AMD processor drivers are integral to both the support and performance of AMD processors. At least AMD does not hide their micro-instruction patches, like Intel Does.
"intel firmware patches the P4 micro instruction rom!" And VIA Centar C7 does also.
Would you rather they withhold the bugs? Or have you pay theough the nose to replace the chips?
On Intel boxes, I am not to carefull about the CPU drivers, but I had a Athlon w/ AGP, and the speed of video doubled after I installed something called 'AGP Miniport driver" ! Yes! Thanks AMD! Keep those tiny patches coming!
Ok. I looked at the pictures of the core. Yep, your math is right, and proves my point about it NOT being a quadcore, but you brought up the much more important point of WHY the tri-core phenom is designed as a Core-Duo killer:
"2560 vs 2048 in the 6MB L3 cache scenario, the 16% advantage becomes a 25% advantage at that node." EXACTLY.
Marvin Minsky, He was going to have a PhD in Vacuum tubes in 1980s
"1967, Marvin Minsky: "Within a generation... the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved."
Ray Kurtzwiel... compelety diffrent story. He is just not thinking outside the box? He is thinking the box has melted into a blue river, that tastes like straberries! He is the real deal.
I look at his work, his ideas and his predictions very carefully. He also has his critics, and others that dont like this style. You just cannot admit, that he is not one of the bightest minds of this generation.
I am now using openDNS, and it ROCKS! First off, I cannot now see any of the servers that I had problems with blacklisting. They are not resolvable. ( thanks openDNS! ) Second, first hits are a tiny bit slower, on the order of 150~250ms, but after a site has had a few lookups, its not noticable.
They are running custom software, that they have anitcipated all the cache poisioning problems, i.e. their random number generator, is much better, hence it would take trillions of lookups to get a chance to poison the cache, if at all.
I have seen BIND( The basic DNS program ) become part of the internet, and waving!addresses!goodbye! I have seen BIND problems get resolved, and imagined and real problems fixed, and others seem to take on a life of their own. The Random Number problem, has been a real nut cracker for BIND. You have to be fast, and pass statistical tests too! And like I said, M$ said they were writing custom software, and had it licked, but then its not shipping on Windows anbd you have to patch your servers.
I would believe the openDNS guys if they said Its not a concern. They activly patch, and secure their systems on a daily basis( even on 3 day weekends ), and probibly have an extrodinary blacklist of RogueDNS servers, growing by the second. I am going to switch everyone I can over to openDNS. THEY ROCK! I am VERY pleased with their DNS. I am lucky that they are close, and they are directly connected to Alter.net. Let them get DNSlashDNotted! I am sure they have the capacity to handle it.
The new Phenom Tri-Core, is NOT a quad core with a core disabled/broken. If it was, then it would have the cache of a quad-core wouldnt it? It would also have most of the power consumption of a quad-core woulnt it?
Its a dual-core with an extra core, hense it has the cache of a dual-core, not a quad-core.
If you took all your backround processes, and ran them on CPU-2( The third Core) you could run multi-threaded stuff, on two cores, with no OS slow down.
btw, NT magizine has benchmarked stuff with 3CPUs and 6CPUs.
"If the cocksuckers have their way, they'll make Clinton look like a piker in the last days of the present corrupt administration -- Bushfuck will grant retroactive and prospective immunity and amnesty to every Republican on earth and to all who agree with them for any offense committed for the lifetime of the fucks -- plus seventy years."
Now, normally, Id mod this troll, but there is just so much veniment anger, he might go postal. Better... mod parent +1 funny. "make Clinton look like a piker" +2. Hehehe!
I just wanted to add, in response to this vunerbility, its more of the same FUD, as in Pollute and Delute, and then lie though your teeth about it. ( are theses guys going to join the White House Spokesmen? )
No one I know, nor me, use openDNS, right now, BUT, I am looking into pointing to it for my systems, and my clients. It looks VERY interesting.
