I pay nothing monthly (orange.co.uk or virgin.co.uk) I pay nothing for incoming calls I pay nothing to receve SMS messages I pay 5p (aprox 7c per minute) for the first 2 minutes of calls made each day I pay 2p (aprox 3c per minute) for all other minutes
to spend $42 per month I would have to use the phone every day and make over 1440 minutes of calls
just because you were too stupid to find a call plan that was sensible in europe doesnt mean nobody else can
it's just that most providers give you a free or very very cheap phone when you sign up for a new service agreement,
Orange and Virgin in the UK have a contract with no standing charges. if you sign up using your own phone it costs less than £30(I cant remember exactly) for the sim card and if you never make a call you never ever pay a bill
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not to dissagree pointlessly but that is not the fault of the OS that is the aplication developer. an aplication today can be made to run on OSX 10.0 and if it was built properly it _will_ run on 10.2 today and 10.3 later.
and 10.1 was a (practicaly) free update I walked into my nearest apple dealer and I had a copy of 10.1
What appears to be misunderstood in many of these posts is that you dont use it as a phone while it is still on your writst.
press a button on the top and bottom of the phone and the wrist band parts and the phone shape resembles a banana which you then hold up to your ear in the standard way
the screen on this sony unit is very large if I remember the number right it is 1440 x 1280... but I am not 100% about that it could be 1400 or anything but it is bigger than 1280 x 768
as the artical points out this machine is very well styled and very tactile. folding the keyboard up does feal very stupid at first but after a while it becomes second nature.
the artical writer also ponders that it will be hard to go back to using a 4:3 screen. he is right moving between diferent machines I definatly miss the widescreen a lot even when I use 19 or 21 inch machines at work. I used to use a dual screen setup but the single wide screen feals like it has all of the benifits I know there are less pixels but the lack of screen borders make the inner region much more usable
the down sides to this system are very minor the video card is lacking the cd drive is flimsy to handle.
the clock cd mp3 app that runs when the keyboard is up is obviously an aplication it doesnt react instantly. using this as a piece of av equipment requires some tollerence when the cd doesnt start for 15 seconds when you insert the cd just say to yourself its a computer not a hifi its a computer not a hifi...
but if you dont need the games it is definatly worth every penny
and the speakers are stunning... I would rank them equal to the apple pro speekers I have on my imac.
as I go round the stored here it seems that widescreen machines are going to be extreamly popular soon fujitsu have a unit with a wireless keyboard and mouse and there is a newer faster sony machine available... at least here in japan anyway
at long last an ISP starts to take ddos sources seriously and then they throw the baby out with the bath water.
if my link was being used to host a ddos attack I would hope I could get notified of the problem and some assistance in fixing it.
to clean up the net we have to educate the users not move them somewhere else, though not for one second am I sugesting that these perticular admins needed educating but they did need notifying.
--required "I remember when"
years ago I was network admin in the UK for a company our exchange server was managed by the US office (the whole globes exchange services where US managed)
I realised that our server was an open relay and notified my director in the US and was told that it didnt matter because nobody would scan us why would anybody scan an advertising agency.
a quick install of snort on another box and a week later I had proof that we were being scaned.
still no action
a couple of weeks later our ISP sent us an official letter in telling us to fix the relay or be booted.
they could have booted us at any time but they did the right thing and warned us first.
unfortunatly though it might seem pointless caps are important to maintain a reliable service for everybody. last year I had to implement a system using packetshaper (bad bad bad ui for an ok product but I wont tangent about it) the company I was working for had to move cd images between the uk and the US office and it was one mans job to do the ftp.
all works well when its a slow day and there was plenty of time to do the transfer he would use one ftp connection and off it went using 80-90% of the network pipe.
but if the producer was standing behind him watching the clock and bitching that it had to get there faster. he would use multiple connections to get the files over there.
