QBIC is part of IBM's DB2 content manager. It has been available for at least 5 years now, and is now part of a DB2 extender. You can check it out here:
Thinkpads are geeks first choice of x86 laptops. They are durable and have great support. Sure it might seem like an ad to you, but many people (including myself) have been waiting for this kind of device to come out.
Oh man, I wish that would be universally truth, but the sad fact is that if you have a third world citizenship, getting to visit the US can be a very problematic challenge.
To get a B toursit visa if you are Mexican you must pay in order to make an appointment(around 10 US per appointment), pay in order to have an 10 minute interview (around 100 US per applicant), have a hefty bank account, have a steadily paying job, account for every detail of your life, and waste an entire morning / evening waiting to talk to the US inmigration officer.
Even if you quallify all of the above there is no guarantee you will obtain the visa. Of course if you do not get the visa all of the fees you paid are nonrefundable (man, I can almost hear the laughter of the embassy employees after rejecting 2 out of every 3 applicants). If, by any chance, you do get approved, you will additionally have to pay the delivery cost of the visas to your home (around 25 US per visa).
The only reason why I even submitted for this ridiculous process is in order to get my toddler to visit Disneyland. It is now my policy to avoid trips to the US unless they are absolutely necesary.
Although I don't understand the purpose of a trojaned machine repeatedly hitting a DNS server, is this an attempt to cause an overflow and therefore making the DNS server itself vulnerable?
In adition to the already commented use of sending spam, zombied machiens can be used to poison DNS servers. The poisoning basically involves sending lots of forged packets to the DNS server in what is known as a birthday attack. There has recently been a rash of these kind of attacks as documented by SANS.
...I'm not really a console person in general, but I dispise XBox....
People buy this as a game console? =)
Seriously speaking, Xbox rules, but once you load the "proper" software onto it. XBMC, DVDX and MAMEoX has turned my once overpriced paperweight birthday present (Xbox) into a work horse. With the proper software one can watch region free, NTSC/PAL DVDs. Watch TV / tune to radio from other countries, play classic video games and have a quick glance at the weather forecast.
Now that XBox2 is comming out, the original Xbox will be selling dirt cheap. This is a good time to buy one of these babies. You will not regret plunging those 200 dollars (including modding costs) into it.
PDF is an open standard, as for your suggestion of exporting to PS (which by the way, is also an Adobe proposed standard), I suggest you give it a try and then post your findings back.
My experience with Openoffice has been very similar to yours. We produce very large reports with custom made headers and footers. Lots of embedded pictures, and quite a few tables along the way. OO can open them, but the tables are misaligned and the headers/footers are screwy. I am really looking forward to OO 2.
... OOo Writer hasn't yet gone and destroyed any of my documents. Word tends to do that... One of the things OO outshines MSO is... opening its own corrupt documents! Yes, most of MSO SNAFU's are recoverable by OO (at least the content). Give it a try, you'll be amazed and your users will worship you.
OO is the real underdog of Open Source. I see lots of people bringing Linux and Mozilla when they discuss open source, but in my opinion the real fight against propietary software will be carried in the office arena.
You don't need stateful packet inspection to tell you that source address & port == destination address Yea, that is true. Still I would be impressed if all SOHO routers could block this kind of attack (at least without being tweaked/upgraded). Many of these devices do nothing more than a table look up of the protocol/destination port.
The idea behind a server (such as the affected W2K3 server) being connected to a network is to provide a service to the clients. If the machine is not fit to provide services to the network, might as well go back to the store and ask for a reimbursment and exchange to XP workstation.
The only safe way to safely run this server is to place it behind a SPI firewall. Packet filters will have a hard time detecting and blocking this kind of attack, you will need a full blown SPI to defend and block against these attacks.
SMCs, Linksys and other consumer level firewall seem to be vulnerable to this thing, the only thing that might save your server is the NAT they might provide. Of course if you are running your server on a public routable IP, then you better start thinking of running a serious setup there.
No surprises here; the Costa Rican telephone system is owned and runned by the government. Many ill conceived democracies will center their financial support on the utilities of utility companies rather than taxation (it helps the ruling party on elections). The excrement hits the cooling device for these mockup states when the company is doing bad or technology threatens the business model.
