a violation of our first amendment.
I friend of mine found a single one of these in his garage. We mounted it to the back of some sheetrock and it sounded all muffled. Cool concept, but they really do suck. Maybe they wouldn't be so bad if you could buy some specially designed board for them that would reproduce sound a little better than sheetrock. Maybe if you got yourself a 4' x 8' sheet of acrylic or lexan it would reproduce the sound a little better.
What if you break one by driving it too hard? You have to tear your wall apart.
This is true, you can get a permit, but they do run a VERY extensive background check. A guy I met at a gun show applied for one, and it took him about a year to finally get it. The BATF can come into your house and search it at any time they want if you have a permit for a fully auto weapon. Most of the time, the only way for you to get a permit is if you actually owned one of the weapons before 1986 or so, and your background check comes back spotless.
I do speak from experience... though I never purchased one, several people have offered to sell me full auto weapons. Mostly at gun shows, but a couple of people I used to know in high school also. They were both arrested for various firearm related crimes. Point is, it's easy to get them if you really want to, and making a law to ban firearms isn't going to solve anything.
If you actually do succeed in limiting the amount of weapons available to criminals, you may be asking for more trouble. On one hand you may have less public shootings, but on the other hand, the criminals may resort to other methods of mass killing, like bombs or poison in the water supply. Look at how many buses and buildings get blown up in the Middle East, Ireland, and other such places. Guns are not as easy to get in those places, but making homemade bombs out of a few chemicals is easy enough to do. I would say a large bomb going off in a large building is WAY more catastrophic than some psycho unloading 50 rounds into a crowd of people. Just look at the OK City bombing, or the World trade center. In Minnsota a couple of years ago, 2 guys got arrested for manufacturing and conspiring to poison the water supply of some city. They made like 4 drops of this stuff, which if placed in the cities water supply would have been potent enough to kill anyone who drank the water.
Our society is seriously fucked up, and there has to be a better solution.
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I heard something awhile back about a program you could run that would insert your new kernel while your machine was running so you wouldn't have to reboot. Anyone heard anything about this??
The longest we ever had an NT box stay up was just over 1.5 months, then it locked up for no reason at all. It wasn't doing anything either, just sitting there. Most of our NT machines have to be rebooted at least once a week, mostly every couple of days though.
Making tougher gun laws is NOT going to solve anything. Criminals will still have guns, that's part of why they are criminals.
Do you have any idea how EASY it is to get an illegal weapon (eg. full auto weapons). Fully automatic weapons were outlawed back in 1986 or 1988. Over 10 years ago. You can pick up a MAC-10, or an old full auto Uzi no problem. And I live in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, for the most part, is not a high crime area.
So, if I can get a weapon that was outlawed 10 years ago, what makes you think that outlawing handguns, or any other currently legal weapon, would prevent people from getting them?
We've got some serious problems with our society, but we do need to look into it more. Taking guns away is only gonna prevent non-criminals from having them.
NT has a ton of security holes too. Lots of denial of service attacks mostly. If you have sharing enabled at all, that's a bad idea.
Even though Linux is fairly insecure right out of the box, it is easy to fix. The easy way: 1. edit inetd.conf to remove any service you don't need. 2. install all of the RedHat updates (if you have redhat), basically, just make sure you are running the latest version of any network stuff. 3. Use ipchains. Ipchains is firewalling software, and it works excellent if you know how to set it up correctly. If you are just setting up linux as a webserver, install the latest apache, install ssh, set ipchains to deny all by default, and add rules to allow traffic into port 80(http), and traffic into port 22(ssh). You can transfer files with scp, or if you really need ftp, open it up to only the host, or network that you need access from.
I have a linux machine with this exact setup (took 20 mins to set it all up), and it's been running with no successful breakins for about 6 months. And it was getting attacked everyday for quite awhile.
SSH using port forwarding is nice, except the connection drops all the time and you have to reinitiate it. Kind of annoying, especially if you are streaming mp3's or something.
Microsoft is scared shitless. They're just trying to play it down, and it looks like they are basically trying to imply that there is no one to blame if the software breaks. And we all know that IS Managers love to have someone to blame if something breaks.
Linux is slowly but surely making it's way into our company, replacing NT machines and Macs. However, upper IS people argue against it because of the "lack of support", and it's free so it must not be as good. What I can't understand is why they would want to have an OS that requires so much support in the first place (NT), as opposed to one that you can set up and let do its thing for months or even years at a time. Not only are they paying an assload of money for software and client licenses, but they are paying even more to have people in here supporting it because they decided to deploy mission critical projects on it and it CAN'T go down.
