Perhaps a healthy dose of fiber would help, too. (well, even if it doesn't increase your bandwidth, at least fiber will make your, urm, input/output go a lot faster;-)
Within the past couple years though I've seen a major shift for them. Their OEM drives are still of questionable integrity, though nothing like they used to be. But their retail drives have been damn good to me.
Same story here. I'm not sure how good OEM drives are (of any brand!), but as far as retail goes - WD is my personal favorite. The three Maxtor retail drives I've had both failed. I bought a 2-gig, it failed, RMAed, got a 6-gig, it failed, but just gave up on it. I've bought about 9 or 10 retail WD IDE drives over the last 6 years or so. Only one of them failed, and the RMA replacement works great.
That's a really interesting idea. How would you do it, though? Digital Restrictions Management
requires some type of data encryption in order to function. The software obscures the decryption key
in order to enforce the digital restrictions. If someone wrote an open-source restrictions-management
system, the decryption keys would no longer be obscured, since you could simply glean them from the
source code. I'm not sure there's a way around this problem.
I did read the article (how else would I have known the facts referenced in my post?), but I missed that particular detail. You're right - the solution you suggest is better, as the one I gave doesn't fully address the situation.
You're right - his mail server qualifies as an open relay because it did not do a reverse-DNS on the originating IP address. He should have configured it so that before performing a relay on any message, it looks up the DNS name of the sending host's IP address and verifies that it exists on the relay domain.
I configured BSD sendmail this way a few years ago...in fact, I think that's pretty close to its default configuration, you just have to tweak a few options. The guy in this article just doesn't understand what he's doing, and would rather bash so-called "vigilante"-ism (which this certainly isn't) than admit he's an arrogant, incompetent sysadmin.
This is the future of space travel. I can't download the article for some reason (/.'ed already?) Once businesses get interested in traveling to the moon, progress will begin to pick up where NASA's work ended. I think this is a good thing.
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That's a really good idea. I know what you mean, too - I got a copy of "Risk" from hasbro interactive. The AI was so hard on its "Easy" skill setting that I almost gave up on the game. But once I finally beat it a few times, I found that "Hard" wasn't much more difficult than "Easy". I really would have liked it if "Easy" would have made the computer a moron, and "Hard" make it into an experienced grand-master, with several different levels in between. Same thing goes for {war|star}craft - I can hardly ever beat the computer, and I really wish they had a configurable skill setting.
Taking out the trash is definitely a non-essential task. It's much easier to just pile it in up to the very brim of the garbage can, stomp on it a few times (remembering to carefully avoid the streams of grease and rotten tomato juice that jettison from the containers under your foot) and repeat the process. Since there is a very large amount of unused space between an atom's election and the nucleus, you can continue to fill and compress the same canister for some length of time. You will eventually end up with..you guessed it..Neutronium - a substance so dense that nothing can possibly compress it further. At that point, you simply sell the neutronium on e-Bay to various scientist hobbiests on the internet and start over.
I stand by what I said - this is a patch for Windows NT 4.0 released in 2002. That's an awfully long time to let this bug stay in the codebase. My statement is that Microsoft won't fix things without a working exploit published in the wild, and this rather proves than disputes my point. And there's no mention of Windows 9x. Unless I'm mistaken, win9x could still be vulnerable to this bug 7 years after its discovery.
But this is the only way that Microsoft will ever fix the bug. You know how unresponsive they are when a security vulerability is discovered in something like NetBIOS. The only thing that they patch quickly is remote roots in IIS.
I've known that this is possible for some time - I once had a machine with bad RAM (altough I didn't know it at the time) While copying files between it and some other system, the other system (with good ram) suddenly blue-screened. Granted, it was windows 95, but I spent some time trying to figure out what sequence of SMB datagrams would kill a win9x box. Now I have a tool that will give me the information I had been looking for all those years ago.
Lots of games are written for Windows. Most of them, in fact. If there's no Linux developer toolkit, it's just because ATI catering to the bigger audience. But having said that, you're partially right - I personally do no development on Windows at all, and would much rather see Linux tools than Windows. (probably the majority of the slashdot folks are in this category, or want to / soon will be)
I know what you mean...I broke off part of the mounting clip on my CPU socket when I tried to put on the heat sink. I just left it that way, because it was so damn hard to get it on in the first place. Maybe opteron will be a little bit nicer.
