Back in 2001, I worked for a company that tried to put out a system called Flipr (yeah, original name...) that would have pretty much worked the same way.
Except that we never could license any content. We were proposing royalties that were better then what iTunes offers and no record labels wanted to even talk to us. We would have loved even to have a small subsection of the pop music crap out there if it meant we had content more then 25 peoples wanted to download.
Remember, the Opteron's memory controller is on-chip. So to get 32GB on a dual-capable board, you need 2 CPUs. Those DIMM banks are hardwired to the pins on the CPU.
Because there are NT kernel rootkits that will hide processes from the task manager. The most well known being hacker defender.
Reboot in safe mode and then check out the registry for what processes get autorunned and investigate all of them. Including checking for any hidden files.
You'll probably find that you run a warez ftp or spam bot or something.
There are also so-called "raw mode" registry viewers that will find the registry keys that are not visible to regedit and but that still exists. This translates directly to kernel rootkits....
There has never been problems with Ford Crown Victorias, this is FUD!;-)
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No. SHA1 can still not be reversed, they found a COLLISION. That is, with 2^69 tries, they can come up with a value that will have the same SHA-1 hash as the password.
What's stoping them from having a tamper-resistant hardware crypto processor? I mean, you can already buy some of them on the market. They're designed to resist such low tech attacks as slicing the top of the chip off and scanning it with an electron microscope.
If such a chip becomes spec equipement for HD-DVD players. And such a chip must be bought from one trusted source, then It might be possible to make it secure.
If there's a, say, 100 megs keyfile at the start of the HD-DVD, containing content decryption keys for 4 million player keys and the chips contained a randomly picked, non-revocated, key for the content, then the break one key, invalidate one million player would be a non-issue, it'd be break one key and invalidte 7 players from 5 manufacturers sold under 7 brands. Handle the replacement as a "failure," maybe even have some hardcoded routine to reboot the player, it'll be non-obvious why it is rebooting.
These ideas are copyright (c) 2005, Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux. Viewing these ideas does not constitute a license to use them for DVD protection schemes without negatiating terms with me. ac (dot) vca (at) vca.
They still do this, With Fat Binaries, you can ship software with G3/G4/G5 optimized binaries in the same package. What's stopping them from shipping G3/G4/G5/Opteron/i386/P4/Itanic/Whatever in a package?
The answer is Nothing. GCC supports the target. The format is built for it (it comes from next after all).
If it became possible, you can bet that Apple would make Xcode cross-compile if there was money in it.
Like all the major Canadian banks, the transactional system is on an IBM Mainframe. Running either OS/370 or OS/390. The transactional integrity is handled either with CICS or with custom home-grown software.
As for OS/2, that was only on ATMs. And ATMs are running anything from VxWorks to System 7 unix to OS/2 to embedded windows.
Finally, if you're going to cite a comment on a web site, as reliable as that is, please give a reference to it that is more then the URL to the whole site...
Can anyone say "Replay Attack"? This is "secure" untill you use it. No better then a password, really. What's next, a cool feature in knock_proxy to implement a password to knocking-sequence pairing?
1. Use a laptop. A real one. The cheap desktop replacement with p4 and everything suck well over 100W. Get a light weigth laptop. You should be able to get something with p3-m that draws an average of less then 50W. I personnaly love my Thinkpad X20.
2. Use deep-cycle battery (used in boats and some RVs) they last 2-5x longer (both in number of months you can use them and in how long you can suck power from them before they're fully discharged) then car batteries so you won't need to replace them every 3-6 months.
3. Get a good marine-grade charger while you're at it. And, also, marine wind generator might be an option, especially if you're on top of a hill or on the shore or if there's a strong dominant wind. When a good wind is blowing they generate a lot more then a solar panel.
4. Try and find a AC/DC power adapter such as the IBM 22P9010 Thinkpad 72W AC/DC Combo Adapter. This will get rid of the huge inefficiency of running the power through an inverter to make AC to then have a transformer turn it back into DC. Note that the watt rating is because this adapter is good with ALL thinkpads.
5. Your lighting will suck more power then your computer anyways, invest in the most power saving DC lighting you can get, see a marine or RV dealer.
6. Pumps (say, for pressurized water) will drain your battery really fast. Air contitioner/heater, electric pipe heater (ie: you use a well that is not under the house and the pipe is not buried deep enough or pump from a lake and you're in a cold climate) will require a genset.
