Depends on what you want to do with the modeling tools. One of the things I found easy was the half-life or unreal world editor. Granted, you are building game levels rather than, well, whatever you are trying to make with a fancy 3d editor... but hey, at least you can spend your time gaming (and tweaking it) rather than do real work. Very simplistic, easy learning curve, not sure if '3d autocad/w skins' will be meaningful from a professional level.
Those of us in Minnesota always pay taxes on goods purchased over the internet or otherwise. It is called Use tax, and the idea is it protects our local business - while generating revenue for the state as an after thought... (I don't buy it either)
Nothing here to see - move along...
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Not that I would encourage anyone to violate the sanctity of an EULA, but if you happen by a windows box the fonts are pre-extracted and just sitting in the C:\WINNT\Fonts directory. Odds are you just have to copy them to your fonts directory on your linux box. All theoretical, mind you...
The legal way is using the extractor utilities (see sourceforge) to pull the fonts out of the setup package microsoft was offering. Take the newly extracted fonts - identical to the ones located on the windows box - and viola!
With all of these considerable graphical upgrades, we were pleased to hear that the minimum system specs are currently targeted at a 700 MHz PC with 128 MB RAM and a DX6-level video card, meaning you won't need a NASA supercomputer to run Half-Life 2.
Rejoice! I've got some decent hardware, but it is SOOO nice that the focus is not on a massive polygon count. My god, they might have spent time on -oh, level design, story, and a few other things that actually make the game fun. Half-Life was worth every penny - including additional copies I've picked up over time (bundles were cheaper, go figure). I hear folks drooling over Doom III, but hearing the insane hardware requirements it is rumored to need, I suspect I'll pick it up when it hits the bargain bin. I avoided C&C Generals because I hear others had issues with 'low end' cards like my (new for me) ti4200. Unreal II came and went because it sounds like the AI and levels stunk. I'll be plunking down cash for this one because the previous version was such a blast. I figure the mod scene will pick up on this one as well.
One of the few good things to happen today. What is next, Starcraft II?
I'm not going to touch the refactor/rewrite issues, because the fundamental problem is you are not effectively giving yourself enough time to do whatever the hell you want to do. Take what time you think it will take to implement something, double it, and round up to the next unit of measurement. Odds are the business does not give a rat's ass about the wrong or right way to implement something anyhow. Why confuse them with options?
How long will it take to fix this? (keep the snicker internal) Two weeks...
Make sure your walls go all the way to the top. Sounds silly, but way back when I was in college, the company I worked at installed all sorts of card readers and magnetic locks. What they did not do was actually run the wall beyond the suspended ceiling. On the bright side, the doofus's id card triggered the reader on the other side when he hopped the wall.
How is this better than making the last camera visible, preventing the crimes altogether?
Because 'complete' camera coverage did not stop shrinkage. I tried it. People can be very ingenious, and it took real work to figure out not only what, but how and when stuff disappeared. Honeypots got the stupid/cocky ones - which was within the scope of what a minimal paying job that let me study. Having the cops haul away those caught made an impact but even showing people we would prosecute was only a deterrent, not a solution.
Anyhow, only a night job while going to school. I'm sure someone else better qualified could shed some real light on the effectiveness of surveillance.
Doesn't anyone on here ever watch TV or movies? Seems to me a wireless security camera would actually *help* anyone who might want to break into a given place-- then nobody needs to infiltrate ahead of the break-in to tap into a wired video system.
I worked a couple jobs while paying for college. Security (the polyester kind) being one of the less rewarding - almost as fun as column chromatography of feces samples in the lab. Anyhow, tape decks were spendy, broken cameras were cheap. I'd wire up a couple cameras in the open and leave a blind spot. That is where I stuck the hidden camera connected to one of two working tape decks. Just like shooting fish in a barrel. You would see them look to make sure the cameras did not cover that area, walk back, and stuff the goods in their pockets/lunchbox/etc.
Don't assume. The concept of honeypots extend outside of IT....
Ok, I've got a couple BX board still running.... That chipset was fast and performed far beyond what Intel was hoping for. My Abit BE6-II reached amazing FSB overclocking while remaining stable, and my SuperMicro SBU continues to push content in production, having the CPU updated from a PII 300 to a PIII 800. The Abit was over designed, allowing me to go from a PII 266, PII 400, PIII 500, to finally a Celeron 566@952. The chip had legs.
