Do you have to buy it again? Being one of those people who bought this game primarily for the heavily promoted "Live" aspect and then summarily dissapointed by bugs, drops and "coming soon" web portals there is no way I'm paying more money until I see this work and get something for the money I already spent.
GO GO MLFR! Seriously though the only carrier in the US pushing IMA is at&t, everyone else when you ask for a bonded T1 will give you MLPPP or MLFR. It feels funny to say "only" though when these days we're really only looking at 2.5 players...
Packeteer shapers were helpful 5 years ago before MPLS was hot on the scene. It's the traditional new technology curve where first it's proprietary, then it's a standard, then it's a commodity.
We're approaching a phase where application prioritization is already a standard headed for commoditization via CoS in standard MPLS networks. IMHO the single best investment you can make in this performance management arena (and I work in it so it's not a totally uninformed opinion) is in training the people you have to use the tools you already have.
Barring that invest in a tool that will help inform your decisions without locking you in to any one particular proprietary implementation. Something entirely passive with an extreme focus on pure monitoring. Most bang for your buck IMO, leave the acceleration and route optimization to the carrier whose responsibility that stuff ultimately is anyways.
The main issue I take with this paper is that it proposes a series of solutions without talking about any relevant application or problem that it will solve except for in an occasionally very generic way "We need better security" for example.
That and the fact that it seems to have been written with the longest most convoluted sentences possible.
Major change happens when an intelligent person solves a very real problem in a way that seems obvious once it's completed but that few others would have come up with.
This paper starts by dissing incremental improvements and then goes on to rehash... wait for it... incremental improvements. How can you compare "better security" to Packet Switching in terms of revolutionary technology?
In my opinion major advances in the next 10-15 years will be driven by content-based applications. Technology is cheap and is becomming a commodity. It will not make any more major leaps until there is a content driver and industry to take it there.
For example, when we can all print flat panels for wall paper what will we have to display on them? An entirely new content and distribution industry will emerge to fill these and other voids and THEN technology will again stride ahead.
Does anyone know if this is orderable/importable/for sale generally in the US? Both sites are craawling to a halt today and I REALLY want one. Course I haven't seen the price yet...
Am I the only one who cringes at the sound of that word? Blogosphere? Why the hell does every little thing on the internet need it's own unique buzzword name? It's all the same internet! Get over it! It's already named!
Not to troll but Gah! blogosphere is definitely a term that needs to die. It only exists so that people with Blogs who need to feel important, can.
Crappy and SHORT single player game hyped as an MMORPG in the Myst world.
Then the morons can't keep their servers up, nothing works, and they pull the plug. Those of us who paid $50 for the game on the promise of the MMORPG are left holding the bill.
From Thomas Frey? If you take one look at his web sites you'll see he's a fantastic dreamer who distorts facts to fit his utopia future. He also never finishes anything! Whatever happened to that book of future inventions he was composing? It made the news, was featured prominently on their site, and then once all the press had left the page changed to "well we WERE going to do a book BUT now we don't think we will".
This guy has no track record. So what if he earned awards at IBM? That doesn't make him an authority on the future. Again, look at his site and some of his "bold" predictions. Intelligent shoes? Space hotels? Gee how original.
I'm sorry to come off so harshly on him but it's frustrating when someone like this gets any press because they feed on it and in the end don't deliver any results when the spotlight goes away.
Hopefully this clears up the "Is it sloppy or is it devious?" posts. It is both.
Number 1 (from the article): Atak uses a variety of tactics in its attempts to escape antivirus analysis. Its main trick is to check to see if it's being run in a debugging environment. If so, it exits to avoid detection. The ploy prevents casual perusal of the code by researchers and (potentially) rival virus writers. So that part is intentional.
A possible bug, related to the way Atak checks its activation date, prevents it from being run in a "sandbox". A sandbox is a virtual environment commonly used by AV researchers to look at the behaviour of malware in a safe environment.
