I see people are posting their favorite network monitoring tools so I might add another one: NISCA. THe advantage of this one is that it keeps all the stats in the db and generates graphs and stats on the fly (PHP/MySQL). You can look at last year's stats without any precision loss (unlike MRTG).
The fact is that any software or hardware utilizing DVD technologies has to pay a licence fee.
This is something new. Licensing fee for DVD technology? What licensing fees may that be and payable to whom? I know a guy that bought a DVD writer and is using it in Linux pretty happily and legally. What licensing fees did he pay? Please elaborate.
Web bugs sounds interesting but I can speculate it is IE related (too bad they don't really elabotate) and I don't use IE at all (just too many security concerns with it). Does anyone know what they are using to pull out someone's address book (must be ActiveX/VBScript/Internet Exploder/Outbreak Express related)? Your "hosts" idea isn't too bad either except that I use to many machines to be mocking with hosts file on all of them. Much easier to use squid or BIND to block Doubleclick completely (if you use these). Mozilla cookie handling also helps. Too bad it doesn't support roaming profiles yet so I have to set it on every machine...
I had one of these (traded it just this weekend). I tried last week (~Aug 17) with the latest DRI sources I could find on the DRI site and it didn't work. There was no support (read: X said *no DRI*). I am not a liar!
ISTR back when W2K was released there were allegations that it used OpenBSD's TCP/IP stack without attribution. I can't remember how that ever turned out, though.
BSD license allows you to use the code as you see fit as long as you include the original author's notice. So as long as they did that they're fine. They don't even have to tell anyone they did it....
You won't get very far. No 3D support at *all*. Even support for 7500 and earlier is incomplete. Unlike the *complete* support for anything since TNT in the NVidia driver. I am not saying the guys who do the XFree/DRI drivers are lazy or anything. They are undermanned and writing a video driver these days is not easy and ATI is not really supporting them in any way other than releasing the specs (that's a goos start indeed but not much more).
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What am I supposed to do with games/commercial software compiled with 2.95.x? Is that not going to work? Someone please enlighten me...
I was waiting too until I got sick of it and got a GF4 4200 128MB. Yes, the drivers are closed source but they are fully featured and work *fine*. Sure beats my friend's Radeon 8500 open source driver which still doesn't support half of the things the card is capable of. How long does he have to wait to get the full support for the hardware he bought 6 months ago? ATI is cheap and lame - they think they only have to open the specs for the card while the Weather Channel pays for the driver development. I mean the Radeaon 9700 will cost $400. For that kind of money I bloody well expect a shiny new Linux driver.
While we are at the topic of security I was wondering whether there are any similar products to StackGuard (www.immunix.org) available for a newer gcc? StackGuard is commercial and only works with older gcc's. If there were such a thing one could probably do a whole system recompile with it (a la Gentoo). That would beef up the security considerably. The Immunix FormatGuard also looks interesting.
Did you read the articles at all? It is plainly said that Palladium will not eliminate application layer virii. That means Joe Sixpack *will* be getting more Outlook & Word virii. What he won't be able to do is to watch unlicensed content. It is plain that this has nothing to do with Joe Sixpack's security but only with content protection Hollywood and total control by Microsoft.
The problem with everyone's understanding of TCPA/Palladium is that there won't be a single authority (flying Black Helicopters over your PC at night). Big companies like IBM (and especially the government) may use it for document control, but that's about it. What Palladium will do for the world is:
* End the untrusted binary problem. Viruses will be blacklisted by a remote server - no more email viruses, ever...
You are contradicting yourself in mere two sentences. No black helicopters? They don't need them. THe server you mention later is *way* better. Whoever controls that server - controls your PC.
OK, that's crap. Ask Nvidia & ATI! They need every little bit of bandwidth they can get on their video cards and they still use DDR. I am sure Rambus Inc would love to see RDRAM on GeForce5 but it ain't gonna happen. DDR is superior. It has lower latency and the bandwidth difference between it and RDRAM can be easliy fixed by cranking up the clock and interleaving.
Lastly, the practices of Rambus Inc make me not touch their RAM with a 10 ft pole but that's besides the point.
If what I see is true - that is one awesome deal. Kick ass 12 player UT server for $35/month, no bandwidth restrictions. Too good to be true. What am I missing here?
Seriously, is this a joke? Bosnian Jews??? Never saw one (there are some in Serbia but almost none in Bosnia). Americans selling guns to Serbs? Are you for real? They bombed the Serbs there (and in Serbia later)! Israel selling guns to Serbs? What are you smoking? They were taking in Bosnian muslim refugees ans supporting Bosnian Muslims (until the orthodox Jew backlash) in the spirit of their current (1995-1999) "understanding" with Arabs. Serbs have no US weapons but Muslims/Croats do - that's where it went to. No Jew (execept the very few in Serbia) saw an US bomb in their back yard. No irony there at all.
Example of irony: Taliban (well radical muslims, not Taliban beacuse they didn't exist at that point but it's the same peeps) were heavily supported by US during the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. They are now preoccupied with blowing up US...
