What did you think the point of SSL was if anyone sniffing the traffic between the user and the server could decrypt it?
Someone intercepting the connection can't even see the URL... All they can see is the wikileaks IP address. The only way around this is to have your own root cert on the end-users computer. (I believe this is done in china... all PCs there have a chinese govt root cert installed, so they CAN read SSL traffic.)
Congratulations, your friend is now less informed than they were before they talked to you. Before at least they knew they didn't know.
Have you even used vista? Yes there is a whole lot of extra crap in there, same as any microsoft OS release. Remember when XP came out? You are free to turn it off if you don't want it, or don't accept the performance overhead.
Myth: There no "code that tracks and filters the media streams in Vista". That is complete bollox. It was started by some asshat at auckland uni who should have known better. If you had done any research on this you'd know how comprehensively his original paper has been debunked. I'm not going to give you any links, because you probably are in denial and wouldn't check them. If you care, find them yourself.
Fact: The DRM stuff in vista affects capibilities that are new to vista. It doesn't affect anything that was already there in XP. Nothing you already have is crippled. I have been using vista for a year now, and it seriously pissed me off at the start. I turned off a lot of the new vista features, like aero and readyboost. Now I've got used to the changes, I don't mind vista at all, there is some very good new stuff there. And not once have I ever had a problem with any "DRM". Stuff like DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD, BitTorrent, Daemon Tools all work 100%. Truth is I could count on one hand the number of apps that I use that have had compatibility problems. The most serious I can think of is AirSnort.
Seriously, stop spreading this FUD. It does the whole IT community no good. You are an assclown for perpetuating myths like this to non-it people, and you are showing your ignorance by parroting this stuff on a place like/.
You're barking up the wrong tree a bit, windows 1-3 & 9x are part of a different family tree.
Windows 7 will use version 7.0 of the NT Kernel. The first version of NT was version 3.1, there was nothing before that. The first version number was 3.1 because on the surface NT looked like windows 3.1, which was current at the time.
Windows 1-3, and win 95, 98 and ME ran on top of ms-dos, which is why they were so crap.
NT 4.0 had a gui makeover & other changes to look like windows 95 but shared very little if any code. Windows 2000 = NT 5.0 Windows XP = NT 5.1 Windows server 2003 = NT 5.2 Windows Vista = NT 6.0 Windows Server 2008 (aka longhorn server) = NT 6.1 and interestingly I beleive that when vista SP1 ships, it will change the version number to 6.1 as well.
Amen to all of that. I lived in london for a few years, and pretty much every weekend we had drug-fueled raves and house parties. Had some awesome times, met some awesome people, learnt a massive amount about myself. After coming down from a pretty horrific 'shroom trip in amsterdam (we were in tents, and it snowed. In april.) one of our group said she had been told that every time you go tripping, you come back a slightly different person.
I thought that was very insightful comment, and on reflection its probably true. Through psychedelics you truely can alter your personality, who you are.
You have to be very careful though, as they can be a very blunt tool. A couple of friends didn't really make it through ok, they have serious issues in their life, probably because of the drugs. Interesting though, the drug that they were most partial to, and no doubt did the damage was coke.
Now those days are well behind me and I wouldn't go back to them now, but man we had a blast. Those times made me into the person I am now.
Pretty cool stuff. The sample on the left is carbon black, which is reasonably black, but the surface still texture stands out clearly with the flash. The sample of the new material looks like a black hole - which I guess it almost is. Except for the suckage.
Yeah I was tempted to get a pocketpc because the development environment (.net CF) is so damn good, and I'm a.net dude in my day job.
But in the end I got a nokia 6110 navigator. The phenomenal ease of use of the nokia phones, plus a pretty good GPS kept me in the nokia camp.
I could in theory write S60 apps, but thats all C++ which I'm not very familiar with, and I've heard its a bitch of a development environment, compared to VS.
But progress may still be limited by network operators for the time being because to deploy software or services, providers have to go through the network operators.
I don't believe this is a risk, at least everywhere except the US. I have a sybian phone, I can install whatever I like on it, without going through the teleco's network. Plenty of applications use web access on the phone just like apps on a regular PC - things like web browsers, chat apps, SSH, youtube, google maps, etc etc. I've even seen a web server for my phone. I've seen VoIP clients for my phone.
The teleco is just an ISP. We stil have network neutrality, and thats not likely to change. Yes, my teleco has their own lame walled garden of websites that you can browse for free, and download wallpapers and ringtones for an outrageous price - but there is nothing stopping customers (except stupidity) from going to a regular website and downloading the ringtones, wallpapers, 3rd party apps and whatever.
