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Some CD/DVD writers write their unique serial number to every CD/DVD you burn:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.htm
Subject: [2-26] Is a serial number placed on the disc by the recorder? (2001/01/06)
In general, no, but it appears that some of the newer consumer audio CD recorders write one. The Recorder Unique Identifier (RID) is a 97-bit code recorded every 100 sectors. It is composed of a brand name identifier, a type number, and a drive serial number. Recorders such as the Philips CDR870 write the RID to discourage distribution of copyrighted material.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of recent CD/DVD writers did this...
Don't worry. The way US votes are rigged there are so many "checks and balances" in the system even if somebody 0wn3d all the polling places they would for instance still have to manipulate the predetermined election results and get them on the air.
Assume a woman walking down the street shouting she's looking for men to have sex with. Would it be illegal to walk up to her and introduce yourself to the lady, take her into your home and if she still consents have sex with her?
What about this access point that shouts ten times a second: "Hello strangers! I'm an IEEE802.11 station operating in AP mode! If you want to associate with me, my BSSID is 00:30:40:50:52 and use the ESSID 'default'. I can do 1Mb/s, 2Mb/s, 5.5Mb/s 11Mb/s. I don't do ODFM and I wont accept a short preamble and my owner doesn't want me to use WEP."
What would be illegal about courteously introducing yourself to that access point with: "Hello 00:30:40:50:52, I'm 02:00:2b:18:fd:03 I want to associate with you with ESSID 'default'"
And what would be wrong with that courtesy being returned with a cheery: "Welcome aboard, 02:00:2b:18:fd:03. Have fun!"
And once you have been invited inside wouldn't it be proper to ask: "Is there a DHCP server that would like to give me an ip address?"
And could a polite DHCP server do any wrong by saying: "Hi I'm the DHCP server serving this subnet. By the power vested in me you're 192.168.1.18, your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, my friend the DNS server is called 204.18.21.17, in case you might want to talk to machines outside my network there is a router called 192.168.1.254 who would be delighted to assist you".
And I wonder would it be wrong to continue the conversation with the following Gentleserver that cheerfully announces his presence every couple of minutes: "Hi everybody on this subnet! I'm a NT5.1 LANMAN Server at 192.168.1.10 and I'm the Master Browser on this network serving the domain REDMOND!!"
Would it be improper to strike up a conversation along the lines of "Pleased to meet you, 192.168.1.10, Can I connect to a share of yours called C$ with anonymous authentication?"
Claiming that as a rule a $30 chinese player is never as good as a $200 jap player is more than silly, Demaagd. Most of the players out there, no matter whether they're jap-made Philips/Panasonic or ones from Red Star Corp., China use common chipsets that allow little to no control over the quality of the decoded YUV data and use the same Philips patent NTSC/PAL/SECAM encoders. Only when it comes to some analog circuitry and mechanical parts (loading tray etc.) that you will notice differences in quality.
1. Poorly written/Buggy application or server software (Office Suites, Web Servers, Mail Servers, etc...)
Sure... but doesn't an OS suck that can be taken down with a buggy Wordprocessor?
2. Misconfigured application or server software
See #1. There's no way a "misconfigured" wordprocessor should be able to take the system down.
3. Misconfigured OS settings by people who don't really know what they are doing despite their certs.
People really don't know what they're doing because all "Microsoft Training & Education" tells them where to click but not why and what is happening under the hood. I am not saying it is easy to get a Microsoft Cert, (you have to be able to memorize a lot of buttons and widgets in order to pass), but it leads people nowhere in terms of being able to really know the in's and outs of the system like an Unix Administrator knows hers.
4. Underpowered hardware (overclocked CPUs or just plain slow/older machines, not enough RAM, etc..)
The only thing that should happen her is that the system slows down (a lot) (except for the overclocked CPU which should crash Windows even faster:-) )
5. Inappropriate hardware (Using a Gateway brand desktop PC as a Domain Controller) non-ECC RAM, etc..
Most of the SERVERhardware I've seen at companies running Windows (2003 Server etc.) are or are equivalent to IBM x-Series servers. Needless to say, their downtimes are a function of the OS they run.
Will take any system down no matter whether it's a Sun E10K running Solaris 9.0 or a Sinclair ZX-81 (my first computer @home). But guess what, if something ever happened to one of the machines I would see a message in a log file telling me the cluster software has switched nodes and this place would be crawling with people from Sun scrambling to fix the problem. None of this I could ever expect from anything Microsoft.
