Except that as you noted software such as CloneCD will disable certain copying features if it sees you're living in a particular market. If it's not illegal or been put under pressure by someone why would the programmers have gone to that trouble?
I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be legal just that despite the common sense of it being legal someone somewhere has obviously applied pressure to the makers of this software. FWIW there are also ways around this crap (sigh).
Think about it this way - it's "copy protection" and the software copies it. Whooops, is that a DMCA issue or not? What a mess....
P.S. I use Plextor and so far have had no problems yet. The moment one of their firmware updates screws me up I'll be switching to another company and they will have lost a customer.
I care about the sound not who's singing it. In the case of that CD there were a few songs I liked and I saw no reason to return it just because the guys up front weren't the ones singing it. The music still sounded good and I get a chuckle out of the twits on the front cover art. Maybe it'll be collectible one day? (rolleyes)
Often times I can hum a few bars of a tune I like and remember some of the words but there's no way in heck I know what silly artist it was that sang it! This makes using P2P services a PITA since I actually have to know something about the artist or song title in order to find the music. Those TV commercials where they play the song and scroll the artist\title up the screen are awesome, I scribble down the info as fast as I can sometimes. I've honestly not bought a NEW CD in about 5 years now. If I buy a CD it's always a used one from a local store. The RIAA doesn't get my cash and I get a perfectly good working CD for far less than the extortion they attempt to charge at the record store.
Sad, I can remember driving quite a ways to the record store when I was younger and my favorite store wasn't close by. I was willing to do that then and I spent a good bit - now I refuse simply because I've realized what crooks these guys are. And that used CDs sound just as good:-) I guess I and others like me are the RIAA's worst nightmare huh?
Most of my MP3 collection, all 10+gigs, came from my own CDs. Took me 40+ hours to rip it all. The rest I've gathered from friend's collections and from P2P. It's not usually as well done as the RIPs I did myself and sometimes sounds awful when put back on CD. I've got an Alpine MP3 player for the car that I'm hoping will make using MP3 easier. I never play one of my old original CDs anymore, they're now packed away for safe keeping. I listen to nothing but burned MP3 these days....
Or are movies going from the big screen to DVD faster and faster? I swear that some of the movies seem to hit DVD before they've hardly left the theater!
In this case the added commentary tracks are going to be great. Nearly every movie I've seen with these has been interesting. Wild Things and the movie with the kid seeing dead people (argh what was the title) had truly insightful commentaries I thought. I'll be interested to see what the commentaries for this one will have.
Looking forward to it and am glad to see it coming out so quickly. Nowadays heading to the theater just isn't high on my list - too expensive too. DVD I can watch anytime I want, unfortunatly it supports the damned MPAA:-(
How would you like to be a customer of these guys?
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I can see it now - pop up appears telling you to get the hourly new release of this software that counters the other companies latest release (sigh). After awhile people are going to start to feel like hockey pucks getting passed back and forth. I'd agree that simply stealthing the "spy" program better would be the way to go but so long as you can get your hands on your competitors products...
I know - write an iron clad EULA to prevent reverse engineering, encrypt everything, and then just sue one another under the DMCA or somesuch until both companies are broke. Yeah, that's the ticket! There's not going to be any winners here...
Heh, and I've now met a few people that have caught spouses "cheating" using software like this. People are spying on their kids like crazy too. Maybe this new bill Hollingsworth has proposed will make our computers "pure? Maybe it'll cure world hunger too (ahem). What a mess!
The rest of the message makes it more than a little plain that it was an ORBZ test doesn't it? Does context mean nothing to you? He did the same thing any bulk mailer would've done.
I had my server tested by a different service last night, a Domino server in fact. It was found to relay (doh!) but I was able to fix it with a little reading and reconfiguring. I believe that some of the test messages I received also had faked fields just like the one above. In fact looking at some of the bounces it looks like the test even tried to spoof my upstream provider! My server survived just fine, I didn't receive tons of crap in my mailboxes, and in the end I've got a better server for it. If they HADN'T used the same sorts of tricks that a SPAMMER would've done then what good would the test have been?
Why couldn't a SPAMMER simply...
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configure their server software to respond like a Domino server in that case? It cuts both ways - the server has to be tested regardless of what it claims to be...
We run Notes here at work but no SMTP stuff. I've not gotten a delivery failure in about 11months. Mail runs smooth and servers almost never go down. We have network outages moreso than we do mail server downtime. I run R6\RNext at home and so far in the months since it came out it's been rock solid. Not exactly handling a ton of mail or WEB access but for beta it seems pretty good.
I dunno' - not disputing what you've seen but administered properly Notes is a pretty good product IMO. I'll grant that mail chimes aren't "instant" but that's a client issue not a server delivery problem. Hell, if my mail chimed as soon as something dropped in the box I'd have to turn it off or go deaf!;-) Here in the office weve got quite a few people so mail gets delivered every few minutes on a busy day - the servers certainly do work hard. Oh, and none of that single object store crap going on either!
