Don't forget the obvious usage of having a couple of these guys constantly reminding your boss that you need that new Beowulf cluster for a personal workstation along with a 250% raise.
Well, considering they are a quarter-inch cubed, I can think of tons of extremely useful applications for these little guys. They have cameras and microphones... NSA anyone? How about the showers in a girls dorm?
No kidding, man. I went to ALS and about creamed when I saw come of those girls in the tight red spandex. Heh... I even asked one if she felt a bit horny while I stroked her little devil horns.
I think the movie is going to be pretty cool. People will have to realise that at least it won't be full of crap like Anti-trust. It *is* a documentary, not some hyped-up piece of crap. I don't expect it to be exciting or action-packed, I expect it to be factual and interesting.
Actually, most Linux distributions do "have" both IRC programs (yes, more than one) and the GiMP. What I don't understand is how every talks about all the great software that Windows "has". I guess they must mean Notepad, Wordpad, and MS Paint, since that is about all Windows comes with on the CD.
The main difference between Linux "having" a program and Windows "having" a program is that Linux most likely ships with the program on the distribution CD. You have to download/buy the software for Windows.
I quite frankly believe that if I buy something, I should be able to do whatever I wish with it, aside from distributing it to others whom have not purchased it. If I want to take my brand new copy of the latest, greatest bubblegum pop Britney Spears crap and stick it in the microwave, that should be my right. If I want to create wallpaper for my house with a fractal imager using the music as an input source, I should be able to. The RIAA (MPAA) should not have any more control over a physical entity that is no longer in their possesion than I should be able to tell you what to do with a computer once I sell it to you.
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Why would anyone want the source code to Windows? We all know that Microsoft's true dominance in the workplace is because of Solitaire and Minesweeper.
We must force Microsoft to release the source to these two programs to the world. Hacker's of the world unite!
.....ok. I really need to lay off the junk food at lunch.
This will affect anyone using the i850 chipset and a PCI video card. It does not matter if they are using an AGP card or not. If there is a PCI video card *at all* then it will degrade performance.
A bug -- or, in chip maker parlance, errata--in the chip set for the Pentium 4 can degrade performance when video or other graphical data is processed through a PCI bus, an internal channel for data, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has stated. Because of the bug, consumers may experience slow processing or data corruption if they connect a second monitor or an additional graphics card through one of the PCI expansion slots in a Pentium 4 computer.
The sad thing is, this is the first paragraph. Isn't this site supposed to be discussion of *the articles*?
This is not a problem for "Linux" as a whole. This is a problem for the individual distribution makers. Most distributions provide their own tools for doing administrative tasks, which means that unless a site goes through the "If you have this distro... then..." loop for every possible circumstance, it really will not do well to help the newbie (or even not-so-newbie) very much at all. It would be nice to see the distribution makers run something either like a knowledge base, or to custom tailor the more common howtos to their particular distribution. KDE and Gnome could follow suit by having a nice help system to show how they do things different from everyone else. I have found that even as an experienced linux user, some things are just extremely hard to install. Not all people who write applications for linux speak english... many create english documentation which is very hard to follow due to the inconsistencies in english grammar. I applaud these people for putting forth the effort to allow us more linguistically challenged to install their software, but it is still a far cry from the easy "double-click setup.exe and click next a bunch" of the Windows world.
I would love to see more people using Loki's setup installer. It is quite pretty and easy to follow, but it still requires not only a working X, but also GTK. Possibly a curses based setup utility is the answer...
I am assuming that you are going to be using XFree86 and not AccelX or another X server.
If you plan on using XFree86 3.3.6, then I would suggest going with a Voodoo 3 3000. The Voodoo 4/5 drivers are extremely immature and most likely will not ever reach the performance level they should.
I would suggest, however, that you go with XFree86 4.0.2 and get an NVidia Geforce 2 (GTS/MX/Ultra). I personally have 2 dual CPU Intel boxes and use the NVidia Geforce 2 in both of them. XFree86 4.0.1's included nv driver did *not* support the Geforce 2. This has been fixed in 4.0.2.
