Maybe I slept too much in power school, but IIRC, those designs that use natural circ don't depend on speed of the sub -- they rely on standing columns of water and the density difference between the Thot and Tcold sides of the core. I believe that the primary loop was vertical rather than horizontal, with the hot primary going into a heat exchanger physically above the core, and allowing the standing colum of cold water to provide a static head. That seems like the sensible way to design it anyway. I could be wrong.
Dunno, though. I was surface and we didn't have a NC plant. We didn't need to be quiet, we packed Tomahawks and scads of surface to air missiles.:)
The P205 also has the metal tip and replacable eraser, as does the P207, the.7mm version. In fact, the P205/7/9 models are identical but for the lead diameter.
I tried the.7mm version, but found I preferred the smaller line size of the.5mm one. You are right in that it does break fairly often though.
And the hard core geeks only use the Pilot retractable mechanical pencil. Like this one.
Pentel used to make a better retractable mechanical pencil, with a nice crosshatched aluminum barrel grip, but sadly they discontinued them.
The Pilot is the next best one. If I can't dig up either of those, then the next best is the Pentel P205. Yeah, I'm a geek, but I love my mechanical pencils. Loaded with nice soft 2B lead. Great for smudging stuff.
I'm paranoid enough about security that I've already heard about the exploit and want to patch, but I'm lazy enough to trust binaries offered up by some random (no offense) guy on *SLASHDOT*?
Definately standalone, hardware has to be reasonable, but my thought is that if the machine sits slammed all day while clients download updates from it, so much the better... network throttling.:)
Like all MS stuff, it's all balanced on a bigger and bigger pile of buggy stuff, so it's not surprising that some of it doesn't work. In any event, those machines that don't get updates are probably broken anyway. So I'll sacrifice a couple machines to the worms just so I don't have to one-by-one update.
Office, as you mentioned, is a non-issue. That's an inplace patch of the admin install.
So all in all, it's not bad. Not perfect. Not as good a solution as, say, not running windows, but not bad, either. If you are running more than a handful of Win2K or XP machines, you NEED TO HAVE SUS. Not having it is just dangerously suicidal.
Sounds like what you are looking for is SUS. This will allow you to push security updates to your clients centrally.
Takes an afternoon to get set up and running, but after that, it runs with minimal intervention. Test your security updates, then authorize them to be distributed by the SUS server, and it takes care of the rest.
Of course, this assumes that you are running win2k or better on the client side. If not, you are stuck with logon scripting stuff for old machines. Not pretty. If you do have w2k or better, though, this is a huge timesaver. Works pretty good too. Those few that have already discovered it were able to stand on the sidelines, amused, as those who were trying to windows update machines one by one got eaten up by blaster.
Course, in fairness, there is another product that protects you from these kinds of worms, too... and it's sexy as hell.
Has anyone considered the idea that perhaps they are going to amend the open source software definition to allow discrimination against SCO?
Imagine the case that Samba, for instance, was GPL except for SCO, which would have an outrageous licensing fee. Seems like FSF floated that idea already with GCC, didn't they? SCO *has* to use Samba, but can they afford to do development on it themselves?
What if all software packages changed licenses to a "GPL but for SCO" license. That means SCO could only use software up to the license change, and make modifications and improvements themselves. What would their cost be for that? And wouldn't that show other companies that the free software community can't be messed with?
Dunno, but the FSF floating that idea makes me think thats perhaps what ESR is referring to.
Hey, it's not just you! I was looking through some code the other day, and I saw this:
/* FIXME */
which I know DAMN WELL was stolen out of some code I had written. Just like SCO's case, the comments were *verbatim* from my code. Some slick bastards out there.
Some of us have been getting our acsii pr0n fix for a long time. Here's my recipe:
Install aalib, install SDL configured for aalib (./configure --enable-video-aalib), and loki's sdl mpeg player. Boot with framebuffer into a nice display like 1024x768. Set the environmental variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER to "aalib", and you can play mpg video in a console.
I sometimes play (non-pron!) movies on an unused display in my office. Looks kinda cool and matrixy and its funny how long someone has to look at it realize it's an actual movie.:)
One would suppose that's why this site isn't "News for Martin Kallisti. Stuff that matters." I think you are confusing this site with a democracy.