That's what I can think of, on top of my head. Basically, the Marine electricity folks have the most experience with clean DC electrical system, mostly from cruising sailing boats. RVs are also ok but they rely heavily on genset so they get away with 1+ kW/h of consumptions.
Also, when you switch to DC power, what you really want is an amp meter on the main circuit to know just how much you're drawing and a volt-meter on each battery bank(s) to know the charge level.
A marine deep cycle usually provides 90 Amps/Hr. @ ~14VDC nominal for 1 Hr. Full discharge is about 11.5VDC (this would kill a car battery in a few cycles) and full charge is around 15VDC. A 48W constant DC draw @ 12V is 4 Amps/Hr.
This isn't about Wintel. Intel wants China to use Windows because Windows runs on x86. China has a nacent microprocessor industry. Most chinese do not have PCs or modern ones if they have any.
Combine this with a cheap architecture that is either locally developed or licensed for manufacturing until indigenous CPUs catch up and you get the problem.
Remember that Linux is multi-platform? Get the local industry to switch to Linux, port Linux to ChinaCPU or whatever they call it and proceed to have a 100% homegrown market with 1 billion potential customers. Sans Intel, Microsoft, etc.
Why are most of the cables in aircraft still copper conductors? Wouldn't it make sense to have an all optical solution for all that fly-by-wire, navigation instruments and other communication stuff under the floor of the passenger cabin? That way, all the sensitive electronics is located only in specific areas which can be effectively shielded from the cabin. I mean, planes like Airbus no longer have direct hydraulic control from the yoke to the ailerons so might as well do the small jump and save the extra weight, it's not like they couldn't afford to do it.
There's no such thing as a judge ordering a patent to be licensed. Eolas can screw microsoft and leave it at that. 521 Million $ is for the dammage, past, curent and future that Eolas will suffer from the infringing use wether in '96 or 2009.
In other news, the IP Precrime unit was formed today in Brussels. Using sophisticated technology and anonymous tips provided by shadowy agents referred to as "precogs," this new enforcement branch of the EU IP registry will prevent potential IP offenders from committing their crimes and thus abusing the poor and defenceless IP owners.
I'll probably get arrested for ripping Minority Reports off now.
Vim does most of what you want. I use in Xterm's with black background and a slightly gray shade of white for the foreground and comfortable fonts. Vim will save your position in files. It works well.
You need a dedicated network person who only handles issues as they arise, this person can also handle the power load. This person does not need to deal with troubleshooting of PCs because....
You need a few volunteers to get PCs up and running on the network in the first few hours. Ideally, have spare cables and one NIC available for sale (but don't make them cheap, the poor sods deserve it) for the one awkward guys that won't have a proper NIC.
Power:
Prepare the distribution "network" ahead of time and make sure that the different sections are really on their own breakers and not overlapping with those 60 feet away. Providing the initial plug in points limits within 10-15 feets from their anticipated usage point helps control the load on the circuits.
DO NOT under ANY circumstances allo unrestricted access to any wall/floor outlet that is not designated for end users. Tape them over.
All cable snaking on the floor should be taped over, many cables running parallel should be grouped and run under those special ramps that let people walk on them.
Have an extra long extension and duct tape to tape it to the ground. This is to run alternate power to an underpowered cluster of PCs from a place with spare juice. It comes in handy, especially if 10 guys with 3-4 HDs, 21" screens and 5.1 speaker set up all gather nearby, you know like a clan;-).
Misc:
Written policies for thefth, damage, injury, cheating, minimum age, etc. Trash and trash extraction. Facility cleaning and maintenance. Food, Beverages, Bar (and license if you have one) and other things need to be planned out. This means hoodles of soft drinks, whatever you can come up for decent food, etc. Bars are problematic and most venues that will let you have one (hotels) will insist on running it.
Badges are great, tee shirts for staffers and volunteers are awesome. Prizes should be PC/Gaming related, either games, graphics card, speakers, mices, gift certificates for electronics stores, mp3 players... Bonus for anything given by a sponsor.
Let's look into getting the infant mortality below 20% first.
No, let's look into educating people in methods of preventing unwanted pregnancy, reduce the birth rate to a more manageable level, say about 4 kids per women average or maybe 3.
Then you worry about reducing infant mortality when there's a fair chance the family will be able to feed him/her. With 8-9 childrens, it's almost normal that a few of them die. They rarely have the resource to sustain 8 or 9 kids.
The phones are using the Thuraya network. It covers Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and keeps going eastward with full coverage of India.