More on topic.. the latest RNext code supports an RBL! Unfortunatly it looks like you've got to actually subscribe to it in order to use it - no thanks. I'm not sure how easy it would be to use another RBL but I'm hoping Lotus makes it an option. Locking down relaying also looks to be a little easier in this incarnation with things spelled out more clearly in the setup etc.
Whoever it is that's suing shouldn't have a leg to stand on since this is a bug in the server code - fixed by Lotus in later revisions. You would think that these folks would want to have a secure server, perhaps if their identity could be found out some SPAMMING SCUM could utlize their services? Might that teach them a lesson? (sigh) A shame one of the good guys is being forced out over this, I think identifying them for all to see and SHUN would be a very good idea...
P.S. Agree on what IBM has done to Lotus. Lots of firings and general disruption. Glad I never went to work for them! Friends did though and are now much poorer for it...
Read the license closely - you agree to have your search page, your home page, and your favorites HiJacked when you install that crap! In my case the ActiveX applet was NOT signed by a cert that my browser trusted. Needless to say I skipped their "download applet" and went elsewhere. Lot's of P0rn sites are popping up dialogs asking to be made your home page - on one case I saw the dialog had been modifed to say "click yes to proceed". I didn't fall for it but I know someone who did...
A woman I know who has several young kids did a search for "puberty" and when following a link she got into a pop-up site. She must've hit "yes" to one of the dialogs because her homepage was now smut - not that the "Yes" button has default focus. She was in tears by the time I got her straight, she was deathly afraid her kids would see that crap before she could get it fixed. (sigh) Some of this stuff is REALLY sleazy and it's getting worse...
I now use Serials2K instead of going to Asta when I need a number. It has the added bonus of allowing you to input your own serials and store them in an encrypted format. Can be ported to a Palm too!
Please explain one thing - overclocking?!
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Overclocking is causing the drives to fail? I'm sorry, but that seems pretty far out there. I've seen drives fail to respond when PCI timings were WAY out there but fail? Nah, I don't think that's a very likely cause. The drives have got to have their own internal clocks (okay, I know they do - I see the oscillators on the PCB) and should have checks inside to make sure that commands don't send the heads off into lala land. If tey don't have the latter then would you really want to use that drive?
Heat and power fluctuations sound like much more likely external issues. Either that or there's simply an internal flaw that didn't show up in testing. Wouldn't be the first time that's occured now would it? I still recall the grease problem seagate had years ago where heads would get mired in the stuff. A quick "twist start" would usually free them up but if you shut them down and allowed them to cool it would stick again. I replaced DOZENS of those damned htings doing field service. when I hit up a Seagate rep at a show about it he officially denied the problem - and then proceeded to tell me off-record just how bad it was. I didn't buy a Seagate drive for awhile afterwards;-)
Shopping around at the local computer show and picked up a couple of drives. Lot's to choose from including Maxtor and IBM all lined up side by side. Prices were pretty close, RPM, capacity, etc. etc. but ya' know - I could recall hearing all sorts of CRAP about IBM drives failing of late. Sorry IBM, I chose a pair of 80gig Maxtor drives this time. I don't replace drives very often and seldom have them fail on me but if IBM isn't supporting those that do fail or coming clean about a problem then I'm not supporting THEM either! There are way too many other choices out there and I made mine, hopefully IBM will get it together and come clean but until then I'm not going to trust them. Bummer too - I used to think highly of their drives...
What you've said about cache and timings is spot on. However as others have pointed out AMD doesn't expect CPUs to be from the same stepping, lot, or anything else funky like you used to have to do with Intel. Hrm, does Intel still require this? It would seem that things have perhaps progressed? The systems don't appear to be quite so picky wouldn't you say? I'm also not yet sure that the MP CPUs undergoe any addtional testing over what the XP units do. Does anyone have hard evidence of this? An URL? I'd be interested in seeing the evidence as to what exactly is different. The fact that the original XP CPUs were shipped SMP enabled is still to be explained if this is the case. I'll grant that maybe MP CPUs get an extra test that the XPs don't but I'd also bet that many XPs would pass. Errors is one thing, burning quite another;-)
As for voltage and heat. Oddly enough I've yet to see a CPU modify the voltage when I've put it into the MB. Each processor line has it's own spec and the voltage DOES change to that level but not anything different WITHIN the CPU line. You make it sound as if each CPU is tested and a voltage assigned based on that testing - NOPE! Do XP and MP CPUs of the same speed\core require different voltages? I've honestly not checked but I'll bet they don't. If a CPU works fine at a particular voltage single I'm not convinced that it's going to need any more or less voltage in an SMP configuration. If anything I'd guess more based on what I've seen overclocking. Care to offer evidence?