It isn't. Deal with it.
Either that, or you and the other guys that are always complaining about it can go set up an "antislash" site that promotes news items you think are more appropriate. My guess is that if you got any kind of following, you'd find trolls on your board saying "I hate that they never publish Microsoft sucks and Linux is the best kind of articles".
Can't please everyone. I think you just have to take it how it is.
Does that mean we'll start seeing the equivalent of the "please click on my sponsor links" on TV shows?
Something like "If everyone watches all the commercials on the next three programs of Firefly, we'll keep it on the air." constantly running across the bottom of the screen.
And just when I thought the TV watching experience had hit absolute rock bottom...
I dunno... the market was different in the win98 days. Today's consumers (at least in the business sector) are more aware of the fact that they hold less control over their IT infrastructure than does Microsoft.
They fear Microsoft now more than they ever have. I think the market resistance will be fierce.
I could be wrong. I just hope there is enough demand that *I* can buy the grey-market Taiwanese motherboards.:)
The article mentioned in the parent is a good one... I've used it successfully in several seminars on value proposition of open source software. It's generally been very well received.
As far as arguing with upper management, when I was working in cubeville, I never worried about it. I just implemented it the best way I knew how, and presented it as a completed solution.
Once the solution is in place, nobody ever seems to worry about it. Then at some point in the future, it's easy to point to it and say: "but we've *been* using open source all this time, and don't have problems with it".
I think that's still the most successful implementation strategy. It's the one Microsoft used for pushing Novell out of mid-sided businesses.
I don't want to let MS embed a bomb in my system. Thanks, no.
And this is why I think that this concept will eventually fail. The market will respond. If there is a demand for fast, new, up-to-date motherboards and processors without DRM, the market will expand to fill that void.
C'mon... don't tell there aren't a *load of Taiwanese component manufacturers that won't rush in with boards capable of running Linux or one of the BSDs that don't have DRM. Very likely Apple will make a lack of DRM a marketing feature.
Bottom line, if the market doesn't want DRM (and I dont think informed people do), then the market won't buy DRM. Period.
I hear lots of people say things like this. "Macs are way too expensive for the speed of the machine" or "MP3 player X is a lot cheaper than an iPod".
I understand this... I used to believe it too. The error is in assuming that the alternatives are all essentially equal... all mp3 players play mp3's, and computers are equal save for the speed of the processor.
That's not the case. I can't explain it other than saying that there is a design quality and esthetic that is different in the Apple products. You won't believe it until you own one, but once you do, you understand the price difference, and realize it is negligible... that in fact all MP3 players are not the same. All computers are not the same.
I boycotted XP and switched to Mac, while cursing the increased cost. Not any more. I recognize the difference between my Mac and my PC, and I know the differences are well in excess of the cost.
Same is true with my iPod. It's the 3rd MP3 device I've owned, and it's cheaper compared to buying other devices, not using them, and having to re-buy an iPod.
That's my take. Hate to sound like a ravenous Mac-head, but... well... I am one. Now.
And there were DirectX interfaces for Visual Basic, too, but for some reason Id decided not to do Doom 3 in VB. Go figure.
It's really a question of appropriateness. C# isn't appropriate for games. My guess is that the whole reason for Managed DirectX is to allow apps to do visualization and stuff... so that managers can look at sales figures as a cluster of three-d spheres or something stupid, not to write a 3d shooter with.
That's not to say you couldn't... wrong tool for the wrong job, but you could probably do it. You could probably fry an egg in a toaster, too... it would just be messy as hell. Not to mention stupid. Kinda like game programming in C#.
If you're passing large amounts of data around that would attract the attention of people who could get a lawful intercept warrant, then I would assume you are smart enough to use SSH, IPSec, or some other similar secure communications technology that renders the capability of this system useless.
Yes! And that's what is wrong with this idea. It won't be used to hunt down terrorists... they are smart enough to hide their data already.
The big losers here are the common people, not criminals. This is an example of a technology whose ONLY USE is to infringe on the civil liberties of the average person.
Someone needs to do a simple reality check on this concept. I don't understand why big red flags aren't going up all over the place. What does this accomplish? What are the goals, and why would someone attempt to implement this when the results don't meet the goals?