one person connected to one server transfering 4 or 5 gigs of data would take our 4meg pipe down for all the other users. no email no http nothing.
so the IT dept got the packetshaper... and put ftp on low priority. but the guy would just increase the number of concurent connections till saturation again. eventualy after many hours reading the instruction book I changed the config and hard caped him to 3megs outgoing...
long story small point... with no caps a single user can destroy everybody elses qos. ok on a cable modem there are aggrigated contention ratios and other nonsence but 1 guy on each node can saturate there node.
while I do agree it is there own fault for picking such a useless product, the idea of fighting fire with fire is an interesting one. but who would want to tread the thin line and do it.
why would symantic or network associates want to do it. there would be less reason for people to buy there products. if a "whitehat hacker" (I hate that term) decided to make the anti virus we can guess that the fbi would be sent down to beat down his / her door because obviously he / she is a hacker who must be stoped
one by one each element in my computers are becoming silent. after so many years living in such a noisy environment means I have trouble sleeping without the noise I become so uncomefortable. soon I will have to buy a karma-moods cd of fan noises just so I can sleap in comfort
It seems that cnet are asuming that home users are going to be installing win2k or osx on there computers.
we all know from experience that this isnt the case sure we all format our machines the moment we get them but I would hit my mother with a big stick if she tried it. I dont care how easy it is to install the run of the mill user still cant handle an install. I cant remember the number of times I have had to help my family out with macs and pcs that they have reinstalled.
of course the mac install is better than the win2k install but microsoft have never made a descent installer in the history of the company. osx installs asking the minimum of questions because all it needs is the gestault id of the hardware and it knows what equipment is on the system.
anyway the point of this is that ease of install is a non issue because 95% of the users will never experience it.
oh and as for the internet being so much easier and better and more than the microsoft install who here is suprised. microsoft cripple the software in an effort to get upgrades to advanced server and also who here cares I will not be using eather machine as a web server.
unfortunatly because of the graphics chipset limitations the ps2 cannot do some of the transforms nessicery for efective mpeg2 playback which is why it is concidered as a very inferior dvd player.
from what I remember it is motion compensation that trips up the chipset and has to be performed totaly in software. divx requires more complex calculations and so I wouldnt keep my fingers crossed for it to come to the ps2 anytime soon.
but it would be an interesting problem to try and solve.
A1) no real point all "anybody" would have to do is run "top" or "ps aux" and look at who is running "init" and then they know your new root.
A2) non issue here realy you would have far far to much work to do for no benifit whatso ever because again "init" _has_ to run as root
*** the real point is as many people are probably going to point out, Security by obscurity doesnt ever work. your best bet is to read the "Linux Security HOWTO" I cant remember the link off hand but it is very well layed out
If we look at apples reasons for choesing the rage 128 rather than just comparing it with all of the other cards on the market i think it will be a little bit easier to see why it was used
good reason 1) ATI put a lot of effort into the OEM market they dont do fast they dont do big scary bastard cards they do well made easy to install cards at a very good price for system builders
good reason 2) Apple currently only has one target market for these computers, the graphics profesional not the hardcore gamer and for photoshop work (or gimp or Xres or even PSP) nothing comes close to touching the rage 128 for pure image quality for the money
good reason 3) ATI are willing to help apple how many other card companys are willing to spend time with apple to make there products better
because i have played with nmap for quite a while now and in all of my visits to the documentation i havent seen an explination for what TCP Sequence Prediction actualy is granted i might be missing the obvious but i would certanly apreciate somebody at least pointing me in the right direction
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ok well try this
I pay nothing monthly (orange.co.uk or virgin.co.uk)
I pay nothing for incoming calls
I pay nothing to receve SMS messages
I pay 5p (aprox 7c per minute) for the first 2 minutes of calls made each day
I pay 2p (aprox 3c per minute) for all other minutes
to spend $42 per month I would have to use the phone every day and make over 1440 minutes of calls
just because you were too stupid to find a call plan that was sensible in europe doesnt mean nobody else can
it's just that most providers give you a free or very very cheap phone when you sign up for a new service agreement,
Orange and Virgin in the UK have a contract with no standing charges. if you sign up using your own phone it costs less than £30(I cant remember exactly) for the sim card and if you never make a call you never ever pay a bill
not to dissagree pointlessly but
that is not the fault of the OS that is the aplication developer. an aplication today can be made to run on OSX 10.0 and if it was built properly it _will_ run on 10.2 today and 10.3 later.
