I once flashed a Compaq SmartSCSI II raid controller only to have a "failed to flash correctly" error when I finished.
Then I had a system that would not boot - it hung when detecting my now-dud controller when it was plugged into any PCI slot. And , oh look! Here's my company's data on a RAID array that's only readable by that card!
I get on the internet and see a softpaq released a day earlier with a note saying "fixed occasional 'failed to flash correctly' errors".
Mother. Fucker.
So I ring Compaq and they say, "Sure , send it in and we'll get our team of trained technicians onto it - it'll cost $300 and you...((click)) Hello? Hello?" Luckily, I had another one in a decommissioned server that I nicked instead.
Moral of the story? Stick with cheap commodity hardware and never flash anything unless you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. (yes, In my case I had to , to make it work properly with some finicky linux driver at that time)
It all depends with projectors on the amount of time you'll spend with it on - they do have a limited bulb life, and the bulbs are expensive to replace.
A conventional (tube) TV set can run for many thousands of hours without any appreciable drop in output / quality. Most projectors have a 2000 hour bulb life (or less).
There! That's my share of FUD against projectors done! Please feel free to correct me if you think differently;-)
Memory chips already work this way - they have a pile of redundant circuits. When tested after being fabbed, a few of these are always put into use.
And the 486SX(?) was (most times) a 486DX with a dud FPU.
Whilst extending it to an entire chipset would be interesting, would the overhead of design/ cramming it all together/redundant circuitry/etc make it profitable? A dead CPU in your system 3 years down the track means you can get a new CPU+Board etc for the same price as you paid before for your old CPU alone, but 3X as fast.
I joke about all this stuff , but seriously, I had a person email me a resume for a job we had open from "fatshaft42" at a well known free email provider.
Of course , all the girls in the office wanted to hire him but it did nothing for his professional appeal. Well, if we were an escort agency maybe it would have.....
Get a MSN sniffer... the (very beta) one I used was called MSN666.
Tell everyone that you're sniffing MSN messenger traffic, and that you can trace it to a person esaily. Wait a day. Post a few innocuous messages between people on the noticeboard to prove it. Add a scrawled note on the bottom of the message saying "and , FatShaft42, you are one SICK Bastard! I'll be passing *your* messages onto HR!!" for maximum effect.
Have you ever watched cheech and chong? Review of "Up in Smoke" (1978):
Up in Smoke is Cheech & Chong's first drugged-out shot at making a movie and boy, is it fun. The plot is loosely held together in between comedy sketches, drug busts, the continual search for a little green bag and a rather amusing Tom Skerrit as a whacked out Vietnam vet. Pedro (Cheech) and Man Stoner (Chong) meet on the Pacific Coast Highway as Chong tries to hitch a ride. They smoke a lot of dope, get arrested, look for some more weed and eventually get deported. Their adventure takes them to Mexico and they are soon hired to smuggle, what they think is illegally upholstered furniture, into the U.S. The "illegally upholstered furniture" actually turns out to be a van made out of $9 billion dollars worth of pot. Of course, their van catches fire and the highjinks ensue. The "science" behind how you can make a van, or anything else for that matter, out of marijuana is one of the funniest scenes in the flick.
Up in Smoke was directed and produced by Lou Adler and written by Cheech & Chong. This is highly entertaining and very funny premium grade stuff and should be right up there on your list of favorite guilty pleasures.
Worst case scenario... some virus/worm wipes out the user's documents folder. or, some virus/worm wipes out the 30GB of corporate data that's on a mapped drive that the user has read/write access to....
You guys in the US *really* need a ACCC equivalent. That is , a quasi-government agency (outside the party system etc, but with teeth) that looks after the consumers in all aspects of interaction with businesses.
From my limited view from the outside, it appears that you have a number of groups that each do a small piece, but no real coherent entity. Perhaps you should lobby your representative for a ACCC of your own.
The ACCC has done wonders for the average Australian - it may not have generated front-page news all the time , but there have been a lot of quiet, corrective actions taken against the entire spectrum of the Australian business community. Businesses here are generally much more aware of the 'proper' way to do business and nowadays are very much aware of the poo they can get in if they try to get sneaky.
Damn Google! I cut'n'pasted the "And X related stories link...", and when it fell off the front of google, the link is no longer valid. However , a news search for ecommerce patent works just as well.