Skype just works, and this not some dumb marketing propaganda. The latency time in the call is null, zero, zip, nothing, nada.
I have placed calls to the other side of the pond to a crappy old POTS infrastructure (Belgrade downtown), and I get better quality than using a regular phoneline. Contrasting on this, calls made on Vonage (to Washington, D.C.) or some other standarized protocol suffers from horrendous latency times. Its almost like your talking on a CB radio.
While I am concerned with the fact that they are using a proprietary protocol to transmit and receive data, there is simply no alternative which offers this same degree of quality, and believe me, I have looked for them.
Given that some of these documents (including Turing's Proof of Computing) are just prints of some antique conference proceedings, I would think twice about cracking the piggy.
Now, if these were Turing's original manuscripts, I'd might even consider spilling the 20000 for them (of course, my wife would leave me if she found out what I bought for that price) =)
Well, I did this a while ago, but had only been away for 3 years when I went back to college. Some advise I can lay down for you:
Take a dive again into the basics: algebra, trig, and some calculus. Not only will it surely be in the admission examination (GRE if you are going in the States), but will help you sort any technical class you might have to take. Writing, as you probably now know, is *NOT* an optional skill for any professional. Polish your verbal and writing skills, particularly if English is not your native language.
Assignments are going to be A LOT TOUGHER now, so do plan your schedule accordingly. Don't think that just because you are taking three-four subjects a week you will have all the free time in the world.
Schools are always happy to take graduates with working experience and will probably favour applicants with working experience over freshly graduated professionals. Graduate programs have too a "resumee" to build and it looks much better to applicants if they can chip in students from XXX firm.
If you are going to go to the States, I strongly advise you to get some form of financial support. Most of the graduate programs in the States have limitations that will exclude foreigners from applying to them. I would check with the Indian Education Ministry to see if they have any form of sholarship/assistanceship for an endeavor like this.
You are taking this great step now, you know how boring most paying jobs can be. Have a blast and get to socialize a lot with all those hot undergrad chicks. You might even consider picking up a girlfriend while you are at it. Also, now that you will have some extra time, may I suggest getting into some kind of sport?
Guys, I know spammers are not nice people, but *please* make sure you do not sign his business address (11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867. (extracted from the FTC complaint)) for any sweepstakes, printed catalogs, gay literature or any other thing that might overload his postal address.
After all, spammers have already expressed their discontent with this practice, and Im certain none of us would like to upset these outstanding individuals any further.
Again, that is 11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867.
Interesting toy and direct from Microsoft. Go figure.
Any idea/figures on the performance levels of the NFS client vs the CIFS client? I know by experience that CIFS is a bandwith hog, I would be most interested on how it performs compared to CIFS.
Thanks for all that info, I was under the impresion that it was just a radio-telescope (guess one too many sightings of Contact) and thus, it had no real transmitter but only a receiver.
Nope, my machine(XP Pro) is attached to an NT4 based domain, and it shows. However there are no system policies under this domain and I have full admin rights over it. Perhaps you are under some system-wide policy which disables tampering with time or maybe your user has no admin rights?
I'm pretty sure that in the case of Goldeneye, Arecibo's transmitters were shut down.
Arecibo is a radio-telescope. It is not a transmitter but a receiver. The harm here would be that the focal point collects all the radio emitions which would other wise be distributed all through out the telescope's surface.
There is definetly a small chance that Mr. Brosman will grow an extra set of arms, but I, for one, would not like to spend more than necesary in the focal point of this antenna.
There is no way to create a large enough agency to not only collect but also analyze the data that would be collected.
This is not as true as we might like it. Maybe it is impossible for a single centralized organism to take charge of it all, but when if they start involving the general population, things can get pretty icey (think the terror during the French Revolution, the KGB during the USSR or the Gestapo during the Third Reich).
Well, considering that most military spending is destined to end up in some rather nasty technologies, I welcome that they throw away their money into a dead end path.
Somebody once pointed out the date the militaries took charge of ARPA, as the turning point of U.S. technological leadership in the world. News like this seem to confirm this theory.