Ahhahah! How up to date are openDNS machines? I would guess sate of the art, but let me poke around their DNS server...Well, the pokeing indicates that security is at the higest levels, ( of course ), and I have opened a discussion with them regarding their maintenence.
BIND is currently at 9.4.2, and 8.2.x was the one vunerable, and IIs
"Thank you for the heads up. While we do use the BIND protocol, we have our own implementation so these implementation-specific vulnerabilities should not affect us."
But of course, this proves that the above is a mistatement...
"The DNS server in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, uses predictable transaction IDs when querying other DNS servers, which allows remote attackers to spoof DNS replies, poison the DNS cache, and facilitate further attack vectors."
I wrote comments on sfgate's site. Its basically a follow up article to one which a 'secruity expert' got infected, and spent 12 hours restoring his computer. Excuuuus me?
Its easy to modify Windows 2000/XP to not AutoRun. Mark Russinovich shows it in his blog. I got a frame that was infected, but found it out, wihtout getting infected. AutoRun was off, and it had some mightly suspicious software in there. I scanned it before it ran, and found a trojan horse, simliar to the one that came on Maxtor Hard disks. A nasty one none the less...
But as a Security expert, I didnt get infected, and if I did. ( I got infected by a trojan about three years ago, it took me about 20 mins to restore my system. TWENTY MINUTES!
I have the OS ( Windows XP ) on a seperate partition from all my applications and documents. I only back it up completely, after a run of 30 patches ( Dirty or "update teusday' ) give me about 5 or 6, so I only have to back up 2 or 3 times a year. When I did get infected, I restored the backup, applied the patches. 20 mins. Duh!
What about missing DLLs? I can find those online, and have made a list, and put those with those patches I download from Microsoft. ( I never run patches from microsoft. I let others test that feature.::)) I have all the patches on a CD, ready to install ( except 1 ), and can go from a fresh re-install to completely patched without ever going online ( The three is now down to 1, and its not an executable. )
Not only that, they are probibly a bit slow. You can do a ping to the nameserver to see how close/fast it is. Some nameservers, have the ping port closed, so it dosnet work all the time,
and if you would not like a knock on your door... try to avoid poking around the DoD or DHSs security. Get a look at WhiteHouse.com!!! Hey.....
Not really, you just need to point to a DNS server that is patched.
I had a few clients that were using PacificHell's DNS servers. After the third call, I finally pointed their third DNS directly to Berkeley's DNS server. Then they only had complaints about slowness, instead of totally off line. ( Lucky that they were close to berkeley ),
Although Berkeley's got some big iron as DNS, it wont work so well, if their DNS servers get DNSlashDNotted, so pick a close school, ( MIT, GeorgiaTech, UniversityOfHawaii... Mabye not ) that you *know* is picky about security, and point to them.
( My choices are 1) Fastest 2) Their ISPs DNS 3) Berkeley, 4) The top levels DNS. ( for instance comcast.nets top level DNS is for Level 3 communications. You dont want all your queries going there, but if your DNS looks weird, ( something slips through, ) or like pacificHELL its on a 386SX/16. ( Mabye this has changed...110ms 130ms 110ms Or mabye it hasent.) You want to flush your cache, and hit your most used sites.
Mod parent +1 ( at least, its actually very interesting )
What makes the commands you typed interesting, is that if another type of attack, say, a virus, script, or activeX control, issued those commands, or a storm-bot client, issued those commands. Your DNS is now poisoned.
Step 1 - Attacker sends a large number of quires to the vicum nameserver, all for the sam domain name. Step 2 - Attacker sedns spoofed replies giving fake answers for the quieris it made. Get the picture?
Solution: Apply patches to your DNS server. ( i.e. patch your MS Server )
Next generation intelligence? Jesus, if they had a DOS prompt, it would be a step up. The current computers were built in the 50s, and have increasing downtimes. ATCs float the boat ( the old manual system, that dates to pre-WWII ) at least once a week, and twice in one day in december. ( Busiest time )
They have to phase in the new system, because they still do not know how reliably it all scales. On 9/11 only a few ATC centers went on manual, while the automatic system was able to ground 80% of the planes in an hour.
