After all, Bachus is a seasoned pro [...] in an interview with gamesindustry.biz published January 29, 2004, he said, "I plan to be working in this industry, hopefully at Infinium but if not then somewhere else, for a long time, and ultimately all I have is my credibility."
What, no skill, talent, experience, vision, morality or integrity? That damn journalist must have cut those bits out to save on his word count.
(though, to be fair - from a slashdot editor, I would have expected : 'All I have is my credibilty, and my credibility').
nope, sorry. It has nothing to do with support - it has everything to do with cost.
If you get a free USB-wireless port on your new motherboard, or have to pay $100 for a bluetooth card.. which one do you think will gain more peripherals? Which one will be better supported?
This is the issue - bluetooth will not be all-pervasive because all those intel chipsets won't support it for free, whereas USB-wireless will. Not to mention that USB-wireless appears the same to the software (OS) as normal USB, so all you'll need is someone to sell you a new peripheral with that chip on it.
I think this makes Bluetooth a niche product. Maybe it'll live on in phones with their high-priced accessories, but you won't see it everywhere, and especially not on PCs.
except that they are somewhat at the mercy of the market as well as their suppliers - if the cost of a bluetooth chip is high, then the phone model that supports it will cost more. At some point customers will not spend the extra just because it supports bluetooth (and doubly so if any headset/car adapter/etc costs a lot too).
Nokia, Sony, etc put these things into their phones so they will sell more - if they won't increase phone market share, then expect to see the feature dropped with the next model out.
This is all wrong. The Computer means well; it wants loyal Troubleshooters to survive and thrive in its service. The problem is that The Computer is totally nuts and inevitably finds treason even where none exists.
That's good, but I always found that when the Computer was played as *really* your friend, and not a treason-seeking moron, the game was far more fun. The reason was that you were no longer pitted against the computer, but against the other players. The compuiter was a trusting, genuinely helpful, pleasant creation. Ok, difficult to get to work the way *you* wanted it to (think of those 3 wishes you could never get 100% right....), to the point where it would believe your colleage who informs on you. The computer would *never* want to kill or even suspect treason for any reason - only when manipulated by the players (or NPCs of course).
I think the computer is not nuts at all - just misunderstood:)
with what? cash? in a egalitarian, all-provided-for-by-the-computer-according-to-his- needs^H^H^H^H^H clearance society?
Surely, as loyal troubleshooters, on the Computers Service, new clones should be issued for free.. free as in that viral GPL, of course - keeping all obligations as the original.
maybe, seeing as how the Computer has generously used the clone banks to create a new clone for the player, thus depriving Alpha Complex of a worker.. the clone will have to do the worker's day job as well as his troubleshooting duties:) (I'd make the player clean the room, fetch drinks, etc in these cases. mouhahahahaa)
my personal opinion on partitions is to ignore the OS entirely - if it fails, re-install!
Keep a separate partition for data - and raid that. If you got yourself a new 120-gig HDD, you can migrate Windows and Linux to it, and then have a 30-gig data partition shared with the old drive.
And.. you can keep the old drive around for a while until it's all working - if anything goes wrong, just slot it in, boot and start again. easy.
RAID-1 can be implemented in hardware or software. You can buy cards (and motherboards) that have RAID capability, or you can use the software features of your OS.
Windows (NT/2k/XP) can set up 2 drives as RAID-1 by using the Logical Drives section of Computer Management (though it varies between OSes - google for full instructions, but basically you create space for the mirror, click the first partition, then the second, then click 'create mirror pair' from the menu).(those instructions are not 100% as its been a long while since I did it).
You don't need to copy anything - the OS will build the right images for you - once when you first set it up, and then on all writes will be made to both drives. You, as a user, won't even know that you have 2 drives mirroring each other. Note that you can then remove a drive and it'll still work - the OS/card has simply made sure that everything that happened to 1 drive, happened to the other).
Only 1 thing - you'll need two partitions that are exactly the same size to mirror - I don't know anything that can mirror mismatched sized partitions, and I think that (some) Hardware solutions will require same-size drives.
RAID-1 cards aren't as expensive as they used to be, but they're still not 'almost-free' commodity items. My suggestion, if you want raid, is to buy bigger drives to migrate from your existing 4. (and if your 4 drives are already huge ones, then you're looking at a more professional solution anyway).
simple - the same reason there was a fuss when Munich chose Linux in the first place.
You can't pick and choose stories to hit the press, though I guess that if everything was fine and dandy at Munich, there wouldn't be a story in it at all. This is the way things are - it isn;t about Linux doing well, or Linux doing badly - its about stuff that makes people sit up and read it (and therefore look at ads/buy the paper).
am surprised by the motivation to do so little research on our project given that Mr Neil is the technical director of a company that sells.NET software; You would think that the use of Mono would help him reach customers using Linux, using mainframes or MacOS X.