Or, You could simply find a disgruntled (ex) employee, get the design specs off them , then build your own system sans the anti-reverse-engineering measures.
Whilst I agree with you in principle, If we properly designed,checked,tested etc we'd be where NASA is now with their shuttles - using 5 programs on 70's era computers.
Those 5 programs would be the most robust, fail-safe programs money could buy, but they'd be the *only* ones you could get too, and the'd probably have all the functionality (and speed) of Pong.
(Please, pedants - spare me the gory details of NASA shuttle design - it's just an Arbitrary Example To Help Prove My Point)
Then I'm sorry but we at Slashdot, being all professional lawyers, are therefore unable to help you. As we pride ourselves on our ability to carefully consider and dispense legal advice, surely you can see that by straying outside our field of expertise we would be doing you a disservice.
If you were asking for legal advice, then I'm sure you would have received 100 replies to your story by now.
Might I direct you to other places worthy or your questions, like kuro5hin?
I was thinking along the lines of - if you have 10 servers in the room, and one catches fire, you've ruined the other nine as well putting the first one out.
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I once flashed a Compaq SmartSCSI II raid controller only to have a "failed to flash correctly" error when I finished.
Then I had a system that would not boot - it hung when detecting my now-dud controller when it was plugged into any PCI slot. And , oh look! Here's my company's data on a RAID array that's only readable by that card!
I get on the internet and see a softpaq released a day earlier with a note saying "fixed occasional 'failed to flash correctly' errors".
Mother. Fucker.
So I ring Compaq and they say, "Sure , send it in and we'll get our team of trained technicians onto it - it'll cost $300 and you...((click)) Hello? Hello?" Luckily, I had another one in a decommissioned server that I nicked instead.
Moral of the story? Stick with cheap commodity hardware and never flash anything unless you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO.
(yes, In my case I had to , to make it work properly with some finicky linux driver at that time)
Was it linus who said "Real Men don't do backups - they just put it up on FTP and let everyone else mirror it" ?
It all depends with projectors on the amount of time you'll spend with it on - they do have a limited bulb life, and the bulbs are expensive to replace.
;-)
A conventional (tube) TV set can run for many thousands of hours without any appreciable drop in output / quality. Most projectors have a 2000 hour bulb life (or less).
There! That's my share of FUD against projectors done! Please feel free to correct me if you think differently
Memory chips already work this way - they have a pile of redundant circuits. When tested after being fabbed, a few of these are always put into use.
And the 486SX(?) was (most times) a 486DX with a dud FPU.
Whilst extending it to an entire chipset would be interesting, would the overhead of design/ cramming it all together/redundant circuitry/etc make it profitable? A dead CPU in your system 3 years down the track means you can get a new CPU+Board etc for the same price as you paid before for your old CPU alone, but 3X as fast.
I just store them on the speaker magnet inside the PC. Just remember to remove them before putting the case back on tho'
I joke about all this stuff , but seriously, I had a person email me a resume for a job we had open from "fatshaft42" at a well known free email provider.
Of course , all the girls in the office wanted to hire him but it did nothing for his professional appeal. Well, if we were an escort agency maybe it would have.....
Get a MSN sniffer... the (very beta) one I used was called MSN666.
Tell everyone that you're sniffing MSN messenger traffic, and that you can trace it to a person esaily. Wait a day. Post a few innocuous messages between people on the noticeboard to prove it. Add a scrawled note on the bottom of the message saying "and , FatShaft42, you are one SICK Bastard! I'll be passing *your* messages onto HR!!" for maximum effect.
Review of "Up in Smoke" (1978):
Worst case scenario... some virus/worm wipes out the user's documents folder.
or, some virus/worm wipes out the 30GB of corporate data that's on a mapped drive that the user has read/write access to....
unless you're a chick, of course ;-)
He's thinking along the lines of something like :
You need to crack a code. It's between 0-9999.
One PC checks the codes from 0-1999.
Another PC checks the codes from 2000-3999.
And so on.
So you end up with the code in (practically) 1/4 of the time if you use 4 PC's.
You guys in the US *really* need a ACCC equivalent. That is , a quasi-government agency (outside the party system etc, but with teeth) that looks after the consumers in all aspects of interaction with businesses.