They're pretty nifty. The 450 grams Hughes handset can do GSM mobile phone, Thuraya sat phone, GPS and can act as an Hayes compatible modem. Ideal for a journalist that mostly does print. Helps a lot that an Inmarsat Mini-M is typically the size of a table phone and that Iridium does not automatically fall back to GSM or do GPS. Did I mention it's cheaper to operate even for sat calls? And IIRC, modem speed is 9600 bps instead of 2400 or 4800 for Inmarsat and Iridium. And it can fax too.
Thuraya is basically a Global Star with EMEA+India coverage instead of North and Central America. But it's much ahead technologically.
Maybe so, but a good kick in the ass of the CERT and the vendors can help speed things up. When an advisory has been in the pipe for a while and is only scheduled to be released in 3-4 months, clearly vendors are a bit lenient in fixing their bugs. Next thing you know the CERT cycle will be 12 to 18 months...
Sounds to me like this lens would be great for high-resolution security surveillance camera. These applications typically use a tiny CCD so they can use ultra-short focal length. A 5mm lens has incredible depth of field at f/2.8. Much better then a 20mm wide-angle in 35mm format.
Now, with this technology, you could get an f/1.0 3 to 5 mm lens with a deep depth of field. Or something close to that effect. Combine it with super sensitive CCD and a good image processor and you could film things in near darkness without relying on infrared and IR spot lights to flood the area.
And then, there's TV and Movies. Let's not forget them. And cheap consumer digital camcorder which must take picture in very low light, self-adjust color temperature and then try to track a moving object while closing do f/1.4...
Who the hell cares about consumer P&S cameras? They already got a goddamn flash.
Wood is a perfectly good material for beams. Your 400 years old ancestral home is held up with wood. The nearly 800 years old St-Jean Hospital in Bruges (Belgium) has a roof held by huge wooden beams that date back from sometime between 1188 and the 14th century. You don't need special high-tech woods or steel.
The quality of the construction and a design that can be cost effectively repaired or overhauled is much more important, IMHO. The common trait of 400+ years old structure is they've been fixed many times without long term impact on the whole.
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Back in 2001, I worked for a company that tried to put out a system called Flipr (yeah, original name...) that would have pretty much worked the same way.
Except that we never could license any content. We were proposing royalties that were better then what iTunes offers and no record labels wanted to even talk to us. We would have loved even to have a small subsection of the pop music crap out there if it meant we had content more then 25 peoples wanted to download.
X terminals had their glory days. Mostly when the alternative was a 10k$ workstation.
Remember, the Opteron's memory controller is on-chip. So to get 32GB on a dual-capable board, you need 2 CPUs. Those DIMM banks are hardwired to the pins on the CPU.
Because there are NT kernel rootkits that will hide processes from the task manager. The most well known being hacker defender.
Reboot in safe mode and then check out the registry for what processes get autorunned and investigate all of them. Including checking for any hidden files.
You'll probably find that you run a warez ftp or spam bot or something.
There are also so-called "raw mode" registry viewers that will find the registry keys that are not visible to regedit and but that still exists. This translates directly to kernel rootkits....
There has never been problems with Ford Crown Victorias, this is FUD! ;-)
No. SHA1 can still not be reversed, they found a COLLISION. That is, with 2^69 tries, they can come up with a value that will have the same SHA-1 hash as the password.
For passwords, this is nearly meaningless.
For digital signatures, it's a different thing.
What's stoping them from having a tamper-resistant hardware crypto processor? I mean, you can already buy some of them on the market. They're designed to resist such low tech attacks as slicing the top of the chip off and scanning it with an electron microscope.
If such a chip becomes spec equipement for HD-DVD players. And such a chip must be bought from one trusted source, then It might be possible to make it secure.
If there's a, say, 100 megs keyfile at the start of the HD-DVD, containing content decryption keys for 4 million player keys and the chips contained a randomly picked, non-revocated, key for the content, then the break one key, invalidate one million player would be a non-issue, it'd be break one key and invalidte 7 players from 5 manufacturers sold under 7 brands. Handle the replacement as a "failure," maybe even have some hardcoded routine to reboot the player, it'll be non-obvious why it is rebooting.
These ideas are copyright (c) 2005, Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux. Viewing these ideas does not constitute a license to use them for DVD protection schemes without negatiating terms with me. ac (dot) vca (at) vca.
Then someone will use Mist (hypothetical name), a Steam work alike that says all the right things in all the right places.
Ain't no such thing as a trusted communication channel where you can make one end play by your rules.