Contrast this to the Intel boards, however. They were soo bloody afraid of someone running the CPU faster than the spec, that they tended to not handle the additional voltages or clock multipliers. Intel designed motherboard is not an asset in my book.
As for the chipset itself, it will be some time before it proves it's salt. I got burned badly with the i840 chipset debacle and stranded with the GX chipset. The i840 was what drove me to AMD on the workstation side.
The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.
If it is anything like the aviation biz, anything you can walk away from counts...
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>>I wouldn't be surprised to see some MS FUD based on this
I'd put my money on compromised windows boxes doing the attack rather than a bunch of angry penguins. Most of that user community is smart enough to not try to take down a site from their own system/network. Besides, SCO has been creating enemies with all sorts of groups who have the technical skills to make them suffer. IBM and Linux just happen to be the latest/last group they pissed on. Not to say a *nix user did not coordinate the attack, but I'll bet we don't hear boo from Redmond about what actually was running the attack.
What Gnu/Linux applications can I use to monitor and/or process stocks, options, bonds, financial news, and other related information via low cost Gnu/Linux computing solutions, broadband, and multi-head video cards? Free software only, please
I find gcc is a solid option, though I use (!gnu) javac more often than not... (kidding) With many of the data feeds coming in as XML, it was pretty easy to parse and display the data. By the time you finish your development, the market might be improving. Free as in beer, or free as in speech? A GPL or BSD license can be had, but alas, Ars-Fartsica analysis of the market was better than mine. The tools are worth more than the portfolio, and that is not saying much!
Dude, core rule of running ANY OS is to disable anything you don't use.
First off - Amen!
The problem is the bloody default install. If I was asked, you want this... I would have said no now that I know what it was. Looking at the description, "Sends and receives messages transmitted by administrators or the Alerter Service", it is not obvious you can nuke this service. The other problem is few would suspect random spammers could use it to broadcast messages when the description implies administrators. If it is part of the windows update stuff, the last thing I would want to do is block the steady stream of patches.
On my work laptop, my bride's navi, and a few other boxes I had no idea the messaging service was even there until I took my firewall out to swap in a fanless cpu/mainboard to replace the power hungry p60 that covered my internal network.
A bit of googling goes a long way, however.... I'd wait for the dupe before I pulled out my soap box.
First off, the OS runs in less than 512K ram? Good show! Kind of wish I had not given all my 486 class computers for my brother to create 'sculpture'. Gives the possibility of doing some embedded work/streaming servers with some very low end hardware. I figure I could make it boot and run tomcat off an LS120 floppy. Heck, might even have room for the full JDK. (grin - you know who you are)
Curious how this would do outside the firewall as well. It would not be on the script kiddies list... With hardware, ram, and hard drives as cheap as they are, its hard to see uses outside the embedded space. A port to a palmos or cell phone could be interesting.
Four years back, I purchased my home. Location mattered, since I wanted DSL and a static IP address.... (all the normal stuff - school system, neighborhoods, etc - were covered too) Called the phone company, was half the maximum distance from the CO, and had the go install DSL after we finished closing. A couple weeks went by and nothing. Finally, I called to find out when they were going to show up and they tell me the lines in our area were multiplexed (?) and would not support DSL. They don't work better than 4kb/s with a POTs connection either, compared to the 48-50kb/s I was getting in my apartment dial up.
Road Runner moved in a year later and gave me a glorious broadband connection at home, and my servers are at a local ISP. The day my Hughes DirectTV DVR pulls info over my network rather than POTs, is the day I cancel my land line and run all calls through our mobiles. I suspect it is game over for both the cable and telcos once the wireless broadband hits it strides.
Every time the phone company would call me during supper trying to sell me the latest service, I would ask them for one thing. Can you give me a DSL connection? I'll be damned, but that just horked up the call center script badly. (grin)
I see a lot of comments about - wink, wink - sure it was the virus, or dumb ass for executing a Trojan.
My first lesson with an improperly configured Linux box outside the firewall was when my ISP called asking about some insane bandwidth use. What? I checked the box and it seemed fine. Found out the traffic was on FTP, which I was not using. Sure enough, tons of porn and other files were getting uploaded and downloaded... all the files in a hidden directory. The box was owned, and I ended up rebuilding from scratch, this time leaving services off I did not actually use and patching some of the services I did. Than I discovered ssh and a few other key insights that were new to me.