Election Day. Jim rigs the election. Election results aren't the ones previously planned:
Bush 15%, Kerry 15%, Nader 70%. System engineers fix the database. Bush 70%, Kerry 15%, Nader 15%. ABC/CBS/FOX etc. report the news. Meanwhile... Men in dark suits sweating profusely due to maximum exertion kick Jim into his face and his balls until their feet hurt. Later the next day his Mom reports him as a missing person. Ten years later Jim's family is still waiting for him to come home.
"I think drafts should be reserved for actual threats to the nation's security" -- and then be limited to being handed a gun and a helmet.
Everything else costs extra. Depending on the kind of work they can "draft" my services starting at $80/h + expenses.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to work with a bunch of unhappy and angry draftees on projects.
You're probably from Poland too... so you get my job because you're willing to work for EUR 5.00 an hour. That means it is my turn to steal YOUR car!!:-)
Incredible as the prospect of working in some mudhole like India or Poland is, consider this:
If you had told people back in 1984 that the end of the decade would bring an end to communism who would have believed you?
In fact, to effect real change, he looked beyond traditional stategic elements. With novel approaches to value-creation and increasingly involved transformation of organizations' non-core activities that focus on strategic capabilities he turned to IBM Holocaust Division for all his ethnic data processing (EDP) needs.
ATTEMPT TO CLEAR UP MISCONCEPTIONS RE ATAPI/PARTG.
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Recovering Secret HD Space
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(Most) ATAPI-4 and later hard drives have a way dividing up drive space in user-addressable space and host protected space (Host Protected Area). The "user" in this context is the bios of your computer or your operating system of course.
The Host Protected Area is space on your hard drive that your bios, your operating system or even your applications can be set aside for certain management information. I take it that some backup programs (ab)use it to "hide" compressed boot images on hard drives. I wouldn't be very surprised if companies like Dell or IBM stole some of your hard disk so you can restore a windows installation.The "Host Protected Area" has nothing at all to do with the drive-internal handling of bad sectors or other drive-interal.Drive-internal information as well as sectors used for replacing sectors gone bad are not accessible through the ATAPI commandset for accessing the HPA.
The ANSI T13 Standard Document for ATAPI-6 (current) are overprized at $18.00 but you can download a draft of upcoming ATAPI-7 from the T13 working group's site at http://www.t13.org.
There you will find in Section 4.9 of the document:
"A reserved area for data storage outside the normal operating system file system is required for several specialized applications". Systems may wish to store configuration data or save memory to the device in a location that the operating system cannot change. The optional Host Protected Area feature set allows a portion of the device to be reserved for such an area when the device is initially configured. A device that implements the Host Protected Area feature set shall implement the following minimum set of commands:"
READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS
SET MAX ADDRESS......
I take it that READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS tells you how many sectors of user addressable space have been configured on the drive and SET MAX ADDRESS lets you adjust that.
The way I see it there may be a lot of preinstalled hard drives out there with a compressed windows installation images on them "hidden" in the HPA. Maybe a new version of hdparm will allow linux users to reclaim that dead space.
Not sure whether mysql supports transactions or not.MySQL supports transactons on table types of InnoDB and BDB.
I know someone else already set this straight in this thread but I suppose you can't stress this simple and important fact more than enough! Moderate this as redundant, I can afford to loose some Karma over a database that has constantly kept bread on my table this and the entire last year. Why looks like next month I'm going to get another project migrating from Informix to MySQL:-)
Maybe they don't want people to have access to it because the hardware could be used for other things than just wireless LAN.
Depending on the hardware, who knows maybe someone could even implement GSM/PCS on it. Whatever may be the case, having access to hardware like this would allow people to play around with it.
I don't care whether Adobe "wants to be one of the good guys"... there are people out there who actually buy Photoshop and do not counterfeit US-currency and they have to pay for "features" like that. Even worse, this currency-detection feature probably slows down Photoshop a lot, just because Adobe wants to be a "good citizen", Hope there is a patch out soon that takes care of this problem.
The first thing that came to my mind when skimming over the/. headlines was 'China releases Cyber dissidents'... into US custody:-). I'm sure those dissidents had one or two DIVX movies on their hard drives.
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Deutsche Informationvergifters! when signing up to local services, please consider using addresses in 59269 Beckum. Here are a couple of valid street names to use: Neubeckumerstr. 1 - 59, 2 - 60 Sternstr. 1 - 15, 2 - 13 Elisabethstr. 1 - 19, 2 - 20 If the site insists on a phone number, the area code for Beckum is 02521.
A little known fact about CD/DVD writers:
Some CD/DVD writers write their unique serial number to every CD/DVD you burn:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.htm
Subject: [2-26] Is a serial number placed on the disc by the recorder?
