When you purchase a system from one of these large companies, you generally have options for tech support.. they company may not list it, but they're there.
For example, when I purchased my Dell system, I purchased it through my university (works if you buy through your business too), and as such, I was given the option of having 5yr premium tech support (5yr full, 24/7).. I can't remember what the exact service agreement stated, but at the time, Dell used a 3rd party company for its high-end support contracts named "Wang" (.. there's probably more to that name, but that's all i can remember right now).
Bottom line: If I had any problem whatsoever (or even *think* I was having a prob w/ the system), I'd call up the 800 number -- forwarding me to the Tier 3 tech support guy -- and say "look, component X has just failed, I want a replacement here in 24 hrs." Sure enough, the part would arrive; I'd send to defective part back to them in the same box -- no cost to me.
Lesson: Don't just roll over and save the extra $25 if you're concerned about support to begin with... Oh, and buying it through a large organization helps.;)
It seems this exploit allows local users to escalate their privelages through processes running as LocalSystem. So, I could either do this or open up the system, take out the hard drive, re-write the OS, and put the drive back in the system. Yes, these problems do exist when you're forced to trust local users.
Simple fix: require each user to wear a straightjacket with their legs and arms bound to the chair; have them type via the mouth-to-pencil-to-keyboard method.
So much for the market automatically doing what's best for everyone, eh?
Who said that the market behaves like that? Capitalism dictates that decisions are based upon money. If you believe what ZD is doing is wrong, then you can voice your opinion as an investor; either:
1) Don't buy any of their stock.. in fact, short it if you feel so inclined. - OR - 2) Buy out the primary shareholders and run the company yourself.
Never before have I pressed the ESC so often while working in an editor. If I could change one thing, it would be "automatic-ESC detection" -- basically, the editor would auto-hit ESC whenever it felt you were finished editing a line. By being conditioned to hit that really annoying key every time, my typing productivity has decreased in almost every other editor... hitting ESC everytime, which does nothing.
Personally, I'd love to see a study done where we take some Windows gimp, lock em in a room for 48-hrs forcing them to only use Vim -- then gauge the decrease in productivity using any other editor.
The point: Ironically, if I were designing an editor for money, I would probably do the same thing: make all users of my editor be extremely dependent upon it, through inventing some creepy keystroke combo via conditioning... such that the user's productivity dramatically decreases using any other editor.
True, this can be said about Emacs or numerous other editors... I just hope M$ doesn't get any ideas; last thing I want to do is hit Ctrl-ESC for everything.
Great... Wireless transmissions of physical desktops over 802.11a, Bluetooth, etc... all to a CE box.
Some fun logic:
-> Is this a secure system? Didn't see any indication that it was on their website (and no, WEP doesn't count).
-> Are corporations going to use this in their board rooms? Not if they're concerned that their next M&A deal is being recorded remotely by their competitor via a "Silent Helicopter" circling the 50th floor... Yes, it's possible to do that creepy Van Eek (sp?) thing (assuming it's a CRT and not LCD), but I'm not talking about the NSA's creepy helicopters.
Follow up:
-> Should this product be re-marketed as a nifty CE tablet? Yes.
-> Should Viewsonic really be the ones to market this? Probably not; they're in the business of making nice monitors and should probably follow NEC's lead using by making only the monitor.
Everyone: It's time we do IP over DNS or some other subversive tactic... if TWC tries to halt it, switch to ICMP.. etc.. Sooner or later, the service will become so bad that people will stop using it and their business model will cave.
Usually, upgrades in the 4.x-RELEASE branch are made when selected improvements have been regression tested in the 5.x-CURRENT branch. Thus, if you're running a 4.x version, chances are you don't need to configure your system to do a full dump; usually there are people who've ran into similar problems and you can search for the fixes via mailing lists/usenet/etc...
1) I envision providers figuring out the "Joltage" protocol and generating "fake" sales, just to get more money from the company. (Similar to the initial craze of advertising websites that tried to "pay" you for leaving their banner ads open on your desktop... people hacked it and initally got more money.. until the company's business model imploded.)
2) What's the "Joltage" policy when it comes to customer abuse of the network?
How does CFS compare to Rubberhose? I know the Rubberhose FreeBSD port is out of sync, but has CFS been updated.. or is that more outdated than the Rubberhose port?
"Copy Protected CDs".. there is something fundementally flawed with this phrase. Specifically, as long as there exists any reader that can "play" the CD, then it can be copied.
Case in point: Piraters shell out the extra $200 (or whatever) for the Spiffy Anti-Copy CD Player(tm) and then proceed to hook it up to an optical/digital receiver, where the song can then be ripped straight to mp3.
"Haha!" cackles RIAA, "that requires a lot of expensive equipment!"... Umm, no.. true, there is initial funding to buy the Spiffy(tm), but most sound cards nowadays have digital inputs to read the stream as if it were copied directly from CD.
Personally, I'm glad Rambus is dying the slow, steady death; grasping onto it's customers as life preservers is a bad side effect, but it won't keep the afloat forever.
Why does hasn't Intel made more progress in introducing a DDR chipset? Do they really think this company should be allowed to live? I realize they've got too much Rambus product, but is there some sort of contract preventing Intel from releasing DDR chipsets?