I have to second this - although OSS is free to obtain, doesn;t mean it is free to implement, especially in a large business.
Consider Munich - currently the darling of the OSS community for going with free software. According to this article from Wired News they will end up paying more than if they had stuck with microsoft. They claim that the move will allow them to make future savings.. but I've heard that one before from every business that changes from one platform to another.
Quote: But instead of paying $23.7 million for the Microsoft solution, Munich's city council opted to spend roughly $35.7 million to switch to open source, saying that the higher price would be offset by lower costs and more flexibility in licensing fees and software choices over the long run.
Despite anticipated future savings, financial issues may stall the LiMux Project, according to recent reports in German technical news publication Computerwoche.
The migration plan is more complex than simply replacing Windows with Linux, according to an outline provided by the Munich information department. Studies on open-source security, desktop ergonomics and the software components' stability and compatibility with other applications will be included in the process.
the analogy is a bit wonky - its not the creators of guns that are like virus writers, but the *users* of guns (those who use them in a public area instead of their private grounds).
To keep the correct analogy, a virus writer who lets his virus out into the internet, to cause harm to innocent computer users, is like a gunman walking the streets blasting rounds off at random. ("oh, but the user should be wearing body armour, its not my fault")
If you let a gun off in public, I think you'll be arrested pretty damn quick. The same should happen to virus writers.
In theory... this should make for a better future broadcasts as they can analyze the feedback from the users
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..
Imagine what the majority of users watch. It ain't the good stuff you know. It's whether Daisy is sleeping with Brad behind Eric's back whilst Jake is having difficulty running his business and Karen is deciding whether to give up her job and become an alternative therapist.
in other words.. complete shite!! Hack those TiVos.. make sure Firefly is the most watched programme (even if its not broadcast. they'll never twig)
I'm not sure that's correct. The browser relies on the inet dlls to make connections - and they will be the bits that are changed. (ie. the edit field in the browser will not parse the text, it'll pass it on to the comms subsystem).
If MS alters the inet dlls then, all http communications will be affected by the change, and so the server will never see any packets even if you connect via scripts. (which is a good thing, you don't want a vbs script to auto-open hackers.com@www.ebay.com)
I think its only a matter of time before the other browsers fix their systems to work in the same way - the feature is not standards compliant, so.. best get rid of it now (and not get hit with a similar exploit).
Get a clue before posting please. The problem is that IE is *not* standards compliant because it allows URLs with the user:passwd@host scheme.
Other browsers that do this are similarly broken. This is the bug, that and IE6 doesn't display the user/passwd in the title bar (which you'd expect really - really want your password displayed for all to see?).
So, if other browsers support this URL scheme, and hide the parts before the @ sign, then they're ready for exploitation too.
Interesting to note that the only thing at issue is the change they made to IE6 that simply displayed the part of the URL after the '@' sign - previous versions displayed the whole URL, username, password and all. No-one cared before that change.
nonsense, it only takes a critical mass to implement it for it to work - once 80% of the email ISPs implement it, you can blacklist all those ISPs who don't - because you *know* they're going to be spam-magnets.
As for ISPs having control over their email servers, what else would you expect them to do? Run them as open relays?!!? Every ISP has *total* control over their servers, its a service they provide to you in exchange for money, you don't have a right to be provided with them.
If you don't like it (eg. you're a spammer) then you can run your own email server... but you'll have to implement SPF yourself (ie. you'd be stupid to spam then), or remain un-SPFed and get blacklisted.
no, V was selected because it came next after X (for cut), and C for (for copy).
You're still right about how users use it. I find it way better than the shift+ins scheme as I can never remember the combinations.
Most novices just accept what you tell them... 'then press ctrl+v to paste' and they're happy as they know how it works. 'click left, move mouse, press left and right at same time.. no, you won't get a menu.. yes, but usually you will, but not now because the buffer is full, you see.. no. oh.. bugger it':)
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isn't this the exact same argument people have been saying (on /. too) why Windows appears less secure than Linux?
Seems all those old posts were just flamebait, either that or all the Windows security patches really have made a difference.
After all, Bachus is a seasoned pro [...] in an interview with gamesindustry.biz published January 29, 2004, he said, "I plan to be working in this industry, hopefully at Infinium but if not then somewhere else, for a long time, and ultimately all I have is my credibility."
What, no skill, talent, experience, vision, morality or integrity? That damn journalist must have cut those bits out to save on his word count.
(though, to be fair - from a slashdot editor, I would have expected : 'All I have is my credibilty, and my credibility').
nope, sorry. It has nothing to do with support - it has everything to do with cost.