Lastly, as someone has already pointed out - an additional bit of voltage is NOT going to fry the CPU. This bozo is trying to say that simply running the CPU SMP is going to fry it, the more I think about this the more I think he's trolling. I've overclocked CPUs starting WAY back with 4mhz XTs and I've yet to have one fry as a result. I've bumped voltage, I've massivly bumped FSB, I've water cooled, Peltier cooled, and done all sorts of things to eek performance out. CPUs are actually pretty durable and simply tasking them differently ala SMP or even something intensive like Distributed.net isn't going to burn a CPU. Put a decent heatsink on it and use your brain - it'll be fine. Distributed.net's software bumps my CPU temps up a max of 10degrees - no biggie. How much would SMP operation bump the CPU temp? Not more than that I'm sure.
Theory is all well and good with this stuff but it seems that folks are running the XP CPUs SMP without reporting problems and in the end that's all the proof needed....
P.S. For some real fun measure the voltage fom your off-shore power supply with a good meter. It can get pretty bad! Not long ago I had the fan in a powersupply die on me - voltages across the board shot up. 12volts was pushing 14 and 5volts was closer to 5.4. Nothing fried but the added heat did indeed overwhelm the cooling on that CPU and it locked up after only a few minutes of run time. Slapped in a new fan and all was good - no damage. What you set in the BIOS ain't always what the rest of the system sees (shiver).
Umm, Intel is in the wireless mainstream? What's that got to do with AMD XP CPUs?! You lost me there. Yeah, this is a general purpose CPU and not a mobile version - you know foks hacking mobile CPUs? Do tell, I'm al lears as to what's being done.
A BIOS reconfigure? That actually makes SOME sense. Much like the rewiring some of us had to do at first with the Celeron it's possible a BIOS hack could be done to get the MB to ignore the cut bridge and just assume SMP operation. The ABIT dual Celeron board was sort of like this in that it ignored the fact that the Celeron wasn't supposed to SMP. I wouldn't be surprised if they could do this again if they chose with the new CPUs. Maybe some of the MBs are allowing the BIOS to override the MP\XP switch? Do you have any URLs?
As for them stopping this - you can still unlock the multipliers right? To prevent that AMD would have to seriously change their internal processes and it would cost them more in cash and goodwill than it would to simply allow it. They're not losing much money if any by allowing hobbyists to do this. Start a business modifying\testing overclocked CPUs and they would probably get pretty upset - and have in the past - but I think this will be here awhile. Actually it's a shame Intel doesn't do their CPUs this way...
Or does it still post as an XP? If it comes up as an MP then this is all the more telling IMO. I think this is a great hack and as soon as SMP AMD boards become a little more common I predict we'll see lot's of SMP AMD systems running around.
I've just about flushed all of the Intel systems off my home network and replaced them with AMD. A couple of old dualie Celeron are left but if the AMD stuff gets cheap enough those will go too. Sorry Intel but you guys have pissed me off with this PIV crap, the locked multipliers, RAMBUS, and the mods you hacked into the Celeron to prevent SMP operation. AMD is doing the enthusiest right as well as the consumer with their pricing. Go AMD!
OT but what the hell - see my post up there? Does it actually have my NAME on it or is it instead using a "handle" by which I can post, maintain some sort of "rep", and yet still keep my true name and employer hidden?
Oh wait, why am I explaining anything to an AC (rolleyes).
If the XP and MP cores are the same then what exactly is the difference? The BIOS says XP instead of MP? AMD maybe did some testing? Perhaps the cut trace is the result of a failed test? Or more likely a marketing gimmick like the locked multipliers onthe Intel CPUs? "Hey Bernie, we're out of 500mhz CPUs could ya' downgrade some of the 1gig units?" As yield increases on established CPU lines this really does happen if there's a shortage of slower CPUs. I see no reason to believe that AMD isn't just as smart both with clock speeds and the SMP ability. As fast and as cheap as their CPUs are I've seen fit to go ahead and buy the higher speed units and not monkey with the multipliers but to save $80+ I'll be more than happy to mod an XP CPU's SMP jumper:-)
If AMD doesn't like this then they're going to have to be MUCH clearer about what's different even if it's just to say that it's added testing involved. It's not like the CPUs come with a report card telling you what failed and what didn't;-)
Benchmarks man, we need benchmarks and lot's of them. I'm sure it won't be long before Annand, HardOCP, or heaven forbid Tom's (gak) get onboard with this and benchmark us to death.:-)
and you make a good point I didn't catch earlier.... If what this guy is saying is true than the MP CPUs have a different core? Like the Celerons right? Umm, yeah I don't think so. I seem to recall the Duron core is the same too with some memory cells lasered? Why would the XP CPUs that were produced awhile back be SMP enabled and not the ones being produced now? It simply makes more sense that AMD has cut a trace in order to pull more money from MP labeled CPUs. As others have stated - businesses won't do this, only enthusiasts who won't give a fig for the warranty. AMD gets money fom the majority of their targetted audience with this and the enthusiest enjoys it too - smart! This same sort of thing happened with the Celeron until the bastards at Intel cut an internal trace on the CPUs. I'm STILL pissed about that! ocked multipliers? Intel can BITE ME.
