Based on some of the wacky and random things that have gotten sent to google by me. Mostly happens when I'm trying to middle click on a link to open it in a new tab, accidentally miss and end up activating that stupid middle click search thing that tries to find whatever was selected last.
Finally found the pref to kill that but it was annoying as hell.
Sure you can, just decode the packet stream and you'll have access to all of the game state that the client has. If you don't have to reverse engineer the protocol (say something well known like Quake [1-3]), it might even be easier than mucking around in system memory.
I vaguely recall mentions of aimbots that were designed to run on a separate machine -- either by acting as a proxy, or by sniffing in promiscuous mode and injecting UDP packets.
Hehe, one of our engineers has a mega overkill machine (read: Dual Dual-Core CPUs, gigs of RAM, half a terabyte worth of mirrored disks). So we decided to appropriate some of his storage space to act as a cached repository for software install CDs. DFS server is set to direct requests for the software repo coming from his subnet to his machine instead of the main server.
The machine doesn't usually get powered off as he leaves number crunching jobs running overnight. Just in case, we have a cron job that sends a magic packet his way every 5 minutes or so;-)
Unrelated to this NIC, but the problem with BITS is that it only knows how much bandwidth your local machine is using. If you have multiple computers on a network (sharing an uplink), one machine may think it's idle and start transferring a hundred meg service pack; completely killing the MMORPG or FPS you're playing on one of the others.
Yeah, only you can get a decent NIC from Intel, Broadcom, maybe 3com, which offloads most of the IP stack into hardware *AND* get a HiFN 79xx-based SSL/RSA/DSA/AES cryptoaccelerator card from Soerkis for about $100. I guess the extra $200 or so these people want covers the heatsink and a couple of pretty LEDs.
Yeah, but from their recent dealing with the OpenBSD folks it sounds like HiFN may not be an option in the future as they're refusing to provide specs on any of their newer models. I know the FreeBSD drivers for the only model that supports AES have had accelerator lockup problems since forever; and it doesn't look like we'll be able to get enough information to fix them. Google the soekris lists for people having Hifn troubles.
Intel did make the Pro/100S series with 3DES offloading, but as usual they refused to give any information on the crypto part of the card. So you can use them as dumb NICs in Linux/*BSD, but none of the fancy features...
Gah, idiots. The want to abandon the cleanest technology we have that's capable of generating sufficient energy to displace fossil fuels. How exactly is that "Green"?
Wow, that's even more complicated than I thought. I've only done some basic research up to this point but not any serious study (yet). I'm passable in a couple european languages (modulo accents), but someday when I have time I'd like to learn an asian one as well, just for the sake of trying something that requires a different way of thinking.
I guess I should have been more specific -- it was standardized as the official language within the last 100 years (really around 50, but it would have been sooner if not interrupted by japanese occupation). The phonetic system had of course been around longer, but not in widespread use. According to wikipedia the old system is almost gone entirely in North Korea.
"Women's script", that sounds a lot like the history of hiragana in Japanese too. They're much more culturally attached to kanji so I doubt they'd go that route anytime soon. Japanese people also seem to enjoy the artistic freedom of mixing the hiragana and kanji (and sometimes katakana too) in creative ways, even if it can make reading things a bit difficult.
What's funny is that you cite asian languages as an example of favoring disambiguity over consistency, but in fact asian languages tend to be much more ambiguous than western ones.
I'm not disagreeing with the idea of the written language being more static (IMO it's important to retain valuable information on the entomology of words), just with that particular example. Korea for instance completely changed their writing system from ideographic to phonetic within the last 100 years.
If anything, I think the Asian languages are on to something. Spoken language should be convienient, and in informal settings, quick to evolve. Written language, however should be more static and favor disambiguity over consistancy due to the lack of inflection that speakers have available to them.
Haha, that's just funny. Chinese has two different dialects that are almost considered two separate languages (yes there is a written Cantonese and no you don't want to read it). Korean is almost a purely phonetic alphabet and as such there are a lot of words that are ambiguous in written form. Japanese uses a mix of phonetic and ideographic characters and there are so many ambiguities and ways to write things that creating puns based on similar sounding (and similar looking) words is sort of a national pasttime.
By the same note, the way riders are currently used in practice essentially gives congress an end run around the Presidential veto, by holding important or popular legislation hostage to distasteful items that are completely unrelated to the main issue a bill addresses.
