there is no IC on the DVDs. the DVD drive electronics executes code which loads the encryption keys from disk..if those are missing i.e. its a dvd that not encrypted properly, the electronics will block the drive access. which means you need to hack the drive electronics.
it basically :
DVD data transfer to drive firmware -> to host.
the controller board will have to authenticate to the drive to allow you to read. your method will fail and dd wont be able to read shit. remember this is two way authentication just like DVDs...the DVD *drive* has to authenticate itself to the *disc* and then the software has to authenticate to the disc before it can be read. very nasty.
ASPs. since they host your data on their servers and you run the application on their servers you cant possibly break their copy protection scheme. this is the model M$'s.NET is moving to. loads of people use ASPs. for example, hotmail is an ASP service as is any webmail provider. slashdot is an ASP service..you cant get the slashdot db although they have released the source...even if they didnt have to.
no. what you want is what everyone wants - real time raytracing at 200fps and 8192 x 4096 x 20000000000 @ 32bpp with real time physics calculations.
if you wanna see that anytime soon - stick your head out the window. current graphics hardware is nowhere near real life and is not going to approach that anytime soon. what we have right now is the GeForce and video cards like that which can produce barely acceptable graphics at barely acceptable fpses for fragging games like quake...which 99% of the ppl here understand.
APT isnt all that great....granted that im saying this after i switched all my redhat boxes to debian...the alternatives to apt are far worse tho. for example, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade broke my X server for 1 week when woody changed from 3.3.6 to 4.02RC-3..that sucked. and the XF86Setup still hasnt been updated which means i had to go update the XF86Setup file manually. ugh. on the other hand it does keep you uptodate with fixes and stuff. rpm on the other hand doesnt have autoupgrade except with the proprietary redhat network which i dont trust.
java never had the limitations of C/C++ and other languages with bit precision on the int/long/floats. java has arbitrary precision which is processor independant anyway (BigInteger/Decimal can be arbitrary bits) so this is just another VM port. nothing to write home about. sun's embedded java/picojava is equally small (or supposed to be).
a lot of companies in the uk tried the power line transmission thingy. it didnt work for various *technical* reasons as opposed to commercial. the IEE in the uk has been running a lot of papers on it, but so far the technical hurdles are fairly large.
actually we can. during the war in serbia/croatia a guy was interviewed on TV who stated they saw graves with humans in them from the spy sats. he stated that both male and female bodies were observed along with children. since the average human is around 1m or so and to differentiate female from male you have to image the upper chest area with sufficient resolution, you can deduce the res of the spy sats to be around 1/16 of a meter. of course, the cameras on board have to have a greater res than that to compensate for atmospheric disturbance etc....basically they should be able to make out the license plate on a car...but may not be able to read it.
normally i wouldnt recommend compaq but the h3650 kicks ass. runs linux if you want otherwise is stuck with wince. good machine, arm cpu, lots of ram and expandable as all hell. great lcd too.
no they most certainly do NOT have the option to decamp. if you do colo you want to do it in your area since you might have to do emergency hardware surgery on your server at 3am. blocking single ips DOES have impacts on the ISP. MAPS isnt voluntary if its shoved down the throats of customers at an ISP.
use the following formulae :
Estimate from techies to complete the project : T
Double for QA time : 2T
Add 50% for techies quake sessions : 2.5*T
Add 10% for peace of mind : (2.5*T)+(0.1*T)
Thats your project schedule.
you forget that in some areas customers have no option to decamp..the ISP has a monopoly. and theres a financial cost to decamp too. this sort of thing is *disgusting*. Block the single static ip thats being used for abusing...thats ok..but blocking large groups of addresses is a DoS attack and nothing else. your attitude to forced censorship of major routes/backbones on the internet is totally disgusting. i dont know how you can live with yourself.