Benchmarks are what we need to see in order to confirm this. That will be icing on the cake and prove whether or not this is worth doing. A comparison with Duron and MP SMP setups running about the same speed on the same board would be VERY helpful. For that matter do it on a couple of boards so I know which performs the best - I want one NOW!;-)
Look for defroster repair paint. It'll be in a tiny bottle and is copper colored. It's got copper in it and is used to (duh) repair the copper defrogger lines on windows. It will work fine for this but it's pretty thin so be careful it doesn't run. Sometimes masking is a good idea but be careful that the "paint" doesn't wick under the tape. Just maybe use a toothpick to dab on the paint - you don't need much on there as it's a logic connection not something carrying amperage. In the past #2 lead pencils have been used for a removable solution. However this is much trickier IMO and is somthing I'd only try for test purposes.
P.S. Yeah, there are actually places that sell conductive paint but they're usually not as common as an auto parts place. I'm not sure that RatShack actually carries this stuff but I guess it would be worth a shot...
Somehow I don't think so. It might not work right, it might crash, but burn? Umm, how exactly is that going to happen? As for protecting your job - perhaps posting in something other than your actual name? You didn't actually use your name for your account did you?
Seriously, I'm not trying to flame but claims that it will burn in a month or so sound awfully thin. Your going to have to either explain it a little better or point to some evidence of this occuring somewhere. Guess we'll know "in a month or so" one way or the other huh? BTW - all those neato' hacks made it into the Duron but not the XP?!
One thing the article did NOT give and that I hope the next one will is BENCHMARKS. On the off chance that this guy isn't trolling benchmarks ought to tell us if both CPUs are actually being used by the OS and if those "hacks" are actually for real. Compare it to SMP Durons for instance - is it much faster? I'd also be interested in hearing more about what SMP MBs work best - I nearly bought the Tyan this weekend;)
I've had to have one of tjhose damned sonic motion sensors disabled in one office already. It was disabled by the tech using a sharp pointed pencil jammed into the snout of the device. When I asked him if that was a "standard" fix he replied that yes, it was! Apparently I'm not the only one who's heard the damned things and while the tech couldn't hear them himself he assured me that this fix has ALWAYS worked:-)
Out of an office of about 30 people only two of us could hear the silly thing. It gave me massive headaches until we could figure out what the heck was going on. So yeah, there could be something in the higher or maybe lower ranges of a recording that some of us might find valuable.:-P
Hrm, and when I burn a decently ripped MP3 to a CD, as in one I'VE ripped, it generally comes out pretty good. Others have come out crappy I'll admit but the ones I've taken care to do mostly right sound decent with no really apparent screwups. We'll see hwo this goes when I get my alpine MP3 player installed in the dash and I no longer have to convert the MP3 back to CD format...
I too haven't been hosed - yet. However their per transaction fees are beginning to get onerous. Frankly from your description of how YOU are using the service it does sound to me a nawful lot like a bank. An electronic one that never handles paper money to be sure but a bank nonetheless.
Try this, have someone send you money using PayPal and a freshly stolen but not yet reported-stolen credit card. After you've received the money have the card reported stolen. what what occurs to YOUR account even though you weren't involved in the theft. By all accounts YOUR funds and those of the person who sent you money will BOTH be frozen. Ouch.
For fun try this - goto PayPal and try to find a phone number that will lead you to a real live living human being that can help. It used to be, and migh still be, somewhat hard to find a phone number on the site. I tried something over a year ago whe nstories first seemed to be filtering out about problems with the service and had a hard time fincing a number. That did NOT bode well IMO.
I DO use the service, somewhat often (sent the roller coaster guy money today:-) BUT I do NOT keep money in there. These guys are apparently being ruled "not a bank" so protections I'd expect from such a thing don't exist never mind the crap they supposedly pull. They're just too shaky for me to trust using them as you do - I've got credit cards and debit cards for insured accounts already thanks. YMMV - just please be careful and wary. Claims of thousands of dollars being frozen are WAY too common IMO...
I hate the orphaned processes it leaves running too. R5 is also slower:-( R6 will have portions rewritten for speed (@Function engine) and is supposed to be multi-threaded but for what I've seen they have a ways to go on that part of it (ahem).
Notes security is one of the areas I work for my company - most of what I dumped there isn't the sort of thing they document in many books. Just sharing some of what I've learned - no flames.
The Notes server does NOT "have" to be listed in the ACL unless Agents are being run. Mail delivery is done differently and bypasses the ACLs. You could even setup the server as "No Access" and it would still deliver mail....
Simply modify the Server's ACL entry such that the User Type is "server" and this problem is solved. While you're at it set the option for "enforce consistant ACLs" and watch what happens when the Admin tries to get in.:-) You can set on-disk encryption to make things harder and for REAL fun have the User Record in the address book set so that all of th email is encrypted using the user's Public key. Whoops - the admin can't get in without the ID now huh?
Admin keeping copies of your ID? No problem, change your password and the ncreate a private encryption key. Encrypt that which you find too sensitive to share and smile. The admin is now locked out without breaking your IDs password or using a tool to circumvent the IDs password. Those tools aren't publicly available..
