Man is it fun watching Slashdot readers be convinced this must be faulty research without having read the research itself. Why not wait a few days until you can verify what the researchers did (should be available later from the blackhat.com website) and provide actual analysis on the research.
You can't fault the conclusions unless you know how that conclusion was reached.
(Of course, if the conclusion had been that Apple was better at 0-day patches, there'd be a lot more, "Well, duh!" responses.)
QA is done, but the article mentioned it being a possible bug in relation to some Symantec software.
The QA pass consists of several checks, but all on the OS and Microsoft products, things they have control of.
QA isn't going to install 80 or 100 different types of software out there and do regression testing on them. I'm of the opinion that if the bug only crops up with users who have a particular piece of software installed, then it's the software and not the patch that's to blame.
Three machines here. Two are FreeBSD servers, the other dual boots between WinXP and FreeBSD. I really like both OS's. People bitch a lot about Windows and Microsoft, but in many ways you owe some things to them.
Yes, there are things I don't like about Windows, but that's why I dual boot. There's also a couple things that are sticking points with me about FreeBSD (but I like it better than linux).
Bottom line, no OS is perfect. Each OS has it's place. Depending on what I want to do determines what OS I'm in.
Can they make a coherent movie eight times that long?
Probably they can. And while this may not be the best example, look at Beavis and Butthead do America. While it wasn't anything that could be called great film, it was amusing and true to the original show.
I think Simpsons can do something similar and be just fine.
The above two posts are absolutely true. I think they pretty much cover everything except programming.
Every sys admin should know at least one programming language and one scripting language. Knowledge of sed/awk and shell scripting are nearly essential.
Aside from that, I remember something one of the admins where I work said when I asked what skills were required. A good understanding of the hardware (RAID in its many forms and incarnations especially) and a good understanding of UNIX in general. The particular OS isn't as important as knowing what the tools in UNIX are and how to find the info you need for that particular flavor.
Finally, speaking from my experience, know the details of any protocol you support. You should know TCP/IP intimately and be very familiar with tcpdump. If you are a mail admin, you had better be able to send e-mail using telnet and have it go through. If you are a web admin, be able to request web pages through telnet and understand the response completely. Remember, telnet can be your friend.
Nothing annoys me as a customer support person more than getting a call from an admin who hasn't done their own troubleshooting. If you have a deep understanding of how the stuff running on your system works and the protocols and services you are supporting, you should be able to do nearly all the troubleshooting yourself. By the time you call me, you should be able to tell me exactly what is happening and how you know that. Nothing annoys customer support more than teaching an admin to do their job.
I'm suprised no one has looked at the 2000 terrabytes/day number.
I'm sorry, that seems just a bit low. 1 site pushing 1 Gb/s is 84 Terrabytes/day. That means only 23 sites have to use that much bandwitch for that 2000 number to be hit. As I know of at least one site that pushes (not counting incoming) 10 Gb/s, that number is just a little unreasonable.
I'd really like to know where people get these kinds of numbers. I have seen silly numbers like this one and the 7 billion pieces of e-mail per day numbers and have to wonder where they come from. Acording to some numbers I saw released at one point, Hotmail alone receives over 1 billion e-mail per day.
I really have to wonder if someone is just making this stuff up or if they are looking at a very small set of data and extrapolating from there. In either case, I think better methods need to be used to create these kinds of numbers.
`a device does not infringe because it can be made to infringe'
Hmm... So we can apply this idea to patent law, but my question is can it then be applied to copywrite law as well?
Thus, something like DeCSS which does not violate copywrite law on its own but can be made to, would not be in violation. A photocopier would be an example of this idea. While a photocopier can be used to reproduce an entire book, since it doesn't have to be used that way it is ok.
Music has been a part of society for litereally thousands of years. People will continue to want to purchase music (even if that means digital format). If nothing else, concerts will continue to be the true source of income for performers.
Look at how much classical music is still purchased, along with various music forms that range from decades to centuries old.
I would venture to say that music is a part of human nature as a method of creative expression. Books are as well, but they don't have the portability and the quick and powerfull effects that music can have on people. Music's portability is its greatest advantage. Being able to listen to music as you do pretty much anything helps with its pervasiveness. Hell, there are a number of activities that are more enjoyable with proper musical accompanyment.
I do believe the format in which music is aquired will continue to change and the type of music will continue to change, as it ever has. But it will always be a lucritive business.
I'm sure to get flamed for this, but they aren't really asking for that much. Let's face it, most of this information is available with verbose logs on systems. A lost of it is stuff that ISPs in the US have to keep anyway, for legal reasons and just to help with tech support.
These are actually very reasonable requests. I work for a large company that is sometimes asked to produce some of this kind of information. Most of this is kept in our basic logs. Again, this is partly for legal reasons, but also so taht we can effectively troubleshoot problems that customers may have.
