A technical defense is to block RST packets. Probably not hard to do under Linux, and likely trivial. Sure you could modify the source to ignore the RST flag, but that would probably completely hose your networking, since it's sort of an integral part of TCP/IP functioning. Sometimes the packet with FIN set does get lost.
I guess it might work for a while until you ran out of memory for tracking state of all the connections that never close.:D
They send RST packets to you and the people you're uploading to on a random 1-18 second timer if the user is not a comcast user themselves. Whoa. When I read the description I figured they were spoofing ICMP source quench messages or something to slow down the connection. Resetting random connections is just downright rude.
It's official, cable companies are evil. Though AT&T isn't much better...
Now a fourth: the universe really is out to get us. Well, I forget exactly when the available evidence started indicating the possibility of accelerating expansion, but that theory has been around for a while. Not to mention big crunch or heat death before it. This is just another means by which it could happen.
3. It is shielded against the bites of pets (real problem for many people, my father's birds cut through several extension cords, luckily the birds lived.) I had a friend with a puppy that went through a cable-chewing phase. Got a USB keyboard, a mouse, a floor lamp which was thankfully unplugged, and an LCD monitor power supply (fortunately on the DC side of it, probably still a nice jolt though).
Some solder and heat-shrink tubing later and they're as good as... well, ok so they're somewhat ghetto looking now, but at least they work.
I have to ask what kind of bird managed to get through an extension cord though. I used to have Cockatiels, and while they can chew through pretty much anything, I think even they would have a problem with the thick plastic shielding most power strips and extension cords have these days. Unless it was one of those thin lamp extensions.
OK, on analog cables like speaker wire I might grant you that some of the higher priced cables can result in better quality audio (up to a point). Hell, I've even had crosstalk between cheap RCA cables between my DVD player and TV. Loud sound sometimes caused minor but visible distortions in video. Replacing them with ones with more insulation (but still cheap) fixed it.
What annoys me about Monster cable in particular is that they try to sell cables for freaking DIGITAL signals using the same marketing material. HDMI cables that promise shaper picture. Coax for SPDIF promising better sound. I've even seen "special" USB cables that are supposedly faster than standard cables.
Hello??? It's a digital protocol, it either makes it through or it doesn't. If they wanted to advertise less chance of the signal dropping out completely, or losing sync, or the connectors breaking or whatever I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with it.
Making a copy of a purchased song is just a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy' So if you have a fancy Sony CD player with anti-skip that makes a copy of a song in its memory buffer, that's stealing?
Quick, somebody sue Sony for violating the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA!
That's why the average joe shouldn't be assigned to airport security It's worse than that, though! The average joe doesn't do airport security, he has a much better job. Less-than-average joes who fail at everything else work airport security.
NT was also targeted at high-end workstations, though where I work we used it for all desktops. It was pretty painful on laptops, and 2000 was a HUGE improvement in that area. Even then NT4 was better than anything 9x-based.
2000 was a Real Big Deal. There were a lot of major improvements and very little downside. Slightly higher memory footprint than NT4, but nothing unreasonable. Every release since then has either been mostly cosmetic changes (XP), minor incremental improvements (Server 2003), or huge bloated useless "features" that you pay a heavy price for (Vista).
Vista also sucks because the corporate bulk-license version requires activation now. The only thing that made XP tolerable was not having to deal with any of that activation/WGA BS.
Jack Thompson proposes a video game where a CEO of New York-based "Take This" called Paula Eibel gets murdered for creating violent videogames. I don't know if I'd call it 'getting murdered'. I mean, she does have a huge chaingun that she aggressively defends herself with, not to mention all those kids hitting you.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that sounds less like "DHCP is awesome" and more like "Lazy devs have added extensions to DHCP rather than implement a proper auto-configuration protocol for their other services." What what what???
Instead of writing proprietary, incompatible protocols, developers have plugged their products into the industry standard, openly documented auto-configuration protocol, which was designed to be extensible. And they get called lazy?!
I might be talking nonsense, but isn't that what anycast is for? In theory, though IIRC anycast only works with UDP. Large DNS responses that can't fit in a UDP packet sometimes need to fall back to TCP.
WoW is successfull largely in part to much of the content being available to those who only have 1-2 hours per day to play (ie non-hardcore gamers). There is still stuff for the hardcore players to enjoy too. Not to mention that the WoW game world is just so damn huge. I don't mean physical dimensions (which really aren't all that big, I think someone calculated that the eastern continent is about the size of Manhattan), but sheer amount of different places to go and things / characters to see. Playing 1-2 hours a day could easily keep you occupied for months and you probably still wouldn't have been everywhere yet.
I think that in general, games do sell systems. However, most systems are essentially the same--power and price are the only real variables. Wii is conceptually different. People don't buy Wii for the games; they buy it for the gimmick. But other systems still sell on the strength of their game libraries. Don't underestimate the nostalgia factor of Virtual Console either. My girlfriend wanted a Wii simply because it has all "those old nintendo games". We have Twilight Princess but I think she's spent a lot more time playing Zelda 1 and 2 than that.