Done right it's quite possble to have privacy using Notes. Oh, use port encryption too;-)
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Except that as you noted software such as CloneCD will disable certain copying features if it sees you're living in a particular market. If it's not illegal or been put under pressure by someone why would the programmers have gone to that trouble?
I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be legal just that despite the common sense of it being legal someone somewhere has obviously applied pressure to the makers of this software. FWIW there are also ways around this crap (sigh).
Think about it this way - it's "copy protection" and the software copies it. Whooops, is that a DMCA issue or not? What a mess....
P.S. I use Plextor and so far have had no problems yet. The moment one of their firmware updates screws me up I'll be switching to another company and they will have lost a customer.
I care about the sound not who's singing it. In the case of that CD there were a few songs I liked and I saw no reason to return it just because the guys up front weren't the ones singing it. The music still sounded good and I get a chuckle out of the twits on the front cover art. Maybe it'll be collectible one day? (rolleyes)
:-) I guess I and others like me are the RIAA's worst nightmare huh?
Often times I can hum a few bars of a tune I like and remember some of the words but there's no way in heck I know what silly artist it was that sang it! This makes using P2P services a PITA since I actually have to know something about the artist or song title in order to find the music. Those TV commercials where they play the song and scroll the artist\title up the screen are awesome, I scribble down the info as fast as I can sometimes. I've honestly not bought a NEW CD in about 5 years now. If I buy a CD it's always a used one from a local store. The RIAA doesn't get my cash and I get a perfectly good working CD for far less than the extortion they attempt to charge at the record store.
Sad, I can remember driving quite a ways to the record store when I was younger and my favorite store wasn't close by. I was willing to do that then and I spent a good bit - now I refuse simply because I've realized what crooks these guys are. And that used CDs sound just as good
Most of my MP3 collection, all 10+gigs, came from my own CDs. Took me 40+ hours to rip it all. The rest I've gathered from friend's collections and from P2P. It's not usually as well done as the RIPs I did myself and sometimes sounds awful when put back on CD. I've got an Alpine MP3 player for the car that I'm hoping will make using MP3 easier. I never play one of my old original CDs anymore, they're now packed away for safe keeping. I listen to nothing but burned MP3 these days....
Or are movies going from the big screen to DVD faster and faster? I swear that some of the movies seem to hit DVD before they've hardly left the theater!
:-(
In this case the added commentary tracks are going to be great. Nearly every movie I've seen with these has been interesting. Wild Things and the movie with the kid seeing dead people (argh what was the title) had truly insightful commentaries I thought. I'll be interested to see what the commentaries for this one will have.
Looking forward to it and am glad to see it coming out so quickly. Nowadays heading to the theater just isn't high on my list - too expensive too. DVD I can watch anytime I want, unfortunatly it supports the damned MPAA
I can see it now - pop up appears telling you to get the hourly new release of this software that counters the other companies latest release (sigh). After awhile people are going to start to feel like hockey pucks getting passed back and forth. I'd agree that simply stealthing the "spy" program better would be the way to go but so long as you can get your hands on your competitors products...
I know - write an iron clad EULA to prevent reverse engineering, encrypt everything, and then just sue one another under the DMCA or somesuch until both companies are broke. Yeah, that's the ticket! There's not going to be any winners here...
Heh, and I've now met a few people that have caught spouses "cheating" using software like this. People are spying on their kids like crazy too. Maybe this new bill Hollingsworth has proposed will make our computers "pure? Maybe it'll cure world hunger too (ahem). What a mess!
The rest of the message makes it more than a little plain that it was an ORBZ test doesn't it? Does context mean nothing to you? He did the same thing any bulk mailer would've done.
I had my server tested by a different service last night, a Domino server in fact. It was found to relay (doh!) but I was able to fix it with a little reading and reconfiguring. I believe that some of the test messages I received also had faked fields just like the one above. In fact looking at some of the bounces it looks like the test even tried to spoof my upstream provider! My server survived just fine, I didn't receive tons of crap in my mailboxes, and in the end I've got a better server for it. If they HADN'T used the same sorts of tricks that a SPAMMER would've done then what good would the test have been?
configure their server software to respond like a Domino server in that case? It cuts both ways - the server has to be tested regardless of what it claims to be...
Will be testing my Notes server ASAP! Appreciate the info and the link. I've been wondering how best to test it for relaying... ;-)
We run Notes here at work but no SMTP stuff. I've not gotten a delivery failure in about 11months. Mail runs smooth and servers almost never go down. We have network outages moreso than we do mail server downtime. I run R6\RNext at home and so far in the months since it came out it's been rock solid. Not exactly handling a ton of mail or WEB access but for beta it seems pretty good.
;-) Here in the office weve got quite a few people so mail gets delivered every few minutes on a busy day - the servers certainly do work hard. Oh, and none of that single object store crap going on either!
I dunno' - not disputing what you've seen but administered properly Notes is a pretty good product IMO. I'll grant that mail chimes aren't "instant" but that's a client issue not a server delivery problem. Hell, if my mail chimed as soon as something dropped in the box I'd have to turn it off or go deaf!
