That would imply that they used a stock pci/isa bus. In my experience, the chips may be the same in an application specific device as well as a standard PC peripheral, but the lack of a standard bus would make it (MUCH!) harder to reverse engineer a driver.
It would be very interesting if it was a stock bus.
Mozilla-mail, for me, would crash and a result of this would be a corrupted Inbox. This started becoming a regular thing (I believe it was Mozilla 1.3 and all mail was stored locally because I used pop3 to retrieve my mail.) and I had to switch to something a little more stable. Ive used Kmail for about a year, upgraded it 3 times, and never lost an email. Alot has happened to Mozilla since then but I would strongly advise using a test group of power users before deploying it just to check its stability.
I remember reading (on slashdot?) about a partnership between HP and Debian. Something about Debian being the dist of choice for HP. Does anyone have any info about this? Was it a cruel cruel dream?
This is probably offtopic, but how did he get caught? Did they track him down via his MAC? Was he doing something mischievous?
Things like this bother me. Its getting to the point where if you have a laptop and you're outside or if you're on a cablemodem doing something other than web surfing, you're going to get arrested. The media isnt helping the witch hunt. Uninformed press always make things seem worse than they are just to boost sales and preserve position.
In a land where the poor outnumber the rich and there is no middle class, what logical step is next but....A SPACE PROGRAM OFCOARSE. Why didnt I think of it?
So he lowered the noise of his machine be nixing the CPU fan. He still has the powersupply fan to deal with. We have servers at work (1U rack mount) that are p4 2.0ghz machines whose only cpu cooling is a copper HSF combo and they really arent that loud. There are 12 of them and honestly the loudest part of the boxes are the powersupply fans. Even with those on and under heavy load (cluster used for wireless simulations), its still really quiet. He could have saved the cash and bought quiet fans and a new powersupply.
Ive also had positive experiences with the latest Dell boxes. P4 2.0ghz machines that you can barely tell are on because they are so quiet. If they can be that quiet, any machine can be built with that kind of noise output.
I do applaud the effort, but I wonder about his practicality.
As big and as rich as they are, they need their fan base back for the same reason they went after Napster: THE CASH. I mean someone's gotta pay for James's rehab.
From reading part of the article, I gather that this is all in an effort to stop fraud. I was under the impression that fraud already had more than enough legislation to find the authors of such emails and take them to court.
Laws like this, being secretive, make me worry quite a bit as to how far legislators are willing to go. There is no need to be secret. Secrets can be abused.
This should be modded up too. Moderators forget to look at topics subjectively and without prejudice. Altho the article is about hacking, this person's post can be interpretted as the cause which made this effect.
With that said, I agree that the US had a hand at making this problem. I disagree that the US was in the wrong. Everyone needs to live though. Situations like these are proof that some problems have no answers. Both parties....or should i say ALL parties involved here are at fault.
So I recall SCO sueing IBM about their code mingling with Unix code. I also recall this including Red Hat. The question is, why sue a business partner? What software would you run on your shiney new boxes?
Going directly to the artists? Who is going to pay for the studio time? If the artists found a way to cut out the record companies all together and record their own music, that may work but who has that kind of time/money/initiative? These is a reason the record companies have this hold on the market, they control the flow of what we want. , and rightfully so. In reality, unless bands start their own labels, there is no way to cut them out of the deal. Alot of mainstream bands began such an undertaking and some have been quite successfull. But the majority who try this, end up being bought out.
You cant cut out the guy who rightfully has a stake at the revenues.
One of things I like about the Unix filesystem is that all important system files are separate from user accessible files. Maybe I havent fully grasped how the current file system is setup, but I was under the impression that is the way it is to keep important files far far away from meaningless files installed from non critical apps.
I saw a "demonstration" of how a "security firm" broke into the 911 system of a large city. I think it was on ABC News but I could be wrong.
Their demo consisted of spoofing an email address and sending it to a worker's email address. I think it was signed the director or something. Attatched was a vb script that sent a netsend to everyone in the building to go to the director's office. And almost on queue, the camera went to the security firms office where a bunch of nerds were quoted as saying "we're in". Yeah, real impressive. I think my 4 year old cousing can cause more damage randomly hitting keys on the keyboard.
I never believe in firms like this. It all boils down to undereducated IT staff and less educated public. Its true, tell the public anything with a somewhat authoritarian/confident voice and they'll believe anything.
When was the last time a security firm noticed a a huge gaping hole in Microsoft code like the slammer, or the calls used by nimda. I cant picture a bunch of self proclaimed "experts in security" going over lines of code in Sendmail to find another buffer overflow.
Buyer beware. Its cheaper and more reliable just to read a book.
Thats alot for a cordless phone. Sure the number follows you around your network even if you are in a different institution or even a different country. But since we are talking about IP, wouldnt it be just as easy to go to your sister office, grab an unused phone, and re-map the extension to your office?