Good to announce it now, in the least busiest month.
APPLY NOW! ATCs make $100k within 3 years, 18 to 31yo! I know two of them, and they are both millionaires.
Boy, this makes for a perfect argument for using CVS for all your documents. Go ahead and take my laptop, I will be back in business in less than 1 hr. ( better yet, you may never need to take a laptop on board again! My CVS for my docs outgrew a 512Mb flash, so I store things on a 2GB now, except for my media, which I keep my Media stuff ( about 2GB ) on a ftp site.
There was a post on/. a few years ago, about laptop hard disk reliability, and somebody replied how he checked everything he had into a CVS repositoary. Nice. Bet he still hasnt lost anything, and still dosen't care about losing his laptop.
The other consideration is... WHERE THE HELL IS HER LAPTOP GUYS?
The idea of PORN, or something akin to it. Best dirsrubuted file system? None! Use Bittorrent, and fill the drives with backups. Do a fit match up... start from large to small. When something gets nocked off, you have just to get a torrent running, and in a few minutes Volia! ( but it will cause a bit of slow down, with all the traffic suddenly. )
Just be sure to close ALL torrent traffic to the outside, or someone else will 'share' your files... try looing for win.ini on the internet, you will get a huge suprise...
be sure also to AUDIT YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK FOR ACCESS RIGHTS, and all the most common mistakes...sharing 'C' and Administrator account...
AH! so you have confirmed my point exactly, albet for ubsurd reasons: Air resistance increases with the square of the cross section, i.e. as a object becomes larger, its air resistance grows, but as it gains in mass, its force due to also grows with the square of the mass...( Hmm Ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? Newtonian Mechanics? ). They are both proportional. But the air resistance is one of those problems, that people are still doing significant work on.
I did drop an ant in vaccum in college. 1m evacuated column, down to -100torr. Not the most powerfull vaccum, but enough with a college lab vacuum pump, that wouldt shatter the glass. The ant was killed rather quickly by the evaucation, but the body remained essentially unharmed by the 1m drop. A 1m drop for an elephant might severily injure it.
Again, strength like force due to gravity grows with the square of the mass.
And to be very strict about answering your question: "Just drop an ant through a ten stroy vaccum tube and see what happens." Altough it would be difficult to make an evaucted tube approximatly 46 meters in length, and to drop and ant in it, it would lacking any air resistance, be moving at >35m/sec. Pretty fast, and it would almost certainlly be damaged, but still have some sembelence of its structre, whereas if you dropped a dead elephant, you would have no idea what it was, other than some type of large red-blooded mammal.
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AMD processor drivers are integral to both the support and performance of AMD processors. At least AMD does not hide their micro-instruction patches, like Intel Does.
"intel firmware patches the P4 micro instruction rom!" And VIA Centar C7 does also.
Would you rather they withhold the bugs? Or have you pay theough the nose to replace the chips?
On Intel boxes, I am not to carefull about the CPU drivers, but I had a Athlon w/ AGP, and the speed of video doubled after I installed something called 'AGP Miniport driver" ! Yes! Thanks AMD! Keep those tiny patches coming!
You dont want the latest and greatest? Ok.
Ok. I looked at the pictures of the core.
Yep, your math is right, and proves my point about it NOT being a quadcore,
but you brought up the much more important point of WHY the tri-core phenom is designed as a Core-Duo killer:
"2560 vs 2048 in the 6MB L3 cache scenario, the 16% advantage becomes a 25% advantage at that node." EXACTLY.
Mod parent +2, Mod grandparent -2
Marvin Minsky, He was going to have a PhD in Vacuum tubes in 1980s
... the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved."