If you are wanting multi-monitor display, go with a Matrox G400. It is an extremely nice card, but doesn't quite have the power when it comes to gaming.
Super Contra of course.... R-Type... etc etc etc...
For once Katz doesn't sound like he is going out on a limb for an article. I am sure we all could comment on the great "good ol' days" of the NES and Genesis.
Games are one of the things that truly pushes the consumer PC market. Why do we need cards like the GeForce 2 Ultra? Because id made Q3...
Games have been a way of life for many people, and have also been many people's introduction to computers. Want some more hardcore oldschool goodness? Check out this review of the Pentium 200 at Glide Underground.
The RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America, right? How the f*ck are they planning on stopping someone from Austria from downloading the latest and greatest (yeah, right) Metallica mp3 from their buddy in Russia? One of the main things these guys overlook is that they are really SOL here. They have been used to being in complete control over the distribution channels, which allowed them to bend over both the artists that make the music we love and enjoy, and the consumers who have to dish out their hard earned money.
The RIAA may be able to control the distribution of music in America and collect royalties from online music distribution in America, but who is to say that someone in Pango Pango won't create the next best thing for digital distribution online? The the RIAA will have to start all over once again.
BSD may truly surpass Linux in the installed base, but I honestly doubt it will happen anytime soon. Why? Linux already has a greater installed base than Mac. Not to mention that mentioning *BSD to your PHB won't even get him to bat his eyelashes. You have to show him that new shiny Linux thing he has been hearing all about. I personally use Linux. I like Linux. I also like the *BSDs. They are extremely well built and enjoy a very active development... just like Linux. OSX will definitely do great things to not only bring developers to *BSD, but also to get the BSD name out among the masses. I surely hope that BSD gets more of the attention it deserves. It truly is an excellent operating system. That and Chuck just has so much more sex appeal than Tux. Anybody see the girls at ALS in the tight red spandex giving out horns? Yup... they made me "horny", too... *grin*
...big, bad Sun has said that Linux is going to fragment!!! Well, since Sun said it, it must be true... after all, they *are* the dot in dot com.
*snicker*
This is one of the great scare tactics used by both Microsoft and Sun to get the PHBs to avoid Linux. Linux has not fragmented, and probably won't for a long, long time, if ever. Too many of the key players (Red Hat, Caldera, Mandrake, Turbolinux, et al) have too much in stake with Linux to allow it to fragment into incompatable operating systems. I think it is more likely that Microsoft will give up on their appeal than for this to happen... hehe
Those personal firewalls quite frankly piss me off. Yes, you are going to get scanned at some point by somebody trying to exploit something. Most people who run a personal firewall generally do not have much knowledge about network security, or else they would be using a better solution. These personal firewalls do nothing more than scare the user into thinking he is constantly being attacked by the 31337 h4x0rz all over the Internet that are out to steal his goatsex porn on his computer and hack into his bank account to buy a new Ferrari with his account number. There is quite a bit of useful information that can be gathered from these firewalls, but the people that they are marketed towards are not the people who would understand what any of the data means. I would think it would be much better if the firewall designers made it easier to configure. Base the firewalls on service names instead of ports... things like that. I have friends that are on cable who call me or e-mail me almost constantly with snippets from their logs of their personal firewall asking wether or not something is an attack. I would say that almost everything I have ever recieved has been valid data from a host that they were interacting with...
Quite honestly, this is why Managed Security Providers are becoming more popular. You pay someone else to monitor your company for attacks. Most companies cannot afford to staff their own network security team to audit security on a regular basis and to watch logs in real-time.
What good does this do, exactly? So I guess @home and RR are always going to be at the top, since they constantly scan their customers. This will also put many IRC servers in the list, as they tend to scan for compromised machines. I honestly do not see how a scan from some kid who just downloaded his first copy of Back Orifice is a concern to me. If they were actually able to differentiate between actual attempted attacks and actual port scans, then I could see this being worth something.