For all those who like to listen to CDs on the road, but haven't found a good, clean solution - this is
what you've been waiting for. My car, like many others in its price range, has a cassette deck but no CD
player. I don't feel like springing for an in-dash MP3 player yet. The typical solution is to get a
CD/mp3/whatever player with a car kit and 12VDC cigarette-lighter
adapter. While this works, it leads to the "messy dash" syndrome mentioned in the article, possibility of
breakin and theft, and the clincher: it
requires user interaction to operate. My current setup requires me to 1) Start the car, 2) Open the glovebox
where my mp3 player is, 3) Push "play", and wait a few seconds for it to "boot up", then finally 4) continue
driving. If I want to put the player on "shuffle" or something, it takes even longer. It's a small
annoyance, but enough of one that I finally decided to rip it all out and listen to the radio instead.
This device might be exactly what I'm looking for. It hold 96M of audio, which is enough for
an hour or so of somewhat-good quality music. There is no intervention, because it starts playing music
prompted by the servo in your cassette deck. Theft is unlikely, becuase your cassette deck will very likely
keep the whole thing concealed by design. Messy dash? A thing of the past.
Frankly, I'm sold on the idea, and as soon as I have a spare ~$200, I will probably go pick this gizmo
up.
vis. what happens next, if you actually do try to sign up. (yes, I feel like I'm selling my soul - but I really want that source code.)
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Microsoft®.NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current
Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or
later.
I'm using Opera 6.0. Any http/user-agent strings other than MSIE 5.0 will generate this error.
I totally agree with you here. I use Opera with javascript.open disabled, (except when I need it for something), and then one day I went onto a friend's computer to look for something. The only browser they had was Internet Explorer, and it blows my mind how abusive these ads are. Well, I guess the ads themselves don't blow my mind, but the fact that people will put up with them does.
It's quite sad, really. There are those out there who use Linux, KDE | Gnome, {Star|Open}Office, etc. and gently, peacefully encourage others to do so. Then there are those who open bash Microsoft in unfounded vehement tirades or praise Linux with exuberant hyperbole. The latter will go home in the evening, fire up their aging copy of Win98, browse to Slashdot with Internet Explorer, and in the most blatent show of hypocracy available, vote for Microsoft Office as their favorite office suite.
We're also working with others
throughout the industry to improve
Internet protocols to stop email that could
propagate misleading
information or malicious
code...
I hope you don't actually
buy into this! Allowing Microsoft to 'improve'
internet protocols would be releasing a bull in a
china shop. Besides, who is responsible for the
vast majority of email that propagates
misleading information or malicious code? Hint:
It ain't Pine.
I used to register microsoft {soft|hard}ware when I purchased it, but I stopped a while ago when I got spammed like this. Anyway...
The scariest part of this e-mail is Microsoft's blame on "loosely-knit" services as a key source of vulerabilities. I hold the belief that homogenous, not hetergeneous systems are more vulerable to attack.
The implication is that Microsoft thinks an All-Microsoft shop is a secure shop. I suppose their newly-created inititive to focus on security has twin goals: Increase the reliability of their software, and push customers into an all-Microsoft environment.
The end result will be a much more vulnerable network. Not necessisarily because of using Microsoft software, but because of keeping everything homogenous.
I do the exact same thing. I consider it "voting against Verizon" with my dollars.
I may come back some day - if they get rid of those nonsensical taxes, telemarkets, and make every call a local call nationwide, and repeal this silly FCC decision.
The work that Miguel is doing is admirable - he
obviously has the talent and motivation to achieve
quite a technical feat. Since the.NET platform will inevitably become popular as developers are brainwashed, strongarmed, forced by managers into using it.
So the value of running.NET applications on Linux clearly speaks for itself. Not that I think this is a "good" thing at all, but maybe when MicrosoftOffice.NET comes out, then Linux will finally be a contender on the desktop.
But none of that will ever be a reality. Microsoft has a covert plan somewhere to torpedo any potential threats to its control on the desktop.
