Bankers draft for that then! In the UK the maximum electronic transfer in a day is 10k, so not enough to buy a house. The problem with electronic transfers is the possibility of mistakes, with a cheque it is the responsibility of the person receiving it to check the details are correct. With an electronic transfer, if it is sent to the wrong place, tuff the money is gone. I use direct debts for bill, electronic transfers from between my own accounts, however give cheques or cash for Ad Hoc payments not to be repeated.
I wonder why they don't do this with cash machines, it sure would help with skimming easier, rather than having to look at those fingers! Idiots!
Now we can crash a co-workers computer and get got watch the password being typed it.
Seeing as the Encrypted channel could be connecting on any port to any computer on the internet, how will they know it a game update download they are blocking? So they can block games they know about, how are they going to provent the access of proxies, vpns, and every other kind of tunnel out there.
For services like steam how are they going know a bad game is being downloaded not a good one? I really wish politicians would atleast try to understand how things work, the internet is a network of peers not servers and restricted clients, and not every things is http!
The Cisco VPN client implements a full tunnel mode rather well, however I did notice the one thing it didn't block was "DHCP" broadcasts, I wrote a proof of concept to see if I could signal over it, I was intending to write a full tunnel, but ended up finding it easier to virtualise the laptop, then tunnel over a serial connection to escape from the jail.
The down side of this is people cannot use their local printers/file servers. I find it really annoying having to reverse tunnel out of corporate VPNs to get access to my local systems. Clearly as others have said any VPN client should change the DNS settings to use the internal DNS before any external one, I didn't know some didn't.
There are so many better books to read first, the problem with JKR is after the initial success no editor dare edit the work, her novels would be great if half the length (and with less illiterations snape snuffied), by the end she is not telling a story she is recording the lives of the main characters. Personally I think you cannot go wrong with anything by Terry Pratchet and Douglas Adams and Pilip Pullman.
Personally I loved these the BBC not making the third book as a TV series forced me to read it just to know what happened.
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I am afraid you are out of date. The X38 chipset didn't orginally support DDR3 ECC however it does now (this changed in Feburary). For example Lenovo as selling a Think station with DDR3 ECC.
The Intel DX38BT page 16 and some Asus boards also support DDR3 ECC. However most manufacturers still don't.
Your quite right in your points, I would still see it as a entry level installation and not really in competition with the FC equipement. We had 3 fibre fabrics, two for data/failover one for backup, all with dedicated switches. We moved to a site which had dark fibre for remote storage connections, however if your running it over 1000 miles, using iscsi, and host based replication, thats got to have real latency/syncronisation problems and for that kind of setup a magic boxes like IBMs SVCs come into there own. The Tagmastore we were using cost 1 million pounds, all the nics we needed were bundled with it as were the switches! For jumbo frames you might be able to run different MTUs on different vlans, if you are nic sharing.
It would not suprise me if it worked "ok" using a.5 metre cat 5 patch lead as it is electrically compatible, and I am sure the guy in the flat will probably the wiring works well enough, as I will with the stuff I am have in my house. That completely different getting a certified installation like I would in the datacentre I was in charge of. The company installing it certifies it will work at the rated speed over all the cables they lay. The standard is all about the complete wiring solution, not just the cable but also how it is run, for example they did not use standard cable ties as they tend crush the cable etc.
It also means when the networking team does a bad firewall change, not only will prevent user access it will mess up the storage, requiring alot more work to get your databases up and filesystems running again or atleast a forced shutdown and reboot. Personally I would not want to share block storage on my public interface in any case, as iscsi is not designed as a highly secure standard, as this would impact performance, public interfaces generally has more sufficiated firewalling rules on the switch gear with slows performance. It also means your need yet another person available for storage changes. It might seem sensible at the low end to share switches, however the public switches need to route everywhere, storage it generally limited to within a building, and all special cases need to be considered to avoid over loading things.
Yes you have wasted your money unfortunately cat 6 only supports 2.5 Gbs, and unfortunately no one produced equipement to work at that speed because the wiring people came up with the standard before asking if anyone wanted to produce equipement to work over it, cat5e is certified for 1Gbs use. The newer standards like 10Gbs ethernet has been designed with buy in from equipement manufacters, copper 10 or cat 6e was probably what you need. However as 10Gbs (copper) ethernet currently uses 45 watts a port... you probably would not want it for some time yet (next appartment?).