There are a number of games similar to what you are already playing. I think the RTS games in particular are very good.
Some that I enjoy: Empire Earth
Think AoE but with somewhere around 12 ages to go through. Cossacks
Again, similar to AoE but a much more limited time period.
Jedi Knight was a game I always had a lot of fun playing over a lan (any of the three versions). I spent way too much time playing JK with my roomates in college. One of the nice things about this, though it is a FPS, is the jedi powers. They add a whole new level of strategy to the game. Having a badass gun isn't near as useful when someone can just rip it out of your hands.:)
I was sitting at my desk at home when this struck. Unfortunatly, my desk isn't the most stable thing. I'm a ways from the epicenter (~40 miles or so, SF) but the building definatly shook (it doesn't help that I'm in the top floor).
First reaction: Steady the monitors!
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In Rohnert Park (or Cotati, I don't remember which) is No Name St. It's about 20 feet long and it just joins two other roads.
It's also about the most well protected sign I've ever seen. Cops roll by there very often, for good reasons.
Sure, there's not much difference in price.. really..
Check out pricewatch, here's a sample:
~40 gig Scsi: $124 IDE: $54
~80 gig scsi: $443 IDE: $90
160 gig IDE: $197 $180 gig SCSI: $999
Nope, not much price difference there.
I want a lot of storage space, so I bought a mobo with onboard raid. This is not so that I can quickly access a large amount of information, but so that I have somewhere to store all kinds of crap (MP3's, etc).
I also use the extra IDE slots so that I can have more stuff in there (DVD rom, cd-jutebox, CD-RW, windows drive, BSD drive, etc).
I'm not going for speed, I'm going for bulk. So yeah, I could upgrade to SCSI. I'd spend a crap-load of money and not really gain anything, since I don't do anything that is IO heavy. Everything I do is CPU/Memory heavy. SCSI doesn't help me there.
SCSI has its place, but I don't need it. I'm happy with my ability to stick a bunch of IDE drives into my computer and play with it like that. I have a board with 4 IDE channels, 2 1/2 of which I use. I don't need SCSI.
Netscape is a comercial product. Mozilla is not, but that's not what we're talking about.
The hypocracy here is that people are saying "oh, it's Netscape, so I'll believe whatever they tell me and think it's ok."
Let's face it, if IE sent information about your searches back to Microsoft, you would have a screaming fit. Even if there was an option to turn that off, you would still be cry foul.
I have seen this many times on/. OSS supporting company A does something that is terrible. Huge security hole, gathering of data, etc. It is brought up and defended here.
If Microsoft does it, all hell is raised.
The PR release for both can be the same, basically saying "look, we're not actually doing anything with this information. it goes to our servers, sits there and is eventually used to get a general profile of our users without any specific information being applied to anyone." If OSS supporting company does, that's fine. Microsoft does it, it's a lie and a furthering of their monopolistic strategies.
I'm not defending Microsoft. All I'm doing is pointing out the double standard of many here.
And if it was IE that was doing it, how would you react? Probably by violently bashing Microsoft and using it as another example of how evil Microsoft is and how it is trying to expand its monopoly.
Oh, and don't feel bad, a lot of people here (on/.) do the same thing.
Just because you have a region-free DVD player doesn't mean you can actually watch the movies you buy. If it's sold in the UK, chances are it's in PAL format. You can't watch that format on your NTSC TV, sorry.
You either have to get a TV that can play both or you get a converter. Take your pick, and neither are cheap.
If I'm wrong about this, feel free to tell me. But from the research I've done, this is true.
I wish it weren't.. then I could get Neverwhere on DVD and be able to watch it...
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Man is it fun watching Slashdot readers be convinced this must be faulty research without having read the research itself. Why not wait a few days until you can verify what the researchers did (should be available later from the blackhat.com website) and provide actual analysis on the research.
You can't fault the conclusions unless you know how that conclusion was reached.
(Of course, if the conclusion had been that Apple was better at 0-day patches, there'd be a lot more, "Well, duh!" responses.)
That's not true.
I have the Pentax *Ist D and use a 500/1000 mm lense on it with no problems. This is a k-mount lense so there is no A setting.
What doesn't work is any of the on-camera special stuff so you are going completely on your own judgement.
BTW, this is a great camera and I've had a lot of fun with mine so far. Great pictures and great functions. Bit pricey, but worth it overall.
Check out Utilikilts. Wonderful products that I wear to work on a regular occasion.
Besides, women love a guy in a kilt.
QA is done, but the article mentioned it being a possible bug in relation to some Symantec software.
The QA pass consists of several checks, but all on the OS and Microsoft products, things they have control of.
