I've already been doing that; I needed memory, I detest Rambus's way of doing business, as apparently do Micron and Infineon, there simply wasn't any other choice. Even if Rambus had won, or does in the appeal (yeah, right), Infineon and Micron deserve their cut for sticking it out, unlike the Dramurai that folded...
I'm betting Rambus are prepared to all the way to the highest court on this though... with a proportional share price slide. Rambus are obviously suffering though; share price down nearly 20% on the day (after trading in their shares resumed) at $14.60 - from a year high of $135.00.
they give glowing reviews to buffed and polished turds
Ah, but then the Samba team consider themselves to be turds, don't they?
"You could think of the Samba Team as the turds in the toilet bowl of Microsoft" - Jeremy Allison of Samba to Linus Torvalds before receiving his "IDG/Linus Torvald's Community Award".
"Well, the Samba team describe themselves as the turds in the..." - Linus later that day before presenting the "IDG/Linus Torvald's Community Award".
Afterall; don't people know that, unlike some other OSs, Linux doesn't wash away at a mere light shower.
Maybe they should have tried that stunt over here in the UK; one of our larger detergent vendors is currently running a "Love, Live and Laundry" campaign on national TV!
But 2038? What kind of date is that? Where's your catchy three-syllable mnemonic for that one?
What about "EUE", or "End of Unix Era"?
Or maybe not...
Of course, by 2038 we'll probably be moaning about how limiting our 128 bit computers are and wishing the Chipzilla's would make the move to sensible 256 bit words.
1970 + 2^256 seconds would be... somebody else's problem!;-)
Wireless seems to be having a lot of problems with security at present (the so-called "war driving"). Before making the fundamental decision of "wire vs wireless" have a think about what is going to go across the LAN un-encrypted, not just passwords, but SMB shares, personal details, your documents, that kind of thing.
Now consider the possibility of a war-driver going past your abode and getting hold of all that data... It's your call, but like I said - how paranoid are you?
I must confess, I prefer cable anyway; it's slightly more expensive, but it's very easy to get everything upto 100Mb/s which is nice if your pr0n^H^H^H^H media files are on a central server. And for a quick frag of course. (I said *frag*!)
Here's a quick tip for cabling a home with cavity walls as well: get some cheap plastic tubing to run your cable down. Punch a hole through the wall where your socket is going to be then drop the tube with inserted cable down the cavity from above. Jiggle the tube about until a friend below spots it through the hole, then slowly retract the tube and cable until (s)he can catch hold of the end. If the tubing is flexible enough you may be able to pull it back through the hole from below and reuse it on the next socket, or just trim of the slack and leave the stuff in the wall.
No, the trick is that a picture is worth 1000 words. Since graphics usually compress worse than text (limited dictionary), we simply want the 1000 words because it saves us space on our servers.
Depends on the data. While a picture is worth a thousand words there are very few pictures that can be adequately described in just one thousand words. Even if you take "words" loosely and apply a sophisticated compression algorithm, in English the average word length is 5 letters so that only leaves 6kB (allowing for spaces).
How do you feel about the screen? I'm currently looking at replacing my current "TuxTop" with a better model and was a bit unsure about the new super-high res options. I was going to go for a 15" 1400x1050, because that seemed reasonable based on my current 13.3" 1024x768. Here in the UK there just isn't anywhere I can go at present to see what a 1600x1200 looks like.
A hardware anti-aliased 800x600 option has obvious potential for watching DVDs though... I want to see how GeForce2GO based models perform before I buy though - anyone tried actually Linux on one yet?
Toshiba's are the same. I've got a Tecra 8000 that I've reloaded off a reset disk for a Tecra 8100 (lost the original) and then replaced the broken drivers from their website. Their reset disk even lets you prepartition *before* doing the restore; so I used a DOS boot disk to layout my file systems, installed Windows onto the first partition and let Linux do the rest.
Best of all it runs Linux like a charm; I've even got a bunch of 1024x768ish text modes to work for things like 128x49 text mode - which is *superb* for text editing, although it does glitch occasionally requiring a "clear" at the shell.
