This is how those "five 9's" companies/VARs guarantee such uptime with Windows, particularly on those big Datacenter mofos with dozens of CPUs. Their 'engineers' do everything (and you pay dearly for it). If you so much as look at the registry funny, the guarantee is void.
It's Sales tax, not importers/exporters tax, nor purchasers tax. So long as the entity doing the selling pays the tax (because they're receiving money, ie. income), where the product goes after they get their cash is not their concern, and the fact that the cost of said tax (like all the others any business has to pay) is passed onto the consumer is irrelevant.
Except for 6, 7, 8, 9 and maybe 10 (if it involves technical tricks to pull off), it's up to the game/server ops to control.
If stealing player items is not permitted, then the game won't allow it. Same for PKing, gang warfare, etc. It's a multiplayer game for fucks sakes.. players who just want to hoard items all by themselves can play single player games. Playing online means dealing with other players, and if that means you have to join your own gang to fight off other gangs, that's the game.
Next thing you know, it'll be illegal to 'camp' (ie. guard the fucking bombsite/hosties) in CounterStrike...
Private LANs usually have poor security since they're allegedly cut off from public access. That means older version of daemons, unfiltered access from anywhere to anywhere, low/no security logging, and whole forgotten servers. Once you're on the LAN, you usually have free access to everything for as long as you need to guess the password/crack a daemon.
One just has to crack the remote workstation (which are typically much less secure than an onsite station), and then go back out via the VPN to the private LAN. Same way a lot of these email worms get in: the company mail server/firewall filters out all the trojans/attacks, but there's always that one clueless dialin user with direct LAN access to start the domino effect.
Either firewall the VPN down to accessing only specific IPs AND ports, or put your service on the public Internet and use appropriate authentication.
I suggest the latter, security on a VPN will only get worse as users want to do more with it, and IT staff get the shits with constant requests to update access controls.
I've never had Telesum's cable, but IIRC, in the early days it was 500MB/mo, and you'd get raped on the excess bandwidth charges (I'm paying 22c/MB on my Direct dialup, so it was probably the same for cable). It's been at 3GB for a while though. As for the tricky download meter, it wasn't long before serious users were using/had written their own traffic counters, on both Optus and Telstra.
Optus (whom I left only yesterday for a Corporate ADSL account), started off "Unlimited" before imposing their Netstats system. Netstats tied your usage to everyone elses average, minus the top and bottom 10% so hardcore leechers and email only grannies didn't skew the stats too much. If you used more than 10x this average, you're fucked. It was a rolling avarage as well, not a monthly limit.
Then, contrary to much advertising about being 'unlimited' and not believing in caps, Optus also implemented a 3GB/mo cap, throttled to 28Kpbs (ie. sub-modem speeds (not only do most people have 56k modems, but even real 28k modems get decent compression; the cap is 28k period)). Their next higher plan, 5GB, cost twice the price of 3GB! If my chronometer is correct, this insanity happened at about the time they got bought by Singtel. AFAIK, they WERE making profit on Netstats, so the only reason is corporate suits squeezing for more money.
Thanks to regulations, Telstra has had to open it's local exchanges to resellers, which has allowed generous ADSL deals to enter the market. Plans vary a lot from ISP to ISP.. ADSL is slower than cable by a long way, but ADSL invariably gives you a higher limit (and often free offpeak and/or local traffic) for less $$ than the stingy cable deal.
Optus must be feeling the heat of ADSL, since they've just added a 6GB plan for about $10 more than the old 3GB one (which is now cheaper of course). I had been waiting for Optus to discover Reality, but this 6GB offering is too little too late.
I dont know why so many are happy to be bent over a barrel for a pittance in bandwidth
Maybe some of us are old enough (say, 23) to remember modem speeds under 2400bps, CompuServe's $36 an hour rate, and email charged by the PAGE.
Not much more than a decade ago.
So forgive us if we're happy with our 'pittance' always-on connection to anywhere in the world for the same price as a couple of landlines, but without international call charges and running at upto 8Mb/s.
I can drool over HDTV quality video-on-demand via Internet as much as the next guy, but give it some time man. Wiring the planet with that kind of bandwidth isn't cheap, nor is supplying the content, and there's no profit in doing it early if people aren't going to pay a premium for it. You'll just have to wait a couple of minutes for your latest VCD pr0n like the rest of us old fogies used to wait a couple of minutes to download crappy GIF pr0n. Give it time, technology will get there.
I kill (and even headshot) people through boxes, doors, etc. in Counterstrike all the time, just by listening to them move around. Naturally I get accused of wallhacking.. it looks the same (and technically, probably is - CS doesn't seem to take walls into accound with audio).