No i does NOT! It infact installs it where the "boot" line in your lilo.conf tells it too. Yes alot of distro default to this behavior but they don't HAVE to. For example from my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
Why don't I install it on my MBR? because when you install windows it wipes the MBR, creates a boot block on its partition and changes the active partion. So if I don't use the MBR all I have to do to get lilo back is to change my active partition back to partition 2, which is much less hassle then having to boot a rescue disk etc.
lso if his email was on a server so stored externally to his computer he might have redownloaded the virus. However (from reading the article) the X was envolved so could have just got access to the machine and put it back on again or even just posted another infected email to the victim.
Personally i thought it was rather sophisicated and could see how many people could fall for it. Particularly the reposting with payload, people who only check there email one a day or less could very easily fall victim to the second email trick.
It is a shame the orginal poster forgets even though people do reformat their machines they oftain try to save there work from it first as it is unacceptable for most people to just start with a "blank" machine. It is Documents and emails that are preserved between formats and this is perfect place for and unknown trojans to hide.
I do not think the article was bullshit, I however do think the orginal poster represents the normal tech arogance of
A) Expecting users not to be able to carry out instructions or not to be able to get someone to do it for them! B) Assuming because something went wrong again it must be the users fault for not doing what they were told (See A) C) Assuming after they know what the problem is that they naturally would have been able to fix it and never to have suffered the problem in the first place because it was just due to stupidity. X) This was not fighting a computer anyway, it was fighting a person (the X) and anyone who has had one will know that is alot harder.
Kind of ironic too as that code is for removing drm wrappers from other vendors products. It really does give the impression that sony will go to any length to protect its own "IP" right, however does not give a damn about other peoples/vendors rights.
I guess that depends on your opion on alcohol fuelled violence. Personally I live next door to a family (father and sons) who get drink and violent oftain, many times I have been awake at 4 am listening to fighting and screeming from their house. Fortunately they normally keep it in the family and have only threatened me with violence. But there again, they have been known to drive off after a few drinks/smoking drugs to, which I personally rate alot higher than speeding.
Nope I haven't, I try to drive inside the speed limit at all times, and yes I said inside not in my "bonus" 10%+2mph. I made a mistake a drove 40 in a 30mph area. I infact saw the mobile speed camera, but that had not been a speed sign for several miles, and made the mistake of sticking with the road speed of the other people arround me, particularly as someone was driving right on my bumber and to break suddenly (just to be sure) WOULD have caused an accident. What I was indicating is the chance of being caught when you make a mistake is higher now than before yet the point system has not be changed, so I was suggesting an alturnative which would accomodate for this. I expressed it too quickly what I ment by "free" was points normally cancel after 3 years, I think the first 3 of any low level offence should expire after one, allowing people who make a the odd mistake to become "clean" faster.
Your right, I don't think I am a bad guy, I think I am a guy who made a mistake, I have been punished for it, I did not appeal it, I was obviously guilty and deserved to be punished and as I said, I am even more paranoidly checking my speed, and second guessing myself, and that does not make me a safer driver (reducing accidents is the point of speed cameras). I have an 8 year no claims bonus! So atleast my insurance company thinks I am a safe driver and I live in london too!
However the one thing I did think was the fine I got was a joke in its level, the price of a night out, I think 200 quid would make people think alot more.
And of course, if you have nothing to hide why would you possibly object? Only criminals have anything to fear. I suggest a large tv set in every room that can monitor us at all times.
The thing is speeding is not actually the problem they need to solve, accidents are. With the level of cameras now on the road, I find I am paying far more attention to, what the last speed sign said, where the next camera is and how fast I am going. However what i probably should be doing is looking at the road conditions, other vehicles and people/objects near the road for potental hazards. When i drove through nottingham on the M1 there is an average speed check, and it keeps you on edge all the time, the road was of minor importance like wise other cars, my speed was my primary consern as it was with other drivers, you can see this from cars "wandering" onto the lane divisions. Two months ago I got my first speeding ticket ever and have been driving for 10 years. Not to much of a problem, but its getting easier to make mistakes and get caught, at 3+ points each its getting all to easy to hit 12 points in 3 years and get banned. I am starting to think people should get one "free" offence a year.