I sometimes wonder what MS is thinking when they make interface changes. Most people have a very hard time navigating around in Windows as it is... changing things only makes it more difficult for the user. I am talking about Joe User here, not the ones that are in-the-know and understand that you can turn half the new stuff off. KDE and Gnome have been progressing very well, and I know I will probably hear flak from the fact that KDE and Gnome make interface changes themselves. KDE and Gnome are developed by the same people who use it. No, not everyone who uses them are developers, but any one of us COULD be a developer. We can make changes and submit them. Whistler is being developed by a group of paid developers to design what they think is going to be best for the user. Also, take into consideration that most users of KDE or Gnome are quite a bit more computer savvy than your average Windows user. They can more easily interpret the information that is presented to them. They understand the concepts of drag and drop, right click, double click.... even middle click! I tend to find much of the interface of Whistler to be very appealing, minus that new start... thing. If the interface really does prove to be more intuitive, there is nothing that says that KDE or Gnome cannot copy it. At least, not until somebody at MS gets the bright idea to patent it... hehe
Strangely enough, the Pentium 4 is actually targeted at the market where Intel is being hurt the most by AMD, the home computer. The Pentium 3 has been getting thrashed by AMD's chips in the home market. The home market is also where MHz (or now GHz) count. I could create a 2GHz 386 and it would probably sell better than anything else on the market, even if it was inferior in every other way. This is once again proof that the common Joe user is entirely overwhelmed by the actual differences in different solutions. I mean... the bigger the number, the better it should be, right?
The "new" Pentium 4 is already slated to be obsoleted by the next Pentium 4 chip/chipset. I honestly believe that Intel is releasing the P4 to slow the spread of AMD. On the server side, they are still pushing the Pentium 3 Xeon line... and probably will until they get the P4 going in SMP where they'll probably make a "P4 Xeon" so that they can rape companies even harder.
What I am really curious about it exactly how viable AMD's chips are going to actually be in the server market. They are going to need to make large cache versions of the chip... not to mention, does the 760MP chipset have the scalability? Can it support Quad and 8-way SMP configurations? AMD may overtake Intel on the lower-end server market by offering a Dual CPU solution, but unless they are capable of these other configurations, Intel will still be king in the server room. Remember, one of the main differences between the P3 and the P3 Xeon is the extra "glue" logic that Intel has added to the chips to allow for more than Dual CPU configurations.
I really am looking forward to seeing what AMD has to offer in this area. I also can't wait to see the great commercials that Intel puts out to advertise the new chip. Those blue guys crack me the hell up. Just think, in a couple months, we'll have Joe User going to Best Buy and picking out his 1.5GHz P4 systems out of the showcase.
For a uniprocessor system, I think that the P4 may actually reclaim the crown for fastest chip in the x86 market... I just wonder how long Intel will be able to hold out with AMD right on their back.
It is really quite sad to see such a piece of history go up in flames and plummet into the ocean. I really would have liked to have seen the private sector be able to save Mir as this would have set a precident in private space travel. Hopefully next time.
IDS is intrusion "detection" software. What if the intrusion has already happened? It is possible that there could already be a nice fat backdoor already installed on your system when you install your IDS package. As was stated above, this is more to catch some of the known trojans/backdoors that we can easily detect and remove during the Bastille script.
Well, it looks as if I have found myself something to occupy a little of my free time. I will start looking into the more common worms, trojans, and backdoors that are out in the wild and attempt to build a way of detecting them.
As Jay stated, no, I don't expect this to stop the experienced hacker from having hidden trojans. I do expect it to stop the 'leet skript kiddiez from having the ability to compromise hosts with little or no knowledge on their part.
Only one reason... SMP. Of course, once AMD releases the 760MP, they will most likely steal Intel's thunder here, too. The Xeons won't have much of a competitor for a while, unless AMD allows for more than dual CPU configurations with the 760MP. The P4 doesn't even support SMP with the i850 chipset, so it is obvious that Intel has made a mistake here by shooting to overtake AMD in the "I got a higher megahertz than you" pissing contest. The P4 may well be better than AMD's offerings for a *little* while, but AMD will soon be wiping the floor with them.