Even if it did, what we would learn would make it a more than fair trade. The mars rovers have done exceptionally well, but they won't last forever anyway. Its time to start thinking about the next generation of rovers, and manned missions back to the moon & to mars.
Also, the massive publicity if there was a hit, with the sorts of pictures NASA would get would hugely increase public interest and support in making sure we can predict early enough and prevent the same thing never happens here.
If you don't distribute the code you modify, you can do what you like with it. The GPL says that if you modify something AND distribute it, you must provide the source with the finished product.
Congrats on your weight loss & amen to what you said.
A few years back my GF and I went along to a weight loss seminar at the local gym - they were basically pushing this program they were starting up where you would train with a personal trainer a couple of times a week, and folow their diet. The seminar was really interesting, the speaker was a super-fit 50 year old dude who had been diagnosed with diabetes many years ago. He did lots of research, and decided the answer was low-gi foods. He cut sugar, white flour, white rice, white pasta and heavily processed foods out of his diet. He completely controlled his diabetes, lost tons of weight and felt better than he ever had before.
He said essentially insulin makes you fat and hungry, and too much of it may eventually give you diabetes. To stop these insulin spikes, eat low GI foods. To increase your base metabolic rate do some weight training to build up your muscle mass.
It worked for us. Thing to remember about any diet is its not a quick fix - its a lifestyle change, which is tough. You can't just crash diet, lose weight and then go back to your old eating habits - you'll end up fatter than before. Trick is finding a diet that you can maintain indefinitely....
Dude your problem is not directly memory related. Somewhere you are indirectly referencing an unmanaged resource, and classes that wrap unmanaged resources (such as database connections) typically only free their resources on a finalize - so on the 1st pass of the GC the object is marked for finalization, and on the 2nd pass the finalize code runs and frees the resource (or memory) Classes that have a finalize method implement IDisposable. you *must* call dispose before you set the object to null or let it fall out of scope. This will tell the class to free its resources immediately... otherwise it doesn't free them until finalize runs, much much later.
I've had exactly the same problem with database connections (the DB would run out of connections when the site was VERY busy, but under normal use they would eventually close themselves) and also with GDI objects such as bitmaps, fonts and brushes. The symptom of that one was asp.net killing the process because it used too much memory when the site was busy.
Both times I found all the code that used objects that implemented dispose, and called dispose as soon as I can. no more problems at all. The asp.net app using GDI also used less than half the memory it had been as well.
I can confirm that the DRM stuff is pure FUD. You are thinking of the paper written by peter someone at Auckland University. He used such worthwhile sources of information as anonymous posts on online forums for his data. Lots of places use his paper as evidence that vista is crap, but more serious analysis has shown just how shoddy his paper is.
Vista does have more bells and whistles which do slow the system down somewhat. Also ATI and NVidia have had issues getting drivers to perform as well as they do in XP - their developers have had to learn a whole new architecture. Only recently are they catching up...
Yes, vista does throttle the network somewhat when media player plays MP3s. This is a silly, silly design decision to compensate a problem some users may sometimes have. And to compound that a bug means the network is throttled much more than is necessary. This bug is fixed in SP1 (I beleive) and due to the bad press they got I wouldn't be surprised if MS revisit the while network throttling. I hope they do.
I use vista, and there is plenty I don't like about it, but the DRM FUD pisses me off. Yes, vista does support some new DRM features. No, those DRM features are not applied to any of the media you are using today. Vista has performed as well or better than XP for me when ripping, downloading, playing and copying movies.
In New Zealand the police have just been trialing tasers. I have very mixed feelings about this, because last week some guy was shot dead by police because he was nutting out and charging them with a hammer. One side says if they had tasers, then he would still be alive. The other side says its his own fault.
But a few years ago they trialed pepper spray, judged the trial a success and now all police carry it. Last year video came out of a drunk dude being arrested by about 4 police. Once he was subdued on the ground and handcuffed behinid his back one of the cops bent down and sprayed a shitload of pepper spray into his face at point blank range.
Yes, he probably deserved to be arrested, but he didn't deserve that. Non-lethal weapons are all well and good when they are used as an alternative to lethal force but the reality is they will be misused by a minority of police because they know they are non-lethal.
When I was in the UK (about 6 years ago) I got a phone from t-mobile (then one-2-one) that was heavily subsidized, on a 24 month contract. The phone was locked to the t-mobile network, but after I had been a customer for 12 months they would unlock it for me, for £35. I the network was required to provide the unlocking service (and the price was set) by the industry watchdog, oftel or whoever.
I think thats a fine solution. The network can sell you a subsidized phone that is locked to their network, but once they have got their pound of flesh from you they must unlock it if requested.