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Im going to assume that when you say Linux, you mane a console app just for serving. So where's the Linux game? You use us just for running a server because its rock solid stable, but dont put the time in to make it playable on linux?
Soccer mom's of the world are weeping as their child can no longer get that super fast dell to surf the web and watch Pr0n.
Who really needs a 3ghz box? Im still kicking around an Athlon 800 and its plenty fast. Compiles the latest kernel quicker than it takes me to get up and grab a mountain dew.
They should be even more greatful for working for an employer with such admireable linguistic skills. I've never seen anyone use spelling and grammer as well as you. Lets hope they know how good they have it. Let me know if you are hiring; I hear the hooked on phonix guy is available.
You are the same kind of Soccer Mom, Flake, uninformed, nazi, biggot that I encounter daily driving in the left lane in a mini-van going 10 under the speed limit.
Terrorists are terrorists because they use TECHONOLOGY against you. Then again we "free" denizens of this fair country depend on TECHNOLOGY to protect us.
Its thinking like this that slows down innovation. How you've been modded to 3 blows my mind. I sometimes wonder if "Moderator" is just a code word for "uninformed".
If one was to actually believe you, then one would also be able to argue that cars should be abolished, the toaster can be used for biological warfare and should be outlawed, and that lawncare should be handed over soley to the government for fear of the misuse of fertilizer.
If i were you, Id get to the point and stick my head in the sand. You are probably better off that way and the world at large would thank you. Not to mention you'd be safe if the sky fell.
I use lame regularly with the same flags and DO notice a difference. I dont have hi end speakers attatched to the computer but they do tend to be clear along the full spectrum. I notice a tinny-ness in the high end and small fluctuations in the mid; almost like holes. MP3 is damn good for its size, but IMHO, its got a long way to go before its as good as a CD (or if you really want to split hairs, its NEVER going thave anything on vinyl).
You could retrain to be a Computer Engineer. Almost the same as CS, but with a helluva lot more Physics and Math. CEs can usually find work as electrical engineers, comp sci, or just CE. The job market by then may need all of those by the time you get out.
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That would imply that they used a stock pci/isa bus. In my experience, the chips may be the same in an application specific device as well as a standard PC peripheral, but the lack of a standard bus would make it (MUCH!) harder to reverse engineer a driver.
It would be very interesting if it was a stock bus.
Mozilla-mail, for me, would crash and a result of this would be a corrupted Inbox. This started becoming a regular thing (I believe it was Mozilla 1.3 and all mail was stored locally because I used pop3 to retrieve my mail.) and I had to switch to something a little more stable. Ive used Kmail for about a year, upgraded it 3 times, and never lost an email. Alot has happened to Mozilla since then but I would strongly advise using a test group of power users before deploying it just to check its stability.
I remember reading (on slashdot?) about a partnership between HP and Debian. Something about Debian being the dist of choice for HP. Does anyone have any info about this? Was it a cruel cruel dream?
This is probably offtopic, but how did he get caught? Did they track him down via his MAC? Was he doing something mischievous?
Things like this bother me. Its getting to the point where if you have a laptop and you're outside or if you're on a cablemodem doing something other than web surfing, you're going to get arrested. The media isnt helping the witch hunt. Uninformed press always make things seem worse than they are just to boost sales and preserve position.
In a land where the poor outnumber the rich and there is no middle class, what logical step is next but....A SPACE PROGRAM OFCOARSE. Why didnt I think of it?
So he lowered the noise of his machine be nixing the CPU fan. He still has the powersupply fan to deal with. We have servers at work (1U rack mount) that are p4 2.0ghz machines whose only cpu cooling is a copper HSF combo and they really arent that loud. There are 12 of them and honestly the loudest part of the boxes are the powersupply fans. Even with those on and under heavy load (cluster used for wireless simulations), its still really quiet. He could have saved the cash and bought quiet fans and a new powersupply.
Ive also had positive experiences with the latest Dell boxes. P4 2.0ghz machines that you can barely tell are on because they are so quiet. If they can be that quiet, any machine can be built with that kind of noise output.
I do applaud the effort, but I wonder about his practicality.
Have you actually heard the new Metallica album??
It should be
Burn (literally) then Kick whats left.
Time to retire.
As big and as rich as they are, they need their fan base back for the same reason they went after Napster: THE CASH. I mean someone's gotta pay for James's rehab.
From reading part of the article, I gather that this is all in an effort to stop fraud. I was under the impression that fraud already had more than enough legislation to find the authors of such emails and take them to court.
Laws like this, being secretive, make me worry quite a bit as to how far legislators are willing to go. There is no need to be secret. Secrets can be abused.
This should be modded up too. Moderators forget to look at topics subjectively and without prejudice. Altho the article is about hacking, this person's post can be interpretted as the cause which made this effect.
With that said, I agree that the US had a hand at making this problem. I disagree that the US was in the wrong. Everyone needs to live though. Situations like these are proof that some problems have no answers. Both parties....or should i say ALL parties involved here are at fault.