This comes as a great loss to all of us whom have come to know and love Intel over the past many years. They have just made too many mistakes recently, which will take Chipzilla a long time to recover from completely.
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Don't forget the obvious usage of having a couple of these guys constantly reminding your boss that you need that new Beowulf cluster for a personal workstation along with a 250% raise.
Well, considering they are a quarter-inch cubed, I can think of tons of extremely useful applications for these little guys. They have cameras and microphones... NSA anyone? How about the showers in a girls dorm?
I would love to get a few hundred of these.
No kidding, man. I went to ALS and about creamed when I saw come of those girls in the tight red spandex. Heh... I even asked one if she felt a bit horny while I stroked her little devil horns.
I think the movie is going to be pretty cool. People will have to realise that at least it won't be full of crap like Anti-trust. It *is* a documentary, not some hyped-up piece of crap. I don't expect it to be exciting or action-packed, I expect it to be factual and interesting.
Actually, most Linux distributions do "have" both IRC programs (yes, more than one) and the GiMP. What I don't understand is how every talks about all the great software that Windows "has". I guess they must mean Notepad, Wordpad, and MS Paint, since that is about all Windows comes with on the CD.
The main difference between Linux "having" a program and Windows "having" a program is that Linux most likely ships with the program on the distribution CD. You have to download/buy the software for Windows.
I quite frankly believe that if I buy something, I should be able to do whatever I wish with it, aside from distributing it to others whom have not purchased it. If I want to take my brand new copy of the latest, greatest bubblegum pop Britney Spears crap and stick it in the microwave, that should be my right. If I want to create wallpaper for my house with a fractal imager using the music as an input source, I should be able to. The RIAA (MPAA) should not have any more control over a physical entity that is no longer in their possesion than I should be able to tell you what to do with a computer once I sell it to you.
Why would anyone want the source code to Windows? We all know that Microsoft's true dominance in the workplace is because of Solitaire and Minesweeper.
We must force Microsoft to release the source to these two programs to the world. Hacker's of the world unite!
.....ok. I really need to lay off the junk food at lunch.
The sad thing is, this is the first paragraph. Isn't this site supposed to be discussion of *the articles*?
No... there are the few of us that were born from a virgin mother penguin with "bash" tatooed across our forheads. *grin*
This is not a problem for "Linux" as a whole. This is a problem for the individual distribution makers. Most distributions provide their own tools for doing administrative tasks, which means that unless a site goes through the "If you have this distro... then..." loop for every possible circumstance, it really will not do well to help the newbie (or even not-so-newbie) very much at all. It would be nice to see the distribution makers run something either like a knowledge base, or to custom tailor the more common howtos to their particular distribution. KDE and Gnome could follow suit by having a nice help system to show how they do things different from everyone else. I have found that even as an experienced linux user, some things are just extremely hard to install. Not all people who write applications for linux speak english... many create english documentation which is very hard to follow due to the inconsistencies in english grammar. I applaud these people for putting forth the effort to allow us more linguistically challenged to install their software, but it is still a far cry from the easy "double-click setup.exe and click next a bunch" of the Windows world.
I would love to see more people using Loki's setup installer. It is quite pretty and easy to follow, but it still requires not only a working X, but also GTK. Possibly a curses based setup utility is the answer...
I am assuming that you are going to be using XFree86 and not AccelX or another X server.
If you plan on using XFree86 3.3.6, then I would suggest going with a Voodoo 3 3000. The Voodoo 4/5 drivers are extremely immature and most likely will not ever reach the performance level they should.
I would suggest, however, that you go with XFree86 4.0.2 and get an NVidia Geforce 2 (GTS/MX/Ultra). I personally have 2 dual CPU Intel boxes and use the NVidia Geforce 2 in both of them. XFree86 4.0.1's included nv driver did *not* support the Geforce 2. This has been fixed in 4.0.2.
If you are wanting multi-monitor display, go with a Matrox G400. It is an extremely nice card, but doesn't quite have the power when it comes to gaming.