I cannot believe I am the only one this kind of thing happened to...
I'll have some quality time on the airplane, so I will probably browse what they wrote. What is struck me as interesting was large and how long mozilla's download manager says it will take to get the zip files.
Just changing the CPU multiplier (usually) wont add to the heat kicked out of the processor. Back in the days, it use to be FSB x CPU multiplier = mhz.... To get the processor to run stable at a higher mhz, you usually had to up the voltage, which had the unfortunate effect of generating even more heat. Most of the time you ended up cranking up the FSB rather than the CPU because Intel had a habit of locking the CPU multiplier. AMD (with a steady hand and pencil) could modify the CPU multiplier as well, letting you find the optimal mix. For example, my celeron 566 had a FSB of 66mhz and a CPU multiplier of 8.5. With an extra volt and a quality heat sink, I could bump the FSB to 106, which gave me ~900mhz on the cheap.
OK. I was going somewhere with this. Just changing the CPU multiplier would probably make the CPU unstable (but not dead), but the motherboard is responsible for sending the voltage. Possible the motherboard would recognize the 'virus modified' settings and feed the CPU more juice than it could handle, but odds are it would just be unstable - assuming the CPU even cared what the motherboard was trying to tell it what multiplier it was.
As a side note, underclocking is usually done to find the minimum voltage you can feed the CPU. The games I played before VIA came out with their 2.8W CPU...(grin)
Applied Cryptography is a must read. Few books invoke the proper fear and respect cryptology deserves, with example after example of why your l33t encryption should not be used for anything more valuable than your Slashdot UID. Great examples, solid code, lots of history... If this is even half the book Applied Cryptography was, get your checkbook ready.
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Depends on what you want to do with the modeling tools. One of the things I found easy was the half-life or unreal world editor. Granted, you are building game levels rather than, well, whatever you are trying to make with a fancy 3d editor... but hey, at least you can spend your time gaming (and tweaking it) rather than do real work. Very simplistic, easy learning curve, not sure if '3d autocad /w skins' will be meaningful from a professional level.
Those of us in Minnesota always pay taxes on goods purchased over the internet or otherwise. It is called Use tax, and the idea is it protects our local business - while generating revenue for the state as an after thought... (I don't buy it either)
Nothing here to see - move along...
Not that I would encourage anyone to violate the sanctity of an EULA, but if you happen by a windows box the fonts are pre-extracted and just sitting in the C:\WINNT\Fonts directory. Odds are you just have to copy them to your fonts directory on your linux box. All theoretical, mind you...
The legal way is using the extractor utilities (see sourceforge) to pull the fonts out of the setup package microsoft was offering. Take the newly extracted fonts - identical to the ones located on the windows box - and viola!
Nice to know... at ~$50 each, it does not take much to say no these days.
With all of these considerable graphical upgrades, we were pleased to hear that the minimum system specs are currently targeted at a 700 MHz PC with 128 MB RAM and a DX6-level video card, meaning you won't need a NASA supercomputer to run Half-Life 2.
Rejoice! I've got some decent hardware, but it is SOOO nice that the focus is not on a massive polygon count. My god, they might have spent time on -oh, level design, story, and a few other things that actually make the game fun. Half-Life was worth every penny - including additional copies I've picked up over time (bundles were cheaper, go figure). I hear folks drooling over Doom III, but hearing the insane hardware requirements it is rumored to need, I suspect I'll pick it up when it hits the bargain bin. I avoided C&C Generals because I hear others had issues with 'low end' cards like my (new for me) ti4200. Unreal II came and went because it sounds like the AI and levels stunk. I'll be plunking down cash for this one because the previous version was such a blast. I figure the mod scene will pick up on this one as well.
One of the few good things to happen today. What is next, Starcraft II?
I'm not going to touch the refactor/rewrite issues, because the fundamental problem is you are not effectively giving yourself enough time to do whatever the hell you want to do. Take what time you think it will take to implement something, double it, and round up to the next unit of measurement. Odds are the business does not give a rat's ass about the wrong or right way to implement something anyhow. Why confuse them with options?
How long will it take to fix this? (keep the snicker internal) Two weeks...