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Perhaps a healthy dose of fiber would help, too. (well, even if it doesn't increase your bandwidth, at least fiber will make your, urm, input/output go a lot faster ;-)
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Within the past couple years though I've seen a major shift for them. Their OEM drives are still of questionable integrity, though nothing like they used to be. But their retail drives have been damn good to me.
Same story here. I'm not sure how good OEM drives are (of any brand!), but as far as retail goes - WD is my personal favorite. The three Maxtor retail drives I've had both failed. I bought a 2-gig, it failed, RMAed, got a 6-gig, it failed, but just gave up on it. I've bought about 9 or 10 retail WD IDE drives over the last 6 years or so. Only one of them failed, and the RMA replacement works great.
That's a really interesting idea. How would you do it, though? Digital Restrictions Management requires some type of data encryption in order to function. The software obscures the decryption key in order to enforce the digital restrictions. If someone wrote an open-source restrictions-management system, the decryption keys would no longer be obscured, since you could simply glean them from the source code. I'm not sure there's a way around this problem.
I did read the article (how else would I have known the facts referenced in my post?), but I missed that particular detail. You're right - the solution you suggest is better, as the one I gave doesn't fully address the situation.
You're right - his mail server qualifies as an open relay because it did not do a reverse-DNS on the originating IP address. He should have configured it so that before performing a relay on any message, it looks up the DNS name of the sending host's IP address and verifies that it exists on the relay domain.
I configured BSD sendmail this way a few years ago...in fact, I think that's pretty close to its default configuration, you just have to tweak a few options. The guy in this article just doesn't understand what he's doing, and would rather bash so-called "vigilante"-ism (which this certainly isn't) than admit he's an arrogant, incompetent sysadmin.
What does 'PSS' stand for in that Microsoft Knowledgebase article? [P]lease [s]top [s]niffing? ([s]poofing? '[s]ploiting?)
This is the future of space travel. I can't download the article for some reason ( /.'ed already?) Once businesses get interested in traveling to the moon, progress will begin to pick up where NASA's work ended. I think this is a good thing.
That's a really good idea. I know what you mean, too - I got a copy of "Risk" from hasbro interactive. The AI was so hard on its "Easy" skill setting that I almost gave up on the game. But once I finally beat it a few times, I found that "Hard" wasn't much more difficult than "Easy". I really would have liked it if "Easy" would have made the computer a moron, and "Hard" make it into an experienced grand-master, with several different levels in between. Same thing goes for {war|star}craft - I can hardly ever beat the computer, and I really wish they had a configurable skill setting.
Taking out the trash is definitely a non-essential task. It's much easier to just pile it in up to the very brim of the garbage can, stomp on it a few times (remembering to carefully avoid the streams of grease and rotten tomato juice that jettison from the containers under your foot) and repeat the process. Since there is a very large amount of unused space between an atom's election and the nucleus, you can continue to fill and compress the same canister for some length of time. You will eventually end up with..you guessed it..Neutronium - a substance so dense that nothing can possibly compress it further. At that point, you simply sell the neutronium on e-Bay to various scientist hobbiests on the internet and start over.
The asteroid creates a whole 0.00000000001 m/s^2 pull. Very significant :-P
With my luck, that'll be just enough to knock the earth off-orbit and send us all hurlting into the sun. :)
I stand by what I said - this is a patch for Windows NT 4.0 released in 2002. That's an awfully long time to let this bug stay in the codebase. My statement is that Microsoft won't fix things without a working exploit published in the wild, and this rather proves than disputes my point. And there's no mention of Windows 9x. Unless I'm mistaken, win9x could still be vulnerable to this bug 7 years after its discovery.
But this is the only way that Microsoft will ever fix the bug. You know how unresponsive they are when a security vulerability is discovered in something like NetBIOS. The only thing that they patch quickly is remote roots in IIS.
I've known that this is possible for some time - I once had a machine with bad RAM (altough I didn't know it at the time) While copying files between it and some other system, the other system (with good ram) suddenly blue-screened. Granted, it was windows 95, but I spent some time trying to figure out what sequence of SMB datagrams would kill a win9x box. Now I have a tool that will give me the information I had been looking for all those years ago.