More on topic.. the latest RNext code supports an RBL! Unfortunatly it looks like you've got to actually subscribe to it in order to use it - no thanks. I'm not sure how easy it would be to use another RBL but I'm hoping Lotus makes it an option. Locking down relaying also looks to be a little easier in this incarnation with things spelled out more clearly in the setup etc.
Whoever it is that's suing shouldn't have a leg to stand on since this is a bug in the server code - fixed by Lotus in later revisions. You would think that these folks would want to have a secure server, perhaps if their identity could be found out some SPAMMING SCUM could utlize their services? Might that teach them a lesson? (sigh) A shame one of the good guys is being forced out over this, I think identifying them for all to see and SHUN would be a very good idea...
P.S. Agree on what IBM has done to Lotus. Lots of firings and general disruption. Glad I never went to work for them! Friends did though and are now much poorer for it...
Read the license closely - you agree to have your search page, your home page, and your favorites HiJacked when you install that crap! In my case the ActiveX applet was NOT signed by a cert that my browser trusted. Needless to say I skipped their "download applet" and went elsewhere. Lot's of P0rn sites are popping up dialogs asking to be made your home page - on one case I saw the dialog had been modifed to say "click yes to proceed". I didn't fall for it but I know someone who did...
A woman I know who has several young kids did a search for "puberty" and when following a link she got into a pop-up site. She must've hit "yes" to one of the dialogs because her homepage was now smut - not that the "Yes" button has default focus. She was in tears by the time I got her straight, she was deathly afraid her kids would see that crap before she could get it fixed. (sigh) Some of this stuff is REALLY sleazy and it's getting worse...
I now use Serials2K instead of going to Asta when I need a number. It has the added bonus of allowing you to input your own serials and store them in an encrypted format. Can be ported to a Palm too!
Overclocking is causing the drives to fail? I'm sorry, but that seems pretty far out there. I've seen drives fail to respond when PCI timings were WAY out there but fail? Nah, I don't think that's a very likely cause. The drives have got to have their own internal clocks (okay, I know they do - I see the oscillators on the PCB) and should have checks inside to make sure that commands don't send the heads off into lala land. If tey don't have the latter then would you really want to use that drive?
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Heat and power fluctuations sound like much more likely external issues. Either that or there's simply an internal flaw that didn't show up in testing. Wouldn't be the first time that's occured now would it? I still recall the grease problem seagate had years ago where heads would get mired in the stuff. A quick "twist start" would usually free them up but if you shut them down and allowed them to cool it would stick again. I replaced DOZENS of those damned htings doing field service. when I hit up a Seagate rep at a show about it he officially denied the problem - and then proceeded to tell me off-record just how bad it was. I didn't buy a Seagate drive for awhile afterwards
Shopping around at the local computer show and picked up a couple of drives. Lot's to choose from including Maxtor and IBM all lined up side by side. Prices were pretty close, RPM, capacity, etc. etc. but ya' know - I could recall hearing all sorts of CRAP about IBM drives failing of late. Sorry IBM, I chose a pair of 80gig Maxtor drives this time. I don't replace drives very often and seldom have them fail on me but if IBM isn't supporting those that do fail or coming clean about a problem then I'm not supporting THEM either! There are way too many other choices out there and I made mine, hopefully IBM will get it together and come clean but until then I'm not going to trust them. Bummer too - I used to think highly of their drives...
What you've said about cache and timings is spot on. However as others have pointed out AMD doesn't expect CPUs to be from the same stepping, lot, or anything else funky like you used to have to do with Intel. Hrm, does Intel still require this? It would seem that things have perhaps progressed? The systems don't appear to be quite so picky wouldn't you say? I'm also not yet sure that the MP CPUs undergoe any addtional testing over what the XP units do. Does anyone have hard evidence of this? An URL? I'd be interested in seeing the evidence as to what exactly is different. The fact that the original XP CPUs were shipped SMP enabled is still to be explained if this is the case. I'll grant that maybe MP CPUs get an extra test that the XPs don't but I'd also bet that many XPs would pass. Errors is one thing, burning quite another ;-)
As for voltage and heat. Oddly enough I've yet to see a CPU modify the voltage when I've put it into the MB. Each processor line has it's own spec and the voltage DOES change to that level but not anything different WITHIN the CPU line. You make it sound as if each CPU is tested and a voltage assigned based on that testing - NOPE! Do XP and MP CPUs of the same speed\core require different voltages? I've honestly not checked but I'll bet they don't. If a CPU works fine at a particular voltage single I'm not convinced that it's going to need any more or less voltage in an SMP configuration. If anything I'd guess more based on what I've seen overclocking. Care to offer evidence?
