Anything electronic depreciates in value like crazy. Its like cars, they do not hold value for the mile you drive them off the line.
My line to people who fail to grasp this concept is, "Look, its electronics, it losses 40-50% of its value the minute you takme it out of the box, and in the time it took to buy it, take it home, and open it, something better already came out."
Considering part of FreeBSD's project goals is to be the best UNIX system available for Intel(like) hardware, I would wager a big sum that it either works now, or is the developement cycle, being worked on furiously. Since 64 bit computing is where the intel/amd market is going, its likely where FreeBSD will go as well.
Oh no, they are using norse and Arthurian legend in a game? heaven forbid their be more than one game of that out there, next you'll be telling me that some company that puts out a world war 2 fps is gonna sue all the other companies that put out a ww2 fps.
jesus christ people, you didn't invent the legends, you based a game on them. Microsoft decided to do the same, for once in my life I am siding with microsoft.
That is it, from this day forth, let it be known that I created egyption history. My first order of business will be to sue the Toledo Museam of Art because they have an Egyption section featuring a MUMMY, and we all know that I thought of mummification first damnit!
Lawsuits lawsuits lawsuits, I f'ing swear. Companies don't make money by producing anything anymore, they just sue each other all day long. First we kill all the lawyers, then all the lawsuit happy morons in this god forsakken country, then we kill ALL CEO's and anyone who still works at SCO.
RotK clearly wouldn't have been much of a movie if the battle scenes hadn't been so good.
Whoah now, a movie good because of its special effects? Not that it has a plot or anything. But wait, I thought Tolkien was a geek super god, is your hero fallable? Gee, what a shame, maybe the damned movie will disapear off the face of uber hype sooner than the other two did.
nope, no bull, did it to see if I could. Then installed the det drivers and got amazing results.
dual cel 400, 384 ram, geforce 2, no drivers, will run in linux or 2k with that configuration. Mind you, its not pretty, all the eye candy is down low (not super low, but very close), but it still ran fast enough to play.
Christ, I used to run quake3 on a 2k box running a single 400 and a crappy 8 meg video card. Had to run it in software rendering, as the card didn't do anything great. Incidently, guy gave me the card swearing it would not run quake3.
Obviously a lot of people don't understand how to squeeze power out of an old machine. I'm too cheap to upgrade, gotten good at it.
Exactly, I can run Quake3 on my dual celeron 400, withOUT the accelerated drivers on my geforce 2, and get good results, install the nvidia det's and my performance is amazing.
If you cannot run q3 on a 1.7 ghz machine, then it has NO video card, I can't think of any other reason.
Hell, my dual 400 can run Unreal Tourney with a little work.
And yes, I would kill for more 1.7 ghz machines. I am still on a dual 400, and I can still play q3 on it!
This is all well and cute, but realistically speaking, no implementation of steganography is all that secure. Detection is fairly easy, and then a dictionary attack against the encrypted contents is used. [Link]
Its a twofold problem as I see it.
1. The hiding of encrypted data/images/text/whatever inside of an image file is based on the notion that security through obscurity raises the bar. Anyone who studies security knows that this is just not true. Since suspicious images are simple to detect, this layer of obscurity offers no real data protection than just encrypting the file and naming it "this-is-secure-data.blowfish". Its just a matter of what encryption method is used to secure the contents. Which brings me to my second point.
2. Since the basis of steganography is to hide information inside an image without disturbing the visual image, the size of the data contained within, from my understanding, is severely constrained. Thereby limiting the effectiveness of this technique in all but very large, suspicious, and still easily scanned images.
SO, by hiding one's data inside an image with this technique, one is left with a picture of a table that is just screaming to be scanned for its suspicious content.
Red Hat 7.X series support ends as of december 31st. That's less than a month away. I had one production 7.2 machine, and its been upgraded as of two days ago. Since Red Hat announced end of support, anyone running 7.X who gave a shit has been thinking about what to upgrade their systems to, and how to get it done by the end of December. And since that date is so close, a lot of those systems are no longer potential progeny support customers.
Now, maybe they announced this awhile back, and I am just now hearing about it via slashdot, lord knows slashdot is known for being the super fast news source, but if this is indeed a new developement, its a bit late.
I won't be needing their service, I'm upgraded, had I know three days ago, I might have thought otherwise.
Its funny, read back in his journal a few days before the photo and the results thereafter, he mentions the dangers of blogging, and what your boss might not like.