You didn't read the article did you. The rate that the network throughput is throttled to is normally greater than the bandwidth of a 100MB card - if it wasn't for an unfortunate bug where the throttling factor is applied for each network card in your system.... 3 network cards (most laptops - wired, 802.11, bluetooth) and you have the throttle applied 3 times.
Yeah I got a new laptop at the start of the year, with vista preinstalled (dell latitude d820). I was less than impressed with the speed, but on friday I installed a freshly released gfx driver, and the two "performance and reliability" patches released that week by MS and its made a huge difference.
I've heard SP1 also helps a LOT. hopefully there is a public beta soon.
I second that. I've worked with Finnish guys, and thats just the way they are. Its not that they are rude, its just that they don't care so much about being polite.
This might trample on a few toes but it sure gets the job done.
My multimeter, while its a cheap one, can measure up to 500V AC. And a voltmeter has basically infinite resistance - as close to zero amps as they can make it will flow through it. This is why you wire them in parallel in a circuit. An ampmeter has as little resistance as possible, and is wired in series. If you plug a multimeter into a wall socket when it is switched to amps then you are going to need a new ampmeter. Its basically the same as pushing a bent-up paperclip into the phase/earth sockets.
Heh a couple of years back at home one night the power went out, then came on a few seconds later, but the lights seemed really dim... and the fridge was making a really weird noise, and other appliances were either not working or doing weird stuff.
I poked a multimeter into a wall socket, and we were only getting 90-110v. Surprisingly my computer and the tv were working fine.
The worst sign of bad engineering decisions is in the implementation of C#. For instance, it has race conditions *built into the language*. (SEE delegates.) Why? It's a poor engineering decision that could've been easily avoid, simplifying and tightening the language at the same time.
What are you talking about? No, really. A delegate is a type-safe function pointer. Yes you can get a race condition if you use them improperly, same with lots of bits of any other language. This is the first I've heard of this, and I can't find any information on the net. Are you worried someone will change/delete your delegate after you check if its null? If so, make a copy, then check and execute that instead.
I don't know a filesystem needs to do to meet that wikipedia page's definition of "Checksumming" but I can tell you for sure that NTFS and FAT do detect data corruption. Seen it happen many times.
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What did you think the point of SSL was if anyone sniffing the traffic between the user and the server could decrypt it?
Someone intercepting the connection can't even see the URL... All they can see is the wikileaks IP address. The only way around this is to have your own root cert on the end-users computer. (I believe this is done in china... all PCs there have a chinese govt root cert installed, so they CAN read SSL traffic.)
Congratulations, your friend is now less informed than they were before they talked to you. Before at least they knew they didn't know.
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Have you even used vista? Yes there is a whole lot of extra crap in there, same as any microsoft OS release. Remember when XP came out? You are free to turn it off if you don't want it, or don't accept the performance overhead.
Myth: There no "code that tracks and filters the media streams in Vista". That is complete bollox. It was started by some asshat at auckland uni who should have known better. If you had done any research on this you'd know how comprehensively his original paper has been debunked. I'm not going to give you any links, because you probably are in denial and wouldn't check them. If you care, find them yourself.
Fact: The DRM stuff in vista affects capibilities that are new to vista. It doesn't affect anything that was already there in XP. Nothing you already have is crippled. I have been using vista for a year now, and it seriously pissed me off at the start. I turned off a lot of the new vista features, like aero and readyboost. Now I've got used to the changes, I don't mind vista at all, there is some very good new stuff there. And not once have I ever had a problem with any "DRM". Stuff like DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD, BitTorrent, Daemon Tools all work 100%. Truth is I could count on one hand the number of apps that I use that have had compatibility problems. The most serious I can think of is AirSnort.
Seriously, stop spreading this FUD. It does the whole IT community no good. You are an assclown for perpetuating myths like this to non-it people, and you are showing your ignorance by parroting this stuff on a place like
You're barking up the wrong tree a bit, windows 1-3 & 9x are part of a different family tree.
Windows 7 will use version 7.0 of the NT Kernel. The first version of NT was version 3.1, there was nothing before that. The first version number was 3.1 because on the surface NT looked like windows 3.1, which was current at the time.
Windows 1-3, and win 95, 98 and ME ran on top of ms-dos, which is why they were so crap.
NT 4.0 had a gui makeover & other changes to look like windows 95 but shared very little if any code.
Windows 2000 = NT 5.0
Windows XP = NT 5.1
Windows server 2003 = NT 5.2
Windows Vista = NT 6.0
Windows Server 2008 (aka longhorn server) = NT 6.1 and interestingly I beleive that when vista SP1 ships, it will change the version number to 6.1 as well.