I can follow the guy through the wall using sound, and open fire just before he emerges from the arch.. I don't need to see him appear, I know he will be there, so I fire regardless and get the kill before he can react.
Same way they know to fsck/chkdsk the drives: if a 'dirty bit' (or file, in your case) exists during boot, shutdown was unclean - log it. Otherwise create it. Only clear it as the last step of a clean shutdown.
Folks...errr...we might need to slightly modify our previous "emission-free, clean" statements. The statements are still true, but for a slightly smaller value of "true" than we'd used originally.
You might want to pull your head out of your arse and stick it in a dictionary instead.
'Fossil' fuels produce emissionsINTO THE FUCKING AIR. Millions of tons of it. Trillions of m^3. Some of which, as has been noted, is radioactive. Nuclear plants, OTOH, produce solid waste that can be buried back in the ground from whence it came, rather than require us to breath it in.
So, while we're waiting for the One True Source of energy that will keep all the tree hugging hippies happy, we're still making and inhaling massive amounts of airbourne pollution that should be in the ground.
I'd be more concerned with the security of the host I'm using, rather than the fact that the unit is wireless. If the host terminal isn't mine, it can easily be trojaned/sniffed by h4x0rz, employers, The Man, etc.
If I were using this to interface with public machines (like at a library) I'd want the ability to re-image it with a known clean copy of the OS after every use. Removable media to keep my data out of public eyes wouldn't hurt either.
If performance is critical, it would be better off in a removable caddy. However, GBE/FW/USB2 networking is pretty cheap, esp if it's only among a couple of machines in the same office.
Just because you pay for one site that you likely sit on all day, doesn't mean Internet users in general will stand for being nickle-and-dimed to death by every site they visit only a few times per week/month.
The pay-for-no-ads/extra-feature model seems to be the best that they can hope for, IMO. If the content isn't spectacularly unique, people will go elsewhere. The idea is to get 'em hooked on free content, then probe for a few bucks for some extra features.
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Obviously you need multi-phasic secondary MXs on a rotating modulation...
If that doesn't work, a penis shaped inverse tachyon pulse up their own MX will fix their little red wagon, quicksmart.
How about you enlighten us?
Starting with how wonderful Cut-n-Paste is under X.
I guess it really is Dr Who?
This is how those "five 9's" companies/VARs guarantee such uptime with Windows, particularly on those big Datacenter mofos with dozens of CPUs. Their 'engineers' do everything (and you pay dearly for it). If you so much as look at the registry funny, the guarantee is void.
It's Sales tax, not importers/exporters tax, nor purchasers tax. So long as the entity doing the selling pays the tax (because they're receiving money, ie. income), where the product goes after they get their cash is not their concern, and the fact that the cost of said tax (like all the others any business has to pay) is passed onto the consumer is irrelevant.
Except for 6, 7, 8, 9 and maybe 10 (if it involves technical tricks to pull off), it's up to the game/server ops to control.
If stealing player items is not permitted, then the game won't allow it. Same for PKing, gang warfare, etc. It's a multiplayer game for fucks sakes.. players who just want to hoard items all by themselves can play single player games. Playing online means dealing with other players, and if that means you have to join your own gang to fight off other gangs, that's the game.
Next thing you know, it'll be illegal to 'camp' (ie. guard the fucking bombsite/hosties) in CounterStrike...
VPNs are fucking dangerous.
Private LANs usually have poor security since they're allegedly cut off from public access. That means older version of daemons, unfiltered access from anywhere to anywhere, low/no security logging, and whole forgotten servers. Once you're on the LAN, you usually have free access to everything for as long as you need to guess the password/crack a daemon.
One just has to crack the remote workstation (which are typically much less secure than an onsite station), and then go back out via the VPN to the private LAN. Same way a lot of these email worms get in: the company mail server/firewall filters out all the trojans/attacks, but there's always that one clueless dialin user with direct LAN access to start the domino effect.
Either firewall the VPN down to accessing only specific IPs AND ports, or put your service on the public Internet and use appropriate authentication.
I suggest the latter, security on a VPN will only get worse as users want to do more with it, and IT staff get the shits with constant requests to update access controls.
That is my recollection as well. Additionally, I believe the Yorktown was a testbed for the SmartShip technology anyway, not a front line active unit.
I've never had Telesum's cable, but IIRC, in the early days it was 500MB/mo, and you'd get raped on the excess bandwidth charges (I'm paying 22c/MB on my Direct dialup, so it was probably the same for cable). It's been at 3GB for a while though. As for the tricky download meter, it wasn't long before serious users were using/had written their own traffic counters, on both Optus and Telstra.