Rambust needs a proper burial, and I think Intel needs to be the one nailing the coffin shut.
Anyone released physical benchmarks of the cost/performance savings by using this method? I'd really like to see what the FC2-2DB9 Interface Adapter looks like as well. If this does turn out to be a viabile alternative, I'd love to see how Adaptec and the other SCSI manufactures would compete with this.
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For example, when I purchased my Dell system, I purchased it through my university (works if you buy through your business too), and as such, I was given the option of having 5yr premium tech support (5yr full, 24/7).. I can't remember what the exact service agreement stated, but at the time, Dell used a 3rd party company for its high-end support contracts named "Wang" (.. there's probably more to that name, but that's all i can remember right now).
Bottom line: If I had any problem whatsoever (or even *think* I was having a prob w/ the system), I'd call up the 800 number -- forwarding me to the Tier 3 tech support guy -- and say "look, component X has just failed, I want a replacement here in 24 hrs." Sure enough, the part would arrive; I'd send to defective part back to them in the same box -- no cost to me.
Lesson: Don't just roll over and save the extra $25 if you're concerned about support to begin with... Oh, and buying it through a large organization helps. ;)
Simple fix: require each user to wear a straightjacket with their legs and arms bound to the chair; have them type via the mouth-to-pencil-to-keyboard method.
Who said that the market behaves like that? Capitalism dictates that decisions are based upon money. If you believe what ZD is doing is wrong, then you can voice your opinion as an investor; either:
1) Don't buy any of their stock.. in fact, short it if you feel so inclined.
- OR -
2) Buy out the primary shareholders and run the company yourself.
Personally, I'd love to see a study done where we take some Windows gimp, lock em in a room for 48-hrs forcing them to only use Vim -- then gauge the decrease in productivity using any other editor.
The point: Ironically, if I were designing an editor for money, I would probably do the same thing: make all users of my editor be extremely dependent upon it, through inventing some creepy keystroke combo via conditioning... such that the user's productivity dramatically decreases using any other editor.
True, this can be said about Emacs or numerous other editors... I just hope M$ doesn't get any ideas; last thing I want to do is hit Ctrl-ESC for everything.
-- dforce
-- dforce
Some fun logic:
-> Is this a secure system? Didn't see any indication that it was on their website (and no, WEP doesn't count).
-> Are corporations going to use this in their board rooms? Not if they're concerned that their next M&A deal is being recorded remotely by their competitor via a "Silent Helicopter" circling the 50th floor... Yes, it's possible to do that creepy Van Eek (sp?) thing (assuming it's a CRT and not LCD), but I'm not talking about the NSA's creepy helicopters.
Follow up:
-> Should this product be re-marketed as a nifty CE tablet? Yes.
-> Should Viewsonic really be the ones to market this? Probably not; they're in the business of making nice monitors and should probably follow NEC's lead using by making only the monitor.
-- dforce
-> Am I paranoid? Yes.
Everyone: It's time we do IP over DNS or some other subversive tactic... if TWC tries to halt it, switch to ICMP.. etc.. Sooner or later, the service will become so bad that people will stop using it and their business model will cave.
Excuse me while I sell my TWC stock...
-- dforce
For more info, check out the FreeBSD Release Engineering Page
Disclaimer:
Yes, there's a slight chance you might come across some new bug in the 4.x tree; however, it's unlikely.
This may have been posted already, but...
1) I envision providers figuring out the "Joltage" protocol and generating "fake" sales, just to get more money from the company. (Similar to the initial craze of advertising websites that tried to "pay" you for leaving their banner ads open on your desktop... people hacked it and initally got more money.. until the company's business model imploded.)
2) What's the "Joltage" policy when it comes to customer abuse of the network?
How does CFS compare to Rubberhose? I know the Rubberhose FreeBSD port is out of sync, but has CFS been updated.. or is that more outdated than the Rubberhose port?
- dforce
Lian Li PC-78 case + Koolance watercooling system = impossible?
Pricey, but I'd love to see Koolance come out with something to cool dual proc systems.
- dforce
Case in point: Piraters shell out the extra $200 (or whatever) for the Spiffy Anti-Copy CD Player(tm) and then proceed to hook it up to an optical/digital receiver, where the song can then be ripped straight to mp3.
"Haha!" cackles RIAA, "that requires a lot of expensive equipment!" ... Umm, no.. true, there is initial funding to buy the Spiffy(tm), but most sound cards nowadays have digital inputs to read the stream as if it were copied directly from CD.
Thus, CD Burners will still have a use.
-d
Personally, I'm glad Rambus is dying the slow, steady death; grasping onto it's customers as life preservers is a bad side effect, but it won't keep the afloat forever. Why does hasn't Intel made more progress in introducing a DDR chipset? Do they really think this company should be allowed to live? I realize they've got too much Rambus product, but is there some sort of contract preventing Intel from releasing DDR chipsets? Rambust needs a proper burial, and I think Intel needs to be the one nailing the coffin shut.
Anyone released physical benchmarks of the cost/performance savings by using this method? I'd really like to see what the FC2-2DB9 Interface Adapter looks like as well. If this does turn out to be a viabile alternative, I'd love to see how Adaptec and the other SCSI manufactures would compete with this. - d