and 10.1 was a (practicaly) free update I walked into my nearest apple dealer and I had a copy of 10.1
I think that videolan and mplayer are much better than Quick Time
aparenty you are confusing the format with the player.
the parent was describing using the 3ivx codec in a quicktime file.
you counterd that you dont use the quicktime player.
What appears to be misunderstood in many of these posts is that you dont use it as a phone while it is still on your writst.
press a button on the top and bottom of the phone and the wrist band parts and the phone shape resembles a banana which you then hold up to your ear in the standard way
finish call and snap it back onto your writst.
an hour and a half ... is that a record ??
the screen on this sony unit is very large if I remember the number right it is 1440 x 1280 ... but I am not 100% about that it could be 1400 or anything but it is bigger than 1280 x 768
as the artical points out this machine is very well styled and very tactile. folding the keyboard up does feal very stupid at first but after a while it becomes second nature.
...
... I would rank them equal to the apple pro speekers I have on my imac.
... at least here in japan anyway
the artical writer also ponders that it will be hard to go back to using a 4:3 screen. he is right moving between diferent machines I definatly miss the widescreen a lot even when I use 19 or 21 inch machines at work. I used to use a dual screen setup but the single wide screen feals like it has all of the benifits I know there are less pixels but the lack of screen borders make the inner region much more usable
the down sides to this system are very minor the video card is lacking the cd drive is flimsy to handle.
the clock cd mp3 app that runs when the keyboard is up is obviously an aplication it doesnt react instantly. using this as a piece of av equipment requires some tollerence when the cd doesnt start for 15 seconds when you insert the cd just say to yourself its a computer not a hifi its a computer not a hifi
but if you dont need the games it is definatly worth every penny
and the speakers are stunning
as I go round the stored here it seems that widescreen machines are going to be extreamly popular soon fujitsu have a unit with a wireless keyboard and mouse and there is a newer faster sony machine available
I guess he doesnt read playboy for the articals
and a whole hour before you started your little rtfa shout I had appended the post to point out that I had re-read and had been mistaken
then I go away and start reading more about what happend and realise I was making a bad assumption.
it doesnt even seem like they were hosting a ddos they were the target.
bloody isp should get burnt down for the d/c now
at long last an ISP starts to take ddos sources seriously and then they throw the baby out with the bath water.
if my link was being used to host a ddos attack I would hope I could get notified of the problem and some assistance in fixing it.
to clean up the net we have to educate the users not move them somewhere else, though not for one second am I sugesting that these perticular admins needed educating but they did need notifying.
--required "I remember when"
years ago I was network admin in the UK for a company our exchange server was managed by the US office (the whole globes exchange services where US managed)
I realised that our server was an open relay and notified my director in the US and was told that it didnt matter because nobody would scan us why would anybody scan an advertising agency.
a quick install of snort on another box and a week later I had proof that we were being scaned.
still no action
a couple of weeks later our ISP sent us an official letter in telling us to fix the relay or be booted.
they could have booted us at any time but they did the right thing and warned us first.
the relay was fixed.
unfortunatly though it might seem pointless caps are important to maintain a reliable service for everybody. last year I had to implement a system using packetshaper (bad bad bad ui for an ok product but I wont tangent about it) the company I was working for had to move cd images between the uk and the US office and it was one mans job to do the ftp.