The trick is that it waits for 5 seconds in between each email address, giving the viewer the impression that the page is loading slow as balls for some reason. In theory, a spambot will sit there and wait for the page to load, then parse it, and follow any links to more pages. You have a link waiting that sends you to another site with the same CGI on it, they in turn pass the bot on, and etc....
Its all theory based on my limited knowlage of how spam bots work. But if it succeeds at loading up spam lists with tons of crap, we should all be doing it.
I may rewrite it to just insert tons of crap commented emails in all my main pages, make it even harder for the spammers to avoid.
Sure, its fine for bots that pull the raw file down and parse for addresses from it. But honestly, I am sure this can be beaten by something along the lines of:
lynx -dump <URL> | parseForEmails | spam!
I would imagine most of them attempt to extract from the html first, then parse it into human readable text, and check for more. I would, as it would kill your defence.
I'm sure if they do still work, it won't last, they'll soon end up on the "doesn't work, so don't try" list. And any attempts to fix it on the linux end, will result in many changes to the vpc to make them all annoying futile.
Its not even a question of who can do the job better, the internet is a tool of free information exchange first and foremost, and a commercial opurtunity secondly. You can still make cash without takling every single aspect of the net, and squeezing it dry.
As much as corps like VeriSign hate it, standards need to be enforced, and core infrastructure that everyone needs access to, technically oriented, or not, needs to stay in the hands of non-profit volunteers.
There is also the issue of their awful take on being a huge CA....
But I didn't disregard the advantages of anything, I disregard the advantages of e-books because of a physical limitation that dictates my actions despite a desire for O'Reilly books in digi format. Searching text on a computer does beat using an index, but if I am looking from one screen to another, yeah.... I'll go nuts in under a half hour.
Now, get me am e-book reader with a huge capacity, wafer thin size, low emission screen, and we'll talk. Or invent a cure for migraines. Either way, its time for me to get away from this screen.
Um, yeah. And advantages of food, clothing or appendicitis operations aside, I can't see why anyone would want that either. Methinks you have been shopping at Tautologies-r-Us.:)
Yeah, way to make almost no sense at all. I'll give it to you straight up, I suffer from migraines, searchable text, portability, not worth needing even more tylenol and other higher octane pain killers just for a little convienience. For as much as the formats may complement each other, I stare at too many screens per hour as is.
But this is slashdot, my opinion is, of course.... see signature.
The fact that it would be yet another backlit appliance that I stare at all day is my reason for having no desire to own one. I read even more than I stare at computer screens, and one huge bonus is that its not shining ta me saying, "I'm gonna give you a headache! bwahaha!"
Advantages of electronic text aside, I can't see why anyone would want one. Did I also mention I just love the feel of an actual book in my hands. On this matter, I'll stay in the paper world thanks.
What about all the web hosting companies that suggest you use your isp's outgoing mail server for all your sending mail needs, even for accounts they provide? And what of the people who do their mail off of a dynamically allocated IP, such as from a DSL or Cable line.
This assumes that all mail from a domain comes and goes from a central point of authority, but because of smtp's untrusted nature by design, people don't need to operate along those principles.
The one way for this to work is for all of those dsl and cable modem mail servers to go away, and all pop3 accounts also have to provide their users with the ability to send mail from the same, or a server with the same authority ion command. But if that were the case, it would probably be because smtp was designed with trust in mind. Since it wasn't this cannot work without fubar'ing a whole hell of a lot.
Not worth it. Just replace smtp, it neeed to be doen years ago, so about a decade from now.... maybe.
Okay, so I assume this person who sent this in uses Linux.
From the following statement:
Maybe we should all start to think about jumping ship?
I can conclude that the following is true:
1) The person is a follower, not a leader. 2) The person has huge self esteem issues. 3) the person is overly concerned with being with the in crowd. 4) the person should jump ship, because they probably cannot think for themselves and I don't want them on any boat I may be on, or floating next to, or in the same ocean with. I have enough superficial people in my life as is.
What is wrong with this guy? Is he so lost in sea of his own drool that he cannot fathom using software that isn't the biggest, best, and latest thing to hit the hype factory? Good god man, use the software that you like, and let other people use what they want to use. Don't let software demographics run your network/IT department/home computer!
bad spam is spam, all spam is bad, because even if I block it, it costs me money in bandwidth costs. and my upstream provider.
non annoying spam is spam that is caught by my block filters.
good spam is spam that only gets sent to aol users. so i don't have to deal with it, filter it, pay for its transport accross my network, etc.
better spam is spam that doesn't exist because the spammer realized what a dickhead he was and decided to get a real job where he doesn't make money by annoying the hell out of others.
the best spam is the empty spam can I am going to beat all spammers to death with someday, because we all know that they never realize they are dicks and decide to quit, they send more fucking spam.