Make sure your walls go all the way to the top. Sounds silly, but way back when I was in college, the company I worked at installed all sorts of card readers and magnetic locks. What they did not do was actually run the wall beyond the suspended ceiling. On the bright side, the doofus's id card triggered the reader on the other side when he hopped the wall.
How is this better than making the last camera visible, preventing the crimes altogether?
Because 'complete' camera coverage did not stop shrinkage. I tried it. People can be very ingenious, and it took real work to figure out not only what, but how and when stuff disappeared. Honeypots got the stupid/cocky ones - which was within the scope of what a minimal paying job that let me study. Having the cops haul away those caught made an impact but even showing people we would prosecute was only a deterrent, not a solution.
Anyhow, only a night job while going to school. I'm sure someone else better qualified could shed some real light on the effectiveness of surveillance.
Doesn't anyone on here ever watch TV or movies? Seems to me a wireless security camera would actually *help* anyone who might want to break into a given place-- then nobody needs to infiltrate ahead of the break-in to tap into a wired video system.
I worked a couple jobs while paying for college. Security (the polyester kind) being one of the less rewarding - almost as fun as column chromatography of feces samples in the lab. Anyhow, tape decks were spendy, broken cameras were cheap. I'd wire up a couple cameras in the open and leave a blind spot. That is where I stuck the hidden camera connected to one of two working tape decks. Just like shooting fish in a barrel. You would see them look to make sure the cameras did not cover that area, walk back, and stuff the goods in their pockets/lunchbox/etc.
Don't assume. The concept of honeypots extend outside of IT....
Ok, I've got a couple BX board still running .... That chipset was fast and performed far beyond what Intel was hoping for. My Abit BE6-II reached amazing FSB overclocking while remaining stable, and my SuperMicro SBU continues to push content in production, having the CPU updated from a PII 300 to a PIII 800. The Abit was over designed, allowing me to go from a PII 266, PII 400, PIII 500, to finally a Celeron 566@952. The chip had legs.
Contrast this to the Intel boards, however. They were soo bloody afraid of someone running the CPU faster than the spec, that they tended to not handle the additional voltages or clock multipliers. Intel designed motherboard is not an asset in my book.
As for the chipset itself, it will be some time before it proves it's salt. I got burned badly with the i840 chipset debacle and stranded with the GX chipset. The i840 was what drove me to AMD on the workstation side.
The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.
If it is anything like the aviation biz, anything you can walk away from counts...
>>I wouldn't be surprised to see some MS FUD based on this
I'd put my money on compromised windows boxes doing the attack rather than a bunch of angry penguins. Most of that user community is smart enough to not try to take down a site from their own system/network. Besides, SCO has been creating enemies with all sorts of groups who have the technical skills to make them suffer. IBM and Linux just happen to be the latest/last group they pissed on. Not to say a *nix user did not coordinate the attack, but I'll bet we don't hear boo from Redmond about what actually was running the attack.
What Gnu/Linux applications can I use to monitor and/or process stocks, options, bonds, financial news, and other related information via low cost Gnu/Linux computing solutions, broadband, and multi-head video cards? Free software only, please
I find gcc is a solid option, though I use (!gnu) javac more often than not... (kidding) With many of the data feeds coming in as XML, it was pretty easy to parse and display the data. By the time you finish your development, the market might be improving. Free as in beer, or free as in speech? A GPL or BSD license can be had, but alas, Ars-Fartsica analysis of the market was better than mine. The tools are worth more than the portfolio, and that is not saying much!
Dude, core rule of running ANY OS is to disable anything you don't use.
First off - Amen!
The problem is the bloody default install. If I was asked, you want this... I would have said no now that I know what it was. Looking at the description, "Sends and receives messages transmitted by administrators or the Alerter Service", it is not obvious you can nuke this service. The other problem is few would suspect random spammers could use it to broadcast messages when the description implies administrators. If it is part of the windows update stuff, the last thing I would want to do is block the steady stream of patches.
On my work laptop, my bride's navi, and a few other boxes I had no idea the messaging service was even there until I took my firewall out to swap in a fanless cpu/mainboard to replace the power hungry p60 that covered my internal network.
A bit of googling goes a long way, however.... I'd wait for the dupe before I pulled out my soap box.