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QBIC is part of IBM's DB2 content manager. It has been available for at least 5 years now, and is now part of a DB2 extender. You can check it out here:
http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/
Thinkpads are geeks first choice of x86 laptops. They are durable and have great support. Sure it might seem like an ad to you, but many people (including myself) have been waiting for this kind of device to come out.
Oh man, I wish that would be universally truth, but the sad fact is that if you have a third world citizenship, getting to visit the US can be a very problematic challenge.
To get a B toursit visa if you are Mexican you must pay in order to make an appointment(around 10 US per appointment), pay in order to have an 10 minute interview (around 100 US per applicant), have a hefty bank account, have a steadily paying job, account for every detail of your life, and waste an entire morning / evening waiting to talk to the US inmigration officer.
Even if you quallify all of the above there is no guarantee you will obtain the visa. Of course if you do not get the visa all of the fees you paid are nonrefundable (man, I can almost hear the laughter of the embassy employees after rejecting 2 out of every 3 applicants). If, by any chance, you do get approved, you will additionally have to pay the delivery cost of the visas to your home (around 25 US per visa).
The only reason why I even submitted for this ridiculous process is in order to get my toddler to visit Disneyland. It is now my policy to avoid trips to the US unless they are absolutely necesary.
Although I don't understand the purpose of a trojaned machine repeatedly hitting a DNS server, is this an attempt to cause an overflow and therefore making the DNS server itself vulnerable?
In adition to the already commented use of sending spam, zombied machiens can be used to poison DNS servers. The poisoning basically involves sending lots of forged packets to the DNS server in what is known as a birthday attack. There has recently been a rash of these kind of attacks as documented by SANS.
People buy this as a game console? =)
Seriously speaking, Xbox rules, but once you load the "proper" software onto it. XBMC, DVDX and MAMEoX has turned my once overpriced paperweight birthday present (Xbox) into a work horse. With the proper software one can watch region free, NTSC/PAL DVDs. Watch TV / tune to radio from other countries, play classic video games and have a quick glance at the weather forecast.
Now that XBox2 is comming out, the original Xbox will be selling dirt cheap. This is a good time to buy one of these babies. You will not regret plunging those 200 dollars (including modding costs) into it.
PDF is an open standard, as for your suggestion of exporting to PS (which by the way, is also an Adobe proposed standard), I suggest you give it a try and then post your findings back.
My experience with Openoffice has been very similar to yours. We produce very large reports with custom made headers and footers. Lots of embedded pictures, and quite a few tables along the way. OO can open them, but the tables are misaligned and the headers/footers are screwy. I am really looking forward to OO 2.
One of the things OO outshines MSO is... opening its own corrupt documents! Yes, most of MSO SNAFU's are recoverable by OO (at least the content). Give it a try, you'll be amazed and your users will worship you.
OO is the real underdog of Open Source. I see lots of people bringing Linux and Mozilla when they discuss open source, but in my opinion the real fight against propietary software will be carried in the office arena.
You don't need stateful packet inspection to tell you that source address & port == destination address
Yea, that is true. Still I would be impressed if all SOHO routers could block this kind of attack (at least without being tweaked/upgraded). Many of these devices do nothing more than a table look up of the protocol/destination port.
The idea behind a server (such as the affected W2K3 server) being connected to a network is to provide a service to the clients. If the machine is not fit to provide services to the network, might as well go back to the store and ask for a reimbursment and exchange to XP workstation.
The only safe way to safely run this server is to place it behind a SPI firewall. Packet filters will have a hard time detecting and blocking this kind of attack, you will need a full blown SPI to defend and block against these attacks.
SMCs, Linksys and other consumer level firewall seem to be vulnerable to this thing, the only thing that might save your server is the NAT they might provide. Of course if you are running your server on a public routable IP, then you better start thinking of running a serious setup there.
No surprises here; the Costa Rican telephone system is owned and runned by the government. Many ill conceived democracies will center their financial support on the utilities of utility companies rather than taxation (it helps the ruling party on elections). The excrement hits the cooling device for these mockup states when the company is doing bad or technology threatens the business model.
Skype just works, and this not some dumb marketing propaganda. The latency time in the call is null, zero, zip, nothing, nada.