Despite the fact that in all odds, a new hard drive will take its place inside a linux or OpenBSD box, if I were to buy one, I would have to choose without Lindows. This direct marketing stuff is getting out of hand, telephone calls during dinner that we are expected to just accept with good humor, bags of tree killing paper ads attached to my door, little nuggets of crap in my inbox wasting my isp's bandwidth and my time, and now this? Inferior OS's attached to a supposed blank hard drive.
I don't give business to companies that do this sort of thing. I live in an apartment complex where many college students exist. Therefore I get pizza ads on my front door all the f'ing time. Each one eliminates me as a customer, I won't eat there if I see an ad on my door from them. The same goes for Seagate, they wanna submit to the mass marketing god in a sick and unexciting new way? So be it, YOU JUST LOST YOURSELF A CUSTOMER!
I can only speak for vtun here, but from my expiriance, setting up a VPN for your first time is a bit rough.Hell, even when you've done it enough times that you know its caveats and snaffus like family, its still kind of a mean old hag of a bitch. VPN is a fairly complicated issue, and vtun seems to exist to simplify it for the masses. Except that a) the masses don't need vpn's, and b) they made a simple solution to a problem that requires a fairly complex answer and got an essentially wrong answer that provides no real protection.
Vtun was recomended to me by a friend, and upon using it, I feared that it was, quite frankly, far too easy to setup to be effective. You don't need to know a whole lot about networking, encryption, security, etc... to use it, and I feel that approach makes the entire package weaker, and sets an upper limit to just how effective it can be. Sure, zone alarm is easy to set up, but is it pf? is it ipf? Hell, is it iptables? Not at all, of course not.
The other one, I can't speak on, I'm not qualified, and despite this being the interweb, I refuse to pretend I know anything about it.
not spellchecked because work was awful, and I am going to bed....
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Anything electronic depreciates in value like crazy. Its like cars, they do not hold value for the mile you drive them off the line.
My line to people who fail to grasp this concept is, "Look, its electronics, it losses 40-50% of its value the minute you takme it out of the box, and in the time it took to buy it, take it home, and open it, something better already came out."
Why I never want to sell a) cars or b) computers.
Considering part of FreeBSD's project goals is to be the best UNIX system available for Intel(like) hardware, I would wager a big sum that it either works now, or is the developement cycle, being worked on furiously. Since 64 bit computing is where the intel/amd market is going, its likely where FreeBSD will go as well.
Oh no, they are using norse and Arthurian legend in a game? heaven forbid their be more than one game of that out there, next you'll be telling me that some company that puts out a world war 2 fps is gonna sue all the other companies that put out a ww2 fps.
jesus christ people, you didn't invent the legends, you based a game on them. Microsoft decided to do the same, for once in my life I am siding with microsoft.
That is it, from this day forth, let it be known that I created egyption history. My first order of business will be to sue the Toledo Museam of Art because they have an Egyption section featuring a MUMMY, and we all know that I thought of mummification first damnit!
Lawsuits lawsuits lawsuits, I f'ing swear. Companies don't make money by producing anything anymore, they just sue each other all day long. First we kill all the lawyers, then all the lawsuit happy morons in this god forsakken country, then we kill ALL CEO's and anyone who still works at SCO.
I would like to mention, my fever is at 103....
Whoah now, a movie good because of its special effects? Not that it has a plot or anything. But wait, I thought Tolkien was a geek super god, is your hero fallable? Gee, what a shame, maybe the damned movie will disapear off the face of uber hype sooner than the other two did.
Now I really don't wish to see this movie.
Don't they mean COFFEE?!?!?!
It just seems a little silly, like bubblegum flavored candy.
nope, no bull, did it to see if I could. Then installed the det drivers and got amazing results.
dual cel 400, 384 ram, geforce 2, no drivers, will run in linux or 2k with that configuration. Mind you, its not pretty, all the eye candy is down low (not super low, but very close), but it still ran fast enough to play.
Christ, I used to run quake3 on a 2k box running a single 400 and a crappy 8 meg video card. Had to run it in software rendering, as the card didn't do anything great. Incidently, guy gave me the card swearing it would not run quake3.
Obviously a lot of people don't understand how to squeeze power out of an old machine. I'm too cheap to upgrade, gotten good at it.
Exactly, I can run Quake3 on my dual celeron 400, withOUT the accelerated drivers on my geforce 2, and get good results, install the nvidia det's and my performance is amazing.