If you get a free USB-wireless port on your new motherboard, or have to pay $100 for a bluetooth card.. which one do you think will gain more peripherals? Which one will be better supported?
This is the issue - bluetooth will not be all-pervasive because all those intel chipsets won't support it for free, whereas USB-wireless will. Not to mention that USB-wireless appears the same to the software (OS) as normal USB, so all you'll need is someone to sell you a new peripheral with that chip on it.
I think this makes Bluetooth a niche product. Maybe it'll live on in phones with their high-priced accessories, but you won't see it everywhere, and especially not on PCs.
except that they are somewhat at the mercy of the market as well as their suppliers - if the cost of a bluetooth chip is high, then the phone model that supports it will cost more.
At some point customers will not spend the extra just because it supports bluetooth (and doubly so if any headset/car adapter/etc costs a lot too).
Nokia, Sony, etc put these things into their phones so they will sell more - if they won't increase phone market share, then expect to see the feature dropped with the next model out.
This is all wrong. The Computer means well; it wants loyal Troubleshooters to survive and thrive in its service. The problem is that The Computer is totally nuts and inevitably finds treason even where none exists.
:)
That's good, but I always found that when the Computer was played as *really* your friend, and not a treason-seeking moron, the game was far more fun. The reason was that you were no longer pitted against the computer, but against the other players.
The compuiter was a trusting, genuinely helpful, pleasant creation. Ok, difficult to get to work the way *you* wanted it to (think of those 3 wishes you could never get 100% right....), to the point where it would believe your colleage who informs on you. The computer would *never* want to kill or even suspect treason for any reason - only when manipulated by the players (or NPCs of course).
I think the computer is not nuts at all - just misunderstood
'buy'????
- needs^H^H^H^H^H clearance society?
:)
with what? cash? in a egalitarian, all-provided-for-by-the-computer-according-to-his
Surely, as loyal troubleshooters, on the Computers Service, new clones should be issued for free.. free as in that viral GPL, of course - keeping all obligations as the original.
maybe, seeing as how the Computer has generously used the clone banks to create a new clone for the player, thus depriving Alpha Complex of a worker.. the clone will have to do the worker's day job as well as his troubleshooting duties
(I'd make the player clean the room, fetch drinks, etc in these cases. mouhahahahaa)
good. 'cos all this discussiuon of 'which system will it use' is totally, totally missing the point.
Paranoia.. use *any* system. like it really matters *at all*.
Perhaps the rules should be similar to those of Mornington Crescent - (for the american cousins, this means 'secretly non existent').
no problems.
my personal opinion on partitions is to ignore the OS entirely - if it fails, re-install!
Keep a separate partition for data - and raid that. If you got yourself a new 120-gig HDD, you can migrate Windows and Linux to it, and then have a 30-gig data partition shared with the old drive.
And.. you can keep the old drive around for a while until it's all working - if anything goes wrong, just slot it in, boot and start again. easy.
RAID-1 can be implemented in hardware or software.
You can buy cards (and motherboards) that have RAID capability, or you can use the software features of your OS.
Windows (NT/2k/XP) can set up 2 drives as RAID-1 by using the Logical Drives section of Computer Management (though it varies between OSes - google for full instructions, but basically you create space for the mirror, click the first partition, then the second, then click 'create mirror pair' from the menu).(those instructions are not 100% as its been a long while since I did it).
You don't need to copy anything - the OS will build the right images for you - once when you first set it up, and then on all writes will be made to both drives. You, as a user, won't even know that you have 2 drives mirroring each other.
Note that you can then remove a drive and it'll still work - the OS/card has simply made sure that everything that happened to 1 drive, happened to the other).
Only 1 thing - you'll need two partitions that are exactly the same size to mirror - I don't know anything that can mirror mismatched sized partitions, and I think that (some) Hardware solutions will require same-size drives.
RAID-1 cards aren't as expensive as they used to be, but they're still not 'almost-free' commodity items. My suggestion, if you want raid, is to buy bigger drives to migrate from your existing 4. (and if your 4 drives are already huge ones, then you're looking at a more professional solution anyway).
simple - the same reason there was a fuss when Munich chose Linux in the first place.
You can't pick and choose stories to hit the press, though I guess that if everything was fine and dandy at Munich, there wouldn't be a story in it at all. This is the way things are - it isn;t about Linux doing well, or Linux doing badly - its about stuff that makes people sit up and read it (and therefore look at ads/buy the paper).
am surprised by the motivation to do so little research on our .NET software; You would think that the use of Mono would help
:)
project given that Mr Neil is the technical director of a company that
sells
him reach customers using Linux, using mainframes or MacOS X.