Where the hell are the civil liberties groups that should be bitching up a storm? How come every single check and balance provided in government has gone absent the last two years? What a travesty.
I keep hearing over 50 percent of dishes sold are being used for stolen satellite access.
I think this used to be true, but not so much anymore. Once the emulators and hardware got to the point that joe sixpack could set up an emulator, they shifted to newer smartcards. I'm not 100% sure, as I'm not really in the satellite hacking scene, but those that I know that used to be stealing satellite are now paying for it.:)
And yeah, this was a failed attempt on Microsoft's part, but they can just chalk it up as lesson learned. The next version will be stronger, until it reaches the point that it isn't cost effective to hack. Imagine if it starts to take two years (or more!) to reverse the box rather than just six months. There is suddenly much less point to hacking it, if all you are going to be able to do is run a bunch of old lame games. Even for "free". There will still be hack value in it, but I don't imagine that Microsoft will have much to worry about at that point.
So I dunno... it just seems to me like if they can keep the box closed for two years or more, then they've won. And that doesn't seem like an unreachable goal, so long as they don't continue to make the same stupid mistakes they have with the xbox.
And you know that they aren't ignoring the beating the xbox scene is giving them. They'll come back fighting. They always do.
This wonderful example shows how even hardware-enforced media protection schemes aren't going to work, as long as there are any vulnerabilities in the "trusted" software.
This is true as far as it goes, but you have to think that the goal (from Microsoft's perspective) isn't to lock hackers out of the hardware, it's to lock them out of the hardware only long enough to ship the next version, built on a platform immune to the vulnerabilities of the previous platform.
Look at the satellite TV folks -- once pirated satellite got out of hand, they just dropped the H cards and started shipping HU cards. Once the community started getting traction on those, they moved to the next version of smart cards.
DirectTV doesn't have to lock the hackers out forever, just make it hard enough to reverse engineer that they can move to a newer platform when the dam starts to break. So Microsoft can do the same thing. They can move faster than the community can, particularly when the protection is on die. Makes reversing it *really hard*... both expensive and time consuming.
So really, the security on Palladium doesn't have to be great, just good enough.
Slashdot Mirror
Excellent. Two thumbs up.
Maybe I slept too much in power school, but IIRC, those designs that use natural circ don't depend on speed of the sub -- they rely on standing columns of water and the density difference between the Thot and Tcold sides of the core. I believe that the primary loop was vertical rather than horizontal, with the hot primary going into a heat exchanger physically above the core, and allowing the standing colum of cold water to provide a static head. That seems like the sensible way to design it anyway. I could be wrong.
:)
Dunno, though. I was surface and we didn't have a NC plant. We didn't need to be quiet, we packed Tomahawks and scads of surface to air missiles.
The P205 also has the metal tip and replacable eraser, as does the P207, the .7mm version. In fact, the P205/7/9 models are identical but for the lead diameter.
.7mm version, but found I preferred the smaller line size of the .5mm one. You are right in that it does break fairly often though.
I tried the
And the hard core geeks only use the Pilot retractable mechanical pencil. Like this one.
Pentel used to make a better retractable mechanical pencil, with a nice crosshatched aluminum barrel grip, but sadly they discontinued them.
The Pilot is the next best one. If I can't dig up either of those, then the next best is the Pentel P205. Yeah, I'm a geek, but I love my mechanical pencils. Loaded with nice soft 2B lead. Great for smudging stuff.
Lemme see if I've got this right.
I'm paranoid enough about security that I've already heard about the exploit and want to patch, but I'm lazy enough to trust binaries offered up by some random (no offense) guy on *SLASHDOT*?
Please tell me your logs show no hits.
Yeah, mostly yup to all of that.
:)
Definately standalone, hardware has to be reasonable, but my thought is that if the machine sits slammed all day while clients download updates from it, so much the better... network throttling.
Like all MS stuff, it's all balanced on a bigger and bigger pile of buggy stuff, so it's not surprising that some of it doesn't work. In any event, those machines that don't get updates are probably broken anyway. So I'll sacrifice a couple machines to the worms just so I don't have to one-by-one update.
Office, as you mentioned, is a non-issue. That's an inplace patch of the admin install.
So all in all, it's not bad. Not perfect. Not as good a solution as, say, not running windows, but not bad, either. If you are running more than a handful of Win2K or XP machines, you NEED TO HAVE SUS. Not having it is just dangerously suicidal.