First off, the OS runs in less than 512K ram? Good show! Kind of wish I had not given all my 486 class computers for my brother to create 'sculpture'. Gives the possibility of doing some embedded work/streaming servers with some very low end hardware. I figure I could make it boot and run tomcat off an LS120 floppy. Heck, might even have room for the full JDK. (grin - you know who you are)
Curious how this would do outside the firewall as well. It would not be on the script kiddies list... With hardware, ram, and hard drives as cheap as they are, its hard to see uses outside the embedded space. A port to a palmos or cell phone could be interesting.
>> Hey you're among /. friends here...you didn't have to throw that in ;-)
No really, all the fluffy stuff is really important to me.
She knows my user account... I welcome my robot masters, and (argh)
[no carrier]
How does it pull the TV guide? I don't do PPV, so no loss there. I thought it snagged it via dial-up...
Four years back, I purchased my home. Location mattered, since I wanted DSL and a static IP address.... (all the normal stuff - school system, neighborhoods, etc - were covered too) Called the phone company, was half the maximum distance from the CO, and had the go install DSL after we finished closing. A couple weeks went by and nothing. Finally, I called to find out when they were going to show up and they tell me the lines in our area were multiplexed (?) and would not support DSL. They don't work better than 4kb/s with a POTs connection either, compared to the 48-50kb/s I was getting in my apartment dial up.
Road Runner moved in a year later and gave me a glorious broadband connection at home, and my servers are at a local ISP. The day my Hughes DirectTV DVR pulls info over my network rather than POTs, is the day I cancel my land line and run all calls through our mobiles. I suspect it is game over for both the cable and telcos once the wireless broadband hits it strides.
Every time the phone company would call me during supper trying to sell me the latest service, I would ask them for one thing. Can you give me a DSL connection? I'll be damned, but that just horked up the call center script badly. (grin)
>>The only thing I could come up with was "Player's Handbook"
>Hang your head in shame!! You call yourself a geek??
Someone who knows the AD&D reference but misses the business reference? I'd let him keep the geek status....
"What is your greatest weakness?"
Concise answers. (silence)
To think they made me a job offer after clowning around on the interview...
Not that kind...
I see a lot of comments about - wink, wink - sure it was the virus, or dumb ass for executing a Trojan.
My first lesson with an improperly configured Linux box outside the firewall was when my ISP called asking about some insane bandwidth use. What? I checked the box and it seemed fine. Found out the traffic was on FTP, which I was not using. Sure enough, tons of porn and other files were getting uploaded and downloaded... all the files in a hidden directory. The box was owned, and I ended up rebuilding from scratch, this time leaving services off I did not actually use and patching some of the services I did. Than I discovered ssh and a few other key insights that were new to me.
I cannot believe I am the only one this kind of thing happened to...
I'll have some quality time on the airplane, so I will probably browse what they wrote. What is struck me as interesting was large and how long mozilla's download manager says it will take to get the zip files.
Win2K - 13,008KB, ~1.4 hours
WinNT - 1,282 ~ 10 minutes
WinXP - 1,713 ~12 minutes
Just changing the CPU multiplier (usually) wont add to the heat kicked out of the processor. Back in the days, it use to be FSB x CPU multiplier = mhz.... To get the processor to run stable at a higher mhz, you usually had to up the voltage, which had the unfortunate effect of generating even more heat. Most of the time you ended up cranking up the FSB rather than the CPU because Intel had a habit of locking the CPU multiplier. AMD (with a steady hand and pencil) could modify the CPU multiplier as well, letting you find the optimal mix. For example, my celeron 566 had a FSB of 66mhz and a CPU multiplier of 8.5. With an extra volt and a quality heat sink, I could bump the FSB to 106, which gave me ~900mhz on the cheap.
OK. I was going somewhere with this. Just changing the CPU multiplier would probably make the CPU unstable (but not dead), but the motherboard is responsible for sending the voltage. Possible the motherboard would recognize the 'virus modified' settings and feed the CPU more juice than it could handle, but odds are it would just be unstable - assuming the CPU even cared what the motherboard was trying to tell it what multiplier it was.
As a side note, underclocking is usually done to find the minimum voltage you can feed the CPU. The games I played before VIA came out with their 2.8W CPU...(grin)
Applied Cryptography is a must read. Few books invoke the proper fear and respect cryptology deserves, with example after example of why your l33t encryption should not be used for anything more valuable than your Slashdot UID. Great examples, solid code, lots of history... If this is even half the book Applied Cryptography was, get your checkbook ready.