Any president who wasn't a spineless pawn of a political party wouldn't let himself be held hostage by that. A smart one would turn it around and hold the pork barrelers hostage.
The proper response is to have a strict policy of "Any bill with unrelated crap attached gets automatically vetoed. No exceptions.". Given the current way Congress likes to operate, that would mean that everything would be vetoed and the government would come to a screeching halt unless they shaped up.
A good speech is all it would take to have the public on the side of the ballsy president for standing up to the political machine. If somebody did that they would sure as hell have my vote...
Unfortunately in a two-party system it would never happen.
You're preaching to the choir here. Most of the network related programs I use operate with ssh as their transport layer (unison for file sync, svn+ssh for source code repo and other versioned storage).
I also operate my own mail server/domain, which most of my friends and family have accounts on. I allow ONLY SSL-protected connections, so no plaintext POP3 passwords flying about. As far as they're concerned it's only 1 extra checkbox to click so it's no big deal. SMTP+AUTH+SSL for sending.
Granted, that won't help for sending messages to the outside as they transit unencrypted at some point, but at least we can email each other in relative security. If the NSA wastes a few weeks of processor time just to find out what my lunch plans were last Friday, serves 'em right.
Grant it....it will slow you up a bit
Unless you're talking about initial setup, at the bandwidth levels that most consumer accounts have, I have never seen an appreciable slowdown due to encryption. My modest 266-Mhz router can saturate a 3Mb link with VPN traffic.
Even on my laptop where I do full-disk encryption (GELI on FreeBSD -- built in and it was cake to set up), I can still get upwards of 20MB/s disk I/O, which isn't significantly worse than the el-cheapo drive that's in there can manage without it.
Slashdot Mirror
Based on some of the wacky and random things that have gotten sent to google by me. Mostly happens when I'm trying to middle click on a link to open it in a new tab, accidentally miss and end up activating that stupid middle click search thing that tries to find whatever was selected last.
Finally found the pref to kill that but it was annoying as hell.
Yes, because the CLR gobbles up so much memory that leaks in C# apps are barely noticeable in comparison.
And slashdot isn't a grammar.
Maybe they should switch to a safe language that prevents buffer overflows and protects programmers from themselves.
Oops.
Sure you can, just decode the packet stream and you'll have access to all of the game state that the client has. If you don't have to reverse engineer the protocol (say something well known like Quake [1-3]), it might even be easier than mucking around in system memory.
I vaguely recall mentions of aimbots that were designed to run on a separate machine -- either by acting as a proxy, or by sniffing in promiscuous mode and injecting UDP packets.
Hehe, one of our engineers has a mega overkill machine (read: Dual Dual-Core CPUs, gigs of RAM, half a terabyte worth of mirrored disks). So we decided to appropriate some of his storage space to act as a cached repository for software install CDs. DFS server is set to direct requests for the software repo coming from his subnet to his machine instead of the main server.
;-)
The machine doesn't usually get powered off as he leaves number crunching jobs running overnight. Just in case, we have a cron job that sends a magic packet his way every 5 minutes or so
Unrelated to this NIC, but the problem with BITS is that it only knows how much bandwidth your local machine is using. If you have multiple computers on a network (sharing an uplink), one machine may think it's idle and start transferring a hundred meg service pack; completely killing the MMORPG or FPS you're playing on one of the others.
Yeah, only you can get a decent NIC from Intel, Broadcom, maybe 3com, which offloads most of the IP stack into hardware *AND* get a HiFN 79xx-based SSL/RSA/DSA/AES cryptoaccelerator card from Soerkis for about $100. I guess the extra $200 or so these people want covers the heatsink and a couple of pretty LEDs.
Yeah, but from their recent dealing with the OpenBSD folks it sounds like HiFN may not be an option in the future as they're refusing to provide specs on any of their newer models. I know the FreeBSD drivers for the only model that supports AES have had accelerator lockup problems since forever; and it doesn't look like we'll be able to get enough information to fix them. Google the soekris lists for people having Hifn troubles.
Intel did make the Pro/100S series with 3DES offloading, but as usual they refused to give any information on the crypto part of the card. So you can use them as dumb NICs in Linux/*BSD, but none of the fancy features...
Except that the sphere keeps getting bigger; faster than you can walk around it...
73 percent of 8- to 12-year-olds are throwing out part of their lunches at least once a week; 36 percent are trading them.
Good for them. Just goes to show that humanity naturally routes around authoritarianism.