Super Contra of course.... R-Type... etc etc etc...
For once Katz doesn't sound like he is going out on a limb for an article. I am sure we all could comment on the great "good ol' days" of the NES and Genesis.
Games are one of the things that truly pushes the consumer PC market. Why do we need cards like the GeForce 2 Ultra? Because id made Q3...
Games have been a way of life for many people, and have also been many people's introduction to computers. Want some more hardcore oldschool goodness? Check out this review of the Pentium 200 at Glide Underground.
The RIAA may be able to control the distribution of music in America and collect royalties from online music distribution in America, but who is to say that someone in Pango Pango won't create the next best thing for digital distribution online? The the RIAA will have to start all over once again.
BSD may truly surpass Linux in the installed base, but I honestly doubt it will happen anytime soon. Why? Linux already has a greater installed base than Mac. Not to mention that mentioning *BSD to your PHB won't even get him to bat his eyelashes. You have to show him that new shiny Linux thing he has been hearing all about. I personally use Linux. I like Linux. I also like the *BSDs. They are extremely well built and enjoy a very active development... just like Linux. OSX will definitely do great things to not only bring developers to *BSD, but also to get the BSD name out among the masses. I surely hope that BSD gets more of the attention it deserves. It truly is an excellent operating system. That and Chuck just has so much more sex appeal than Tux. Anybody see the girls at ALS in the tight red spandex giving out horns? Yup... they made me "horny", too... *grin*
...big, bad Sun has said that Linux is going to fragment!!! Well, since Sun said it, it must be true... after all, they *are* the dot in dot com.
*snicker*
This is one of the great scare tactics used by both Microsoft and Sun to get the PHBs to avoid Linux. Linux has not fragmented, and probably won't for a long, long time, if ever. Too many of the key players (Red Hat, Caldera, Mandrake, Turbolinux, et al) have too much in stake with Linux to allow it to fragment into incompatable operating systems. I think it is more likely that Microsoft will give up on their appeal than for this to happen... hehe
Those personal firewalls quite frankly piss me off. Yes, you are going to get scanned at some point by somebody trying to exploit something. Most people who run a personal firewall generally do not have much knowledge about network security, or else they would be using a better solution. These personal firewalls do nothing more than scare the user into thinking he is constantly being attacked by the 31337 h4x0rz all over the Internet that are out to steal his goatsex porn on his computer and hack into his bank account to buy a new Ferrari with his account number. There is quite a bit of useful information that can be gathered from these firewalls, but the people that they are marketed towards are not the people who would understand what any of the data means. I would think it would be much better if the firewall designers made it easier to configure. Base the firewalls on service names instead of ports... things like that. I have friends that are on cable who call me or e-mail me almost constantly with snippets from their logs of their personal firewall asking wether or not something is an attack. I would say that almost everything I have ever recieved has been valid data from a host that they were interacting with...
Quite honestly, this is why Managed Security Providers are becoming more popular. You pay someone else to monitor your company for attacks. Most companies cannot afford to staff their own network security team to audit security on a regular basis and to watch logs in real-time.
What good does this do, exactly? So I guess @home and RR are always going to be at the top, since they constantly scan their customers. This will also put many IRC servers in the list, as they tend to scan for compromised machines. I honestly do not see how a scan from some kid who just downloaded his first copy of Back Orifice is a concern to me. If they were actually able to differentiate between actual attempted attacks and actual port scans, then I could see this being worth something.