These are tape backup units though. Seek times would really suck, and using it for anything other than backup would surely severly shorten the life of the tape. 4mm dat tapes really only have a life of 200 passes through the drive before they are no good. If these Onstream tapes have a comparable life to DAT's, they are really good for backup only.
Most people can fit all of their mp3's on one DVD-RAM disc anyway, or at least all of the mp3's they listen to regularly.
What the hell are they thinking? I don't want to pay $10-$20 for some stupid bugfix disc when I already bought the software in the first place (I didn't, but my company did). This is fixing shit that was supposed to work in the first place. And I don't care if they say it's only for the cost of the media it comes on, that's bs. Everyone knows it costs less than a buck to make a cd. Way less for the pressed versions.
MS is a bunch of greedy bastards, but I guess they have to pay their lawyers somehow.
Maybe this stupid update will make my MPEG decoder on my thinkpad finally function under win98. DVD's are kinda jerky w/o it.
You don't need a debian package. Just grab the tar and run the executable contained in it.
The nice thing about having it as a tar is that you don't need to be root on a machine to install it. You can just drop the executable in your home directory and run it. (You really don't have to be root to get the files out a.deb either, but you do need to be root to use the debian package manager to install stuff in the default place).
It's all fine and dandy that they traced the stupid virus, but it really sucks how they did it. Now we are gonna get all sorts of people screaming and yelling that GUID's are an excellent idea.
So is it possible for the creator of the virus to sue Microsoft for invasion of privacy?
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Everyone seems to be criticizing this guy and telling him to just go buy some Alpha's or something faster in the first place instead of spending so much time trying to make it work.
It's called a hobby. Even though he uses the machine for his job, I'm sure overclocking is sort of a hobby to him, just like it is to many others. People spend lots of time and money doing things they don't need to do because it is fun and helps them learn.
Apparently you've looked pretty close, hmmm.....
What if a product (i.e. php3), is given away for free? Even though this product still infringes upon a patent, can anything be done about it? No one is making money off of it, and there could be a hundred different developers, from some bright 10 year old on his dad's computer, to a 90 year old guy with nothing better to do. You can't just sue some of them, can you?
And you can't charge them royalties because they are not selling anything.
What if it is just the source code that is distributed? The source code, in itself, does not infringe upon the patent because it doesn't do anything. Only the compiled binary would infringe upon the patent. With the recent ruling that encryption source code is considered free speech, wouldn't source code to php be considered free speech also? If so, banning people from releasing it would be a violation of our first amendment.
Just a few thoughts.
I friend of mine found a single one of these in his garage. We mounted it to the back of some sheetrock and it sounded all muffled. Cool concept, but they really do suck. Maybe they wouldn't be so bad if you could buy some specially designed board for them that would reproduce sound a little better than sheetrock. Maybe if you got yourself a 4' x 8' sheet of acrylic or lexan it would reproduce the sound a little better.
What if you break one by driving it too hard? You have to tear your wall apart.
This is true, you can get a permit, but they do run a VERY extensive background check. A guy I met at a gun show applied for one, and it took him about a year to finally get it. The BATF can come into your house and search it at any time they want if you have a permit for a fully auto weapon. Most of the time, the only way for you to get a permit is if you actually owned one of the weapons before 1986 or so, and your background check comes back spotless.
I do speak from experience... though I never purchased one, several people have offered to sell me full auto weapons. Mostly at gun shows, but a couple of people I used to know in high school also. They were both arrested for various firearm related crimes. Point is, it's easy to get them if you really want to, and making a law to ban firearms isn't going to solve anything.
If you actually do succeed in limiting the amount of weapons available to criminals, you may be asking for more trouble. On one hand you may have less public shootings, but on the other hand, the criminals may resort to other methods of mass killing, like bombs or poison in the water supply. Look at how many buses and buildings get blown up in the Middle East, Ireland, and other such places. Guns are not as easy to get in those places, but making homemade bombs out of a few chemicals is easy enough to do. I would say a large bomb going off in a large building is WAY more catastrophic than some psycho unloading 50 rounds into a crowd of people. Just look at the OK City bombing, or the World trade center. In Minnsota a couple of years ago, 2 guys got arrested for manufacturing and conspiring to poison the water supply of some city. They made like 4 drops of this stuff, which if placed in the cities water supply would have been potent enough to kill anyone who drank the water.
Our society is seriously fucked up, and there has to be a better solution.