If you cannot run q3 on a 1.7 ghz machine, then it has NO video card, I can't think of any other reason.
Hell, my dual 400 can run Unreal Tourney with a little work.
And yes, I would kill for more 1.7 ghz machines. I am still on a dual 400, and I can still play q3 on it!
This is all well and cute, but realistically speaking, no implementation of steganography is all that secure. Detection is fairly easy, and then a dictionary attack against the encrypted contents is used. [Link]
Its a twofold problem as I see it.
1. The hiding of encrypted data/images/text/whatever inside of an image file is based on the notion that security through obscurity raises the bar. Anyone who studies security knows that this is just not true. Since suspicious images are simple to detect, this layer of obscurity offers no real data protection than just encrypting the file and naming it "this-is-secure-data.blowfish". Its just a matter of what encryption method is used to secure the contents. Which brings me to my second point.
2. Since the basis of steganography is to hide information inside an image without disturbing the visual image, the size of the data contained within, from my understanding, is severely constrained. Thereby limiting the effectiveness of this technique in all but very large, suspicious, and still easily scanned images.
SO, by hiding one's data inside an image with this technique, one is left with a picture of a table that is just screaming to be scanned for its suspicious content.
Red Hat 7.X series support ends as of december 31st. That's less than a month away. I had one production 7.2 machine, and its been upgraded as of two days ago. Since Red Hat announced end of support, anyone running 7.X who gave a shit has been thinking about what to upgrade their systems to, and how to get it done by the end of December. And since that date is so close, a lot of those systems are no longer potential progeny support customers.
Now, maybe they announced this awhile back, and I am just now hearing about it via slashdot, lord knows slashdot is known for being the super fast news source, but if this is indeed a new developement, its a bit late.
I won't be needing their service, I'm upgraded, had I know three days ago, I might have thought otherwise.
yeah, modded up, despite being very incorrect in that statement, I need to check my own facts.
Its funny, read back in his journal a few days before the photo and the results thereafter, he mentions the dangers of blogging, and what your boss might not like.
Take your own advice chief, sorry.
already do that, sometimes, i think using a robots.txt actually attrracts spammers, they seem to have no regard for them whatsoever.
I wrote a simple CGI page that spews forth about 100 very annoyingly random email address, such as:
t ...
hdyewjds@kfdjufkfdiu.com
jdydmjfud@jrjcufdk.ne
The trick is that it waits for 5 seconds in between each email address, giving the viewer the impression that the page is loading slow as balls for some reason. In theory, a spambot will sit there and wait for the page to load, then parse it, and follow any links to more pages. You have a link waiting that sends you to another site with the same CGI on it, they in turn pass the bot on, and etc....
Its all theory based on my limited knowlage of how spam bots work. But if it succeeds at loading up spam lists with tons of crap, we should all be doing it.
I may rewrite it to just insert tons of crap commented emails in all my main pages, make it even harder for the spammers to avoid.
Sure, its fine for bots that pull the raw file down and parse for addresses from it. But honestly, I am sure this can be beaten by something along the lines of:
lynx -dump <URL> | parseForEmails | spam!
I would imagine most of them attempt to extract from the html first, then parse it into human readable text, and check for more. I would, as it would kill your defence.
I'm sure if they do still work, it won't last, they'll soon end up on the "doesn't work, so don't try" list. And any attempts to fix it on the linux end, will result in many changes to the vpc to make them all annoying futile.
but I am in a captain obvious moment right now.
Its not even a question of who can do the job better, the internet is a tool of free information exchange first and foremost, and a commercial opurtunity secondly. You can still make cash without takling every single aspect of the net, and squeezing it dry.
As much as corps like VeriSign hate it, standards need to be enforced, and core infrastructure that everyone needs access to, technically oriented, or not, needs to stay in the hands of non-profit volunteers.
There is also the issue of their awful take on being a huge CA....
But I didn't disregard the advantages of anything, I disregard the advantages of e-books because of a physical limitation that dictates my actions despite a desire for O'Reilly books in digi format. Searching text on a computer does beat using an index, but if I am looking from one screen to another, yeah.... I'll go nuts in under a half hour.
Now, get me am e-book reader with a huge capacity, wafer thin size, low emission screen, and we'll talk. Or invent a cure for migraines. Either way, its time for me to get away from this screen.
Um, yeah. And advantages of food, clothing or appendicitis operations aside, I can't see why anyone would want that either. Methinks you have been shopping at Tautologies-r-Us. :)
Yeah, way to make almost no sense at all. I'll give it to you straight up, I suffer from migraines, searchable text, portability, not worth needing even more tylenol and other higher octane pain killers just for a little convienience. For as much as the formats may complement each other, I stare at too many screens per hour as is.