Amen to all of that. I lived in london for a few years, and pretty much every weekend we had drug-fueled raves and house parties. Had some awesome times, met some awesome people, learnt a massive amount about myself. After coming down from a pretty horrific 'shroom trip in amsterdam (we were in tents, and it snowed. In april.) one of our group said she had been told that every time you go tripping, you come back a slightly different person.
I thought that was very insightful comment, and on reflection its probably true. Through psychedelics you truely can alter your personality, who you are.
You have to be very careful though, as they can be a very blunt tool. A couple of friends didn't really make it through ok, they have serious issues in their life, probably because of the drugs. Interesting though, the drug that they were most partial to, and no doubt did the damage was coke.
Now those days are well behind me and I wouldn't go back to them now, but man we had a blast. Those times made me into the person I am now.
This story has a photo (seriously)
Pretty cool stuff. The sample on the left is carbon black, which is reasonably black, but the surface still texture stands out clearly with the flash. The sample of the new material looks like a black hole - which I guess it almost is. Except for the suckage.
Yeah I was tempted to get a pocketpc because the development environment (.net CF) is so damn good, and I'm a .net dude in my day job.
But in the end I got a nokia 6110 navigator. The phenomenal ease of use of the nokia phones, plus a pretty good GPS kept me in the nokia camp.
I could in theory write S60 apps, but thats all C++ which I'm not very familiar with, and I've heard its a bitch of a development environment, compared to VS.
I don't believe this is a risk, at least everywhere except the US. I have a sybian phone, I can install whatever I like on it, without going through the teleco's network. Plenty of applications use web access on the phone just like apps on a regular PC - things like web browsers, chat apps, SSH, youtube, google maps, etc etc. I've even seen a web server for my phone. I've seen VoIP clients for my phone.
The teleco is just an ISP. We stil have network neutrality, and thats not likely to change. Yes, my teleco has their own lame walled garden of websites that you can browse for free, and download wallpapers and ringtones for an outrageous price - but there is nothing stopping customers (except stupidity) from going to a regular website and downloading the ringtones, wallpapers, 3rd party apps and whatever.
Even if it did, what we would learn would make it a more than fair trade. The mars rovers have done exceptionally well, but they won't last forever anyway. Its time to start thinking about the next generation of rovers, and manned missions back to the moon & to mars.
Also, the massive publicity if there was a hit, with the sorts of pictures NASA would get would hugely increase public interest and support in making sure we can predict early enough and prevent the same thing never happens here.
Not sure why you were modded troll.
If you don't distribute the code you modify, you can do what you like with it. The GPL says that if you modify something AND distribute it, you must provide the source with the finished product.
hope this helps.
No offense, but do you know that for a fact? Plenty of things can cause sterility, including common diseases like mumps.
Congrats on your weight loss & amen to what you said.
A few years back my GF and I went along to a weight loss seminar at the local gym - they were basically pushing this program they were starting up where you would train with a personal trainer a couple of times a week, and folow their diet. The seminar was really interesting, the speaker was a super-fit 50 year old dude who had been diagnosed with diabetes many years ago. He did lots of research, and decided the answer was low-gi foods. He cut sugar, white flour, white rice, white pasta and heavily processed foods out of his diet. He completely controlled his diabetes, lost tons of weight and felt better than he ever had before.
He said essentially insulin makes you fat and hungry, and too much of it may eventually give you diabetes. To stop these insulin spikes, eat low GI foods. To increase your base metabolic rate do some weight training to build up your muscle mass.
It worked for us. Thing to remember about any diet is its not a quick fix - its a lifestyle change, which is tough. You can't just crash diet, lose weight and then go back to your old eating habits - you'll end up fatter than before. Trick is finding a diet that you can maintain indefinitely....
Dude your problem is not directly memory related. Somewhere you are indirectly referencing an unmanaged resource, and classes that wrap unmanaged resources (such as database connections) typically only free their resources on a finalize - so on the 1st pass of the GC the object is marked for finalization, and on the 2nd pass the finalize code runs and frees the resource (or memory)
Classes that have a finalize method implement IDisposable. you *must* call dispose before you set the object to null or let it fall out of scope. This will tell the class to free its resources immediately... otherwise it doesn't free them until finalize runs, much much later.
I've had exactly the same problem with database connections (the DB would run out of connections when the site was VERY busy, but under normal use they would eventually close themselves) and also with GDI objects such as bitmaps, fonts and brushes. The symptom of that one was asp.net killing the process because it used too much memory when the site was busy.