Q. Wow, Eric, sounds like the geeks get the most welfare of all! Why do you think they complain so much? A. (stumped)
BS! What kind of a junky argument is that? How much of the 90-some million for that software went to geeks or anyone else how aready doesn't have a million buycks in bank? The crooks at that Logicon got $28 M and Larry & Co got the rest. And that's taxpayers' money. Why am I complaining? Because friggin multi-millionare crooks got away with my money! That's why! D.
LOL! I really didn't see that angle. No, what I meant is that when you have limited bandwidth bandwidth available you don't want a single person monopolizing it (throttling down the offender would probably be sufficient). That's all. If we had more I wouldn't care really.
I mean how do you deal with folks who Morpheus/Kazaa mp3s/movies the whole day and monopolize the connection? You charge them extra? That wouldn't help the connection though - it'd still be saturated. Bandwidth throttling then? I am thinking of propsing the same in my nigbourhood.
I have GeForce 2 and I regret buying it. The image quality sucked until I removed the junky R/F filters on the card (I can probably microwave a dish real quickly on it now/*joke*/:) ). I spent money getting good monitors and all I got from that card was what looked like 12X FSAA:) From what I hear their newest GeForce4 4600 still suffer from the same problem. Hell, if I were to buy one I'd feel pretty cheated. I mean a US $400 card and they can't put half decent R/F filters on it... Geez (and the Linux driver is still unstable!). No thanks.
BTW, ATI's & Matrox's cards never had these problems - I can testify to that.
Hey, all of Eastern block coutries' net worth doesn't add up to half of M$. The biggest & badest racketeers are in the West;) (I know it's off topic but I hate these kinds of self delusional comments)
D.
My 7200 rpm 34GXP IBM died after only 12 months of light usage (1-2 hr a day) during a game install. I have heard 34GXPs died a lot in other people's boxes (Apple used to ship them in their G4 - we have some in our office - all have died). I have 2 other disks (RAID1/Fujitsu disks) that run 24/7 with heavy usage (busy server) and they have been OK for 2 yr now. My new 7200rpm WD that replaced the IBM has been fine as well.
Of course this doesn't compare to horror stories of people where all 4 IBM disks in a RAID dies within a month. I think the whole GXP line smells bad.
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I see people are posting their favorite network monitoring tools so I might add another one: NISCA. THe advantage of this one is that it keeps all the stats in the db and generates graphs and stats on the fly (PHP/MySQL). You can look at last year's stats without any precision loss (unlike MRTG).
Cheers
The fact is that any software or hardware utilizing DVD technologies has to pay a licence fee.
This is something new. Licensing fee for DVD technology? What licensing fees may that be and payable to whom? I know a guy that bought a DVD writer and is using it in Linux pretty happily and legally. What licensing fees did he pay? Please elaborate.
Web bugs sounds interesting but I can speculate it is IE related (too bad they don't really elabotate) and I don't use IE at all (just too many security concerns with it). Does anyone know what they are using to pull out someone's address book (must be ActiveX/VBScript/Internet Exploder/Outbreak Express related)? Your "hosts" idea isn't too bad either except that I use to many machines to be mocking with hosts file on all of them. Much easier to use squid or BIND to block Doubleclick completely (if you use these). Mozilla cookie handling also helps. Too bad it doesn't support roaming profiles yet so I have to set it on every machine...
Cheers.
Use Mozilla, selectively block Doubleclick cookies (as I do) and laugh all the way through the web page that serves Doubleclick adds :)
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And post with your full name, address and social security number.
Thank you!
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I had one of these (traded it just this weekend). I tried last week (~Aug 17) with the latest DRI sources I could find on the DRI site and it didn't work. There was no support (read: X said *no DRI*). I am not a liar!
ISTR back when W2K was released there were allegations that it used OpenBSD's TCP/IP stack without attribution. I can't remember how that ever turned out, though.
BSD license allows you to use the code as you see fit as long as you include the original author's notice. So as long as they did that they're fine. They don't even have to tell anyone they did it....
(and will be trying with an 8500 tonight)
You won't get very far. No 3D support at *all*. Even support for 7500 and earlier is incomplete. Unlike the *complete* support for anything since TNT in the NVidia driver. I am not saying the guys who do the XFree/DRI drivers are lazy or anything. They are undermanned and writing a video driver these days is not easy and ATI is not really supporting them in any way other than releasing the specs (that's a goos start indeed but not much more).
What am I supposed to do with games/commercial software compiled with 2.95.x? Is that not going to work? Someone please enlighten me...
ATI, Matrox, Trident - I'm waiting...
I was waiting too until I got sick of it and got a GF4 4200 128MB. Yes, the drivers are closed source but they are fully featured and work *fine*. Sure beats my friend's Radeon 8500 open source driver which still doesn't support half of the things the card is capable of. How long does he have to wait to get the full support for the hardware he bought 6 months ago? ATI is cheap and lame - they think they only have to open the specs for the card while the Weather Channel pays for the driver development. I mean the Radeaon 9700 will cost $400. For that kind of money I bloody well expect a shiny new Linux driver.