(2001/01/06)
In general, no, but it appears that some of the newer consumer audio CD recorders write one. The Recorder Unique Identifier (RID) is a 97-bit code recorded every 100 sectors. It is composed of a brand name identifier, a type number, and a drive serial number. Recorders such as the Philips CDR870 write the RID to discourage distribution of copyrighted material.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of recent CD/DVD writers did this...
Don't worry. The way US votes are rigged there are so many "checks and balances" in the system even if somebody 0wn3d all the polling places they would for instance still have to manipulate the predetermined election results and get them on the air.
Assume a woman walking down the street shouting she's looking for men to have sex with. Would it be illegal to walk up to her and introduce yourself to the lady, take her into your home and if she still consents have sex with her?
What about this access point that shouts ten times a second:
"Hello strangers! I'm an IEEE802.11 station operating in AP mode! If you want to associate with me, my BSSID is 00:30:40:50:52 and use the ESSID 'default'. I can do 1Mb/s, 2Mb/s, 5.5Mb/s 11Mb/s. I don't do ODFM and I wont accept a short preamble and my owner doesn't want me to use WEP."
What would be illegal about courteously introducing yourself to that access point with:
"Hello 00:30:40:50:52, I'm 02:00:2b:18:fd:03 I want to associate with you with ESSID 'default'"
And what would be wrong with that courtesy being returned with a cheery:
"Welcome aboard, 02:00:2b:18:fd:03. Have fun!"
And once you have been invited inside wouldn't it be proper to ask:
"Is there a DHCP server that would like to give me an ip address?"
And could a polite DHCP server do any wrong by saying:
"Hi I'm the DHCP server serving this subnet. By the power vested in me you're 192.168.1.18, your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, my friend the DNS server is called 204.18.21.17, in case you might want to talk to machines outside my network there is a router called 192.168.1.254 who would be delighted to assist you".
And I wonder would it be wrong to continue the conversation with the following Gentleserver that cheerfully announces his presence every couple of minutes:
"Hi everybody on this subnet! I'm a NT5.1 LANMAN Server at 192.168.1.10 and I'm the Master Browser on this network serving the domain REDMOND!!"
Would it be improper to strike up a conversation along the lines of "Pleased to meet you, 192.168.1.10, Can I connect to a share of yours called C$ with anonymous authentication?"
If it's a neutron bomb, am I then a nuclear scientist?
Claiming that as a rule a $30 chinese player is never as good as a $200 jap player is more than silly, Demaagd. Most of the players out there, no matter whether they're jap-made Philips/Panasonic or ones from Red Star Corp., China use common chipsets that allow little to no control over the quality of the decoded YUV data and use the same Philips patent NTSC/PAL/SECAM encoders. Only when it comes to some analog circuitry and mechanical parts (loading tray etc.) that you will notice differences in quality.
1. Poorly written/Buggy application or server software (Office Suites, Web Servers, Mail Servers, etc...)
:-) )
Sure... but doesn't an OS suck that can be taken down with a buggy Wordprocessor?
2. Misconfigured application or server software
See #1. There's no way a "misconfigured" wordprocessor should be able to take the system down.
3. Misconfigured OS settings by people who don't really know what they are doing despite their certs.
People really don't know what they're doing because all "Microsoft Training & Education" tells them where to click but not why and what is happening under the hood. I am not saying it is easy to get a Microsoft Cert, (you have to be able to memorize a lot of buttons and widgets in order to pass), but it leads people nowhere in terms of being able to really know the in's and outs of the system like an Unix Administrator knows hers.
4. Underpowered hardware (overclocked CPUs or just plain slow/older machines, not enough RAM, etc..)
The only thing that should happen her is that the system slows down (a lot) (except for the overclocked CPU which should crash Windows even faster
5. Inappropriate hardware (Using a Gateway brand desktop PC as a Domain Controller) non-ECC RAM, etc..
Most of the SERVERhardware I've seen at companies running Windows (2003 Server etc.) are or are equivalent to IBM x-Series servers. Needless to say, their downtimes are a function of the OS they run.
6. Malfunctioniing hardware (bad RAM, MB, CPU, cooling problems, etc...)
Will take any system down no matter whether it's a Sun E10K running Solaris 9.0 or a Sinclair ZX-81 (my first computer @home). But guess what, if something ever happened to one of the machines I would see a message in a log file telling me the cluster software has switched nodes and this place would be crawling with people from Sun scrambling to fix the problem. None of this I could ever expect from anything Microsoft.
Election Day. Jim rigs the election. Election results aren't the ones previously planned: Bush 15%, Kerry 15%, Nader 70%. System engineers fix the database. Bush 70%, Kerry 15%, Nader 15%. ABC/CBS/FOX etc. report the news. Meanwhile... Men in dark suits sweating profusely due to maximum exertion kick Jim into his face and his balls until their feet hurt. Later the next day his Mom reports him as a missing person. Ten years later Jim's family is still waiting for him to come home.