The only problem I had with it is some distros (Mandrake being the one that leaps to mind because it's the one I wanted to run) freeze on shutdown if the floppy is not connected. RedHat 6.x and 7.0 are all fine though, and even support the internal ZIP drive.
Negligent seems about right to me as well. Since the fraudster has done the sensible thing from his point of view, namely skipped the country and stashed the cash in off shore accounts, I'd say that leaves NetSol in the position of about to receive a legal document from the plaintiff's lawyer...
What's the bet we all get to pay an extra buck per domain fairly soon to cover any damages and costs they might accrue in the proceedings?:-/
Hmm. It's fallen to 82%, so either 18% of the population don't care about their "fair use" rights (or whatever the local equivalent is) or their is frantic ballot stuffing by the industry going on...
The UK extended her territorial waters a few years back, so it's no longer outside them (as it was in '67).
So, by that argument, if the UK was to futher extend her territorial waters by say, 15,000 miles (give or take), then the entire world would become a Crown Dependency and have to kowtow? It might fix a few problems I'm sure, but I can't imagine about 5.5 billion people being very happy about it.;-)
Can it have a top level country code now too?
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I suppose the argument that you can't register the ".mars" TLD because there are no sovereign representatives of the state concerned may now be moot as well; so it really will be "ping astronaut@lander.mars"!
Of course, ICANN are probably going to try and claim that a 4 billion year old fossilized microbe doesn't count as a "sovereign representative".
The first application that is definately a theme manager that I can recollect was way back in August 1995 - some three years before Apple filed this patent. And the name of this product? "The Windows '95 Plus Pack"! It let you set the wallpaper, sound events colours, fonts, widget sizes... so I think that qualified as a Theme Manager.
Yes; it's true! Micro$oft have done something with a GUI before someone else thought of it. It's going to be fun watching Apple try and enforce this one in the courts, but not as much as seeing the same people who are currently bashing Apple for their actions over Aqua try and have their cake and eat it by bashing Mircosoft also...
Like all of those Metallica.MP3s I downloaded from Napster... or ALL of Napster for that matter! Wouldn't like to lose one without a backup copy though; "I've just lost 10TB of data, so I'm going to see if I can fly off the top of this tall building..."
Seriously, if this is real then I'd say computers are finally exceeding the requirements of their users, on the desktop at least. Yet more profit warnings ahead in the desktop marketplace I expect.
So does it means that 2.2 sucked despite all the claims that it was a server-class OS ?
Does this that Linux is using Microsoft's standard marketing technique of "New version out - must diss current version to acquire beta testers" now? Gaaah!
It looks like we are off again; another Linux vendor sidestepping the free as in speech aspect for a little gain. Sure, these guys need to try and make money, but doing this is definately not the way to do it.
If Linux is ever going to make serious inroads into Microsoft it needs absolute binarycompatability across all distros; no questions asked. There is no way Linux is going to get serious support from commercial closed source vendors (which it needs to trounce Microsoft) if they can't distribute a binary only version of there code. We bitch about slogans like "RedHat compatiable" and "RedHat Linux", but the truth is that RedHat is by a large margin the defacto standard for binaries in those businesses that use Linux. As long as Linux vendors tie things to their platform via any means this is going to happen, and currently if you are not RedHat compliant then this is a bad thing to be doing financially and for Linux.
What Linux desperately needs is standards across all distros in those areas that allow serious back-end application support from closed source software; directory structure and package installation especially. If Linux can get mainstream application vendors shipping currently NT only products on Linux then it becomes a straight fight, and we all know which platform is going to win that on technical merit... Getting these apps Open Source after the event is just a matter of peer-pressure and making sure the model works.
Of course, this might just be Sun and some funnies to do with a new release, but I felt like a rant today because fscking NT is making my life hard. Again.;-)
They're thinking laptops, but I'm thinking heads-up displays.
Or even better a TFT panel on a laptop that you can rip the back of the lid off and sit on an OHP. I do some presentations at companies that don't have all that state of the art projection kit we have in the office. Normally I have an OHP for slides and a bunch of people round my laptop since I can't be bothered carting all the crap to set up a decent video projection system with me.