Shut down all nuclear plants
Gah, idiots. The want to abandon the cleanest technology we have that's capable of generating sufficient energy to displace fossil fuels. How exactly is that "Green"?
The beauty of Star Trek 5
Well played sir, well played indeed.
and he can use telekinesis to throw a chair across the bridge?
This was definitely fixed in Word 2000, not sure about 97. Stupid MS org chart tool still tried to do that though.
Wow, that's even more complicated than I thought. I've only done some basic research up to this point but not any serious study (yet). I'm passable in a couple european languages (modulo accents), but someday when I have time I'd like to learn an asian one as well, just for the sake of trying something that requires a different way of thinking.
I guess I should have been more specific -- it was standardized as the official language within the last 100 years (really around 50, but it would have been sooner if not interrupted by japanese occupation). The phonetic system had of course been around longer, but not in widespread use. According to wikipedia the old system is almost gone entirely in North Korea.
"Women's script", that sounds a lot like the history of hiragana in Japanese too. They're much more culturally attached to kanji so I doubt they'd go that route anytime soon. Japanese people also seem to enjoy the artistic freedom of mixing the hiragana and kanji (and sometimes katakana too) in creative ways, even if it can make reading things a bit difficult.
What's funny is that you cite asian languages as an example of favoring disambiguity over consistency, but in fact asian languages tend to be much more ambiguous than western ones.
I'm not disagreeing with the idea of the written language being more static (IMO it's important to retain valuable information on the entomology of words), just with that particular example. Korea for instance completely changed their writing system from ideographic to phonetic within the last 100 years.
If anything, I think the Asian languages are on to something. Spoken language should be convienient, and in informal settings, quick to evolve. Written language, however should be more static and favor disambiguity over consistancy due to the lack of inflection that speakers have available to them.
Haha, that's just funny. Chinese has two different dialects that are almost considered two separate languages (yes there is a written Cantonese and no you don't want to read it). Korean is almost a purely phonetic alphabet and as such there are a lot of words that are ambiguous in written form. Japanese uses a mix of phonetic and ideographic characters and there are so many ambiguities and ways to write things that creating puns based on similar sounding (and similar looking) words is sort of a national pasttime.
Just abbrev everything.
Tag it 'vware'
or as an abbreviation of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.
I always choose to view words in quote marks as sarcasm.
:D
The cafe down the road from me advertises their "fresh" food. So I guess that means they're selling 2 day old leftovers
Don't get mad, just think of Joe's Diner has having really "great" pies. Wink wink.
I had to go B&B and tag it "hesaidlube"
I say we use the power from the geomagnetic storms to power a time loop machine. I want to be king of Groundhog Day!
By the same note, the way riders are currently used in practice essentially gives congress an end run around the Presidential veto, by holding important or popular legislation hostage to distasteful items that are completely unrelated to the main issue a bill addresses.
Any president who wasn't a spineless pawn of a political party wouldn't let himself be held hostage by that. A smart one would turn it around and hold the pork barrelers hostage.
The proper response is to have a strict policy of "Any bill with unrelated crap attached gets automatically vetoed. No exceptions.". Given the current way Congress likes to operate, that would mean that everything would be vetoed and the government would come to a screeching halt unless they shaped up.
A good speech is all it would take to have the public on the side of the ballsy president for standing up to the political machine. If somebody did that they would sure as hell have my vote...
Unfortunately in a two-party system it would never happen.
You're preaching to the choir here. Most of the network related programs I use operate with ssh as their transport layer (unison for file sync, svn+ssh for source code repo and other versioned storage).
I also operate my own mail server/domain, which most of my friends and family have accounts on. I allow ONLY SSL-protected connections, so no plaintext POP3 passwords flying about. As far as they're concerned it's only 1 extra checkbox to click so it's no big deal. SMTP+AUTH+SSL for sending.
Granted, that won't help for sending messages to the outside as they transit unencrypted at some point, but at least we can email each other in relative security. If the NSA wastes a few weeks of processor time just to find out what my lunch plans were last Friday, serves 'em right.
Grant it....it will slow you up a bit
Unless you're talking about initial setup, at the bandwidth levels that most consumer accounts have, I have never seen an appreciable slowdown due to encryption. My modest 266-Mhz router can saturate a 3Mb link with VPN traffic.
Even on my laptop where I do full-disk encryption (GELI on FreeBSD -- built in and it was cake to set up), I can still get upwards of 20MB/s disk I/O, which isn't significantly worse than the el-cheapo drive that's in there can manage without it.