Lastly, as someone has already pointed out - an additional bit of voltage is NOT going to fry the CPU. This bozo is trying to say that simply running the CPU SMP is going to fry it, the more I think about this the more I think he's trolling. I've overclocked CPUs starting WAY back with 4mhz XTs and I've yet to have one fry as a result. I've bumped voltage, I've massivly bumped FSB, I've water cooled, Peltier cooled, and done all sorts of things to eek performance out. CPUs are actually pretty durable and simply tasking them differently ala SMP or even something intensive like Distributed.net isn't going to burn a CPU. Put a decent heatsink on it and use your brain - it'll be fine. Distributed.net's software bumps my CPU temps up a max of 10degrees - no biggie. How much would SMP operation bump the CPU temp? Not more than that I'm sure.
Theory is all well and good with this stuff but it seems that folks are running the XP CPUs SMP without reporting problems and in the end that's all the proof needed....
P.S. For some real fun measure the voltage fom your off-shore power supply with a good meter. It can get pretty bad! Not long ago I had the fan in a powersupply die on me - voltages across the board shot up. 12volts was pushing 14 and 5volts was closer to 5.4. Nothing fried but the added heat did indeed overwhelm the cooling on that CPU and it locked up after only a few minutes of run time. Slapped in a new fan and all was good - no damage. What you set in the BIOS ain't always what the rest of the system sees (shiver).
Umm, Intel is in the wireless mainstream? What's that got to do with AMD XP CPUs?! You lost me there. Yeah, this is a general purpose CPU and not a mobile version - you know foks hacking mobile CPUs? Do tell, I'm al lears as to what's being done.
A BIOS reconfigure? That actually makes SOME sense. Much like the rewiring some of us had to do at first with the Celeron it's possible a BIOS hack could be done to get the MB to ignore the cut bridge and just assume SMP operation. The ABIT dual Celeron board was sort of like this in that it ignored the fact that the Celeron wasn't supposed to SMP. I wouldn't be surprised if they could do this again if they chose with the new CPUs. Maybe some of the MBs are allowing the BIOS to override the MP\XP switch? Do you have any URLs?
As for them stopping this - you can still unlock the multipliers right? To prevent that AMD would have to seriously change their internal processes and it would cost them more in cash and goodwill than it would to simply allow it. They're not losing much money if any by allowing hobbyists to do this. Start a business modifying\testing overclocked CPUs and they would probably get pretty upset - and have in the past - but I think this will be here awhile. Actually it's a shame Intel doesn't do their CPUs this way...
Or does it still post as an XP? If it comes up as an MP then this is all the more telling IMO. I think this is a great hack and as soon as SMP AMD boards become a little more common I predict we'll see lot's of SMP AMD systems running around.
I've just about flushed all of the Intel systems off my home network and replaced them with AMD. A couple of old dualie Celeron are left but if the AMD stuff gets cheap enough those will go too. Sorry Intel but you guys have pissed me off with this PIV crap, the locked multipliers, RAMBUS, and the mods you hacked into the Celeron to prevent SMP operation. AMD is doing the enthusiest right as well as the consumer with their pricing. Go AMD!
OT but what the hell - see my post up there? Does it actually have my NAME on it or is it instead using a "handle" by which I can post, maintain some sort of "rep", and yet still keep my true name and employer hidden?
Oh wait, why am I explaining anything to an AC (rolleyes).
If the XP and MP cores are the same then what exactly is the difference? The BIOS says XP instead of MP? AMD maybe did some testing? Perhaps the cut trace is the result of a failed test? Or more likely a marketing gimmick like the locked multipliers onthe Intel CPUs? "Hey Bernie, we're out of 500mhz CPUs could ya' downgrade some of the 1gig units?" As yield increases on established CPU lines this really does happen if there's a shortage of slower CPUs. I see no reason to believe that AMD isn't just as smart both with clock speeds and the SMP ability. As fast and as cheap as their CPUs are I've seen fit to go ahead and buy the higher speed units and not monkey with the multipliers but to save $80+ I'll be more than happy to mod an XP CPU's SMP jumper :-)
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If AMD doesn't like this then they're going to have to be MUCH clearer about what's different even if it's just to say that it's added testing involved. It's not like the CPUs come with a report card telling you what failed and what didn't
Benchmarks man, we need benchmarks and lot's of them. I'm sure it won't be long before Annand, HardOCP, or heaven forbid Tom's (gak) get onboard with this and benchmark us to death.
and you make a good point I didn't catch earlier.... If what this guy is saying is true than the MP CPUs have a different core? Like the Celerons right? Umm, yeah I don't think so. I seem to recall the Duron core is the same too with some memory cells lasered? Why would the XP CPUs that were produced awhile back be SMP enabled and not the ones being produced now? It simply makes more sense that AMD has cut a trace in order to pull more money from MP labeled CPUs. As others have stated - businesses won't do this, only enthusiasts who won't give a fig for the warranty. AMD gets money fom the majority of their targetted audience with this and the enthusiest enjoys it too - smart! This same sort of thing happened with the Celeron until the bastards at Intel cut an internal trace on the CPUs. I'm STILL pissed about that! ocked multipliers? Intel can BITE ME.
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Benchmarks are what we need to see in order to confirm this. That will be icing on the cake and prove whether or not this is worth doing. A comparison with Duron and MP SMP setups running about the same speed on the same board would be VERY helpful. For that matter do it on a couple of boards so I know which performs the best - I want one NOW!