Sounds like what you are looking for is SUS. This will allow you to push security updates to your clients centrally.
Takes an afternoon to get set up and running, but after that, it runs with minimal intervention. Test your security updates, then authorize them to be distributed by the SUS server, and it takes care of the rest.
Of course, this assumes that you are running win2k or better on the client side. If not, you are stuck with logon scripting stuff for old machines. Not pretty. If you do have w2k or better, though, this is a huge timesaver. Works pretty good too. Those few that have already discovered it were able to stand on the sidelines, amused, as those who were trying to windows update machines one by one got eaten up by blaster.
Course, in fairness, there is another product that protects you from these kinds of worms, too... and it's sexy as hell.
Has anyone considered the idea that perhaps they are going to amend the open source software definition to allow discrimination against SCO?
Imagine the case that Samba, for instance, was GPL except for SCO, which would have an outrageous licensing fee. Seems like FSF floated that idea already with GCC, didn't they? SCO *has* to use Samba, but can they afford to do development on it themselves?
What if all software packages changed licenses to a "GPL but for SCO" license. That means SCO could only use software up to the license change, and make modifications and improvements themselves. What would their cost be for that? And wouldn't that show other companies that the free software community can't be messed with?
Dunno, but the FSF floating that idea makes me think thats perhaps what ESR is referring to.
which I know DAMN WELL was stolen out of some code I had written. Just like SCO's case, the comments were *verbatim* from my code. Some slick bastards out there.
From my service experience, the most realistic thing that could be added to the game is a mop.
That, or a paint chipper.
Uh... that would be easier, then. :)
Thanks.
Yeah, but somehow it looks cooler in a console window. I dunno. More matrixy or something.
Some of us have been getting our acsii pr0n fix for a long time. Here's my recipe:
./configure --enable-video-aalib), and loki's sdl mpeg player. Boot with framebuffer into a nice display like 1024x768. Set the environmental variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER to "aalib", and you can play mpg video in a console.
:)
Install aalib, install SDL configured for aalib (
I sometimes play (non-pron!) movies on an unused display in my office. Looks kinda cool and matrixy and its funny how long someone has to look at it realize it's an actual movie.
One would suppose that's why this site isn't "News for Martin Kallisti. Stuff that matters." I think you are confusing this site with a democracy.
It isn't. Deal with it.
Either that, or you and the other guys that are always complaining about it can go set up an "antislash" site that promotes news items you think are more appropriate. My guess is that if you got any kind of following, you'd find trolls on your board saying "I hate that they never publish Microsoft sucks and Linux is the best kind of articles".
Can't please everyone. I think you just have to take it how it is.
Does that mean we'll start seeing the equivalent of the "please click on my sponsor links" on TV shows?
Something like "If everyone watches all the commercials on the next three programs of Firefly, we'll keep it on the air." constantly running across the bottom of the screen.
And just when I thought the TV watching experience had hit absolute rock bottom...
I dunno... the market was different in the win98 days. Today's consumers (at least in the business sector) are more aware of the fact that they hold less control over their IT infrastructure than does Microsoft.
:)
They fear Microsoft now more than they ever have. I think the market resistance will be fierce.
I could be wrong. I just hope there is enough demand that *I* can buy the grey-market Taiwanese motherboards.
The article mentioned in the parent is a good one... I've used it successfully in several seminars on value proposition of open source software. It's generally been very well received.
As far as arguing with upper management, when I was working in cubeville, I never worried about it. I just implemented it the best way I knew how, and presented it as a completed solution.
Once the solution is in place, nobody ever seems to worry about it. Then at some point in the future, it's easy to point to it and say: "but we've *been* using open source all this time, and don't have problems with it".
I think that's still the most successful implementation strategy. It's the one Microsoft used for pushing Novell out of mid-sided businesses.
And this is why I think that this concept will eventually fail. The market will respond. If there is a demand for fast, new, up-to-date motherboards and processors without DRM, the market will expand to fill that void.
C'mon... don't tell there aren't a *load of Taiwanese component manufacturers that won't rush in with boards capable of running Linux or one of the BSDs that don't have DRM. Very likely Apple will make a lack of DRM a marketing feature.
