Yeah, I remeber that, can't think of the name of the story, but it was the one where Harriman was trying to scrape up money to send the first rocket to the moon. He gave a marketing company the idea that their compeditor was going to pay to have an ad placed on the moon, so he ended up getting people to pay him to not but other people's hypothetical marketing on the moon (didn't have the thrust to actually carry marking material). IIRC the idea was to use small rockets to spread carbon dust or other non reflective material in large patterns to create a black pattern on the white reflected surface of the moon.
Actually PCWeek has a point. Yes closed source security through obscurity is bad. Yes open source security is good. But placing your source easily available without the corresponding ability for people to bug fix it and submit patches is worse. You get the worst of both worlds, you make it easy for crackers to find holes (not that they wouldn't anyway but it would take longer) but don't allow lots of good hackers to poke through the code and fix the potential problems.
Um, your comparing two different sets of numbers. C|Net was saying that the new 2 slot rambus boards only support a maximum of 512 Meg, while current 4 slot BX boards can support 1 Gig. Then they go on to say that the broken 3 slot rambut boards could have supported 768 Meg. They just didn't phrase it very well. So there math is right. (bx) 1024MB / (new rambus) 512MB = 1/2 the mem (bx) 1024MB / (old rambus) 768MB = 2/3 the mem (old rambus) 768MB / (new rambus) 512 = 2/3 the mem of old rambus.
Speaking of RTGs IIRC the Apollo lunar orbiter module used an RTG for power, certainly it was a plutonium source. When Apollo 13 had to abort and return to earth in the RTG ended up reentering into the pacific ocean. They are designed to withstand significant impact without containment failure.
Presumably the cable modem is smart enough to do limited port blocking or packet filtering and has the ability to be reprogrammed remotely by the cable company. Since it handles the ethernet to cable connection it would have to be where any local loop filtering takes place.
Russian also looked at something like project chariot. They were planning to use multiple nuclear bombs to build a canal that would be used to reroute one of their rivers from running through Siberia and have it u-turn and go someplace useful for them.
The US also had plans to use nukes to make a sea level canal through Nicaragua, and I've seen late 50's pro nuclear educational videos that discussed using a nuclear blast to blow a new ground level, i.e.. flat, pass through the Rocky Mountains for a highway.
The real problem with cryptographically securing the program is you then have to trust that program or another on their system to correctly do the crypto. F.ex if you send every block back to d.net with a hash of the d.net client and a signature a hacked client could just use a precomputed hash of the non-hacked client, and happily send off a signed block that looked correct. After all the client has to know the proper key to sign with or it can't sign in a non-hacked form. You end up with more software on the untrusted computer that you have to rely on to function in a trusted manner. If you can't trust that the client will not be hacked how can you trust that the over-watch code won't be hacked either!
Win95/98 will run fine on one of these motherboards, however one of the processors will be unused while in Win95/98. So you could dual boot the machine between 9x and RHL6 and have one proc in Win and both in Linux.
Two things. First Coppermine dispite its name doesn't use copper interconnects. Intel isn't scheduled to use copper interconnects until the first proc they design for.13 (Deerfield if memory servers) sometime in 2001. Second Ars Technica has an article that covers why it would be difficult for intel to disable SMP. Basically the SMP pin has to have voltage to work, so not only does intel have to cut the pin, they then have to run 1.5V power to it inside the chip casing or on-die.
Where did you get this information that the P3 has three levels of cache, could you provide a URL? AFAIK The P3 only has two, a 32KB L1 cache and a 512KB 1/2 speed L2 cache, while the celeron has a 32KB L1 cache and a 128KB full speed L2 cache, and neither proc has a L3 cache, if they miss in L2 they go to main memory.
One possible problem with NT on a tyan tomcat MB; I got bit by this one. I had a Tomcat II Dual, only one processor ( a pentium 166 ) that was running Win95. I installed NT4 and it forced a multiprocessor install. Turns out I had a jumper on the motherboard that said the board was in dual processor mode. NT in a dual processor install on a mboard with one processor it wildly unstable and will crash randomly, floppy disk access or playing a sound would blue screen it every time!
Actually a lot, possibly most, DVD players also play Video CDs, so it is possible he meant to download and burn the VCD, then watch it on television, rather that on the computer.
While this sounds cool, I do have one question about it. If your picture isn't released outside the bank and you don't have a ATM card and PIN then you couldn't use other banks ATMs even if they had eye scanners. Also at the moment you can't the this any on the other point of sale location that you can use an ATM card, like a gas station. You would be stuck using only the couple of eye-scanning ATMs at your banks' locations.
Currently I guess you would also need a normal ATM card and memorized PIN for times when you couldn't use your own banks ATMs, so it is more of a cute tech than anything really useful.
Young upstarts, back in the real old days you had to drill holes into your celerons and if you missed you killed the whole chip not just a cheap rise board; why I modified 6 secc celerons and killed nary a one. These newfangled things are just to easy
NT 4 doesn't support FAT32, however in typical Microsoft fashion, it has its own, unnamed, way of having FAT partitions larger than 2 Gig, which existed before FAT32. You can see this doing an NT install. Install NT on a partition > 2Gb as NTFS, after NT reboots from setup it will convert the drive from > 2Gb FAT to NTFS. Or you can leave the drive as FAT. AFAIK DOS/Win9x can't read this large FAT partition because it isn't really FAT32.