I heard something awhile back about a program you could run that would insert your new kernel while your machine was running so you wouldn't have to reboot. Anyone heard anything about this??
The longest we ever had an NT box stay up was just over 1.5 months, then it locked up for no reason at all. It wasn't doing anything either, just sitting there. Most of our NT machines have to be rebooted at least once a week, mostly every couple of days though.
This guy is a friggin' sheep. Buying into, and beleiving everything MS has to say. Pretty pathetic really.
Making tougher gun laws is NOT going to solve anything. Criminals will still have guns, that's part of why they are criminals.
Do you have any idea how EASY it is to get an illegal weapon (eg. full auto weapons). Fully automatic weapons were outlawed back in 1986 or 1988. Over 10 years ago. You can pick up a MAC-10, or an old full auto Uzi no problem. And I live in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, for the most part, is not a high crime area.
So, if I can get a weapon that was outlawed 10 years ago, what makes you think that outlawing handguns, or any other currently legal weapon, would prevent people from getting them?
We've got some serious problems with our society, but we do need to look into it more. Taking guns away is only gonna prevent non-criminals from having them.
NT has a ton of security holes too. Lots of denial of service attacks mostly. If you have sharing enabled at all, that's a bad idea.
Even though Linux is fairly insecure right out of the box, it is easy to fix. The easy way:
1. edit inetd.conf to remove any service you don't need.
2. install all of the RedHat updates (if you have redhat), basically, just make sure you are running the latest version of any network stuff.
3. Use ipchains. Ipchains is firewalling software, and it works excellent if you know how to set it up correctly. If you are just setting up linux as a webserver, install the latest apache, install ssh, set ipchains to deny all by default, and add rules to allow traffic into port 80(http), and traffic into port 22(ssh). You can transfer files with scp, or if you really need ftp, open it up to only the host, or network that you need access from.
I have a linux machine with this exact setup (took 20 mins to set it all up), and it's been running with no successful breakins for about 6 months. And it was getting attacked everyday for quite awhile.
SSH using port forwarding is nice, except the connection drops all the time and you have to reinitiate it. Kind of annoying, especially if you are streaming mp3's or something.
Microsoft is scared shitless. They're just trying to play it down, and it looks like they are basically trying to imply that there is no one to blame if the software breaks. And we all know that IS Managers love to have someone to blame if something breaks.
Linux is slowly but surely making it's way into our company, replacing NT machines and Macs. However, upper IS people argue against it because of the "lack of support", and it's free so it must not be as good. What I can't understand is why they would want to have an OS that requires so much support in the first place (NT), as opposed to one that you can set up and let do its thing for months or even years at a time. Not only are they paying an assload of money for software and client licenses, but they are paying even more to have people in here supporting it because they decided to deploy mission critical projects on it and it CAN'T go down.
Use http://www.google.com
It's by far the best search engine I've ever used. What you are looking for almost always shows up in the top 3 matches, if not the first.
Just do a "ar x filename.deb" and unzip the resulting data.tar.gz in the root.
These are tape backup units though. Seek times would really suck, and using it for anything other than backup would surely severly shorten the life of the tape. 4mm dat tapes really only have a life of 200 passes through the drive before they are no good. If these Onstream tapes have a comparable life to DAT's, they are really good for backup only.
Most people can fit all of their mp3's on one DVD-RAM disc anyway, or at least all of the mp3's they listen to regularly.
What the hell are they thinking? I don't want to pay $10-$20 for some stupid bugfix disc when I already bought the software in the first place (I didn't, but my company did). This is fixing shit that was supposed to work in the first place. And I don't care if they say it's only for the cost of the media it comes on, that's bs. Everyone knows it costs less than a buck to make a cd. Way less for the pressed versions.
MS is a bunch of greedy bastards, but I guess they have to pay their lawyers somehow.
Maybe this stupid update will make my MPEG decoder on my thinkpad finally function under win98. DVD's are kinda jerky w/o it.
You don't need a debian package. Just grab the tar and run the executable contained in it.
.deb either, but you do need to be root to use the debian package manager to install stuff in the default place).
The nice thing about having it as a tar is that you don't need to be root on a machine to install it. You can just drop the executable in your home directory and run it. (You really don't have to be root to get the files out a
It's all fine and dandy that they traced the stupid virus, but it really sucks how they did it. Now we are gonna get all sorts of people screaming and yelling that GUID's are an excellent idea.
So is it possible for the creator of the virus to sue Microsoft for invasion of privacy?
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I admit it, I had RH 5.1 and got rooted. At least twice. Got 5.2 now and use ipchains, no probs since.