Both times I found all the code that used objects that implemented dispose, and called dispose as soon as I can. no more problems at all. The asp.net app using GDI also used less than half the memory it had been as well.
LOL. Thanks for that, funniest thing I've read all day... probably because I was thinking it as I read it :)
Shame I burnt my mod points this afternoon, ya could have had them.
I can confirm that the DRM stuff is pure FUD. You are thinking of the paper written by peter someone at Auckland University. He used such worthwhile sources of information as anonymous posts on online forums for his data. Lots of places use his paper as evidence that vista is crap, but more serious analysis has shown just how shoddy his paper is.
Vista does have more bells and whistles which do slow the system down somewhat. Also ATI and NVidia have had issues getting drivers to perform as well as they do in XP - their developers have had to learn a whole new architecture. Only recently are they catching up...
Yes, vista does throttle the network somewhat when media player plays MP3s. This is a silly, silly design decision to compensate a problem some users may sometimes have. And to compound that a bug means the network is throttled much more than is necessary. This bug is fixed in SP1 (I beleive) and due to the bad press they got I wouldn't be surprised if MS revisit the while network throttling. I hope they do.
I use vista, and there is plenty I don't like about it, but the DRM FUD pisses me off. Yes, vista does support some new DRM features. No, those DRM features are not applied to any of the media you are using today. Vista has performed as well or better than XP for me when ripping, downloading, playing and copying movies.
In New Zealand the police have just been trialing tasers. I have very mixed feelings about this, because last week some guy was shot dead by police because he was nutting out and charging them with a hammer. One side says if they had tasers, then he would still be alive. The other side says its his own fault.
But a few years ago they trialed pepper spray, judged the trial a success and now all police carry it. Last year video came out of a drunk dude being arrested by about 4 police. Once he was subdued on the ground and handcuffed behinid his back one of the cops bent down and sprayed a shitload of pepper spray into his face at point blank range.
Yes, he probably deserved to be arrested, but he didn't deserve that. Non-lethal weapons are all well and good when they are used as an alternative to lethal force but the reality is they will be misused by a minority of police because they know they are non-lethal.
When I was in the UK (about 6 years ago) I got a phone from t-mobile (then one-2-one) that was heavily subsidized, on a 24 month contract. The phone was locked to the t-mobile network, but after I had been a customer for 12 months they would unlock it for me, for £35.
I the network was required to provide the unlocking service (and the price was set) by the industry watchdog, oftel or whoever.
I think thats a fine solution. The network can sell you a subsidized phone that is locked to their network, but once they have got their pound of flesh from you they must unlock it if requested.
You didn't read the article did you. The rate that the network throughput is throttled to is normally greater than the bandwidth of a 100MB card - if it wasn't for an unfortunate bug where the throttling factor is applied for each network card in your system.... 3 network cards (most laptops - wired, 802.11, bluetooth) and you have the throttle applied 3 times.
Yeah I got a new laptop at the start of the year, with vista preinstalled (dell latitude d820). I was less than impressed with the speed, but on friday I installed a freshly released gfx driver, and the two "performance and reliability" patches released that week by MS and its made a huge difference.
I've heard SP1 also helps a LOT. hopefully there is a public beta soon.
I second that. I've worked with Finnish guys, and thats just the way they are. Its not that they are rude, its just that they don't care so much about being polite.
This might trample on a few toes but it sure gets the job done.
Nope this was in Wellington.
My multimeter, while its a cheap one, can measure up to 500V AC. And a voltmeter has basically infinite resistance - as close to zero amps as they can make it will flow through it. This is why you wire them in parallel in a circuit. An ampmeter has as little resistance as possible, and is wired in series. If you plug a multimeter into a wall socket when it is switched to amps then you are going to need a new ampmeter. Its basically the same as pushing a bent-up paperclip into the phase/earth sockets.
Yeah I figured that. I was surprised about the TV tho...
240v/50hz in NZ too.
Heh a couple of years back at home one night the power went out, then came on a few seconds later, but the lights seemed really dim... and the fridge was making a really weird noise, and other appliances were either not working or doing weird stuff.
I poked a multimeter into a wall socket, and we were only getting 90-110v. Surprisingly my computer and the tv were working fine.
What are you talking about? No, really. A delegate is a type-safe function pointer. Yes you can get a race condition if you use them improperly, same with lots of bits of any other language. This is the first I've heard of this, and I can't find any information on the net. Are you worried someone will change/delete your delegate after you check if its null? If so, make a copy, then check and execute that instead.
I don't know a filesystem needs to do to meet that wikipedia page's definition of "Checksumming" but I can tell you for sure that NTFS and FAT do detect data corruption. Seen it happen many times.