In his.plan file, he said something along the lines of that the GeForce 4 Ti was misleading and crappy, and that a GeForce 3 would be a better card for Doom 3.
Now he's changed his mind, and is saying that a GeForce 4 Ti will be better than a GeForce 3 on a machine with a decent CPU.
XML was invented to meet cross-platform needs, but developers still AREN'T USING IT ENOUGH. OpenOffice is an example of good XML use. And you can transfer documents between Linux/Windows/Mac versions without problems.
But these things should also apply to address book programs, scheduling software, e-mail programs.. so that you can take your data wherever you want, and it have it run on any machine first time.
The link runs at 3.5 Mbps, which I barely make a dent in
Now the whole of SF can experience the Slashdot effect, as 100,000 geeks point their 2.4Ghz transmitters at your aerial, creating enough radioactivity and EMG to render most of the male popular impotent.
It's true. You're whining about geeks asking for pretty ladies, which then pushes respectable female geeks away. Your point is good, but... most geeks don't want a geeky woman!
Who wants a woman that can code better than you? Who wants a woman who understands the ins ands outs of Linux? Not me! Sure, I don't want a total airhead, but an artist, a musician, a doctor, those are all very skilled things, but mean that the woman isn't a total geek.
I couldn't think of anything worse than having a girlfriend/wife who did anything closely related to my line of work. Variety is the spice of life you know.
I think your thought in the second paragraph is wrong. I've been typing since the age of 3, and yet I started to get CTS at about age 18, and switched over to the MS Keyboard. After a few weeks, I'd got used to the layout.. and found I was typing far faster than before. Three years later, I still love it.
I see you're still struggling with the concept of proposing an idea and actually implementing it. Go learn about IPv6. Most of my points are catered to within the IPv6 standard.
Anyway, I've gotta keep you talking.. I might double the teeny amount of posts you've made to Slashdot if I keep going.
Your analogy is ridiculous. Linux development kernels are not designed for simpletons. Outlook Express is.
You need to have a bit of context.
An oil rig is a very dangerous place, but they get on okay, because the rig guys are professionals and know their work. If they screw up, it might well be their fault.
If you took a 3 year old kid to an oil rig and let them run about, they'd probably get killed/injured in no time. So, it's the kid's fault? No, oil rigs are not designed for kids, and you should not be taking them there.
Same with the software. Development kernels are not for the clueless.. whereas OE is supposed to be a safe environment for collecting e-mails. Totally different.
A friend of mine updated his linux kernel awhile back (I believe the kernel, at the time, was in beta). He lost all his important data because of a bug. Should he blame linus? The programmers that worked on the latest release? Or should it be his own fault for using a beta release of a kernel on important data?
If you're enough of a techie to be trying development (beta) kernels, then you know full well what the risks are.
A regular user using an e-mail client, simply expects to read mail. An e-mail client should allow them to do this without infecting their computer with a virus!
It's users fault if they open attachments by choice.. but when OE has a bug that allows attachments to open by themselves, IT'S THE SOFTWARE'S FAULT.
Not always. There are systems that implement a process that I call 'dynamic firewalling' (if someone knows the real name, let me know!).. which means if they receive too many packets (or irrelevant packets) in a certain amount of time, they block that host for a while.
'But(!)', you say, 'that doesn't mean the data isn't still coming down your pipe and sucking up your downstream bandwidth!' This is true, but I have seen routers that also implement similar systems.. so if all routers had dynamic firewalling, packets would be blocked right back from the source router, meaning the Internet, as a whole, does not suffer from an attempted attack.
here's a challenge for you: show me what safeguards used in regular programming that will make my TCP/IP stack immune to being pounded by a million "flood agents". (since you are obviously not a technical person we will ignore the fact that the link will be saturated for now and assume a pipe of infinite bandwidth to the machine in question).
My my, seems someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning. I'm guessing you're not au fait with IPv6 which solves many of these DOS problems.