>quote>However it was interesting to note that administrative privileges on the Win32 OS are not required. Not that big of a deal for most users, but could prove troublesome in some environments (Corporate, etc). Then your system is broken or otherwise incorrectly set up. The default permissions on boot.ini don't allow non-admins to modify it, so the installer should have failed at that point. Perhaps you're using FAT32 which doesn't support permissions and thus is completely unsuitable to run any NT-based system on (I wish they'd take that out of the installer).
As WINE currently has no support for boot.ini files, I am unable to proceed any further in the process. Currently? I hope that's a joke, because I can't think of why on earth Wine would want to parse boot.ini, much less even be aware of its existence.
It sounds like it's part of the regular update mechanism, so it would require MS's private key to exploit. Not a huge threat increase since with that key you could easily fake legitimate looking updates, which many machines already install automatically and even those that are set to manual usually get installed without question anyway.
I still think the whole Windows Update / Automatic Update system is a huge vulnerability just waiting to be exploited. If somebody cracks or (more likely) steals that key, they could potentially 0wn a huge chunk of the world's computing infrastructure. Monoculture at its finest.
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I guess it might work for a while until you ran out of memory for tracking state of all the connections that never close.
It's official, cable companies are evil. Though AT&T isn't much better...
Are you talking about adding drives to the pool?
I know you can definitely expand it with the whole replace one disk with a bigger one, wait for rebuild, repeat until all your disks are bigger trick.
Some solder and heat-shrink tubing later and they're as good as... well, ok so they're somewhat ghetto looking now, but at least they work.
I have to ask what kind of bird managed to get through an extension cord though. I used to have Cockatiels, and while they can chew through pretty much anything, I think even they would have a problem with the thick plastic shielding most power strips and extension cords have these days. Unless it was one of those thin lamp extensions.
OK, on analog cables like speaker wire I might grant you that some of the higher priced cables can result in better quality audio (up to a point). Hell, I've even had crosstalk between cheap RCA cables between my DVD player and TV. Loud sound sometimes caused minor but visible distortions in video. Replacing them with ones with more insulation (but still cheap) fixed it.
What annoys me about Monster cable in particular is that they try to sell cables for freaking DIGITAL signals using the same marketing material. HDMI cables that promise shaper picture. Coax for SPDIF promising better sound. I've even seen "special" USB cables that are supposedly faster than standard cables.
Hello??? It's a digital protocol, it either makes it through or it doesn't. If they wanted to advertise less chance of the signal dropping out completely, or losing sync, or the connectors breaking or whatever I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with it.
Quick, somebody sue Sony for violating the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA!
NT was also targeted at high-end workstations, though where I work we used it for all desktops. It was pretty painful on laptops, and 2000 was a HUGE improvement in that area. Even then NT4 was better than anything 9x-based.
2000 was a Real Big Deal. There were a lot of major improvements and very little downside. Slightly higher memory footprint than NT4, but nothing unreasonable. Every release since then has either been mostly cosmetic changes (XP), minor incremental improvements (Server 2003), or huge bloated useless "features" that you pay a heavy price for (Vista).
Vista also sucks because the corporate bulk-license version requires activation now. The only thing that made XP tolerable was not having to deal with any of that activation/WGA BS.
It gets worse! The first x86 processor was the 8086. 8*86 = 688. If you add the digits of 688 together you get 22. 688-22 = 666!
OMG! Intel is the devil!
Or am I the only person who played that?
I dunno, I don't think I could tell you whether I were satisfied or not until someone opened the box.
So basically what you're saying is that LLVM is a BSD-licensed C compiler that includes everything except for the part that compiles C?
Instead of writing proprietary, incompatible protocols, developers have plugged their products into the industry standard, openly documented auto-configuration protocol, which was designed to be extensible. And they get called lazy?!
That's slashdot for you. My head a splode.
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>quote>However it was interesting to note that administrative privileges on the Win32 OS are not required. Not that big of a deal for most users, but could prove troublesome in some environments (Corporate, etc). Then your system is broken or otherwise incorrectly set up. The default permissions on boot.ini don't allow non-admins to modify it, so the installer should have failed at that point. Perhaps you're using FAT32 which doesn't support permissions and thus is completely unsuitable to run any NT-based system on (I wish they'd take that out of the installer).
It sounds like it's part of the regular update mechanism, so it would require MS's private key to exploit. Not a huge threat increase since with that key you could easily fake legitimate looking updates, which many machines already install automatically and even those that are set to manual usually get installed without question anyway.
I still think the whole Windows Update / Automatic Update system is a huge vulnerability just waiting to be exploited. If somebody cracks or (more likely) steals that key, they could potentially 0wn a huge chunk of the world's computing infrastructure. Monoculture at its finest.
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