From my limited view from the outside, it appears that you have a number of groups that each do a small piece, but no real coherent entity. Perhaps you should lobby your representative for a ACCC of your own.
The ACCC has done wonders for the average Australian - it may not have generated front-page news all the time , but there have been a lot of quiet, corrective actions taken against the entire spectrum of the Australian business community. Businesses here are generally much more aware of the 'proper' way to do business and nowadays are very much aware of the poo they can get in if they try to get sneaky.
Maybe the ACCC will see it that way as well.
The ACCC on fake domain registration:
17 October 2002 Internet Domain Name Resellers Warned Against Misleading, Deceptive Conduct
The ACCC has some serious teeth.
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A few tech related things the ACCC has gotten into over the last 18 months
27 June 2003 ACCC Issues New Accounting Separation Rules for Telstra
26 March 2003 Consumers and Small Business Set to Gain from Lower Software Prices
21 February 2003 ACCC to Hold Public Inquiry into Internet Interconnection Services
20 December 2002 Full Federal Court Disapproves of Dell's Earlier Price Advertising
22 November 2002 ACCC Clears But Will Monitor Airline E-Commerce Joint Venture
17 October 2002 Internet Domain Name Resellers Warned Against Misleading, Deceptive Conduct
# 17 September 2002 ACCC Institutes Against Dodo Internet Pty Ltd
4 July 2002 Court Orders Dell to Publish Corrective Advertisements
I like the last three for some reason
29 July 2002 Game Over for Sony Playstation
19 April 2002 ACCC Leans Toward Intervention on Line Sharing, Tells Telstra to Get On With It
6 March 2002 Threats to C.D. Supplies Cost Record Companies $1M
Well , that's my link-whoring for today!
The windows remote desktop client can attach your local drives so that they are visible on your remote desktop.
I presume then that it's a case of implementing this part of the protocol in rdesktop.
It's rather simple , you just patent in all the countries that have internet access.
In this case , D.E. technologies has patented this method in 32 countries so far.
How the hell this could get past 32 patent offices without getting the great big "Get Fucked" stamp on it is beyond me.
Damn Google!
I cut'n'pasted the "And X related stories link...", and when it fell off the front of google, the link is no longer valid.
However , a news search for ecommerce patent works just as well.
Or,
You could simply find a disgruntled (ex) employee, get the design specs off them , then build your own system sans the anti-reverse-engineering measures.
Whilst I agree with you in principle, If we properly designed,checked,tested etc we'd be where NASA is now with their shuttles - using 5 programs on 70's era computers.
Those 5 programs would be the most robust, fail-safe programs money could buy, but they'd be the *only* ones you could get too, and the'd probably have all the functionality (and speed) of Pong.
(Please, pedants - spare me the gory details of NASA shuttle design - it's just an Arbitrary Example To Help Prove My Point)
Depends if you have the time to back up and delete.....
(Snoozing at 4am)
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! "POLICE! Open up please!"
"ZzZz... huh? what?"
"We have a warrant here for search and seizure of all your computer gear. Please stand over there whilst we take everything we can find."
"Er, wait! I've just got to..."
"I don't think so. Stand *over there* please"
This is where you get the ol' dot matrix, with the tractor feed, and print out a day's worth of logs.
Then when they say, "But you have the logs, you *must* have known", you simply present your day's log as evidence on the desk in the courtroom...
**thump**
"Think I read these logs daily? Think again."
This post is not a solicitation of legal advice
Then I'm sorry but we at Slashdot, being all professional lawyers, are therefore unable to help you. As we pride ourselves on our ability to carefully consider and dispense legal advice, surely you can see that by straying outside our field of expertise we would be doing you a disservice.
If you were asking for legal advice, then I'm sure you would have received 100 replies to your story by now.
Might I direct you to other places worthy or your questions, like kuro5hin?
I was thinking along the lines of - if you have 10 servers in the room, and one catches fire, you've ruined the other nine as well putting the first one out.
BTW, it isn't piracy unless that US Missle stole something from you before or after it turned your ship into ashes...
Your ability to continue living perhaps?
I do recall that 80 billion was allocated in the budget for this particular Iraq war.
A google search confims this.
Whether they've spent it all yet is a bit of a mystery.