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Yeah, I remeber that, can't think of the name of the story, but it was the one where Harriman was trying to scrape up money to send the first rocket to the moon. He gave a marketing company the idea that their compeditor was going to pay to have an ad placed on the moon, so he ended up getting people to pay him to not but other people's hypothetical marketing on the moon (didn't have the thrust to actually carry marking material). IIRC the idea was to use small rockets to spread carbon dust or other non reflective material in large patterns to create a black pattern on the white reflected surface of the moon.
Actually PCWeek has a point. Yes closed source security through obscurity is bad. Yes open source security is good. But placing your source easily available without the corresponding ability for people to bug fix it and submit patches is worse. You get the worst of both worlds, you make it easy for crackers to find holes (not that they wouldn't anyway but it would take longer) but don't allow lots of good hackers to poke through the code and fix the potential problems.
Um, your comparing two different sets of numbers. C|Net was saying that the new 2 slot rambus boards only support a maximum of 512 Meg, while current 4 slot BX boards can support 1 Gig. Then they go on to say that the broken 3 slot rambut boards could have supported 768 Meg. They just didn't phrase it very well. So there math is right.
(bx) 1024MB / (new rambus) 512MB = 1/2 the mem
(bx) 1024MB / (old rambus) 768MB = 2/3 the mem
(old rambus) 768MB / (new rambus) 512 = 2/3 the mem of old rambus.
Speaking of RTGs IIRC the Apollo lunar orbiter module used an RTG for power, certainly it was a plutonium source. When Apollo 13 had to abort and return to earth in the RTG ended up reentering into the pacific ocean. They are designed to withstand significant impact without containment failure.
Presumably the cable modem is smart enough to do limited port blocking or packet filtering and has the ability to be reprogrammed remotely by the cable company. Since it handles the ethernet to cable connection it would have to be where any local loop filtering takes place.
Russian also looked at something like project chariot. They were planning to use multiple nuclear bombs to build a canal that would be used to reroute one of their rivers from running through Siberia and have it u-turn and go someplace useful for them.
The US also had plans to use nukes to make a sea level canal through Nicaragua, and I've seen late 50's pro nuclear educational videos that discussed using a nuclear blast to blow a new ground level, i.e.. flat, pass through the Rocky Mountains for a highway.
The real problem with cryptographically securing the program is you then have to trust that program or another on their system to correctly do the crypto. F.ex if you send every block back to d.net with a hash of the d.net client and a signature a hacked client could just use a precomputed hash of the non-hacked client, and happily send off a signed block that looked correct. After all the client has to know the proper key to sign with or it can't sign in a non-hacked form. You end up with more software on the untrusted computer that you have to rely on to function in a trusted manner. If you can't trust that the client will not be hacked how can you trust that the over-watch code won't be hacked either!
Win95/98 will run fine on one of these motherboards, however one of the processors will be unused while in Win95/98. So you could dual boot the machine between 9x and RHL6 and have one proc in Win and both in Linux.
Two things. First Coppermine dispite its name doesn't use copper interconnects. Intel isn't scheduled to use copper interconnects until the first proc they design for .13 (Deerfield if memory servers) sometime in 2001. Second Ars Technica has an article that covers why it would be difficult for intel to disable SMP. Basically the SMP pin has to have voltage to work, so not only does intel have to cut the pin, they then have to run 1.5V power to it inside the chip casing or on-die.
Where did you get this information that the P3 has three levels of cache, could you provide a URL? AFAIK The P3 only has two, a 32KB L1 cache and a 512KB 1/2 speed L2 cache, while the celeron has a 32KB L1 cache and a 128KB full speed L2 cache, and neither proc has a L3 cache, if they miss in L2 they go to main memory.
One possible problem with NT on a tyan tomcat MB; I got bit by this one. I had a Tomcat II Dual, only one processor ( a pentium 166 ) that was running Win95. I installed NT4 and it forced a multiprocessor install. Turns out I had a jumper on the motherboard that said the board was in dual processor mode. NT in a dual processor install on a mboard with one processor it wildly unstable and will crash randomly, floppy disk access or playing a sound would blue screen it every time!
Actually a lot, possibly most, DVD players also play Video CDs, so it is possible he meant to download and burn the VCD, then watch it on television, rather that on the computer.
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While this sounds cool, I do have one question about it. If your picture isn't released outside the bank and you don't have a ATM card and PIN then you couldn't use other banks ATMs even if they had eye scanners. Also at the moment you can't the this any on the other point of sale location that you can use an ATM card, like a gas station. You would be stuck using only the couple of eye-scanning ATMs at your banks' locations.
Currently I guess you would also need a normal ATM card and memorized PIN for times when you couldn't use your own banks ATMs, so it is more of a cute tech than anything really useful.
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Young upstarts, back in the real old days you had to drill holes into your celerons and if you missed you killed the whole chip not just a cheap rise board; why I modified 6 secc celerons and killed nary a one. These newfangled things are just to easy
:) maybe I'll have to build a new box...
Actually 256k full speed on-chip cache is exactly the specs that have been floating around for Intel's .18 micron Coppermine PIII core.
NT 4 doesn't support FAT32, however in typical Microsoft fashion, it has its own, unnamed, way of having FAT partitions larger than 2 Gig, which existed before FAT32. You can see this doing an NT install. Install NT on a partition > 2Gb as NTFS, after NT reboots from setup it will convert the drive from > 2Gb FAT to NTFS. Or you can leave the drive as FAT. AFAIK DOS/Win9x can't read this large FAT partition because it isn't really FAT32.