So I recall SCO sueing IBM about their code mingling with Unix code. I also recall this including Red Hat. The question is, why sue a business partner? What software would you run on your shiney new boxes?
Going directly to the artists? Who is going to pay for the studio time? If the artists found a way to cut out the record companies all together and record their own music, that may work but who has that kind of time/money/initiative? These is a reason the record companies have this hold on the market, they control the flow of what we want. , and rightfully so. In reality, unless bands start their own labels, there is no way to cut them out of the deal. Alot of mainstream bands began such an undertaking and some have been quite successfull. But the majority who try this, end up being bought out.
You cant cut out the guy who rightfully has a stake at the revenues.
One of things I like about the Unix filesystem is that all important system files are separate from user accessible files. Maybe I havent fully grasped how the current file system is setup, but I was under the impression that is the way it is to keep important files far far away from meaningless files installed from non critical apps.
Couldnt have said it better myself. I agree completely. All but the hackers having morals part. A true hacker will work for moutain dew and free porn.
Regardless. I agree and hope someone DDOSes his website.
Mod the original up. you know you want to.
I saw a "demonstration" of how a "security firm" broke into the 911 system of a large city. I think it was on ABC News but I could be wrong.
Their demo consisted of spoofing an email address and sending it to a worker's email address. I think it was signed the director or something. Attatched was a vb script that sent a netsend to everyone in the building to go to the director's office. And almost on queue, the camera went to the security firms office where a bunch of nerds were quoted as saying "we're in". Yeah, real impressive. I think my 4 year old cousing can cause more damage randomly hitting keys on the keyboard.
I never believe in firms like this. It all boils down to undereducated IT staff and less educated public. Its true, tell the public anything with a somewhat authoritarian/confident voice and they'll believe anything.
When was the last time a security firm noticed a a huge gaping hole in Microsoft code like the slammer, or the calls used by nimda. I cant picture a bunch of self proclaimed "experts in security" going over lines of code in Sendmail to find another buffer overflow.
Buyer beware. Its cheaper and more reliable just to read a book.
I agree completely. Althogh, I think it would be kind of funny if they were doing it over IRC and someone took over the room.
"WhiteHat just got slapped by a dead fish"
"Fdawg is now op"
"Fdawg - Hi mom!!"
"WhiteHat was just kicked by fdawg's mom"
Some security.
Thats alot for a cordless phone. Sure the number follows you around your network even if you are in a different institution or even a different country. But since we are talking about IP, wouldnt it be just as easy to go to your sister office, grab an unused phone, and re-map the extension to your office?
Im going to assume that when you say Linux, you mane a console app just for serving. So where's the Linux game? You use us just for running a server because its rock solid stable, but dont put the time in to make it playable on linux?
Im appauled.
Soccer mom's of the world are weeping as their child can no longer get that super fast dell to surf the web and watch Pr0n.
Who really needs a 3ghz box? Im still kicking around an Athlon 800 and its plenty fast. Compiles the latest kernel quicker than it takes me to get up and grab a mountain dew.
I remember a slashdot article about a kid under 18 who contributed to the darwin project. He was barred from contributing when they found out his age.
Seems like its a bit sooner than expected.
They should be even more greatful for working for an employer with such admireable linguistic skills. I've never seen anyone use spelling and grammer as well as you. Lets hope they know how good they have it. Let me know if you are hiring; I hear the hooked on phonix guy is available.
You are the same kind of Soccer Mom, Flake, uninformed, nazi, biggot that I encounter daily driving in the left lane in a mini-van going 10 under the speed limit.
Terrorists are terrorists because they use TECHONOLOGY against you. Then again we "free" denizens of this fair country depend on TECHNOLOGY to protect us.
Its thinking like this that slows down innovation. How you've been modded to 3 blows my mind. I sometimes wonder if "Moderator" is just a code word for "uninformed".
If one was to actually believe you, then one would also be able to argue that cars should be abolished, the toaster can be used for biological warfare and should be outlawed, and that lawncare should be handed over soley to the government for fear of the misuse of fertilizer.
If i were you, Id get to the point and stick my head in the sand. You are probably better off that way and the world at large would thank you. Not to mention you'd be safe if the sky fell.
I use lame regularly with the same flags and DO notice a difference. I dont have hi end speakers attatched to the computer but they do tend to be clear along the full spectrum. I notice a tinny-ness in the high end and small fluctuations in the mid; almost like holes. MP3 is damn good for its size, but IMHO, its got a long way to go before its as good as a CD (or if you really want to split hairs, its NEVER going thave anything on vinyl).
Pray. And when ur finished doing that, pray some more.
You could retrain to be a Computer Engineer. Almost the same as CS, but with a helluva lot more Physics and Math. CEs can usually find work as electrical engineers, comp sci, or just CE. The job market by then may need all of those by the time you get out.
I didnt realize until today that Sun actually has a version of linux.
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http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/lx50/?redirect
Check out the OSes available and you will notice an option for sun linux 5.0. What window manager comes default with that?