So what I think they are saying is that even with it's ability to detect if it's being run in debug mode they would still normally be able to run it in a sandbox. Unfortunately (for the AV companies) there's the second thing. The seemingly unintentional bug that prevents it from working in a virtual environment.
Greg Bear is awesome. My favorite author and that particular story you mention was really good. I think I have all of his books. Anyone out there looking for great SciFi should definitely check him out.
If you haven't read his Eon, Eternity and Legacy trilogy I highly recommend them. Eternity is my favorite book.
Moving Mars was also very good and touched on some of the same QL stuff. Darwin's Radio was okay but I couldn't get into the sequel Darwin's Children. Blood Music was really good if a little creepy.
Wasn't there supposed to be a panel of 3 or so outsiders brought on site to Microsoft to oversee compliance with the US ruling? What ever happened to that? Was it only a suggestion?
I'm not saying 3 people could really change them, but are they actually there watching this unfold or has the oversight since been dissolved for some reason?
Oh one other thing while everyone is being so helpful;) does anybody know if the Centrino drivers Intel released have made their way into any distro yet? I could add them to any distro I suppose but it's always easier if they just come with.
Suse and Mandrake's installers can do this? I know they can resize but I always thought they destroyed any prior data in the process. Does CrossOver office let me run Outlook and Internet Explorer?
Don't get me wrong, I hate IE with a passion and in fact use Firefox most of the day, but we develop Windows based (thus IE supported) web applications so testing on IE is a must.
I love the live CDs and I love the fact that they're starting now to have an option to automatically install on a partition for you.
However my primary day-use machine is a work provided Dell laptop. I would love to use Linux on it. I have Linux on all of my other desktop workstations. But the laptop came set up with an NTFS partition that consumes 100% of the drive. I can't just blow it away because I need the usual office apps, VS and Outlook.
Later versions (> 6 which is what I have) of Partition magic seem to be the only thing on the planet that can non-destructively resize this for me. Does anyone else know of another way?
For me the uncertainty when resizing a drive or partition is a major holdup.
Partition magic seems to be the only option. No Windows tool (by that I mean a tool bundled with Windows) can resize a partition non-destructively.
Unfortunately for me I have Partition Magic version 6, which does not support resizing NTFS partitions non-destructively:/ I would have bought an OS pre-installed but this is a work laptop. They picked it out, bought it, set it up and handed it to me.
It might be too late for anyone to see this comment but just in case... what I would like to see is a linux distro specifically tailored (or with specific instructions) for people who currently have Windows on an NTFS partition consuming 100% of the drive. I love Linux, use it on 3 systems at work, but when I got my new laptop from IT it came with XP pre-loaded on an NTFS partition. I would love to put linux on it. Dual boot at first and slowly migrate over to all Linux.
However what's holding me and I think many people back is the uncertainty here. For instance, if I were to repartition my drive from the installer would it resize an NTFS partition without blowing data away? As far as I know it would not, correct?
That being the case, what is the simplest (lowest risk) way of creating a dual boot setup on a laptop?
Because my hard drive only holds so much! You go through a cycle of fill the drive, burn them all off to a bunch of CD-Rs, wipe it, rinse, repeat:)
Seriously though, the genie is out of the bottle. They can quote all the surverys and statistics they want. If you tell me though that this month Kazaa usage was down 10% I'll assume eDonkey's went up by at least that.
These people aren't stopping, they're just moving on to the next safe haven the same way they all moved from napster (cough sellouts cough) to kazaa.
Always one step ahead. The RIAA needs to get over it and offer an attractive, reasonable alternative.
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Do you have to buy it again? Being one of those people who bought this game primarily for the heavily promoted "Live" aspect and then summarily dissapointed by bugs, drops and "coming soon" web portals there is no way I'm paying more money until I see this work and get something for the money I already spent.
GO GO MLFR! Seriously though the only carrier in the US pushing IMA is at&t, everyone else when you ask for a bonded T1 will give you MLPPP or MLFR. It feels funny to say "only" though when these days we're really only looking at 2.5 players...
Packeteer shapers were helpful 5 years ago before MPLS was hot on the scene. It's the traditional new technology curve where first it's proprietary, then it's a standard, then it's a commodity.