I sometimes wonder what MS is thinking when they make interface changes. Most people have a very hard time navigating around in Windows as it is... changing things only makes it more difficult for the user. I am talking about Joe User here, not the ones that are in-the-know and understand that you can turn half the new stuff off. KDE and Gnome have been progressing very well, and I know I will probably hear flak from the fact that KDE and Gnome make interface changes themselves. KDE and Gnome are developed by the same people who use it. No, not everyone who uses them are developers, but any one of us COULD be a developer. We can make changes and submit them. Whistler is being developed by a group of paid developers to design what they think is going to be best for the user. Also, take into consideration that most users of KDE or Gnome are quite a bit more computer savvy than your average Windows user. They can more easily interpret the information that is presented to them. They understand the concepts of drag and drop, right click, double click.... even middle click! I tend to find much of the interface of Whistler to be very appealing, minus that new start... thing. If the interface really does prove to be more intuitive, there is nothing that says that KDE or Gnome cannot copy it. At least, not until somebody at MS gets the bright idea to patent it... hehe
Strangely enough, the Pentium 4 is actually targeted at the market where Intel is being hurt the most by AMD, the home computer. The Pentium 3 has been getting thrashed by AMD's chips in the home market. The home market is also where MHz (or now GHz) count. I could create a 2GHz 386 and it would probably sell better than anything else on the market, even if it was inferior in every other way. This is once again proof that the common Joe user is entirely overwhelmed by the actual differences in different solutions. I mean... the bigger the number, the better it should be, right?
The "new" Pentium 4 is already slated to be obsoleted by the next Pentium 4 chip/chipset. I honestly believe that Intel is releasing the P4 to slow the spread of AMD. On the server side, they are still pushing the Pentium 3 Xeon line... and probably will until they get the P4 going in SMP where they'll probably make a "P4 Xeon" so that they can rape companies even harder.
What I am really curious about it exactly how viable AMD's chips are going to actually be in the server market. They are going to need to make large cache versions of the chip... not to mention, does the 760MP chipset have the scalability? Can it support Quad and 8-way SMP configurations? AMD may overtake Intel on the lower-end server market by offering a Dual CPU solution, but unless they are capable of these other configurations, Intel will still be king in the server room. Remember, one of the main differences between the P3 and the P3 Xeon is the extra "glue" logic that Intel has added to the chips to allow for more than Dual CPU configurations.
I really am looking forward to seeing what AMD has to offer in this area. I also can't wait to see the great commercials that Intel puts out to advertise the new chip. Those blue guys crack me the hell up. Just think, in a couple months, we'll have Joe User going to Best Buy and picking out his 1.5GHz P4 systems out of the showcase.
For a uniprocessor system, I think that the P4 may actually reclaim the crown for fastest chip in the x86 market... I just wonder how long Intel will be able to hold out with AMD right on their back.
It is really quite sad to see such a piece of history go up in flames and plummet into the ocean. I really would have liked to have seen the private sector be able to save Mir as this would have set a precident in private space travel. Hopefully next time.
IDS is intrusion "detection" software. What if the intrusion has already happened? It is possible that there could already be a nice fat backdoor already installed on your system when you install your IDS package. As was stated above, this is more to catch some of the known trojans/backdoors that we can easily detect and remove during the Bastille script.
Well, it looks as if I have found myself something to occupy a little of my free time. I will start looking into the more common worms, trojans, and backdoors that are out in the wild and attempt to build a way of detecting them.
As Jay stated, no, I don't expect this to stop the experienced hacker from having hidden trojans. I do expect it to stop the 'leet skript kiddiez from having the ability to compromise hosts with little or no knowledge on their part.
Only one reason... SMP. Of course, once AMD releases the 760MP, they will most likely steal Intel's thunder here, too. The Xeons won't have much of a competitor for a while, unless AMD allows for more than dual CPU configurations with the 760MP. The P4 doesn't even support SMP with the i850 chipset, so it is obvious that Intel has made a mistake here by shooting to overtake AMD in the "I got a higher megahertz than you" pissing contest. The P4 may well be better than AMD's offerings for a *little* while, but AMD will soon be wiping the floor with them.
This comes as a great loss to all of us whom have come to know and love Intel over the past many years. They have just made too many mistakes recently, which will take Chipzilla a long time to recover from completely.
How is this so? The Crusoe is designed to be a low power, low heat processor. The P4 is a power hungry, high heat chip.
Yes, a P4 will be faster than Crusoe, but it will also require much more cooling and much higher power consumption.
They mean VNC support at the viewer side. So there is a cool 3D VNC viewer.