He was just karma-whoring the linux community
I have to second this - although OSS is free to obtain, doesn;t mean it is free to implement, especially in a large business.
Consider Munich - currently the darling of the OSS community for going with free software. According to this article from Wired News they will end up paying more than if they had stuck with microsoft. They claim that the move will allow them to make future savings.. but I've heard that one before from every business that changes from one platform to another.
Quote: But instead of paying $23.7 million for the Microsoft solution, Munich's city council opted to spend roughly $35.7 million to switch to open source, saying that the higher price would be offset by lower costs and more flexibility in licensing fees and software choices over the long run.
Despite anticipated future savings, financial issues may stall the LiMux Project, according to recent reports in German technical news publication Computerwoche.
The migration plan is more complex than simply replacing Windows with Linux, according to an outline provided by the Munich information department. Studies on open-source security, desktop ergonomics and the software components' stability and compatibility with other applications will be included in the process.
the analogy is a bit wonky - its not the creators of guns that are like virus writers, but the *users* of guns (those who use them in a public area instead of their private grounds).
To keep the correct analogy, a virus writer who lets his virus out into the internet, to cause harm to innocent computer users, is like a gunman walking the streets blasting rounds off at random. ("oh, but the user should be wearing body armour, its not my fault")
If you let a gun off in public, I think you'll be arrested pretty damn quick. The same should happen to virus writers.
wow. social commentary and a load of 'insightful' mods. I was just trying to be funny.
:)
Obviously we need canned laughter for the internet now
cheers guys.
In theory... this should make for a better future broadcasts as they can analyze the feedback from the users
.. complete shite!! Hack those TiVos.. make sure Firefly is the most watched programme (even if its not broadcast. they'll never twig)
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..
Imagine what the majority of users watch. It ain't the good stuff you know. It's whether Daisy is sleeping with Brad behind Eric's back whilst Jake is having difficulty running his business and Karen is deciding whether to give up her job and become an alternative therapist.
in other words
you mean, he'll dress up as an elf, and she'll be the barbarian :)
its not terribly clear, but HTTP is not part of the 'Common Internet Scheme'. Look at section 3.3 where it gives the scheme for HTTP fully.
The only ones that do make use of user:passwd are ftp and telnet.
I'm not sure that's correct. The browser relies on the inet dlls to make connections - and they will be the bits that are changed. (ie. the edit field in the browser will not parse the text, it'll pass it on to the comms subsystem).
.. best get rid of it now (and not get hit with a similar exploit).
If MS alters the inet dlls then, all http communications will be affected by the change, and so the server will never see any packets even if you connect via scripts. (which is a good thing, you don't want a vbs script to auto-open hackers.com@www.ebay.com)
I think its only a matter of time before the other browsers fix their systems to work in the same way - the feature is not standards compliant, so
Get a clue before posting please. The problem is that IE is *not* standards compliant because it allows URLs with the user:passwd@host scheme.
Other browsers that do this are similarly broken. This is the bug, that and IE6 doesn't display the user/passwd in the title bar (which you'd expect really - really want your password displayed for all to see?).
So, if other browsers support this URL scheme, and hide the parts before the @ sign, then they're ready for exploitation too.
Interesting to note that the only thing at issue is the change they made to IE6 that simply displayed the part of the URL after the '@' sign - previous versions displayed the whole URL, username, password and all.
No-one cared before that change.
nonsense, it only takes a critical mass to implement it for it to work - once 80% of the email ISPs implement it, you can blacklist all those ISPs who don't - because you *know* they're going to be spam-magnets.
As for ISPs having control over their email servers, what else would you expect them to do? Run them as open relays?!!?
Every ISP has *total* control over their servers, its a service they provide to you in exchange for money, you don't have a right to be provided with them.
If you don't like it (eg. you're a spammer) then you can run your own email server... but you'll have to implement SPF yourself (ie. you'd be stupid to spam then), or remain un-SPFed and get blacklisted.
I do now. thanks a bunch pal. :)
yeah, I know where you're coming from.. but what happens when you *do* want the formatting too...
(and if you don't, what about other people who do?)
most windows apps solve this by having 2 paste commands...
or the way Windows does it?
lol. well that's stuffed any chances of getting it implemented then.
no, V was selected because it came next after X (for cut), and C for (for copy).
:)
You're still right about how users use it. I find it way better than the shift+ins scheme as I can never remember the combinations.
Most novices just accept what you tell them... 'then press ctrl+v to paste' and they're happy as they know how it works. 'click left, move mouse, press left and right at same time.. no, you won't get a menu.. yes, but usually you will, but not now because the buffer is full, you see.. no. oh.. bugger it'