"1967, Marvin Minsky: "Within a generation
Ray Kurtzwiel... compelety diffrent story. He is just not thinking outside the box? He is thinking the box has melted into a blue river, that tastes like straberries! He is the real deal.
I look at his work, his ideas and his predictions very carefully. He also has his critics, and others that dont like this style. You just cannot admit, that he is not one of the bightest minds of this generation.
I am now using openDNS, and it ROCKS!
First off, I cannot now see any of the servers that I had problems with blacklisting.
They are not resolvable. ( thanks openDNS! )
Second, first hits are a tiny bit slower, on the order of 150~250ms,
but after a site has had a few lookups, its not noticable.
They are running custom software, that they have anitcipated all the cache poisioning problems, i.e. their random number generator, is much better, hence it would take trillions of lookups to get a chance to poison the cache, if at all.
I have seen BIND( The basic DNS program ) become part of the internet, and waving!addresses!goodbye! I have seen BIND problems get resolved, and imagined and real problems fixed, and others seem to take on a life of their own. The Random Number problem, has been a real nut cracker for BIND. You have to be fast, and pass statistical tests too! And like I said, M$ said they were writing custom software, and had it licked, but then its not shipping on Windows anbd you have to patch your servers.
I would believe the openDNS guys if they said Its not a concern. They activly patch, and secure their systems on a daily basis( even on 3 day weekends ), and probibly have an extrodinary blacklist of RogueDNS servers, growing by the second. I am going to switch everyone I can over to openDNS. THEY ROCK! I am VERY pleased with their DNS. I am lucky that they are close, and they are directly connected to Alter.net. Let them get DNSlashDNotted! I am sure they have the capacity to handle it.
Quote: "Who's gonna notice something trivial like a non-functioning CPU core a fourth of the time!?"
AMDs software can monitor, and cut power to any core, or change Vcc to any core, and overclock/underclock any core. You would notice it very quickly.
The new Phenom Tri-Core, is NOT a quad core with a core disabled/broken.
If it was, then it would have the cache of a quad-core wouldnt it?
It would also have most of the power consumption of a quad-core woulnt it?
Its a dual-core with an extra core, hense it has the cache of a dual-core,
not a quad-core.
If you took all your backround processes, and ran them on CPU-2( The third Core)
you could run multi-threaded stuff, on two cores, with no OS slow down.
btw, NT magizine has benchmarked stuff with 3CPUs and 6CPUs.
Its designed to be a Dual-core killer... DUH!
"If the cocksuckers have their way, they'll make Clinton look like a piker in the last days of the present corrupt administration -- Bushfuck will grant retroactive and prospective immunity and amnesty to every Republican on earth and to all who agree with them for any offense committed for the lifetime of the fucks -- plus seventy years."
... mod parent +1 funny. "make Clinton look like a piker" +2. Hehehe!
Now, normally, Id mod this troll, but there is just so much veniment anger, he might go postal. Better
"Jesus Bobby Swan! Looks like they gave us too much access!"
"So kay, We need all the Juice we can get on anybody. Grab everything you can."
"Ok. Is that your petty coat or mine?"
I just wanted to add, in response to this vunerbility,
its more of the same FUD, as in Pollute and Delute, and then lie though your teeth about it. ( are theses guys going to join the White House Spokesmen? )
No one I know, nor me, use openDNS, right now, BUT, I am looking into pointing to it for my systems, and my clients. It looks VERY interesting.
Ahhahah! How up to date are openDNS machines? I would guess sate of the art, but let me poke around their DNS server...Well, the pokeing indicates that security is at the higest levels, ( of course ), and I have opened a discussion with them regarding their maintenence.
BIND is currently at 9.4.2, and 8.2.x was the one vunerable, and IIs
Hehe! Look at this:
http://vdb.dragonsoft.com/detail.php?id=3028
"ISC BIND 9 - 9.5.0a are exist remote cache poisoning vulnerability, caused by the DNS query ID generation code."