We're approaching a phase where application prioritization is already a standard headed for commoditization via CoS in standard MPLS networks. IMHO the single best investment you can make in this performance management arena (and I work in it so it's not a totally uninformed opinion) is in training the people you have to use the tools you already have.
Barring that invest in a tool that will help inform your decisions without locking you in to any one particular proprietary implementation. Something entirely passive with an extreme focus on pure monitoring. Most bang for your buck IMO, leave the acceleration and route optimization to the carrier whose responsibility that stuff ultimately is anyways.
The main issue I take with this paper is that it proposes a series of solutions without talking about any relevant application or problem that it will solve except for in an occasionally very generic way "We need better security" for example.
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That and the fact that it seems to have been written with the longest most convoluted sentences possible.
Major change happens when an intelligent person solves a very real problem in a way that seems obvious once it's completed but that few others would have come up with.
This paper starts by dissing incremental improvements and then goes on to rehash... wait for it... incremental improvements. How can you compare "better security" to Packet Switching in terms of revolutionary technology?
In my opinion major advances in the next 10-15 years will be driven by content-based applications. Technology is cheap and is becomming a commodity. It will not make any more major leaps until there is a content driver and industry to take it there.
For example, when we can all print flat panels for wall paper what will we have to display on them? An entirely new content and distribution industry will emerge to fill these and other voids and THEN technology will again stride ahead.
Just my
Does anyone know if this is orderable/importable/for sale generally in the US? Both sites are craawling to a halt today and I REALLY want one. Course I haven't seen the price yet...
Am I the only one who cringes at the sound of that word? Blogosphere? Why the hell does every little thing on the internet need it's own unique buzzword name? It's all the same internet! Get over it! It's already named!
Not to troll but Gah! blogosphere is definitely a term that needs to die. It only exists so that people with Blogs who need to feel important, can.
Crappy and SHORT single player game hyped as an MMORPG in the Myst world.
Then the morons can't keep their servers up, nothing works, and they pull the plug. Those of us who paid $50 for the game on the promise of the MMORPG are left holding the bill.
From Thomas Frey? If you take one look at his web sites you'll see he's a fantastic dreamer who distorts facts to fit his utopia future. He also never finishes anything! Whatever happened to that book of future inventions he was composing? It made the news, was featured prominently on their site, and then once all the press had left the page changed to "well we WERE going to do a book BUT now we don't think we will".
This guy has no track record. So what if he earned awards at IBM? That doesn't make him an authority on the future. Again, look at his site and some of his "bold" predictions. Intelligent shoes? Space hotels? Gee how original.
I'm sorry to come off so harshly on him but it's frustrating when someone like this gets any press because they feed on it and in the end don't deliver any results when the spotlight goes away.
So if no politician out there represents your views... run for office.
Don't say there is no alternative to you the poor voter. That's what they ALL do and that's why we're in the mess we're in.
Hopefully this clears up the "Is it sloppy or is it devious?" posts. It is both.
Number 1 (from the article):
Atak uses a variety of tactics in its attempts to escape antivirus analysis. Its main trick is to check to see if it's being run in a debugging environment. If so, it exits to avoid detection. The ploy prevents casual perusal of the code by researchers and (potentially) rival virus writers.
So that part is intentional.
A possible bug, related to the way Atak checks its activation date, prevents it from being run in a "sandbox". A sandbox is a virtual environment commonly used by AV researchers to look at the behaviour of malware in a safe environment.
So what I think they are saying is that even with it's ability to detect if it's being run in debug mode they would still normally be able to run it in a sandbox. Unfortunately (for the AV companies) there's the second thing. The seemingly unintentional bug that prevents it from working in a virtual environment.
OMG Progress you say? Which way was it headed?!
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The end is near!
(I couldn't just leave you hanging there)
I've seen that before! Hilarious ;)
We saw that
Greg Bear is awesome. My favorite author and that particular story you mention was really good. I think I have all of his books. Anyone out there looking for great SciFi should definitely check him out.