It would be so cool to be able to take the cover off my laptop, plunk it down on top of an OHP and get a large screen video display!
Actually, I seem to recall a laptop that did this some time ago, but as I never saw one I have no idea how the display looked with those old transistors that you couldn't see through.
So, what's Intel planning? Trying to put the wind up AMD by announcing the 10GHz Itanium on April 1st 2001 and hoping they don't realise what day it is? I don't think that they are that desparate just yet...
If they've got any sense they'll do what Red Hat did with their 7.0 release... stick with 2.2 as the default and provide 2.4 as an option. This seems like an eminently sensible approach to me for major stuff that lots of people run all the time like X, the big Window Managers and so on.
Of course, you could take the Debian approach; 2.4 as standard by 2002 maybe? Not that making sure everything is ICBM proof (well Linux is bullet proof already, isn't it?) is a bad thing of course.
Presumably this has been thought of, after all the UK is drifting away from France at a slow but steady rate (1cm every few years or decades I seem to recall). I'd assume that the tunnel would be through rock which is reasonably non-porous, so it could simply be a matter of slapping concrete over any cracks that appear. Or maybe you could use some kind of "elastic" section of tubing every now and then to allow for growth (or is it shrinkage?)
Any suggestions on how to overcome the far more serious earthquake problem?
Finished watching my copy the other night; I'd forgotten how impressive this show was, especially for it's time. Some of the CGI is a bit dated by today's standards, but that's only to be expected, but equally some still looks good. Right, that's the obligatory CGI comment over with...;-)
The "Cosmos Updates" are present; from the re-edit done ten years after the initial broadcast, as might be expected. But there has been some further editing too, how much I'm not sure I only noticed one spot that gave the game away. There is a rapid sequence of images near the very end which includes a screen shot of the M$ Windows SETI@Home client! I had to rewind and take another look to make sure; it looked like version 2.04 to me!
True, the more enlightened and capable kiddies will probably have a dual boot capability, and if you use any UNIX-a-like at all then you are not going to be mortally afraid of command lines. Where your typical kiddie is going to back of this kind of thing though is the fact that it involves quite a bit of work, and there are a *lot* of softer targets out there. On the otherhand, if it's encrypted it might be more worthwhile...
As to specifically fingering SSL/SSH in this instance; yes this is not just a SSL/SSH specific problem, and it has been technically possible to do this before. It's just not been so comparatively trivial; I've been playing with the new dsniff to eavesdrop on our LAN for a few hours now and it works very well... two credit cards numbers already!
That's the scary part of course. Either these users have disabled all security options in their browsers or are ignoring the messages that they are getting. Question is, do I change their order to a bunch of sex toys to prove the point of their stupidity? The solution as ever is education and more education, with the big piece of clue-by-four if neccesary.
There are two ways of making this "man in the middle" very easy if you have the right access.
Firstly, as mentioned in the article, you can subvert DNS at the initiating end of the chain so that the initiator of the SSH actually talks to the hacker's PC instead of the target; since the hacker is proxying the connection the remote end doesn't matter. Subverting DNS? As easy as adding a line to the hosts file, although access to BIND's files is obviously better.
Secondly, if you have access to the router (see The Default Logins DB), you can redirect traffic through your workstation transparently. There is a nice article on this in the current issue of Phrack for Cisco (and presumably compatible) routers. Everyone trusts a router, remember?
Not trivial, maybe, but it's definately possible to do this in the wild with the right tools if you are determined enough. Remember; most hacks are internal, and most serious hacks are leveraged to increasingly higher levels of priviledge from the original exploit.
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I'm betting Rambus are prepared to all the way to the highest court on this though... with a proportional share price slide. Rambus are obviously suffering though; share price down nearly 20% on the day (after trading in their shares resumed) at $14.60 - from a year high of $135.00.
Ah, but then the Samba team consider themselves to be turds, don't they?
"You could think of the Samba Team as the turds in the toilet bowl of Microsoft" - Jeremy Allison of Samba to Linus Torvalds before receiving his "IDG/Linus Torvald's Community Award".