This site:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/927905
Lists Microsoft Windows as 'Not Vunerable"
"Thank you for the heads up. While we do use the BIND protocol, we have our own implementation so these implementation-specific vulnerabilities should not affect us."
But of course, this proves that the above is a mistatement...
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3898
"The DNS server in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, uses predictable transaction IDs when querying other DNS servers, which allows remote attackers to spoof DNS replies, poison the DNS cache, and facilitate further attack vectors."
The Patch for servers is:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-062.mspx
( Nice of them to patch a vunerability that they claim they dont have! )
I wrote comments on sfgate's site. Its basically a follow up article to one which a 'secruity expert' got infected, and spent 12 hours restoring his computer. Excuuuus me?
::)) I have all the patches on a CD, ready to install ( except 1 ), and can go from a fresh re-install to completely patched without ever going online ( The three is now down to 1, and its not an executable. )
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/26/MNE7UHOOQ.DTL&hw=infected+frames&sn=002&sc=519
Its easy to modify Windows 2000/XP to not AutoRun. Mark Russinovich shows it in his blog. I got a frame that was infected, but found it out, wihtout getting infected. AutoRun was off, and it had some mightly suspicious software in there. I scanned it before it ran, and found a trojan horse, simliar to the one that came on Maxtor Hard disks. A nasty one none the less...
But as a Security expert, I didnt get infected, and if I did. ( I got infected by a trojan about three years ago, it took me about 20 mins to restore my system. TWENTY MINUTES!
I have the OS ( Windows XP ) on a seperate partition from all my applications and documents. I only back it up completely, after a run of 30 patches ( Dirty or "update teusday' ) give me about 5 or 6, so I only have to back up 2 or 3 times a year. When I did get infected, I restored the backup, applied the patches. 20 mins. Duh!
What about missing DLLs? I can find those online, and have made a list, and put those with those patches I download from Microsoft. ( I never run patches from microsoft. I let others test that feature.
Hmm... Others had 5 reboots, and that is the more common statistic.
Where did you get it?
The reason M$ is sending it out to VLUs first is that they TEST it on many more multiple machines. ( it is BETA after all no? Er... RTM mabye. )
For early adopters.
.s do they need? )
Although for some, it was a forced adoption.
Looks like there will be a Microsoft Windows Vista SP1.1 update...
( how many
You read the DNS book. :P
You can also use other DNS roots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Not only that, they are probibly a bit slow.
You can do a ping to the nameserver to see
how close/fast it is. Some nameservers,
have the ping port closed, so it dosnet work all the time,
and if you would not like a knock on your door...
try to avoid poking around the DoD or DHSs security.
Get a look at WhiteHouse.com!!! Hey.....
Not really, you just need to point to a DNS server that is patched.
I had a few clients that were using PacificHell's DNS servers.
After the third call, I finally pointed their third DNS directly to
Berkeley's DNS server. Then they only had complaints about slowness,
instead of totally off line. ( Lucky that they were close to berkeley ),
Although Berkeley's got some big iron as DNS, it wont work so well,
if their DNS servers get DNSlashDNotted, so pick a close school, ( MIT, GeorgiaTech, UniversityOfHawaii... Mabye not )
that you *know* is picky about security, and point to them.
( My choices are 1) Fastest 2) Their ISPs DNS 3) Berkeley, 4) The top levels DNS. ( for instance comcast.nets top level DNS is for Level 3 communications. You dont want all your queries going there, but if your DNS looks weird, ( something slips through, ) or like pacificHELL its on a 386SX/16. ( Mabye this has changed...110ms 130ms 110ms Or mabye it hasent.)
You want to flush your cache, and hit your most used sites.
Mod parent +1 ( at least, its actually very interesting )
What makes the commands you typed interesting,
is that if another type of attack, say, a virus, script, or activeX control,
issued those commands, or a storm-bot client,
issued those commands. Your DNS is now poisoned.
"After all, one must set your computer to use one of those servers."