You're assuming that routers are not configured to detect misuse. In the 'ideal world' I've described (and, indeed, in an IPv6 environment), routers would manage data more effectively. TCP was developed to ensure packets get from one place to another without fail, but this isn't always practical.
Sure, a million clients connecting to a server can bring it down. But many connections != DOS attack. Google accepts millions of connections a day, but it has the power and bandwidth to deal with them. In the main, a DOS attack is when someone/something makes a server deal with more information than it is meant to. Decent netcode and firewalling can solve this problem.
A common exploit is to send packets to a machine, that make the machine respond with more packets than were sent (commonly used tactic on IRC, with CTCP floods). Intelligent netcode would not generate more data than it could handle, and it would also recognise where the data is coming from, what format it is in, and would 'ignore' it for a certain amount of time. It's called dynamic firewalling.
Yes, I might be living in a bit of an idealistic fantasy world. But why shouldn't I? Protected Mode is meant to solve memory sharing problems, yet.. Windows still comes up with 'Protection Error' every now and then. Why? Cuz of crappy code. In an ideal world with perfect code, everything would work perfectly. I think the only way to go forward is to improve our code, and that's all I suggested in my post.. (This is exactly what happens in Linux kernel development)
I don't think the article was aimed at people like you. I think it was aimed at people with at least some technical background.
I'd say 'Touché' but my whole point is that the article is scant on technical details and instead focuses on pointless mathematical theories.
(I hope you get your superiority complex sorted out soon, kthxbi. Oh, and post your newlines properly in future..)
I'm not so sure. The 'e-mail based social engineering worms' you talk of aren't actually triggered by users, but by flaws in Outlook Express. It's not like these 'Pass this onto 20 of your friends' mails, which are viral, but not viruses.
Microsoft allows OE to access too many API functions. I mean, look at how these viruses work. You download them from the POP3 server, and when you preview them in OE, a box comes up saying 'Open' or 'Save As'. Many users just click OK, and end up getting infected. However, this isn't the user's fault, as such.
OE should not automatically open attachments! It's Microsoft's crappy code that has allowed it to be hacked in this way. So.. I think the blame rests with the programmers, not the users. The programmers are meant to create an environment that's safe for users.
Blaming the users is like blaming voters for getting GWB into office. It wasn't their fault, it was the system's fault for allowing it to happen.
Wow, this paper really breaks new ground. Let's see:
If you can control a million hosts on the Internet, you can do enormous damage.
[..] you can access any sensitive information present on any of those million machines [..]
But for those who are truly thick and can't get the point:
In short, if you could control a million Internet hosts, the potential damage is truly immense [..]
It's good to see they're really targeting the 'brains' of the nation with these statements.
Luckily, things get a little more scientific as we move into the next section, but they actually say they're 'ignoring' certain important variables. Almost any mathetmatical theory works if you 'ignore' certain variables.
Perhaps papers like these should actually focus on the real reason that DOS attacks are so easy. Crappy code. Since when did Eudora or Pegasus start spreading viruses? It's all Outlook Express.
But what about system level DOS attacks, you say? Firewalls were invented to solve these problems. Of course, firewalls were only invented because the original net code in Linux/Windows/etc hadn't anticipated DOS attacks, and couldn't fend them off themselves. I mean.. in 1994, who was flooding servers with 64kB ping packets?
It's time to rewrite the netcode. DOS attacks aren't really any different to memory leaks in programs. They can be controlled and confined and cleaned up, if the code is good. How often do you get a 'Protection Error' in Linux these days? Hardly ever. It's time to apply all of the safeguards we use in regular programming to net code too!
And if you're scared of reinventing the wheel and writing new net code from scratch, then you have only yourself to blame.
What are they thinking? 28kbps is slower than what you'll get out of the average DIAL-UP, let alone broadband.
In fairness though, they have a point. $54.95AUS per month does compare favorably with getting a second phone line and hooking a modem up to it all day.