... and put ftp on low priority. but the guy would just increase the number of concurent connections till saturation again. eventualy after many hours reading the instruction book I changed the config and hard caped him to 3megs outgoing ...
... with no caps a single user can destroy everybody elses qos. ok on a cable modem there are aggrigated contention ratios and other nonsence but 1 guy on each node can saturate there node.
all works well when its a slow day and there was plenty of time to do the transfer he would use one ftp connection and off it went using 80-90% of the network pipe.
but if the producer was standing behind him watching the clock and bitching that it had to get there faster. he would use multiple connections to get the files over there.
one person connected to one server transfering 4 or 5 gigs of data would take our 4meg pipe down for all the other users. no email no http nothing.
so the IT dept got the packetshaper
long story small point
while I do agree it is there own fault for picking such a useless product, the idea of fighting fire with fire is an interesting one. but who would want to tread the thin line and do it.
why would symantic or network associates want to do it. there would be less reason for people to buy there products. if a "whitehat hacker" (I hate that term) decided to make the anti virus we can guess that the fbi would be sent down to beat down his / her door because obviously he / she is a hacker who must be stoped
one by one each element in my computers are becoming silent. after so many years living in such a noisy environment means I have trouble sleeping without the noise I become so uncomefortable. soon I will have to buy a karma-moods cd of fan noises just so I can sleap in comfort
It seems that cnet are asuming that home users are going to be installing win2k or osx on there computers.
we all know from experience that this isnt the case sure we all format our machines the moment we get them but I would hit my mother with a big stick if she tried it. I dont care how easy it is to install the run of the mill user still cant handle an install. I cant remember the number of times I have had to help my family out with macs and pcs that they have reinstalled.
of course the mac install is better than the win2k install but microsoft have never made a descent installer in the history of the company. osx installs asking the minimum of questions because all it needs is the gestault id of the hardware and it knows what equipment is on the system.
anyway the point of this is that ease of install is a non issue because 95% of the users will never experience it.
oh and as for the internet being so much easier and better and more than the microsoft install who here is suprised. microsoft cripple the software in an effort to get upgrades to advanced server and also who here cares I will not be using eather machine as a web server.
unfortunatly because of the graphics chipset limitations the ps2 cannot do some of the transforms nessicery for efective mpeg2 playback which is why it is concidered as a very inferior dvd player.
from what I remember it is motion compensation that trips up the chipset and has to be performed totaly in software. divx requires more complex calculations and so I wouldnt keep my fingers crossed for it to come to the ps2 anytime soon.
but it would be an interesting problem to try and solve.
A1) no real point all "anybody" would have to do is run "top" or "ps aux" and look at who is running "init" and then they know your new root.
A2) non issue here realy you would have far far to much work to do for no benifit whatso ever because again "init" _has_ to run as root
*** the real point is as many people are probably going to point out, Security by obscurity doesnt ever work. your best bet is to read the "Linux Security HOWTO" I cant remember the link off hand but it is very well layed out
If we look at apples reasons for choesing the rage 128 rather than just comparing it with all of the other cards on the market i think it will be a little bit easier to see why it was used
good reason 1) ATI put a lot of effort into the OEM market they dont do fast they dont do big scary bastard cards they do well made easy to install cards at a very good price for system builders
good reason 2) Apple currently only has one target market for these computers, the graphics profesional not the hardcore gamer and for photoshop work (or gimp or Xres or even PSP) nothing comes close to touching the rage 128 for pure image quality for the money
good reason 3) ATI are willing to help apple how many other card companys are willing to spend time with apple to make there products better
i know this is ever so slightly off topic but can anybody out there in /. land help explain what the nmap output below actualy means
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
Difficulty=3004658 (Good luck!)
because i have played with nmap for quite a while now and in all of my visits to the documentation i havent seen an explination for what TCP Sequence Prediction actualy is granted i might be missing the obvious but i would certanly apreciate somebody at least pointing me in the right direction