Look for defroster repair paint. It'll be in a tiny bottle and is copper colored. It's got copper in it and is used to (duh) repair the copper defrogger lines on windows. It will work fine for this but it's pretty thin so be careful it doesn't run. Sometimes masking is a good idea but be careful that the "paint" doesn't wick under the tape. Just maybe use a toothpick to dab on the paint - you don't need much on there as it's a logic connection not something carrying amperage. In the past #2 lead pencils have been used for a removable solution. However this is much trickier IMO and is somthing I'd only try for test purposes.
P.S. Yeah, there are actually places that sell conductive paint but they're usually not as common as an auto parts place. I'm not sure that RatShack actually carries this stuff but I guess it would be worth a shot...
Somehow I don't think so. It might not work right, it might crash, but burn? Umm, how exactly is that going to happen? As for protecting your job - perhaps posting in something other than your actual name? You didn't actually use your name for your account did you?
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Seriously, I'm not trying to flame but claims that it will burn in a month or so sound awfully thin. Your going to have to either explain it a little better or point to some evidence of this occuring somewhere. Guess we'll know "in a month or so" one way or the other huh? BTW - all those neato' hacks made it into the Duron but not the XP?!
One thing the article did NOT give and that I hope the next one will is BENCHMARKS. On the off chance that this guy isn't trolling benchmarks ought to tell us if both CPUs are actually being used by the OS and if those "hacks" are actually for real. Compare it to SMP Durons for instance - is it much faster? I'd also be interested in hearing more about what SMP MBs work best - I nearly bought the Tyan this weekend
I've had to have one of tjhose damned sonic motion sensors disabled in one office already. It was disabled by the tech using a sharp pointed pencil jammed into the snout of the device. When I asked him if that was a "standard" fix he replied that yes, it was! Apparently I'm not the only one who's heard the damned things and while the tech couldn't hear them himself he assured me that this fix has ALWAYS worked :-)
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Out of an office of about 30 people only two of us could hear the silly thing. It gave me massive headaches until we could figure out what the heck was going on. So yeah, there could be something in the higher or maybe lower ranges of a recording that some of us might find valuable.
Hrm, and when I burn a decently ripped MP3 to a CD, as in one I'VE ripped, it generally comes out pretty good. Others have come out crappy I'll admit but the ones I've taken care to do mostly right sound decent with no really apparent screwups. We'll see hwo this goes when I get my alpine MP3 player installed in the dash and I no longer have to convert the MP3 back to CD format...
I too haven't been hosed - yet. However their per transaction fees are beginning to get onerous. Frankly from your description of how YOU are using the service it does sound to me a nawful lot like a bank. An electronic one that never handles paper money to be sure but a bank nonetheless.
Try this, have someone send you money using PayPal and a freshly stolen but not yet reported-stolen credit card. After you've received the money have the card reported stolen. what what occurs to YOUR account even though you weren't involved in the theft. By all accounts YOUR funds and those of the person who sent you money will BOTH be frozen. Ouch.
For fun try this - goto PayPal and try to find a phone number that will lead you to a real live living human being that can help. It used to be, and migh still be, somewhat hard to find a phone number on the site. I tried something over a year ago whe nstories first seemed to be filtering out about problems with the service and had a hard time fincing a number. That did NOT bode well IMO.
I DO use the service, somewhat often (sent the roller coaster guy money today:-) BUT I do NOT keep money in there. These guys are apparently being ruled "not a bank" so protections I'd expect from such a thing don't exist never mind the crap they supposedly pull. They're just too shaky for me to trust using them as you do - I've got credit cards and debit cards for insured accounts already thanks. YMMV - just please be careful and wary. Claims of thousands of dollars being frozen are WAY too common IMO...
I hate the orphaned processes it leaves running too. R5 is also slower :-( R6 will have portions rewritten for speed (@Function engine) and is supposed to be multi-threaded but for what I've seen they have a ways to go on that part of it (ahem).
Notes security is one of the areas I work for my company - most of what I dumped there isn't the sort of thing they document in many books. Just sharing some of what I've learned - no flames.
The Notes server does NOT "have" to be listed in the ACL unless Agents are being run. Mail delivery is done differently and bypasses the ACLs. You could even setup the server as "No Access" and it would still deliver mail....
Simply modify the Server's ACL entry such that the User Type is "server" and this problem is solved. While you're at it set the option for "enforce consistant ACLs" and watch what happens when the Admin tries to get in. :-) You can set on-disk encryption to make things harder and for REAL fun have the User Record in the address book set so that all of th email is encrypted using the user's Public key. Whoops - the admin can't get in without the ID now huh?
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Admin keeping copies of your ID? No problem, change your password and the ncreate a private encryption key. Encrypt that which you find too sensitive to share and smile. The admin is now locked out without breaking your IDs password or using a tool to circumvent the IDs password. Those tools aren't publicly available..
Done right it's quite possble to have privacy using Notes. Oh, use port encryption too