Actually this could be very good for the 5 companies involved, it kind of a devils bargin, as anyone who signs up for it can never use patents of their own again, however the founders are not so limited aways giving them an edge on you. I would also wonder if it is acceptable under the GPL, as patents require a non conditional/royalty free grant (for the GPL) to be used. It would have been better for them to say all the patents could be used in GPL programs and if you give up your right to enforce patents also in non GPL ones. This would drive alot more programs to become GPLed, and perhaps otherwise would have been overlooked as it would give them (the program) an added edge/protection.
I doubt many self published record labels have ISRC codes that Apple REQUIRES for listing on its service, ISRC codes allow for central collection of revenues (for airplay etc) by organisations like the RIAA.
Infact iTunes requires ISRC codes for your music to be listed, this results in restricting the ammount of indy music that is available on iTunes, and ensures the RIAA gets a cut of the majority of music on the service. MusicNet (the basis of services provied by HMV and Virgin) do not have that restriction. Apple are the major's friends, its a shame they cannot see that.
The issue is when you take someone finger prints you get THEIR finger prints, when you take someones dna you also take a part match to all their family members. If enough samples are taken its almost as good as having everyones DNA on catalogue. So relaxing the rules about taking and keeping DNA samples will greatly assist the police in getting that critial mass. Of course if you have a tin foil hat, they could follow arround key people they are missing until they have reason to stop them as small as speeding, and then keep the sample and use if for something else, even though they never prosicuted someone for the offence! Here in the UK they are already keeping all DNA tests innocent or not, and are taking samples from everyone arrested!
Well in your real wallet the really valuable notes all have serial numbers and the small value coins don't but no one wants to carry a large number of those arround cos they are heavy, perhaps what they need to do to the game is add more realism, with a real money system, where the high value "notes" are closely watched, and only a small amounts of change can be carried on one character, without limiting its abilities. This could also bring in the new character type "money launder"!
Actually CDs can boot in two ways, the way you describe is a floppy emulation mode, this is used by linux boot disks. However they can boot in a full disk mode, this is used by all windows install disks. Interestingly some IDE host devices like the Promise Ultra 133TX2 don't support the emulation mode. For more info look at http://www.promise.com/support/faq/faq2_eng.asp?pr oduct_id=87# and select the 3 option on the faq.
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Bankers draft for that then! In the UK the maximum electronic transfer in a day is 10k, so not enough to buy a house. The problem with electronic transfers is the possibility of mistakes, with a cheque it is the responsibility of the person receiving it to check the details are correct. With an electronic transfer, if it is sent to the wrong place, tuff the money is gone. I use direct debts for bill, electronic transfers from between my own accounts, however give cheques or cash for Ad Hoc payments not to be repeated.
I wonder why they don't do this with cash machines, it sure would help with skimming easier, rather than having to look at those fingers! Idiots! Now we can crash a co-workers computer and get got watch the password being typed it.
Seeing as the Encrypted channel could be connecting on any port to any computer on the internet, how will they know it a game update download they are blocking? So they can block games they know about, how are they going to provent the access of proxies, vpns, and every other kind of tunnel out there. For services like steam how are they going know a bad game is being downloaded not a good one? I really wish politicians would atleast try to understand how things work, the internet is a network of peers not servers and restricted clients, and not every things is http!
The Cisco VPN client implements a full tunnel mode rather well, however I did notice the one thing it didn't block was "DHCP" broadcasts, I wrote a proof of concept to see if I could signal over it, I was intending to write a full tunnel, but ended up finding it easier to virtualise the laptop, then tunnel over a serial connection to escape from the jail.
The down side of this is people cannot use their local printers/file servers. I find it really annoying having to reverse tunnel out of corporate VPNs to get access to my local systems. Clearly as others have said any VPN client should change the DNS settings to use the internal DNS before any external one, I didn't know some didn't.
There are so many better books to read first, the problem with JKR is after the initial success no editor dare edit the work, her novels would be great if half the length (and with less illiterations snape snuffied), by the end she is not telling a story she is recording the lives of the main characters. Personally I think you cannot go wrong with anything by Terry Pratchet and Douglas Adams and Pilip Pullman.
Personally I loved these the BBC not making the third book as a TV series forced me to read it just to know what happened.
Also check out the specification update for the X38 chipset page 8.