Simple. distributed kernels run on more than one machine at once with an interconnect between them. The interconnect can be NUMA/CrayLink/Ethernet/TCP/IP or something which passes data fast and the kernels have to share memory and processors across differing architectures and types. a good example is MOSIX..which is basically simple extensions to the linux kernel to make it distributed as far as processes go. Add LVM and GFS to distribute disk resources and reasonably fast internconnects and youre all set.
we're located away from your hubs/metro rings unfortunately. we were hoping to be included and sign up but thats in the air until we get some VC funding around feb in which case we can relocate and sign up.i'll contact you if i need anything..actually my IT manager will.
just buy cobalt. they give you shit servers which have nothing thermally active in em... 300Mhz CPUs engineered to maximise profit for the company as embedded appliances selling for $1500-2000. they'll save you on electricity but you'll be paying thru your nose for the server.
this is a load of bullshit. have you opened up a laptop lately ? all the stuff is integrated and pushed to the max. if i can sell you a laptop for $500 versus the competition at $600 with the same features why wouldnt i do so ? i'd sell more units that way. conspiracy theory aside, if this was true someone (like me) would pull the laptop apart and reflash it. ive pulled mine apart and i can see all the components are integrated and used to the max. it doesnt make economic sense to cripple the parts and let the comptetition walk over you.
yeah. i did it (and currently still am doing it). i can support mysql, postgresql and oracle currently...db/2 coming up shortly. its fairly simple (actually the hard part was loading the tables in the database) if you know what the hell youre doing....which most people dont. still, if you can afford a DBA you can afford to do the conversion.
two guys knocked down a coupla OC-48s and we lost half the net (at least in the US). another time someone misconfigured a router at a small ISP and boom - connectivity down. the nets a lot more fragile than any simulations or papers make it out to be.
Slashdot Mirror
argh it got mangled due to slashcode. anyway its : ... drive electronics ... firmware
dvd
there is no IC on the DVDs. the DVD drive electronics executes code which loads the encryption keys from disk ..if those are missing i.e. its a dvd that not encrypted properly, the electronics will block the drive access. which means you need to hack the drive electronics.
it basically :
DVD data transfer to drive firmware -> to host.
the controller board will have to authenticate to the drive to allow you to read. your method will fail and dd wont be able to read shit. remember this is two way authentication just like DVDs...the DVD *drive* has to authenticate itself to the *disc* and then the software has to authenticate to the disc before it can be read. very nasty.
ASPs. since they host your data on their servers and you run the application on their servers you cant possibly break their copy protection scheme. this is the model M$'s .NET is moving to. loads of people use ASPs. for example, hotmail is an ASP service as is any webmail provider. slashdot is an ASP service..you cant get the slashdot db although they have released the source...even if they didnt have to.
no. what you want is what everyone wants - real time raytracing at 200fps and 8192 x 4096 x 20000000000 @ 32bpp with real time physics calculations. if you wanna see that anytime soon - stick your head out the window. current graphics hardware is nowhere near real life and is not going to approach that anytime soon. what we have right now is the GeForce and video cards like that which can produce barely acceptable graphics at barely acceptable fpses for fragging games like quake...which 99% of the ppl here understand.
APT isnt all that great....granted that im saying this after i switched all my redhat boxes to debian...the alternatives to apt are far worse tho. for example, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade broke my X server for 1 week when woody changed from 3.3.6 to 4.02RC-3..that sucked. and the XF86Setup still hasnt been updated which means i had to go update the XF86Setup file manually. ugh. on the other hand it does keep you uptodate with fixes and stuff. rpm on the other hand doesnt have autoupgrade except with the proprietary redhat network which i dont trust.
java never had the limitations of C/C++ and other languages with bit precision on the int/long/floats. java has arbitrary precision which is processor independant anyway (BigInteger/Decimal can be arbitrary bits) so this is just another VM port. nothing to write home about. sun's embedded java/picojava is equally small (or supposed to be).
a lot of companies in the uk tried the power line transmission thingy. it didnt work for various *technical* reasons as opposed to commercial. the IEE in the uk has been running a lot of papers on it, but so far the technical hurdles are fairly large.