But this is slashdot, my opinion is, of course.... see signature.
The fact that it would be yet another backlit appliance that I stare at all day is my reason for having no desire to own one. I read even more than I stare at computer screens, and one huge bonus is that its not shining ta me saying, "I'm gonna give you a headache! bwahaha!"
Advantages of electronic text aside, I can't see why anyone would want one. Did I also mention I just love the feel of an actual book in my hands. On this matter, I'll stay in the paper world thanks.
What about all the web hosting companies that suggest you use your isp's outgoing mail server for all your sending mail needs, even for accounts they provide? And what of the people who do their mail off of a dynamically allocated IP, such as from a DSL or Cable line.
This assumes that all mail from a domain comes and goes from a central point of authority, but because of smtp's untrusted nature by design, people don't need to operate along those principles.
The one way for this to work is for all of those dsl and cable modem mail servers to go away, and all pop3 accounts also have to provide their users with the ability to send mail from the same, or a server with the same authority ion command. But if that were the case, it would probably be because smtp was designed with trust in mind. Since it wasn't this cannot work without fubar'ing a whole hell of a lot.
Not worth it. Just replace smtp, it neeed to be doen years ago, so about a decade from now.... maybe.
From the following statement:
I can conclude that the following is true:
1) The person is a follower, not a leader.
2) The person has huge self esteem issues.
3) the person is overly concerned with being with the in crowd.
4) the person should jump ship, because they probably cannot think for themselves and I don't want them on any boat I may be on, or floating next to, or in the same ocean with. I have enough superficial people in my life as is.
What is wrong with this guy? Is he so lost in sea of his own drool that he cannot fathom using software that isn't the biggest, best, and latest thing to hit the hype factory? Good god man, use the software that you like, and let other people use what they want to use. Don't let software demographics run your network/IT department/home computer!
My karma can take this, KILL ME MODS!!!!
bad spam is spam, all spam is bad, because even if I block it, it costs me money in bandwidth costs. and my upstream provider.
non annoying spam is spam that is caught by my block filters.
good spam is spam that only gets sent to aol users. so i don't have to deal with it, filter it, pay for its transport accross my network, etc.
better spam is spam that doesn't exist because the spammer realized what a dickhead he was and decided to get a real job where he doesn't make money by annoying the hell out of others.
the best spam is the empty spam can I am going to beat all spammers to death with someday, because we all know that they never realize they are dicks and decide to quit, they send more fucking spam.
spam spam spam spam, SHUTUP! spamity spam! wonderful SHUTUP!!!!!!
Despite the fact that in all odds, a new hard drive will take its place inside a linux or OpenBSD box, if I were to buy one, I would have to choose without Lindows. This direct marketing stuff is getting out of hand, telephone calls during dinner that we are expected to just accept with good humor, bags of tree killing paper ads attached to my door, little nuggets of crap in my inbox wasting my isp's bandwidth and my time, and now this? Inferior OS's attached to a supposed blank hard drive.
I don't give business to companies that do this sort of thing. I live in an apartment complex where many college students exist. Therefore I get pizza ads on my front door all the f'ing time. Each one eliminates me as a customer, I won't eat there if I see an ad on my door from them. The same goes for Seagate, they wanna submit to the mass marketing god in a sick and unexciting new way? So be it, YOU JUST LOST YOURSELF A CUSTOMER!
I can only speak for vtun here, but from my expiriance, setting up a VPN for your first time is a bit rough.Hell, even when you've done it enough times that you know its caveats and snaffus like family, its still kind of a mean old hag of a bitch. VPN is a fairly complicated issue, and vtun seems to exist to simplify it for the masses. Except that a) the masses don't need vpn's, and b) they made a simple solution to a problem that requires a fairly complex answer and got an essentially wrong answer that provides no real protection.
Vtun was recomended to me by a friend, and upon using it, I feared that it was, quite frankly, far too easy to setup to be effective. You don't need to know a whole lot about networking, encryption, security, etc... to use it, and I feel that approach makes the entire package weaker, and sets an upper limit to just how effective it can be. Sure, zone alarm is easy to set up, but is it pf? is it ipf? Hell, is it iptables? Not at all, of course not.
The other one, I can't speak on, I'm not qualified, and despite this being the interweb, I refuse to pretend I know anything about it.
not spellchecked because work was awful, and I am going to bed....
My god, mod me back down, I didn't realize how much caffiene I had before I typed that. I'm a bad typist normally, but jesus.