Your quite right in your points, I would still see it as a entry level installation and not really in competition with the FC equipement. We had 3 fibre fabrics, two for data/failover one for backup, all with dedicated switches. We moved to a site which had dark fibre for remote storage connections, however if your running it over 1000 miles, using iscsi, and host based replication, thats got to have real latency/syncronisation problems and for that kind of setup a magic boxes like IBMs SVCs come into there own. The Tagmastore we were using cost 1 million pounds, all the nics we needed were bundled with it as were the switches! For jumbo frames you might be able to run different MTUs on different vlans, if you are nic sharing.
It would not suprise me if it worked "ok" using a .5 metre cat 5 patch lead as it is electrically compatible, and I am sure the guy in the flat will probably the wiring works well enough, as I will with the stuff I am have in my house. That completely different getting a certified installation like I would in the datacentre I was in charge of. The company installing it certifies it will work at the rated speed over all the cables they lay. The standard is all about the complete wiring solution, not just the cable but also how it is run, for example they did not use standard cable ties as they tend crush the cable etc.
It also means when the networking team does a bad firewall change, not only will prevent user access it will mess up the storage, requiring alot more work to get your databases up and filesystems running again or atleast a forced shutdown and reboot. Personally I would not want to share block storage on my public interface in any case, as iscsi is not designed as a highly secure standard, as this would impact performance, public interfaces generally has more sufficiated firewalling rules on the switch gear with slows performance. It also means your need yet another person available for storage changes. It might seem sensible at the low end to share switches, however the public switches need to route everywhere, storage it generally limited to within a building, and all special cases need to be considered to avoid over loading things.
Yes you have wasted your money unfortunately cat 6 only supports 2.5 Gbs, and unfortunately no one produced equipement to work at that speed because the wiring people came up with the standard before asking if anyone wanted to produce equipement to work over it, cat5e is certified for 1Gbs use. The newer standards like 10Gbs ethernet has been designed with buy in from equipement manufacters, copper 10 or cat 6e was probably what you need. However as 10Gbs (copper) ethernet currently uses 45 watts a port... you probably would not want it for some time yet (next appartment?).
No i does NOT! It infact installs it where the "boot" line in your lilo.conf tells it too. Yes alot of distro default to this behavior but they don't HAVE to. For example from my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
Why don't I install it on my MBR? because when you install windows it wipes the MBR, creates a boot block on its partition and changes the active partion. So if I don't use the MBR all I have to do to get lilo back is to change my active partition back to partition 2, which is much less hassle then having to boot a rescue disk etc.
James
lso if his email was on a server so stored externally to his computer he might have redownloaded the virus. However (from reading the article) the X was envolved so could have just got access to the machine and put it back on again or even just posted another infected email to the victim.
Personally i thought it was rather sophisicated and could see how many people could fall for it. Particularly the reposting with payload, people who only check there email one a day or less could very easily fall victim to the second email trick.
It is a shame the orginal poster forgets even though people do reformat their machines they oftain try to save there work from it first as it is unacceptable for most people to just start with a "blank" machine. It is Documents and emails that are preserved between formats and this is perfect place for and unknown trojans to hide.
I do not think the article was bullshit, I however do think the orginal poster represents the normal tech arogance of
A) Expecting users not to be able to carry out instructions or not to be able to get someone to do it for them!
B) Assuming because something went wrong again it must be the users fault for not doing what they were told (See A)
C) Assuming after they know what the problem is that they naturally would have been able to fix it and never to have suffered the problem in the first place because it was just due to stupidity.
X) This was not fighting a computer anyway, it was fighting a person (the X) and anyone who has had one will know that is alot harder.
James
Kind of ironic too as that code is for removing drm wrappers from other vendors products. It really does give the impression that sony will go to any length to protect its own "IP" right, however does not give a damn about other peoples/vendors rights.
James
I guess that depends on your opion on alcohol fuelled violence. Personally I live next door to a family (father and sons) who get drink and violent oftain, many times I have been awake at 4 am listening to fighting and screeming from their house. Fortunately they normally keep it in the family and have only threatened me with violence. But there again, they have been known to drive off after a few drinks/smoking drugs to, which I personally rate alot higher than speeding.
James
Nope I haven't, I try to drive inside the speed limit at all times, and yes I said inside not in my "bonus" 10%+2mph.