"Well, the Samba team describe themselves as the turds in the..." - Linus later that day before presenting the "IDG/Linus Torvald's Community Award".
Maybe they should have tried that stunt over here in the UK; one of our larger detergent vendors is currently running a "Love, Live and Laundry" campaign on national TV!
What about "EUE", or "End of Unix Era"?
Or maybe not...
Of course, by 2038 we'll probably be moaning about how limiting our 128 bit computers are and wishing the Chipzilla's would make the move to sensible 256 bit words. 1970 + 2^256 seconds would be... somebody else's problem! ;-)
Wireless seems to be having a lot of problems with security at present (the so-called "war driving"). Before making the fundamental decision of "wire vs wireless" have a think about what is going to go across the LAN un-encrypted, not just passwords, but SMB shares, personal details, your documents, that kind of thing.
Now consider the possibility of a war-driver going past your abode and getting hold of all that data... It's your call, but like I said - how paranoid are you?
I must confess, I prefer cable anyway; it's slightly more expensive, but it's very easy to get everything upto 100Mb/s which is nice if your pr0n^H^H^H^H media files are on a central server. And for a quick frag of course. (I said *frag*!)
Here's a quick tip for cabling a home with cavity walls as well: get some cheap plastic tubing to run your cable down. Punch a hole through the wall where your socket is going to be then drop the tube with inserted cable down the cavity from above. Jiggle the tube about until a friend below spots it through the hole, then slowly retract the tube and cable until (s)he can catch hold of the end. If the tubing is flexible enough you may be able to pull it back through the hole from below and reuse it on the next socket, or just trim of the slack and leave the stuff in the wall.
Depends on the data. While a picture is worth a thousand words there are very few pictures that can be adequately described in just one thousand words. Even if you take "words" loosely and apply a sophisticated compression algorithm, in English the average word length is 5 letters so that only leaves 6kB (allowing for spaces).
How do you feel about the screen? I'm currently looking at replacing my current "TuxTop" with a better model and was a bit unsure about the new super-high res options. I was going to go for a 15" 1400x1050, because that seemed reasonable based on my current 13.3" 1024x768. Here in the UK there just isn't anywhere I can go at present to see what a 1600x1200 looks like.
A hardware anti-aliased 800x600 option has obvious potential for watching DVDs though... I want to see how GeForce2GO based models perform before I buy though - anyone tried actually Linux on one yet?
Best of all it runs Linux like a charm; I've even got a bunch of 1024x768ish text modes to work for things like 128x49 text mode - which is *superb* for text editing, although it does glitch occasionally requiring a "clear" at the shell.
The only problem I had with it is some distros (Mandrake being the one that leaps to mind because it's the one I wanted to run) freeze on shutdown if the floppy is not connected. RedHat 6.x and 7.0 are all fine though, and even support the internal ZIP drive.
What's the bet we all get to pay an extra buck per domain fairly soon to cover any damages and costs they might accrue in the proceedings? :-/
Hmm. It's fallen to 82%, so either 18% of the population don't care about their "fair use" rights (or whatever the local equivalent is) or their is frantic ballot stuffing by the industry going on...
So, by that argument, if the UK was to futher extend her territorial waters by say, 15,000 miles (give or take), then the entire world would become a Crown Dependency and have to kowtow? It might fix a few problems I'm sure, but I can't imagine about 5.5 billion people being very happy about it. ;-)
Of course, ICANN are probably going to try and claim that a 4 billion year old fossilized microbe doesn't count as a "sovereign representative".
Nitpickers!
The first application that is definately a theme manager that I can recollect was way back in August 1995 - some three years before Apple filed this patent. And the name of this product? "The Windows '95 Plus Pack"! It let you set the wallpaper, sound events colours, fonts, widget sizes... so I think that qualified as a Theme Manager.
Yes; it's true! Micro$oft have done something with a GUI before someone else thought of it. It's going to be fun watching Apple try and enforce this one in the courts, but not as much as seeing the same people who are currently bashing Apple for their actions over Aqua try and have their cake and eat it by bashing Mircosoft also...