QA isn't going to install 80 or 100 different types of software out there and do regression testing on them. I'm of the opinion that if the bug only crops up with users who have a particular piece of software installed, then it's the software and not the patch that's to blame.
You forget two things: intertia and mass.
If I have a rather large satelite using waves to push rather small objects, the satelite won't move, much.
It would be very simple to counteract the marginal amount of force generated by pushing the particles around.
I feel pretty much the same.
Three machines here. Two are FreeBSD servers, the other dual boots between WinXP and FreeBSD. I really like both OS's. People bitch a lot about Windows and Microsoft, but in many ways you owe some things to them.
Yes, there are things I don't like about Windows, but that's why I dual boot. There's also a couple things that are sticking points with me about FreeBSD (but I like it better than linux).
Bottom line, no OS is perfect. Each OS has it's place. Depending on what I want to do determines what OS I'm in.
Can they make a coherent movie eight times that long?
Probably they can. And while this may not be the best example, look at Beavis and Butthead do America. While it wasn't anything that could be called great film, it was amusing and true to the original show.
I think Simpsons can do something similar and be just fine.
The above two posts are absolutely true. I think they pretty much cover everything except programming.
Every sys admin should know at least one programming language and one scripting language. Knowledge of sed/awk and shell scripting are nearly essential.
Aside from that, I remember something one of the admins where I work said when I asked what skills were required. A good understanding of the hardware (RAID in its many forms and incarnations especially) and a good understanding of UNIX in general. The particular OS isn't as important as knowing what the tools in UNIX are and how to find the info you need for that particular flavor.
Finally, speaking from my experience, know the details of any protocol you support. You should know TCP/IP intimately and be very familiar with tcpdump. If you are a mail admin, you had better be able to send e-mail using telnet and have it go through. If you are a web admin, be able to request web pages through telnet and understand the response completely. Remember, telnet can be your friend.
Nothing annoys me as a customer support person more than getting a call from an admin who hasn't done their own troubleshooting. If you have a deep understanding of how the stuff running on your system works and the protocols and services you are supporting, you should be able to do nearly all the troubleshooting yourself. By the time you call me, you should be able to tell me exactly what is happening and how you know that. Nothing annoys customer support more than teaching an admin to do their job.
I'm suprised no one has looked at the 2000 terrabytes/day number.
I'm sorry, that seems just a bit low. 1 site pushing 1 Gb/s is 84 Terrabytes/day. That means only 23 sites have to use that much bandwitch for that 2000 number to be hit. As I know of at least one site that pushes (not counting incoming) 10 Gb/s, that number is just a little unreasonable.
I'd really like to know where people get these kinds of numbers. I have seen silly numbers like this one and the 7 billion pieces of e-mail per day numbers and have to wonder where they come from. Acording to some numbers I saw released at one point, Hotmail alone receives over 1 billion e-mail per day.
I really have to wonder if someone is just making this stuff up or if they are looking at a very small set of data and extrapolating from there. In either case, I think better methods need to be used to create these kinds of numbers.
`a device does not infringe because it can be made to infringe'
Hmm... So we can apply this idea to patent law, but my question is can it then be applied to copywrite law as well?
Thus, something like DeCSS which does not violate copywrite law on its own but can be made to, would not be in violation. A photocopier would be an example of this idea. While a photocopier can be used to reproduce an entire book, since it doesn't have to be used that way it is ok.
Just a thought.
Better than diamonds or opals are emeralds.
Emeralds are actually more rare than diamonds, and so are worth more.
Really, you don't want per day estimates. With a site like google, you want per second.
Trust me. I work for a company with a very large web presense. Pushing a number of gigs/sec doesn't end up translating well to per day measurements.
For fun, just used a calc here to figure some stuff out.
For a company like the one I'm at (or like google) pushing over 1 gig/sec, that's over 80 terabytes per day (at min).
I find a lot of the per day questions amusing as it is obvious it is coming from someone who doesn't work in very large volumes.
Well, we know for sure MTV has no taste now (in case there was any doubt).
The only saving grace is that Brittney did not win.
... that's just not going to happen.
Music has been a part of society for litereally thousands of years. People will continue to want to purchase music (even if that means digital format). If nothing else, concerts will continue to be the true source of income for performers.
Look at how much classical music is still purchased, along with various music forms that range from decades to centuries old.
I would venture to say that music is a part of human nature as a method of creative expression. Books are as well, but they don't have the portability and the quick and powerfull effects that music can have on people. Music's portability is its greatest advantage. Being able to listen to music as you do pretty much anything helps with its pervasiveness. Hell, there are a number of activities that are more enjoyable with proper musical accompanyment.
I do believe the format in which music is aquired will continue to change and the type of music will continue to change, as it ever has. But it will always be a lucritive business.