Cool. It seems to do the right things. I'll try it. Thanks.
While we are at the topic of security I was wondering whether there are any similar products to StackGuard (www.immunix.org) available for a newer gcc? StackGuard is commercial and only works with older gcc's. If there were such a thing one could probably do a whole system recompile with it (a la Gentoo). That would beef up the security considerably. The Immunix FormatGuard also looks interesting.
D.
Clinton signed the DMCA. Very progressive indeed.
D.
Did you read the articles at all? It is plainly said that Palladium will not eliminate application layer virii. That means Joe Sixpack *will* be getting more Outlook & Word virii. What he won't be able to do is to watch unlicensed content. It is plain that this has nothing to do with Joe Sixpack's security but only with content protection Hollywood and total control by Microsoft.
The problem with everyone's understanding of TCPA/Palladium is that there won't be a single authority (flying Black Helicopters over your PC at night). Big companies like IBM (and especially the government) may use it for document control, but that's about it. What Palladium will do for the world is:
* End the untrusted binary problem. Viruses will be blacklisted by a remote server - no more email viruses, ever...
You are contradicting yourself in mere two sentences. No black helicopters? They don't need them. THe server you mention later is *way* better. Whoever controls that server - controls your PC.
Cheers,
D.
Mozilla can't do roaming profiles (which I need)! That's just one. I do not know of any other examples...
D.
OK, that's crap. Ask Nvidia & ATI! They need every little bit of bandwidth they can get on their video cards and they still use DDR. I am sure Rambus Inc would love to see RDRAM on GeForce5 but it ain't gonna happen. DDR is superior. It has lower latency and the bandwidth difference between it and RDRAM can be easliy fixed by cranking up the clock and interleaving.
Lastly, the practices of Rambus Inc make me not touch their RAM with a 10 ft pole but that's besides the point.
D.
If what I see is true - that is one awesome deal. Kick ass 12 player UT server for $35/month, no bandwidth restrictions. Too good to be true. What am I missing here?
D.
So true
Seriously, is this a joke? Bosnian Jews??? Never saw one (there are some in Serbia but almost none in Bosnia). Americans selling guns to Serbs? Are you for real? They bombed the Serbs there (and in Serbia later)! Israel selling guns to Serbs? What are you smoking? They were taking in Bosnian muslim refugees ans supporting Bosnian Muslims (until the orthodox Jew backlash) in the spirit of their current (1995-1999) "understanding" with Arabs. Serbs have no US weapons but Muslims/Croats do - that's where it went to. No Jew (execept the very few in Serbia) saw an US bomb in their back yard. No irony there at all.
Example of irony: Taliban (well radical muslims, not Taliban beacuse they didn't exist at that point but it's the same peeps) were heavily supported by US during the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. They are now preoccupied with blowing up US...
D.
Q. Wow, Eric, sounds like the geeks get the most welfare of all! Why do you think they complain so much?
A. (stumped)
BS! What kind of a junky argument is that? How much of the 90-some million for that software went to geeks or anyone else how aready doesn't have a million buycks in bank? The crooks at that Logicon got $28 M and Larry & Co got the rest. And that's taxpayers' money. Why am I complaining? Because friggin multi-millionare crooks got away with my money! That's why!
D.
LOL! I really didn't see that angle. No, what I meant is that when you have limited bandwidth bandwidth available you don't want a single person monopolizing it (throttling down the offender would probably be sufficient). That's all. If we had more I wouldn't care really.
I mean how do you deal with folks who Morpheus/Kazaa mp3s/movies the whole day and monopolize the connection? You charge them extra? That wouldn't help the connection though - it'd still be saturated. Bandwidth throttling then? I am thinking of propsing the same in my nigbourhood.
I have GeForce 2 and I regret buying it. The image quality sucked until I removed the junky R/F filters on the card (I can probably microwave a dish real quickly on it now /*joke*/:) ). I spent money getting good monitors and all I got from that card was what looked like 12X FSAA:) From what I hear their newest GeForce4 4600 still suffer from the same problem. Hell, if I were to buy one I'd feel pretty cheated. I mean a US $400 card and they can't put half decent R/F filters on it... Geez (and the Linux driver is still unstable!). No thanks.
BTW, ATI's & Matrox's cards never had these problems - I can testify to that.
Hey, all of Eastern block coutries' net worth doesn't add up to half of M$. The biggest & badest racketeers are in the West ;) (I know it's off topic but I hate these kinds of self delusional comments)
D.
My 7200 rpm 34GXP IBM died after only 12 months of light usage (1-2 hr a day) during a game install. I have heard 34GXPs died a lot in other people's boxes (Apple used to ship them in their G4 - we have some in our office - all have died). I have 2 other disks (RAID1/Fujitsu disks) that run 24/7 with heavy usage (busy server) and they have been OK for 2 yr now. My new 7200rpm WD that replaced the IBM has been fine as well.
Of course this doesn't compare to horror stories of people where all 4 IBM disks in a RAID dies within a month. I think the whole GXP line smells bad.
D.