I made a mistake a drove 40 in a 30mph area. I infact saw the mobile speed camera, but that had not been a speed sign for several miles, and made the mistake of sticking with the road speed of the other people arround me, particularly as someone was driving right on my bumber and to break suddenly (just to be sure) WOULD have caused an accident. What I was indicating is the chance of being caught when you make a mistake is higher now than before yet the point system has not be changed, so I was suggesting an alturnative which would accomodate for this. I expressed it too quickly what I ment by "free" was points normally cancel after 3 years, I think the first 3 of any low level offence should expire after one, allowing people who make a the odd mistake to become "clean" faster.
Your right, I don't think I am a bad guy, I think I am a guy who made a mistake, I have been punished for it, I did not appeal it, I was obviously guilty and deserved to be punished and as I said, I am even more paranoidly checking my speed, and second guessing myself, and that does not make me a safer driver (reducing accidents is the point of speed cameras). I have an 8 year no claims bonus! So atleast my insurance company thinks I am a safe driver and I live in london too!
However the one thing I did think was the fine I got was a joke in its level, the price of a night out, I think 200 quid would make people think alot more.
James
And of course, if you have nothing to hide why would you possibly object? Only criminals have anything to fear. I suggest a large tv set in every room that can monitor us at all times.
James
The thing is speeding is not actually the problem they need to solve, accidents are. With the level of cameras now on the road, I find I am paying far more attention to, what the last speed sign said, where the next camera is and how fast I am going. However what i probably should be doing is looking at the road conditions, other vehicles and people/objects near the road for potental hazards. When i drove through nottingham on the M1 there is an average speed check, and it keeps you on edge all the time, the road was of minor importance like wise other cars, my speed was my primary consern as it was with other drivers, you can see this from cars "wandering" onto the lane divisions. Two months ago I got my first speeding ticket ever and have been driving for 10 years. Not to much of a problem, but its getting easier to make mistakes and get caught, at 3+ points each its getting all to easy to hit 12 points in 3 years and get banned. I am starting to think people should get one "free" offence a year.
James
Actually this could be very good for the 5 companies involved, it kind of a devils bargin, as anyone who signs up for it can never use patents of their own again, however the founders are not so limited aways giving them an edge on you. I would also wonder if it is acceptable under the GPL, as patents require a non conditional/royalty free grant (for the GPL) to be used. It would have been better for them to say all the patents could be used in GPL programs and if you give up your right to enforce patents also in non GPL ones. This would drive alot more programs to become GPLed, and perhaps otherwise would have been overlooked as it would give them (the program) an added edge/protection.
James
I doubt many self published record labels have ISRC codes that Apple REQUIRES for listing on its service, ISRC codes allow for central collection of revenues (for airplay etc) by organisations like the RIAA.
James
Infact iTunes requires ISRC codes for your music to be listed, this results in restricting the ammount of indy music that is available on iTunes, and ensures the RIAA gets a cut of the majority of music on the service. MusicNet (the basis of services provied by HMV and Virgin) do not have that restriction. Apple are the major's friends, its a shame they cannot see that.
James
The issue is when you take someone finger prints you get THEIR finger prints, when you take someones dna you also take a part match to all their family members. If enough samples are taken its almost as good as having everyones DNA on catalogue. So relaxing the rules about taking and keeping DNA samples will greatly assist the police in getting that critial mass. Of course if you have a tin foil hat, they could follow arround key people they are missing until they have reason to stop them as small as speeding, and then keep the sample and use if for something else, even though they never prosicuted someone for the offence! Here in the UK they are already keeping all DNA tests innocent or not, and are taking samples from everyone arrested!
James
Well in your real wallet the really valuable notes all have serial numbers and the small value coins don't but no one wants to carry a large number of those arround cos they are heavy, perhaps what they need to do to the game is add more realism, with a real money system, where the high value "notes" are closely watched, and only a small amounts of change can be carried on one character, without limiting its abilities. This could also bring in the new character type "money launder"!
James
Actually CDs can boot in two ways, the way you describe is a floppy emulation mode, this is used by linux boot disks. However they can boot in a full disk mode, this is used by all windows install disks. Interestingly some IDE host devices like the Promise Ultra 133TX2 don't support the emulation mode. For more info look at http://www.promise.com/support/faq/faq2_eng.asp?pr oduct_id=87# and select the 3 option on the faq.
James