Lots of games are written for Windows. Most of them, in fact. If there's no Linux developer toolkit, it's just because ATI catering to the bigger audience. But having said that, you're partially right - I personally do no development on Windows at all, and would much rather see Linux tools than Windows. (probably the majority of the slashdot folks are in this category, or want to / soon will be)
I know what you mean...I broke off part of the mounting clip on my CPU socket when I tried to put on the heat sink. I just left it that way, because it was so damn hard to get it on in the first place. Maybe opteron will be a little bit nicer.
For all those who like to listen to CDs on the road, but haven't found a good, clean solution - this is what you've been waiting for. My car, like many others in its price range, has a cassette deck but no CD player. I don't feel like springing for an in-dash MP3 player yet. The typical solution is to get a CD/mp3/whatever player with a car kit and 12VDC cigarette-lighter adapter. While this works, it leads to the "messy dash" syndrome mentioned in the article, possibility of breakin and theft, and the clincher: it requires user interaction to operate. My current setup requires me to 1) Start the car, 2) Open the glovebox where my mp3 player is, 3) Push "play", and wait a few seconds for it to "boot up", then finally 4) continue driving. If I want to put the player on "shuffle" or something, it takes even longer. It's a small annoyance, but enough of one that I finally decided to rip it all out and listen to the radio instead.
This device might be exactly what I'm looking for. It hold 96M of audio, which is enough for an hour or so of somewhat-good quality music. There is no intervention, because it starts playing music prompted by the servo in your cassette deck. Theft is unlikely, becuase your cassette deck will very likely keep the whole thing concealed by design. Messy dash? A thing of the past.
Frankly, I'm sold on the idea, and as soon as I have a spare ~$200, I will probably go pick this gizmo up.
vis. what happens next, if you actually do try to sign up. (yes, I feel like I'm selling my soul - but I really want that source code.)
I'm using Opera 6.0. Any http/user-agent strings other than MSIE 5.0 will generate this error.
I totally agree with you here. I use Opera with javascript.open disabled, (except when I need it for something), and then one day I went onto a friend's computer to look for something. The only browser they had was Internet Explorer, and it blows my mind how abusive these ads are. Well, I guess the ads themselves don't blow my mind, but the fact that people will put up with them does.
Damning evidence.
It's quite sad, really. There are those out there who use Linux, KDE | Gnome, {Star|Open}Office, etc. and gently, peacefully encourage others to do so. Then there are those who open bash Microsoft in unfounded vehement tirades or praise Linux with exuberant hyperbole. The latter will go home in the evening, fire up their aging copy of Win98, browse to Slashdot with Internet Explorer, and in the most blatent show of hypocracy available, vote for Microsoft Office as their favorite office suite.
That makes sense. Maybe it's not quite the conspiracy I made it out to be.
btw, that's the most kind, gentle correction I've ever received on Slashdot. :)
I hope you don't actually buy into this! Allowing Microsoft to 'improve' internet protocols would be releasing a bull in a china shop. Besides, who is responsible for the vast majority of email that propagates misleading information or malicious code? Hint: It ain't Pine.
I used to register microsoft {soft|hard}ware when I purchased it, but I stopped a while ago when I got spammed like this. Anyway...
The scariest part of this e-mail is Microsoft's blame on "loosely-knit" services as a key source of vulerabilities. I hold the belief that homogenous, not hetergeneous systems are more vulerable to attack.
The implication is that Microsoft thinks an All-Microsoft shop is a secure shop. I suppose their newly-created inititive to focus on security has twin goals: Increase the reliability of their software, and push customers into an all-Microsoft environment.
The end result will be a much more vulnerable network. Not necessisarily because of using Microsoft software, but because of keeping everything homogenous.
I do the exact same thing. I consider it "voting against Verizon" with my dollars.
I may come back some day - if they get rid of those nonsensical taxes, telemarkets, and make every call a local call nationwide, and repeal this silly FCC decision.
And Slim left town.
The work that Miguel is doing is admirable - he obviously has the talent and motivation to achieve quite a technical feat. Since the .NET platform will inevitably become popular as developers are brainwashed, strongarmed, forced by managers into using it.
So the value of running .NET applications on Linux clearly speaks for itself. Not that I think this is a "good" thing at all, but maybe when MicrosoftOffice.NET comes out, then Linux will finally be a contender on the desktop.
But none of that will ever be a reality. Microsoft has a covert plan somewhere to torpedo any potential threats to its control on the desktop.
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