I'm sure to get flamed for this, but they aren't really asking for that much. Let's face it, most of this information is available with verbose logs on systems. A lost of it is stuff that ISPs in the US have to keep anyway, for legal reasons and just to help with tech support.
These are actually very reasonable requests. I work for a large company that is sometimes asked to produce some of this kind of information. Most of this is kept in our basic logs. Again, this is partly for legal reasons, but also so taht we can effectively troubleshoot problems that customers may have.
Some that I enjoy:
Empire Earth
Think AoE but with somewhere around 12 ages to go through.
Cossacks
Again, similar to AoE but a much more limited time period.
Jedi Knight was a game I always had a lot of fun playing over a lan (any of the three versions). I spent way too much time playing JK with my roomates in college. One of the nice things about this, though it is a FPS, is the jedi powers. They add a whole new level of strategy to the game. Having a badass gun isn't near as useful when someone can just rip it out of your hands. :)
Easier to learn than it is to crack!
Hehe... At first I read that as "Easier to learn than crack!"
I don't think that would be near as good of a slogan, though much more entertaining.
I was sitting at my desk at home when this struck. Unfortunatly, my desk isn't the most stable thing. I'm a ways from the epicenter (~40 miles or so, SF) but the building definatly shook (it doesn't help that I'm in the top floor).
First reaction: Steady the monitors!
In Rohnert Park (or Cotati, I don't remember which) is No Name St. It's about 20 feet long and it just joins two other roads.
It's also about the most well protected sign I've ever seen. Cops roll by there very often, for good reasons.
Sure, there's not much difference in price.. really..
Check out pricewatch, here's a sample:
~40 gig
Scsi: $124
IDE: $54
~80 gig
scsi: $443
IDE: $90
160 gig IDE: $197
$180 gig SCSI: $999
Nope, not much price difference there.
I want a lot of storage space, so I bought a mobo with onboard raid. This is not so that I can quickly access a large amount of information, but so that I have somewhere to store all kinds of crap (MP3's, etc).
I also use the extra IDE slots so that I can have more stuff in there (DVD rom, cd-jutebox, CD-RW, windows drive, BSD drive, etc).
I'm not going for speed, I'm going for bulk. So yeah, I could upgrade to SCSI. I'd spend a crap-load of money and not really gain anything, since I don't do anything that is IO heavy. Everything I do is CPU/Memory heavy. SCSI doesn't help me there.
SCSI has its place, but I don't need it. I'm happy with my ability to stick a bunch of IDE drives into my computer and play with it like that. I have a board with 4 IDE channels, 2 1/2 of which I use. I don't need SCSI.
Not in Netscape, you can't.
/. OSS supporting company A does something that is terrible. Huge security hole, gathering of data, etc. It is brought up and defended here.
Netscape is a comercial product. Mozilla is not, but that's not what we're talking about.
The hypocracy here is that people are saying "oh, it's Netscape, so I'll believe whatever they tell me and think it's ok."
Let's face it, if IE sent information about your searches back to Microsoft, you would have a screaming fit. Even if there was an option to turn that off, you would still be cry foul.
I have seen this many times on
If Microsoft does it, all hell is raised.
The PR release for both can be the same, basically saying "look, we're not actually doing anything with this information. it goes to our servers, sits there and is eventually used to get a general profile of our users without any specific information being applied to anyone." If OSS supporting company does, that's fine. Microsoft does it, it's a lie and a furthering of their monopolistic strategies.
I'm not defending Microsoft. All I'm doing is pointing out the double standard of many here.
And if it was IE that was doing it, how would you react? Probably by violently bashing Microsoft and using it as another example of how evil Microsoft is and how it is trying to expand its monopoly.
/.) do the same thing.
Oh, and don't feel bad, a lot of people here (on
Damnit, the one thing that bothers me about DVDs including deleted scenes is that you are seeing them completely out of context.
DVDs need the option of viewing the deleted scenes as part of the movie. I've seen it done (once, I think) and it was a lot of fun.
Take your favorite movie DVD and picture the option of viewing the extra scenes as part of the movie so it's seamless.
Maybe I just ask for too much...
Which model is that? I can't find anything that says it will do the converting, only that it can output both formats.
/. like this, but not mail address shown for you.
I would just mail you instead of using
A lot of people seem to be confused about this.
Just because you have a region-free DVD player doesn't mean you can actually watch the movies you buy. If it's sold in the UK, chances are it's in PAL format. You can't watch that format on your NTSC TV, sorry.
You either have to get a TV that can play both or you get a converter. Take your pick, and neither are cheap.
If I'm wrong about this, feel free to tell me. But from the research I've done, this is true.
I wish it weren't.. then I could get Neverwhere on DVD and be able to watch it...