/flushdns
No. Your... the DNS your computer points to, can be comprimised, if left unpatched.
You dont need to do anything, just request a IP from a poisoned cache...
Hint: you can also recover
ipconfig
Ahh! The cache on YOUR dns gets poisoned.
Crist! There's a wikipage out it... ( I digress )
The security rundown on how it happens:
http://www.secureworks.com/research/articles/dns-cache-poisoning/
Step 1 - Attacker sends a large number of quires to the vicum nameserver, all for the sam domain name.
Step 2 - Attacker sedns spoofed replies giving fake answers for the quieris it made.
Get the picture?
Solution: Apply patches to your DNS server. ( i.e. patch your MS Server )
Cert notification:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/484649
See:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/22/1634242
Its going to take 20 years and 20 billion dollars.
Next generation intelligence? Jesus, if they had a DOS prompt, it would be a step up. The current computers were built in the 50s, and have increasing downtimes. ATCs float the boat ( the old manual system, that dates to pre-WWII ) at least once a week, and twice in one day in december. ( Busiest time )
They have to phase in the new system, because they still do not know how reliably it all scales. On 9/11 only a few ATC centers went on manual, while the automatic system was able to ground 80% of the planes in an hour.
Good to announce it now, in the least busiest month.
APPLY NOW! ATCs make $100k within 3 years, 18 to 31yo! I know two of them, and they are both millionaires.
But it was spam, from another account on the same isp.
I traced the IP, verified the headers, and got a canned reply.
Great technology, if only it would provide some benefit.
Boy, this makes for a perfect argument for using CVS for all your documents. Go ahead and take my laptop, I will be back in business in less than 1 hr. ( better yet, you may never need to take a laptop on board again! My CVS for my docs outgrew a 512Mb flash, so I store things on a 2GB now, except for my media, which I keep my Media stuff ( about 2GB ) on a ftp site.
/. a few years ago, about laptop hard disk reliability, and somebody replied how he checked everything he had into a CVS repositoary. Nice. Bet he still hasnt lost anything, and still dosen't care about losing his laptop.
... WHERE THE HELL IS HER LAPTOP GUYS?
There was a post on
The other consideration is
No, they just do a strip search.
The idea of PORN, or something akin to it.
Best dirsrubuted file system? None! Use Bittorrent, and fill the drives with backups. Do a fit match up... start from large to small. When something gets nocked off, you have just to get a torrent running, and in a few minutes Volia! ( but it will cause a bit of slow down, with all the traffic suddenly. )
Just be sure to close ALL torrent traffic to the outside, or someone else will 'share' your files... try looing for win.ini on the internet, you will get a huge suprise...
be sure also to AUDIT YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK FOR ACCESS RIGHTS, and all the most common mistakes...sharing 'C' and Administrator account...
AH! so you have confirmed my point exactly, albet for ubsurd reasons: Air resistance increases with the square of the cross section, i.e. as a object becomes larger, its air resistance grows, but as it gains in mass, its force due to also grows with the square of the mass...( Hmm Ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? Newtonian Mechanics? ). They are both proportional. But the air resistance is one of those problems, that people are still doing significant work on.
I did drop an ant in vaccum in college. 1m evacuated column, down to -100torr. Not the most powerfull vaccum, but enough with a college lab vacuum pump, that wouldt shatter the glass. The ant was killed rather quickly by the evaucation, but the body remained essentially unharmed by the 1m drop. A 1m drop for an elephant might severily injure it.
Again, strength like force due to gravity grows with the square of the mass.
And to be very strict about answering your question: "Just drop an ant through a ten stroy vaccum tube and see what happens." Altough it would be difficult to make an evaucted tube approximatly 46 meters in length, and to drop and ant in it, it would lacking any air resistance, be moving at >35m/sec. Pretty fast, and it would almost certainlly be damaged, but still have some sembelence of its structre, whereas if you dropped a dead elephant, you would have no idea what it was, other than some type of large red-blooded mammal.