If you haven't read his Eon, Eternity and Legacy trilogy I highly recommend them. Eternity is my favorite book.
Moving Mars was also very good and touched on some of the same QL stuff. Darwin's Radio was okay but I couldn't get into the sequel Darwin's Children. Blood Music was really good if a little creepy.
Anyways, Greg Bear is the best.
Wasn't there supposed to be a panel of 3 or so outsiders brought on site to Microsoft to oversee compliance with the US ruling? What ever happened to that? Was it only a suggestion?
I'm not saying 3 people could really change them, but are they actually there watching this unfold or has the oversight since been dissolved for some reason?
So if I use ntfsresize it will maintain the files on the partition it is resizing? It is non-destructive?
Oh one other thing while everyone is being so helpful ;) does anybody know if the Centrino drivers Intel released have made their way into any distro yet? I could add them to any distro I suppose but it's always easier if they just come with.
Suse and Mandrake's installers can do this? I know they can resize but I always thought they destroyed any prior data in the process. Does CrossOver office let me run Outlook and Internet Explorer?
Don't get me wrong, I hate IE with a passion and in fact use Firefox most of the day, but we develop Windows based (thus IE supported) web applications so testing on IE is a must.
I love the live CDs and I love the fact that they're starting now to have an option to automatically install on a partition for you.
However my primary day-use machine is a work provided Dell laptop. I would love to use Linux on it. I have Linux on all of my other desktop workstations. But the laptop came set up with an NTFS partition that consumes 100% of the drive. I can't just blow it away because I need the usual office apps, VS and Outlook.
Later versions (> 6 which is what I have) of Partition magic seem to be the only thing on the planet that can non-destructively resize this for me. Does anyone else know of another way?
For me the uncertainty when resizing a drive or partition is a major holdup.
Partition magic seems to be the only option. No Windows tool (by that I mean a tool bundled with Windows) can resize a partition non-destructively.
:/ I would have bought an OS pre-installed but this is a work laptop. They picked it out, bought it, set it up and handed it to me.
Unfortunately for me I have Partition Magic version 6, which does not support resizing NTFS partitions non-destructively
It might be too late for anyone to see this comment but just in case... what I would like to see is a linux distro specifically tailored (or with specific instructions) for people who currently have Windows on an NTFS partition consuming 100% of the drive. I love Linux, use it on 3 systems at work, but when I got my new laptop from IT it came with XP pre-loaded on an NTFS partition. I would love to put linux on it. Dual boot at first and slowly migrate over to all Linux.
However what's holding me and I think many people back is the uncertainty here. For instance, if I were to repartition my drive from the installer would it resize an NTFS partition without blowing data away? As far as I know it would not, correct?
That being the case, what is the simplest (lowest risk) way of creating a dual boot setup on a laptop?
how did all the whalers on the moon get around?
At least they can still sing the whaling song.
Uh did you not read the part that said attractive and reasonable? iTunes is the closest so far but Apple, not the RIAA, is the driving force there.
Because my hard drive only holds so much! You go through a cycle of fill the drive, burn them all off to a bunch of CD-Rs, wipe it, rinse, repeat :)
Seriously though, the genie is out of the bottle. They can quote all the surverys and statistics they want. If you tell me though that this month Kazaa usage was down 10% I'll assume eDonkey's went up by at least that.
These people aren't stopping, they're just moving on to the next safe haven the same way they all moved from napster (cough sellouts cough) to kazaa.
Always one step ahead. The RIAA needs to get over it and offer an attractive, reasonable alternative.
I see some other posters making a case for trying Fedora and debating merits etc. etc. but I say forget it.
Red Hat and anything to do with Red Hat past present or future is all dead to me.
I haven't even got the knife all the way out of my back yet and when I do you can be sure I'll be completing my Mandrake installs at work.
The Red Hat I gew up with and loved, a champion of the OSS community, an icon I held up as an example of what's possible with OSS, is gone.
Crash and burn Red Hat. I mean it. You get no sympathy from me after a move like your last.