Optus (whom I left only yesterday for a Corporate ADSL account), started off "Unlimited" before imposing their Netstats system. Netstats tied your usage to everyone elses average, minus the top and bottom 10% so hardcore leechers and email only grannies didn't skew the stats too much. If you used more than 10x this average, you're fucked. It was a rolling avarage as well, not a monthly limit.
Then, contrary to much advertising about being 'unlimited' and not believing in caps, Optus also implemented a 3GB/mo cap, throttled to 28Kpbs (ie. sub-modem speeds (not only do most people have 56k modems, but even real 28k modems get decent compression; the cap is 28k period)). Their next higher plan, 5GB, cost twice the price of 3GB! If my chronometer is correct, this insanity happened at about the time they got bought by Singtel. AFAIK, they WERE making profit on Netstats, so the only reason is corporate suits squeezing for more money.
Thanks to regulations, Telstra has had to open it's local exchanges to resellers, which has allowed generous ADSL deals to enter the market. Plans vary a lot from ISP to ISP.. ADSL is slower than cable by a long way, but ADSL invariably gives you a higher limit (and often free offpeak and/or local traffic) for less $$ than the stingy cable deal.
Optus must be feeling the heat of ADSL, since they've just added a 6GB plan for about $10 more than the old 3GB one (which is now cheaper of course). I had been waiting for Optus to discover Reality, but this 6GB offering is too little too late.
Maybe some of us are old enough (say, 23) to remember modem speeds under 2400bps, CompuServe's $36 an hour rate, and email charged by the PAGE.
Not much more than a decade ago.
So forgive us if we're happy with our 'pittance' always-on connection to anywhere in the world for the same price as a couple of landlines, but without international call charges and running at upto 8Mb/s.
I can drool over HDTV quality video-on-demand via Internet as much as the next guy, but give it some time man. Wiring the planet with that kind of bandwidth isn't cheap, nor is supplying the content, and there's no profit in doing it early if people aren't going to pay a premium for it. You'll just have to wait a couple of minutes for your latest VCD pr0n like the rest of us old fogies used to wait a couple of minutes to download crappy GIF pr0n. Give it time, technology will get there.
Where did I say to write to disk during a crash?
I kill (and even headshot) people through boxes, doors, etc. in Counterstrike all the time, just by listening to them move around. Naturally I get accused of wallhacking.. it looks the same (and technically, probably is - CS doesn't seem to take walls into accound with audio).
I can follow the guy through the wall using sound, and open fire just before he emerges from the arch.. I don't need to see him appear, I know he will be there, so I fire regardless and get the kill before he can react.
Same way they know to fsck/chkdsk the drives: if a 'dirty bit' (or file, in your case) exists during boot, shutdown was unclean - log it. Otherwise create it. Only clear it as the last step of a clean shutdown.
'Fossil' fuels produce emissions INTO THE FUCKING AIR. Millions of tons of it. Trillions of m^3. Some of which, as has been noted, is radioactive. Nuclear plants, OTOH, produce solid waste that can be buried back in the ground from whence it came, rather than require us to breath it in.
So, while we're waiting for the One True Source of energy that will keep all the tree hugging hippies happy, we're still making and inhaling massive amounts of airbourne pollution that should be in the ground.
I'd be more concerned with the security of the host I'm using, rather than the fact that the unit is wireless. If the host terminal isn't mine, it can easily be trojaned/sniffed by h4x0rz, employers, The Man, etc.
If I were using this to interface with public machines (like at a library) I'd want the ability to re-image it with a known clean copy of the OS after every use. Removable media to keep my data out of public eyes wouldn't hurt either.
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Things change plenty. Windows' boot times have been improving in recent years, esp. compared to the Win9x days.
I think you meant to make a crack about Doom III or something...
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
(what? somebody had to say it...)
Aren't they only obligated to 'offer sources' if they distribute binaries? If it's an internal govt project, outsiders are SOL.
A few ex-Enron accountants will take care of that.
If performance is critical, it would be better off in a removable caddy. However, GBE/FW/USB2 networking is pretty cheap, esp if it's only among a couple of machines in the same office.
Any reason (other than being a retard/zealot) that it has to be directly connected and not networked?
Huh?
Linux's firewall/nat/masq has been exploited before. As has Cisco's equipment (which is both dedicated hardware and expensive).
So don't get cocky, mmkay?
That's what I meant. The primary content must remain free; just the extra optional bits get charged for.
Just because you pay for one site that you likely sit on all day, doesn't mean Internet users in general will stand for being nickle-and-dimed to death by every site they visit only a few times per week/month.
The pay-for-no-ads/extra-feature model seems to be the best that they can hope for, IMO. If the content isn't spectacularly unique, people will go elsewhere. The idea is to get 'em hooked on free content, then probe for a few bucks for some extra features.