They still do this, With Fat Binaries, you can ship software with G3/G4/G5 optimized binaries in the same package. What's stopping them from shipping G3/G4/G5/Opteron/i386/P4/Itanic/Whatever in a package?
The answer is Nothing. GCC supports the target. The format is built for it (it comes from next after all).
If it became possible, you can bet that Apple would make Xcode cross-compile if there was money in it.
Like all the major Canadian banks, the transactional system is on an IBM Mainframe. Running either OS/370 or OS/390. The transactional integrity is handled either with CICS or with custom home-grown software.
As for OS/2, that was only on ATMs. And ATMs are running anything from VxWorks to System 7 unix to OS/2 to embedded windows.
Finally, if you're going to cite a comment on a web site, as reliable as that is, please give a reference to it that is more then the URL to the whole site...
Can anyone say "Replay Attack"? This is "secure" untill you use it. No better then a password, really. What's next, a cool feature in knock_proxy to implement a password to knocking-sequence pairing?
Huh, Canada anyone? My old neighborhood in Montreal had 173 different nationalities represented. And no ghettos.
.50% ? What kind of share is that!
1. Use a laptop. A real one. The cheap desktop replacement with p4 and everything suck well over 100W. Get a light weigth laptop. You should be able to get something with p3-m that draws an average of less then 50W. I personnaly love my Thinkpad X20.
2. Use deep-cycle battery (used in boats and some RVs) they last 2-5x longer (both in number of months you can use them and in how long you can suck power from them before they're fully discharged) then car batteries so you won't need to replace them every 3-6 months.
3. Get a good marine-grade charger while you're at it. And, also, marine wind generator might be an option, especially if you're on top of a hill or on the shore or if there's a strong dominant wind. When a good wind is blowing they generate a lot more then a solar panel.
4. Try and find a AC/DC power adapter such as the IBM 22P9010 Thinkpad 72W AC/DC Combo Adapter. This will get rid of the huge inefficiency of running the power through an inverter to make AC to then have a transformer turn it back into DC. Note that the watt rating is because this adapter is good with ALL thinkpads.
5. Your lighting will suck more power then your computer anyways, invest in the most power saving DC lighting you can get, see a marine or RV dealer.
6. Pumps (say, for pressurized water) will drain your battery really fast. Air contitioner/heater, electric pipe heater (ie: you use a well that is not under the house and the pipe is not buried deep enough or pump from a lake and you're in a cold climate) will require a genset.
That's what I can think of, on top of my head. Basically, the Marine electricity folks have the most experience with clean DC electrical system, mostly from cruising sailing boats. RVs are also ok but they rely heavily on genset so they get away with 1+ kW/h of consumptions.
Also, when you switch to DC power, what you really want is an amp meter on the main circuit to know just how much you're drawing and a volt-meter on each battery bank(s) to know the charge level.
A marine deep cycle usually provides 90 Amps/Hr. @ ~14VDC nominal for 1 Hr. Full discharge is about 11.5VDC (this would kill a car battery in a few cycles) and full charge is around 15VDC. A 48W constant DC draw @ 12V is 4 Amps/Hr.
This isn't about Wintel. Intel wants China to use Windows because Windows runs on x86. China has a nacent microprocessor industry. Most chinese do not have PCs or modern ones if they have any.
Combine this with a cheap architecture that is either locally developed or licensed for manufacturing until indigenous CPUs catch up and you get the problem.
Remember that Linux is multi-platform? Get the local industry to switch to Linux, port Linux to ChinaCPU or whatever they call it and proceed to have a 100% homegrown market with 1 billion potential customers. Sans Intel, Microsoft, etc.
Simple, eh?
Why are most of the cables in aircraft still copper conductors? Wouldn't it make sense to have an all optical solution for all that fly-by-wire, navigation instruments and other communication stuff under the floor of the passenger cabin? That way, all the sensitive electronics is located only in specific areas which can be effectively shielded from the cabin. I mean, planes like Airbus no longer have direct hydraulic control from the yoke to the ailerons so might as well do the small jump and save the extra weight, it's not like they couldn't afford to do it.
There's no such thing as a judge ordering a patent to be licensed. Eolas can screw microsoft and leave it at that. 521 Million $ is for the dammage, past, curent and future that Eolas will suffer from the infringing use wether in '96 or 2009.
In other news, the IP Precrime unit was formed today in Brussels. Using sophisticated technology and anonymous tips provided by shadowy agents referred to as "precogs," this new enforcement branch of the EU IP registry will prevent potential IP offenders from committing their crimes and thus abusing the poor and defenceless IP owners.