actually we can. during the war in serbia/croatia a guy was interviewed on TV who stated they saw graves with humans in them from the spy sats. he stated that both male and female bodies were observed along with children. since the average human is around 1m or so and to differentiate female from male you have to image the upper chest area with sufficient resolution, you can deduce the res of the spy sats to be around 1/16 of a meter. of course, the cameras on board have to have a greater res than that to compensate for atmospheric disturbance etc. ...basically they should be able to make out the license plate on a car...but may not be able to read it.
normally i wouldnt recommend compaq but the h3650 kicks ass. runs linux if you want otherwise is stuck with wince. good machine, arm cpu, lots of ram and expandable as all hell. great lcd too.
no they most certainly do NOT have the option to decamp. if you do colo you want to do it in your area since you might have to do emergency hardware surgery on your server at 3am. blocking single ips DOES have impacts on the ISP. MAPS isnt voluntary if its shoved down the throats of customers at an ISP.
use the following formulae :
Estimate from techies to complete the project : T
Double for QA time : 2T
Add 50% for techies quake sessions : 2.5*T
Add 10% for peace of mind : (2.5*T)+(0.1*T)
Thats your project schedule.
you forget that in some areas customers have no option to decamp..the ISP has a monopoly. and theres a financial cost to decamp too. this sort of thing is *disgusting*. Block the single static ip thats being used for abusing...thats ok..but blocking large groups of addresses is a DoS attack and nothing else. your attitude to forced censorship of major routes/backbones on the internet is totally disgusting. i dont know how you can live with yourself.
not if the ISP has a monopoly on a certain section of your neighbourhood. thats a bullshit argument that M$ was using in their anti trust trial.
Simple. distributed kernels run on more than one machine at once with an interconnect between them. The interconnect can be NUMA/CrayLink/Ethernet/TCP/IP or something which passes data fast and the kernels have to share memory and processors across differing architectures and types. a good example is MOSIX..which is basically simple extensions to the linux kernel to make it distributed as far as processes go. Add LVM and GFS to distribute disk resources and reasonably fast internconnects and youre all set.
we're located away from your hubs/metro rings unfortunately. we were hoping to be included and sign up but thats in the air until we get some VC funding around feb in which case we can relocate and sign up.i'll contact you if i need anything..actually my IT manager will.
donate to MENSA. an organisation devoted to furthering intelligence as its only mission.
thanks. i actually found that our IT manager had already contacted you at a trade show way b4 it came up on /...
i agree. it doesnt even reflect itself. try http://207.202.129.66/cgi-bin/search?words=theinde x ..it returns no hits. thats stupid.
send me your email. and also info on your peering stuff.
EMC or raidzone. ive had good experiences with both. netapps do have some problems.
just buy cobalt. they give you shit servers which have nothing thermally active in em ... 300Mhz CPUs engineered to maximise profit for the company as embedded appliances selling for $1500-2000. they'll save you on electricity but you'll be paying thru your nose for the server.
this is a load of bullshit. have you opened up a laptop lately ? all the stuff is integrated and pushed to the max. if i can sell you a laptop for $500 versus the competition at $600 with the same features why wouldnt i do so ? i'd sell more units that way. conspiracy theory aside, if this was true someone (like me) would pull the laptop apart and reflash it. ive pulled mine apart and i can see all the components are integrated and used to the max. it doesnt make economic sense to cripple the parts and let the comptetition walk over you.
yeah. i did it (and currently still am doing it). i can support mysql, postgresql and oracle currently...db/2 coming up shortly. its fairly simple (actually the hard part was loading the tables in the database) if you know what the hell youre doing....which most people dont. still, if you can afford a DBA you can afford to do the conversion.
two guys knocked down a coupla OC-48s and we lost half the net (at least in the US). another time someone misconfigured a router at a small ISP and boom - connectivity down. the nets a lot more fragile than any simulations or papers make it out to be.