I have placed calls to the other side of the pond to a crappy old POTS infrastructure (Belgrade downtown), and I get better quality than using a regular phoneline. Contrasting on this, calls made on Vonage (to Washington, D.C.) or some other standarized protocol suffers from horrendous latency times. Its almost like your talking on a CB radio.
While I am concerned with the fact that they are using a proprietary protocol to transmit and receive data, there is simply no alternative which offers this same degree of quality, and believe me, I have looked for them.
Given that some of these documents (including Turing's Proof of Computing) are just prints of some antique conference proceedings, I would think twice about cracking the piggy.
Now, if these were Turing's original manuscripts, I'd might even consider spilling the 20000 for them (of course, my wife would leave me if she found out what I bought for that price) =)
- Take a dive again into the basics: algebra, trig, and some calculus. Not only will it surely be in the admission examination (GRE if you are going in the States), but will help you sort any technical class you might have to take. Writing, as you probably now know, is *NOT* an optional skill for any professional. Polish your verbal and writing skills, particularly if English is not your native language.
- Assignments are going to be A LOT TOUGHER now, so do plan your schedule accordingly. Don't think that just because you are taking three-four subjects a week you will have all the free time in the world.
- Schools are always happy to take graduates with working experience and will probably favour applicants with working experience over freshly graduated professionals. Graduate programs have too a "resumee" to build and it looks much better to applicants if they can chip in students from XXX firm.
- If you are going to go to the States, I strongly advise you to get some form of financial support. Most of the graduate programs in the States have limitations that will exclude foreigners from applying to them. I would check with the Indian Education Ministry to see if they have any form of sholarship/assistanceship for an endeavor like this.
- You are taking this great step now, you know how boring most paying jobs can be. Have a blast and get to socialize a lot with all those hot undergrad chicks. You might even consider picking up a girlfriend while you are at it. Also, now that you will have some extra time, may I suggest getting into some kind of sport?
Good luck.Actually, it seems to be a typo. According to Beranger Volkswagen Car Dealership Webpage their business address is 20 Farmington Rd (check the "about us" tab).
Guys, I know spammers are not nice people, but *please* make sure you do not sign his business address (11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867. (extracted from the FTC complaint)) for any sweepstakes, printed catalogs, gay literature or any other thing that might overload his postal address.
After all, spammers have already expressed their discontent with this practice, and Im certain none of us would like to upset these outstanding individuals any further.
Again, that is 11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867.
Interesting toy and direct from Microsoft. Go figure.
Any idea/figures on the performance levels of the NFS client vs the CIFS client? I know by experience that CIFS is a bandwith hog, I would be most interested on how it performs compared to CIFS.
Thanks for all that info, I was under the impresion that it was just a radio-telescope (guess one too many sightings of Contact) and thus, it had no real transmitter but only a receiver.
Nope, my machine(XP Pro) is attached to an NT4 based domain, and it shows. However there are no system policies under this domain and I have full admin rights over it. Perhaps you are under some system-wide policy which disables tampering with time or maybe your user has no admin rights?
I'm pretty sure that in the case of Goldeneye, Arecibo's transmitters were shut down.
Arecibo is a radio-telescope. It is not a transmitter but a receiver. The harm here would be that the focal point collects all the radio emitions which would other wise be distributed all through out the telescope's surface.
There is definetly a small chance that Mr. Brosman will grow an extra set of arms, but I, for one, would not like to spend more than necesary in the focal point of this antenna.
This is not as true as we might like it. Maybe it is impossible for a single centralized organism to take charge of it all, but when if they start involving the general population, things can get pretty icey (think the terror during the French Revolution, the KGB during the USSR or the Gestapo during the Third Reich).
On the plus side, your television might have a slightly higher resale value! =)
To all of us longing for the cheaper version:
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
Dear MPAA,
Those contributions have just bought you first class accomodations in a Caribean Resort. Say, is that somebody knocking at the door?
Love Bush
Well, considering that most military spending is destined to end up in some rather nasty technologies, I welcome that they throw away their money into a dead end path.
Somebody once pointed out the date the militaries took charge of ARPA, as the turning point of U.S. technological leadership in the world. News like this seem to confirm this theory.
Man!! The last 5 years, the thing has been having a hell of a crisis