I'll probably get arrested for ripping Minority Reports off now.
Vim does most of what you want. I use in Xterm's with black background and a slightly gray shade of white for the foreground and comfortable fonts. Vim will save your position in files. It works well.
Okay, one more time:
;-).
You need a dedicated network person who only handles issues as they arise, this person can also handle the power load. This person does not need to deal with troubleshooting of PCs because....
You need a few volunteers to get PCs up and running on the network in the first few hours. Ideally, have spare cables and one NIC available for sale (but don't make them cheap, the poor sods deserve it) for the one awkward guys that won't have a proper NIC.
Power:
Prepare the distribution "network" ahead of time and make sure that the different sections are really on their own breakers and not overlapping with those 60 feet away. Providing the initial plug in points limits within 10-15 feets from their anticipated usage point helps control the load on the circuits.
DO NOT under ANY circumstances allo unrestricted access to any wall/floor outlet that is not designated for end users. Tape them over.
All cable snaking on the floor should be taped over, many cables running parallel should be grouped and run under those special ramps that let people walk on them.
Have an extra long extension and duct tape to tape it to the ground. This is to run alternate power to an underpowered cluster of PCs from a place with spare juice. It comes in handy, especially if 10 guys with 3-4 HDs, 21" screens and 5.1 speaker set up all gather nearby, you know like a clan
Misc:
Written policies for thefth, damage, injury, cheating, minimum age, etc. Trash and trash extraction. Facility cleaning and maintenance. Food, Beverages, Bar (and license if you have one) and other things need to be planned out. This means hoodles of soft drinks, whatever you can come up for decent food, etc. Bars are problematic and most venues that will let you have one (hotels) will insist on running it.
Badges are great, tee shirts for staffers and volunteers are awesome. Prizes should be PC/Gaming related, either games, graphics card, speakers, mices, gift certificates for electronics stores, mp3 players... Bonus for anything given by a sponsor.
Let's look into getting the infant mortality below 20% first.
No, let's look into educating people in methods of preventing unwanted pregnancy, reduce the birth rate to a more manageable level, say about 4 kids per women average or maybe 3.
Then you worry about reducing infant mortality when there's a fair chance the family will be able to feed him/her. With 8-9 childrens, it's almost normal that a few of them die. They rarely have the resource to sustain 8 or 9 kids.
Alex
The phones are using the Thuraya network. It covers Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and keeps going eastward with full coverage of India.
They're pretty nifty. The 450 grams Hughes handset can do GSM mobile phone, Thuraya sat phone, GPS and can act as an Hayes compatible modem. Ideal for a journalist that mostly does print. Helps a lot that an Inmarsat Mini-M is typically the size of a table phone and that Iridium does not automatically fall back to GSM or do GPS. Did I mention it's cheaper to operate even for sat calls? And IIRC, modem speed is 9600 bps instead of 2400 or 4800 for Inmarsat and Iridium. And it can fax too.
Thuraya is basically a Global Star with EMEA+India coverage instead of North and Central America. But it's much ahead technologically.
Alex
Maybe so, but a good kick in the ass of the CERT and the vendors can help speed things up. When an advisory has been in the pipe for a while and is only scheduled to be released in 3-4 months, clearly vendors are a bit lenient in fixing their bugs. Next thing you know the CERT cycle will be 12 to 18 months...
Sounds to me like this lens would be great for high-resolution security surveillance camera. These applications typically use a tiny CCD so they can use ultra-short focal length. A 5mm lens has incredible depth of field at f/2.8. Much better then a 20mm wide-angle in 35mm format.
Now, with this technology, you could get an f/1.0 3 to 5 mm lens with a deep depth of field. Or something close to that effect. Combine it with super sensitive CCD and a good image processor and you could film things in near darkness without relying on infrared and IR spot lights to flood the area.
And then, there's TV and Movies. Let's not forget them. And cheap consumer digital camcorder which must take picture in very low light, self-adjust color temperature and then try to track a moving object while closing do f/1.4...
Who the hell cares about consumer P&S cameras? They already got a goddamn flash.
Alex
Wood is a perfectly good material for beams. Your 400 years old ancestral home is held up with wood. The nearly 800 years old St-Jean Hospital in Bruges (Belgium) has a roof held by huge wooden beams that date back from sometime between 1188 and the 14th century. You don't need special high-tech woods or steel.
The quality of the construction and a design that can be cost effectively repaired or overhauled is much more important, IMHO. The common trait of 400+ years old structure is they've been fixed many times without long term impact on the whole.
Alex