And it's also true that regular users don't need anymore than 3Gb per month. Unless you're a techie and downloading a lot of Linux ISOs or watching independant movies, 3Gb per month will get you a long way. It applies to Web hosting, so why not here?
Perhaps it's time for ISPs to charge per megabyte? There's no such thing as 'unlimited' or 'free'.. you end up paying in the end. So why not charge per megabyte, which will force users to consider what they're actually downloading. US$0.01 per megabyte sounds fair.
(In the UK, BT is also trying a similar scheme with dial-up. That is, their 'Anytime' service is not actually 'any time' anymore.. you can only use it for a maximum of 12 hours a day!)
If one player has a royal flush, the other player cannot have 4 aces.
Incorrect. The most popular form of professional poker these days is Texas Hold'Em (the form also played on Yahoo! Games). Since you have to make a hand from both your own private cards and the cards on the table, you could both be using an ace that's on the table.
Blockbuster has been operating in Europe for a long time, at least in the UK. There's not one to every town, but there are a few hundred outlets, AFAIK. 'Choices' are also another video rental store that rents games.
This reminds me of the Dilbert strip where the staff were fired and immediately rehired as contractors for more money;-)
But, really, this is absolutely great news. Okay, maybe not for the people who were fired, or for people who are full time employees in technology divisions.. but for those of us who are contractors and freelancers, this is wonderful.
It makes more sense for those companies too. They save a heap on labor costs, and only pay for what actually gets done. It's illegal to constantly hire and fire staff according to workload, but it's not illegal to put work out to freelancers. This is the sort of business we live off of.
This sort of downsizing was all the rage in the early 90's and it led to the start of a massive boom for freelancers and contractors. Maybe this is the sign of the next boom. So, hey, perhaps the lull really is picking up folks. Let's hope.
Programmers come in all shapes and sizes, and have differing methods, language preferences, and such. This means that relatively vague challenges work better than.. 'Write a 107 line program in C that can draw a graph.'
Programmers generally like to know what the desired result is, and then they fill in the blanks from their. Sure, the 'input' may be provided, and the 'output' may need to be in a certain format.. but let them write the bit between by themselves! This is how you find the best thinkers.
The best challenges are things like..
'You have one week to produce an application that presents a Wolfenstein 3D style environment and allows you to move around it. Do not use existing 3d libraries, OpenGL or Direct3D. Use any language you want. The result must work in DOS, Windows, KDE or Gnome.'
The results from such a contest could be varied, and it means you can judge the programmers, but also see their individual pros and cons.
One programmer might write it in Perl/Tk so it runs on Windows AND Linux. One might get hardcore and code it in x86 to be run from DOS. These different approaches show you how the programmers operate best.. and they also have far more pride, because using an individual method is as interesting as simply 'making the best program'.
They've kept the letters in alphabetical order. They should be in QWERTY arrangement.
When keyboards were first designed in the 80s, the QWERTY design became the most popular as it allows the user's fingers to travel a smaller distance, and to increase typing speed ten-fold over the old clumsy Dvorak systems.
MS is relying on games sales to make money because they're losing up to $150 per XBox sold. Therefore, the more people that buy Xboxes and don't buy any games for them, the more damage it does to Microsoft.
So, one of you millionaire Linux zealots.. go buy 5000 Xboxes, and dump them into the ocean. You'll have just cost MS half a million bucks.
Oh, I forgot.. there aren't any Linux millionaires.
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But Mozilla is better than Konqueror. Why would you want to keep using a second rate browser when a standards compliant one hits the streets?
Oh, hang on.. you're one of those 'beards' who are still running Slackware, aren't you?
In his .plan file, he said something along the lines of that the GeForce 4 Ti was misleading and crappy, and that a GeForce 3 would be a better card for Doom 3.
Now he's changed his mind, and is saying that a GeForce 4 Ti will be better than a GeForce 3 on a machine with a decent CPU.
Ah.
XML was invented to meet cross-platform needs, but developers still AREN'T USING IT ENOUGH. OpenOffice is an example of good XML use. And you can transfer documents between Linux/Windows/Mac versions without problems.