Seriously, if this is real then I'd say computers are finally exceeding the requirements of their users, on the desktop at least. Yet more profit warnings ahead in the desktop marketplace I expect.
Just as well those FTP servers are all running a reliable OS I suppose... ;-)
Does this that Linux is using Microsoft's standard marketing technique of "New version out - must diss current version to acquire beta testers" now? Gaaah!
If Linux is ever going to make serious inroads into Microsoft it needs absolute binary compatability across all distros; no questions asked. There is no way Linux is going to get serious support from commercial closed source vendors (which it needs to trounce Microsoft) if they can't distribute a binary only version of there code. We bitch about slogans like "RedHat compatiable" and "RedHat Linux", but the truth is that RedHat is by a large margin the defacto standard for binaries in those businesses that use Linux. As long as Linux vendors tie things to their platform via any means this is going to happen, and currently if you are not RedHat compliant then this is a bad thing to be doing financially and for Linux.
What Linux desperately needs is standards across all distros in those areas that allow serious back-end application support from closed source software; directory structure and package installation especially. If Linux can get mainstream application vendors shipping currently NT only products on Linux then it becomes a straight fight, and we all know which platform is going to win that on technical merit... Getting these apps Open Source after the event is just a matter of peer-pressure and making sure the model works.
Of course, this might just be Sun and some funnies to do with a new release, but I felt like a rant today because fscking NT is making my life hard. Again. ;-)
Or even better a TFT panel on a laptop that you can rip the back of the lid off and sit on an OHP. I do some presentations at companies that don't have all that state of the art projection kit we have in the office. Normally I have an OHP for slides and a bunch of people round my laptop since I can't be bothered carting all the crap to set up a decent video projection system with me.
It would be so cool to be able to take the cover off my laptop, plunk it down on top of an OHP and get a large screen video display!
Actually, I seem to recall a laptop that did this some time ago, but as I never saw one I have no idea how the display looked with those old transistors that you couldn't see through.
So, what's Intel planning? Trying to put the wind up AMD by announcing the 10GHz Itanium on April 1st 2001 and hoping they don't realise what day it is? I don't think that they are that desparate just yet...
Of course, you could take the Debian approach; 2.4 as standard by 2002 maybe? Not that making sure everything is ICBM proof (well Linux is bullet proof already, isn't it?) is a bad thing of course.
Any suggestions on how to overcome the far more serious earthquake problem?
The "Cosmos Updates" are present; from the re-edit done ten years after the initial broadcast, as might be expected. But there has been some further editing too, how much I'm not sure I only noticed one spot that gave the game away. There is a rapid sequence of images near the very end which includes a screen shot of the M$ Windows SETI@Home client! I had to rewind and take another look to make sure; it looked like version 2.04 to me!
The "zero-gravity pretzel" huh? That would be an edible mobius toriod that we could wash down with this beer out of a Klein Stein.
As to specifically fingering SSL/SSH in this instance; yes this is not just a SSL/SSH specific problem, and it has been technically possible to do this before. It's just not been so comparatively trivial; I've been playing with the new dsniff to eavesdrop on our LAN for a few hours now and it works very well... two credit cards numbers already!
That's the scary part of course. Either these users have disabled all security options in their browsers or are ignoring the messages that they are getting. Question is, do I change their order to a bunch of sex toys to prove the point of their stupidity? The solution as ever is education and more education, with the big piece of clue-by-four if neccesary.
Firstly, as mentioned in the article, you can subvert DNS at the initiating end of the chain so that the initiator of the SSH actually talks to the hacker's PC instead of the target; since the hacker is proxying the connection the remote end doesn't matter. Subverting DNS? As easy as adding a line to the hosts file, although access to BIND's files is obviously better.
Secondly, if you have access to the router (see The Default Logins DB), you can redirect traffic through your workstation transparently. There is a nice article on this in the current issue of Phrack for Cisco (and presumably compatible) routers. Everyone trusts a router, remember?
Not trivial, maybe, but it's definately possible to do this in the wild with the right tools if you are determined enough. Remember; most hacks are internal, and most serious hacks are leveraged to increasingly higher levels of priviledge from the original exploit.