Bottom line, if the market doesn't want DRM (and I dont think informed people do), then the market won't buy DRM. Period.
I hear lots of people say things like this. "Macs are way too expensive for the speed of the machine" or "MP3 player X is a lot cheaper than an iPod".
I understand this... I used to believe it too. The error is in assuming that the alternatives are all essentially equal... all mp3 players play mp3's, and computers are equal save for the speed of the processor.
That's not the case. I can't explain it other than saying that there is a design quality and esthetic that is different in the Apple products. You won't believe it until you own one, but once you do, you understand the price difference, and realize it is negligible... that in fact all MP3 players are not the same. All computers are not the same.
I boycotted XP and switched to Mac, while cursing the increased cost. Not any more. I recognize the difference between my Mac and my PC, and I know the differences are well in excess of the cost.
Same is true with my iPod. It's the 3rd MP3 device I've owned, and it's cheaper compared to buying other devices, not using them, and having to re-buy an iPod.
That's my take. Hate to sound like a ravenous Mac-head, but... well... I am one. Now.
And there were DirectX interfaces for Visual Basic, too, but for some reason Id decided not to do Doom 3 in VB. Go figure.
It's really a question of appropriateness. C# isn't appropriate for games. My guess is that the whole reason for Managed DirectX is to allow apps to do visualization and stuff... so that managers can look at sales figures as a cluster of three-d spheres or something stupid, not to write a 3d shooter with.
That's not to say you couldn't... wrong tool for the wrong job, but you could probably do it. You could probably fry an egg in a toaster, too... it would just be messy as hell. Not to mention stupid. Kinda like game programming in C#.
I bet that's right, but the subset of the language you would learn would only be appropriate if, say... you were infiltrating a castle full of Nazis.
:)
Seems less useful than it probably could be.
I dunno. Maybe you spend lots of time infiltrating Nazi filled castles.
Yes! And that's what is wrong with this idea. It won't be used to hunt down terrorists... they are smart enough to hide their data already.
The big losers here are the common people, not criminals. This is an example of a technology whose ONLY USE is to infringe on the civil liberties of the average person.
Someone needs to do a simple reality check on this concept. I don't understand why big red flags aren't going up all over the place. What does this accomplish? What are the goals, and why would someone attempt to implement this when the results don't meet the goals?
Where the hell are the civil liberties groups that should be bitching up a storm? How come every single check and balance provided in government has gone absent the last two years? What a travesty.
I think this used to be true, but not so much anymore. Once the emulators and hardware got to the point that joe sixpack could set up an emulator, they shifted to newer smartcards. I'm not 100% sure, as I'm not really in the satellite hacking scene, but those that I know that used to be stealing satellite are now paying for it. :)
And yeah, this was a failed attempt on Microsoft's part, but they can just chalk it up as lesson learned. The next version will be stronger, until it reaches the point that it isn't cost effective to hack. Imagine if it starts to take two years (or more!) to reverse the box rather than just six months. There is suddenly much less point to hacking it, if all you are going to be able to do is run a bunch of old lame games. Even for "free". There will still be hack value in it, but I don't imagine that Microsoft will have much to worry about at that point.
So I dunno... it just seems to me like if they can keep the box closed for two years or more, then they've won. And that doesn't seem like an unreachable goal, so long as they don't continue to make the same stupid mistakes they have with the xbox.
And you know that they aren't ignoring the beating the xbox scene is giving them. They'll come back fighting. They always do.
This is true as far as it goes, but you have to think that the goal (from Microsoft's perspective) isn't to lock hackers out of the hardware, it's to lock them out of the hardware only long enough to ship the next version, built on a platform immune to the vulnerabilities of the previous platform.
Look at the satellite TV folks -- once pirated satellite got out of hand, they just dropped the H cards and started shipping HU cards. Once the community started getting traction on those, they moved to the next version of smart cards.
DirectTV doesn't have to lock the hackers out forever, just make it hard enough to reverse engineer that they can move to a newer platform when the dam starts to break. So Microsoft can do the same thing. They can move faster than the community can, particularly when the protection is on die. Makes reversing it *really hard*... both expensive and time consuming.
So really, the security on Palladium doesn't have to be great, just good enough.
I thought leaked keys made baby Jesus cry.
(that's what I heard)