But these things should also apply to address book programs, scheduling software, e-mail programs.. so that you can take your data wherever you want, and it have it run on any machine first time.
The link runs at 3.5 Mbps, which I barely make a dent in
Now the whole of SF can experience the Slashdot effect, as 100,000 geeks point their 2.4Ghz transmitters at your aerial, creating enough radioactivity and EMG to render most of the male popular impotent.
It's true. You're whining about geeks asking for pretty ladies, which then pushes respectable female geeks away. Your point is good, but... most geeks don't want a geeky woman!
Who wants a woman that can code better than you? Who wants a woman who understands the ins ands outs of Linux? Not me! Sure, I don't want a total airhead, but an artist, a musician, a doctor, those are all very skilled things, but mean that the woman isn't a total geek.
I couldn't think of anything worse than having a girlfriend/wife who did anything closely related to my line of work. Variety is the spice of life you know.
I think your thought in the second paragraph is wrong. I've been typing since the age of 3, and yet I started to get CTS at about age 18, and switched over to the MS Keyboard. After a few weeks, I'd got used to the layout.. and found I was typing far faster than before. Three years later, I still love it.
I see you're still struggling with the concept of proposing an idea and actually implementing it. Go learn about IPv6. Most of my points are catered to within the IPv6 standard.
Anyway, I've gotta keep you talking.. I might double the teeny amount of posts you've made to Slashdot if I keep going.
No thanks. Watching you get pissed off over something that doesn't even matter is entertainment enough! :-)
actually coming up with a real and working solution is pretty hard and *way* beyond what you seem capable of.
Actually it's beyond what the best programming brains in the world have been able to come up with too.. so I don't think I'm doing so bad.
Your analogy is ridiculous. Linux development kernels are not designed for simpletons. Outlook Express is.
You need to have a bit of context.
An oil rig is a very dangerous place, but they get on okay, because the rig guys are professionals and know their work. If they screw up, it might well be their fault.
If you took a 3 year old kid to an oil rig and let them run about, they'd probably get killed/injured in no time. So, it's the kid's fault? No, oil rigs are not designed for kids, and you should not be taking them there.
Same with the software. Development kernels are not for the clueless.. whereas OE is supposed to be a safe environment for collecting e-mails. Totally different.
A friend of mine updated his linux kernel awhile back (I believe the kernel, at the time, was in beta). He lost all his important data because of a bug. Should he blame linus? The programmers that worked on the latest release? Or should it be his own fault for using a beta release of a kernel on important data?
If you're enough of a techie to be trying development (beta) kernels, then you know full well what the risks are.
A regular user using an e-mail client, simply expects to read mail. An e-mail client should allow them to do this without infecting their computer with a virus!
It's users fault if they open attachments by choice.. but when OE has a bug that allows attachments to open by themselves, IT'S THE SOFTWARE'S FAULT.
The simple flood always works
Not always. There are systems that implement a process that I call 'dynamic firewalling' (if someone knows the real name, let me know!).. which means if they receive too many packets (or irrelevant packets) in a certain amount of time, they block that host for a while.
'But(!)', you say, 'that doesn't mean the data isn't still coming down your pipe and sucking up your downstream bandwidth!' This is true, but I have seen routers that also implement similar systems.. so if all routers had dynamic firewalling, packets would be blocked right back from the source router, meaning the Internet, as a whole, does not suffer from an attempted attack.
here's a challenge for you: show me what safeguards used in regular programming that will make my TCP/IP stack immune to being pounded by a million "flood agents". (since you are obviously not a technical person we will ignore the fact that the link will be saturated for now and assume a pipe of infinite bandwidth to the machine in question).
My my, seems someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning. I'm guessing you're not au fait with IPv6 which solves many of these DOS problems.
You're assuming that routers are not configured to detect misuse. In the 'ideal world' I've described (and, indeed, in an IPv6 environment), routers would manage data more effectively. TCP was developed to ensure packets get from one place to another without fail, but this isn't always practical.