"I think drafts should be reserved for actual threats to the nation's security" -- and then be limited to being handed a gun and a helmet. Everything else costs extra. Depending on the kind of work they can "draft" my services starting at $80/h + expenses. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to work with a bunch of unhappy and angry draftees on projects.
You're probably from Poland too... so you get my job because you're willing to work for EUR 5.00 an hour. That means it is my turn to steal YOUR car!! :-)
A C-Class!!!! People who make USD 200K/a drive a S-Class. (They also don't flaunt the fact they're making that much :-) ).
Incredible as the prospect of working in some mudhole like India or Poland is, consider this: If you had told people back in 1984 that the end of the decade would bring an end to communism who would have believed you?
Adolf didn't do it all by himself.
In fact, to effect real change, he looked beyond traditional stategic elements. With novel approaches to value-creation and increasingly involved transformation of organizations' non-core activities that focus on strategic capabilities he turned to IBM Holocaust Division for all his ethnic data processing (EDP) needs.
The Host Protected Area is space on your hard drive that your bios, your operating system or even your applications can be set aside for certain management information. I take it that some backup programs (ab)use it to "hide" compressed boot images on hard drives. I wouldn't be very surprised if companies like Dell or IBM stole some of your hard disk so you can restore a windows installation.The "Host Protected Area" has nothing at all to do with the drive-internal handling of bad sectors or other drive-interal.Drive-internal information as well as sectors used for replacing sectors gone bad are not accessible through the ATAPI commandset for accessing the HPA.
The ANSI T13 Standard Document for ATAPI-6 (current) are overprized at $18.00 but you can download a draft of upcoming ATAPI-7 from the T13 working group's site at http://www.t13.org. There you will find in Section 4.9 of the document: "A reserved area for data storage outside the normal operating system file system is required for several specialized applications". Systems may wish to store configuration data or save memory to the device in a location that the operating system cannot change. The optional Host Protected Area feature set allows a portion of the device to be reserved for such an area when the device is initially configured. A device that implements the Host Protected Area feature set shall implement the following minimum set of commands:"
READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS
SET MAX ADDRESS ... ...
I take it that READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS tells you how many sectors of user addressable space have been configured on the drive and SET MAX ADDRESS lets you adjust that.
The way I see it there may be a lot of preinstalled hard drives out there with a compressed windows installation images on them "hidden" in the HPA. Maybe a new version of hdparm will allow linux users to reclaim that dead space.
(Hebrew Ba'al; plural, Be`alim.) A word which belongs to the oldest stock of the Semite vocabulary and primarily means "lord", "owner".
Go get a life. Don't know how? Start here!
Whatever you say, moon-god worshipper.
At least it would be tax$ spent on US citizens and not on another crusade in the Middle East.
I doubt it will emulate the "Modulare Merkmal", a special analog signal some German banks put on the magnetic strip of their ATM Cards ("EC-Karten").
You're right. Orrin Hatch is just another scoundrel operating out of Utah :-)
I know someone else already set this straight in this thread but I suppose you can't stress this simple and important fact more than enough! Moderate this as redundant, I can afford to loose some Karma over a database that has constantly kept bread on my table this and the entire last year. Why looks like next month I'm going to get another project migrating from Informix to MySQL :-)
Why zhe Offize ov Heimatlandschutz (OHS), ov kourse! :-) :-)
Maybe they don't want people to have access to it because the hardware could be used for other things than just wireless LAN.
Depending on the hardware, who knows maybe someone could even implement GSM/PCS on it. Whatever may be the case, having access to hardware like this would allow people to play around with it.
What is SDR?
GNU SDR implementation
Actually as far as I know they had to go through the ESA Mars orbiter "Mars Express" to make contact with Spirit. Oh and btw...
One of the main targets of the Mars Express mission is to discover the presence of water in one of its chemical states. Through the initial mapping of the South polar cap on 18 January, OMEGA, the combined camera and infrared spectrometer, has already revealed the presence of water ice and carbon dioxide ice.
I don't care whether Adobe "wants to be one of the good guys"... there are people out there who actually buy Photoshop and do not counterfeit US-currency and they have to pay for "features" like that. Even worse, this currency-detection feature probably slows down Photoshop a lot, just because Adobe wants to be a "good citizen", Hope there is a patch out soon that takes care of this problem.
The first thing that came to my mind when skimming over the /. headlines was 'China releases Cyber dissidents' ... into US custody :-). I'm sure those dissidents had one or two DIVX movies on their hard drives.