Sure, a million clients connecting to a server can bring it down. But many connections != DOS attack. Google accepts millions of connections a day, but it has the power and bandwidth to deal with them. In the main, a DOS attack is when someone/something makes a server deal with more information than it is meant to. Decent netcode and firewalling can solve this problem.
A common exploit is to send packets to a machine, that make the machine respond with more packets than were sent (commonly used tactic on IRC, with CTCP floods). Intelligent netcode would not generate more data than it could handle, and it would also recognise where the data is coming from, what format it is in, and would 'ignore' it for a certain amount of time. It's called dynamic firewalling.
Yes, I might be living in a bit of an idealistic fantasy world. But why shouldn't I? Protected Mode is meant to solve memory sharing problems, yet.. Windows still comes up with 'Protection Error' every now and then. Why? Cuz of crappy code. In an ideal world with perfect code, everything would work perfectly. I think the only way to go forward is to improve our code, and that's all I suggested in my post.. (This is exactly what happens in Linux kernel development)
I don't think the article was aimed at people like you. I think it was aimed at people with at least some technical background.
I'd say 'Touché' but my whole point is that the article is scant on technical details and instead focuses on pointless mathematical theories.
(I hope you get your superiority complex sorted out soon, kthxbi. Oh, and post your newlines properly in future..)
That's actually pretty damn funny. But I'm accessing it fine, and it hasn't been down for ages. I do not run the server though, my ISP does.
However, my ISP has major DNS issues and many ISPs cannot see any of the hosts on it.
The problem is crappy users.
I'm not so sure. The 'e-mail based social engineering worms' you talk of aren't actually triggered by users, but by flaws in Outlook Express. It's not like these 'Pass this onto 20 of your friends' mails, which are viral, but not viruses.
Microsoft allows OE to access too many API functions. I mean, look at how these viruses work. You download them from the POP3 server, and when you preview them in OE, a box comes up saying 'Open' or 'Save As'. Many users just click OK, and end up getting infected. However, this isn't the user's fault, as such.
OE should not automatically open attachments! It's Microsoft's crappy code that has allowed it to be hacked in this way. So.. I think the blame rests with the programmers, not the users. The programmers are meant to create an environment that's safe for users.
Blaming the users is like blaming voters for getting GWB into office. It wasn't their fault, it was the system's fault for allowing it to happen.
Wow, this paper really breaks new ground. Let's see:
If you can control a million hosts on the Internet, you can do enormous damage.
[..] you can access any sensitive information present on any of those million machines [..]
But for those who are truly thick and can't get the point:
In short, if you could control a million Internet hosts, the potential damage is truly immense [..]
It's good to see they're really targeting the 'brains' of the nation with these statements.
Luckily, things get a little more scientific as we move into the next section, but they actually say they're 'ignoring' certain important variables. Almost any mathetmatical theory works if you 'ignore' certain variables.
Perhaps papers like these should actually focus on the real reason that DOS attacks are so easy. Crappy code. Since when did Eudora or Pegasus start spreading viruses? It's all Outlook Express.
But what about system level DOS attacks, you say? Firewalls were invented to solve these problems. Of course, firewalls were only invented because the original net code in Linux/Windows/etc hadn't anticipated DOS attacks, and couldn't fend them off themselves. I mean.. in 1994, who was flooding servers with 64kB ping packets?
It's time to rewrite the netcode. DOS attacks aren't really any different to memory leaks in programs. They can be controlled and confined and cleaned up, if the code is good. How often do you get a 'Protection Error' in Linux these days? Hardly ever. It's time to apply all of the safeguards we use in regular programming to net code too!
And if you're scared of reinventing the wheel and writing new net code from scratch, then you have only yourself to blame.
Okay, yes, it's faster than a regular modem, but surely backbones are pumping more data around than this already, even if it's spread out a bit.
Some ISPs have hundreds of thousands of users online at any one time, and if half of them are using broadband.. you're looking at Gbps of bandwidth.
Not only that, but fiber optics have the capacity to carry far more than this.
I thought Internet2 was meant to be 'super'.. this doesn't sound too far off what the best regular Internet stuff is doing already.
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What are they thinking? 28kbps is slower than what you'll get out of the average DIAL-UP, let alone broadband.
In fairness though, they have a point. $54.95AUS per month does compare favorably with getting a second phone line and hooking a modem up to it all day.
And it's also true that regular users don't need anymore than 3Gb per month. Unless you're a techie and downloading a lot of Linux ISOs or watching independant movies, 3Gb per month will get you a long way. It applies to Web hosting, so why not here?
Perhaps it's time for ISPs to charge per megabyte? There's no such thing as 'unlimited' or 'free'.. you end up paying in the end. So why not charge per megabyte, which will force users to consider what they're actually downloading. US$0.01 per megabyte sounds fair.
(In the UK, BT is also trying a similar scheme with dial-up. That is, their 'Anytime' service is not actually 'any time' anymore.. you can only use it for a maximum of 12 hours a day!)
If one player has a royal flush, the other player cannot have 4 aces.
Incorrect. The most popular form of professional poker these days is Texas Hold'Em (the form also played on Yahoo! Games). Since you have to make a hand from both your own private cards and the cards on the table, you could both be using an ace that's on the table.
Blockbuster has been operating in Europe for a long time, at least in the UK. There's not one to every town, but there are a few hundred outlets, AFAIK. 'Choices' are also another video rental store that rents games.
This reminds me of the Dilbert strip where the staff were fired and immediately rehired as contractors for more money ;-)
But, really, this is absolutely great news. Okay, maybe not for the people who were fired, or for people who are full time employees in technology divisions.. but for those of us who are contractors and freelancers, this is wonderful.
It makes more sense for those companies too. They save a heap on labor costs, and only pay for what actually gets done. It's illegal to constantly hire and fire staff according to workload, but it's not illegal to put work out to freelancers. This is the sort of business we live off of.
This sort of downsizing was all the rage in the early 90's and it led to the start of a massive boom for freelancers and contractors. Maybe this is the sign of the next boom. So, hey, perhaps the lull really is picking up folks. Let's hope.
Programmers come in all shapes and sizes, and have differing methods, language preferences, and such. This means that relatively vague challenges work better than.. 'Write a 107 line program in C that can draw a graph.'
Programmers generally like to know what the desired result is, and then they fill in the blanks from their. Sure, the 'input' may be provided, and the 'output' may need to be in a certain format.. but let them write the bit between by themselves! This is how you find the best thinkers.
The best challenges are things like..
'You have one week to produce an application that presents a Wolfenstein 3D style environment and allows you to move around it. Do not use existing 3d libraries, OpenGL or Direct3D. Use any language you want. The result must work in DOS, Windows, KDE or Gnome.'
The results from such a contest could be varied, and it means you can judge the programmers, but also see their individual pros and cons.
One programmer might write it in Perl/Tk so it runs on Windows AND Linux. One might get hardcore and code it in x86 to be run from DOS. These different approaches show you how the programmers operate best.. and they also have far more pride, because using an individual method is as interesting as simply 'making the best program'.
What following article?
Anyway, nothing like spreading a little disinformation.
They've kept the letters in alphabetical order. They should be in QWERTY arrangement.
When keyboards were first designed in the 80s, the QWERTY design became the most popular as it allows the user's fingers to travel a smaller distance, and to increase typing speed ten-fold over the old clumsy Dvorak systems.
MS is relying on games sales to make money because they're losing up to $150 per XBox sold. Therefore, the more people that buy Xboxes and don't buy any games for them, the more damage it does to Microsoft.
So, one of you millionaire Linux zealots.. go buy 5000 Xboxes, and dump them into the ocean. You'll have just cost MS half a million bucks.
Oh, I forgot.. there aren't any Linux millionaires.