You're quite right.. Just one thing that came to my mind: If the crackers are so good that they can do what they want (or at least that's what the banks think they are), why don't they just transfer the amount of money they want to their own accounts? Why go all the trouble in blackmailing the banks? Makes me wonder if a bank would give me money if I sent them a note I'll crash their machines if they don't.. --
There is only support for Rage128 based cards. It's not nice to get ones hopes up by announcing "support for Rage cards" when there isn't one. I myself have Ati rage pro turbo -type of card, and I still have to use Accelerated X to get a decent support for it. (Yes, I know it works with Xfrees mach64 servers, but they are sloooow...) --
Re:nice, slashdot effect
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BTW anyone think of a solution to the/.effect ? Surely it's just going to get worse.
Sure. Mirroring the website before posting the url, and pointing the url to the mirror. --
Does this mean that we should start clear-signing our posts? I think it might be a good idea, except we already have to use a password to get into the system. Also, it might make the posts longer than they need to be (with the signature). Anyhow, I think adding public keys to the user profile was a great idea. (Thanks, Rob!)
I think this has been discussed before, and the result then was clearly: no. We already have to log in with a password, so signing our posts wouldn't improve much anything. We already can trust that the sender is "real". Besides adding a GPG signature would require lots of cut&paste work, making posting much more difficult a job. On the other hand, having those keys in the User Info is clearly a good thing, as it serves as a place to look for them when needed. --
Let'em call me an addict - but I need Internet in my work! I get paid for it! --
Re:My "old" computer gets lots of use
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I'm running a 150 (clocked to 180) With 96MB RAM that used to be a p75, and it runs great. My Laptop is a 266MMX with 64MB RAM, and I HARDLY consider it obsolete.
I myself have a P133 (can't overclock it easily with my current mother board) with 80MB RAM and I wouldn't call it obsolete. Using ATI Xpert@Play it even runs most of todays games quite well (though I rarely play with it). Basically it runs everything I need it to - word processing (even M$ Word, but I try to avoid it), spreadsheets (even Excel which I also try to avoid..). Win 98 is a bit slow, but Win 95 runs smoothly. And since 98% of time it runs Linux, I have no problem using it as my primary workstation while it runs a www-server (I don't even notice some 20 hits/second, even though it's started from inetd), ftp-server, samba, etc. --
I just have to whine - just when I FINALLY got some ISA ISDN cards this morning, what happens? Almost simultunaeosly comes 2.2.11 with support for those teles pci -cards too.. --
From the GUIs I've used, X is the only truly networking one. Running a program on a different computer is no problem at all. Yes, I know there are extensions to even Windows to run programs on other computers, but they all basically suck. There may be other windowing systems which are better on some other areas (like speed), but these two are the main factors that count for me: 1) networking (I run a LOT of programs on a LOT of machines) 2) configurability (I wish I could have window maker on my win98;-).
It's obvious that X is not perfect. There are many things that should be improved, basically most of those things are due to the fact that X is old. But on the other hand there is no better alternative. If one wishes to have a better GUI than X, he has to make a new one. A new one with: 1) networking, I'd say exactly the same way as in X 2) Configurability - this includes two things: a) total configurability (something X has, and Windows lacks) b) easy configurability (something X lacks) 3) speed - there are already some quite snappy X-servers, and XFree 4 should be fast enough (since the rendering goes directly to the video card), if the programs take advantage of it. The system should however use direct rendering model always when it's possible, even if running programs which don't know about it. This brings me to 4) compatibility - Launching a new GUI is impossible if it has no programs to run with it. Therefore it should be possible to run X programs with it. This should be rather easy, but having it running X programs faster than current X servers isn't easy:-)
Now, someone might ask why I've said "Windows" several times in my text, and not once mentioned his favourite GUI, which of course is OS/2 PM, Amigas GUI or some other ultrahyperfantasically great windowing system. Well. Take a look at the sales figures. --
What if I live in Cuba or Iraq and have a web page with the movie? Would it be possible for someone to prevent that from being released? How big is this thing anyway? And where could it be retrieved from? I can't think of many ISP's or anyone who just has an extra 25Gb to spare for just one file. Normal vcd movies take about 1.3GB - so no need for your 25GB HDD.. but basically you're right, you can't get such a space from most ISP's easily. --
I agree. I actually think the development of the PC in this respect has been slightly faster, up until now anyway. Think back to the days of the NES. If memory serves me right, those games seemed pretty advanced compared to what you could do on a PC. Yet right now (until PS2 anyway), I think most people would agree that the PC is superior. True.. But as you can see I didn't say "PC" in my post - PC wasn't originally developed to be used as a game machine at all. At that time there were other home computers which had games similar to NES - the only thing they lacked was Super Mario:-) --
The main difference between "home computers" and "game machines" have been the same for as long as I can remember; the only thing you can do with a game machine is to play games. At the time a game machine comes to market it has superior technology compared to the computers at that time - at least with a reasonable price. In about 6 months the computers become better - and soon there is a new game machine out which is better. Many people have claimed that game machines would have been developing faster than home computers - I don't think so. The development speed is the same for both; hey, they use the same technology after all! --
But here's a question: why can't radio stations, who have a license or something to broadcast 'singles' over the air, 'broadcast' them over the net via mp3 for free?
Sure they can broadcast those singles, as a "radio show", even in mp3 format. But not for free though - they do have to pay for it. They even have to pay for broadcasting them over the air (at least in here in Finland they do..). And having a repository of mp3 files would be a totally different thing.. --
I find it really amusing, that such a group claims to be founded in 1984 - and they still, after 15 years, don't have anything better to do than write trojan horses? Writing that kind of stuff is something I would believe about 14-15 old kids do, so a little calculation - they formed cDc about the same minute they were born.. Quite an impressive achievement! --
Go ahead and increase the swap size.. The reason you don't see more than 2 MB of swap usage is not because you have unbelieable light software - it's because you have too small swap size. I myself used to have a "small" swap too, and linux almost never swapped more than 2MB. Then I increased it to be 160MB (I have 80MB memory), and even as we speak Linux has swapped out 26MB. This is because Linux behaves differently if it has lot's of space to swap on or if it hasn't. If Linux hasn't got a space to swap on and the memory becomes full, it simply throws some unused stuff "out". If it has enough swap space, it swaps in the same situation. And since when the stuff is again required it's faster to load it from the swap than from the disk (yes, I know, the swap is located on the disk too) this is the preferred method. --
Bovine fought the good fight, fought hard and WON. Now it's time to move on.
You are definitely right. Cracking rc5 isn't really useful any more, since the point has already been made. Looking for aliens isn't much more useful, at least when seti@home send the same blocks to many clients.. Distributed.net should find something new to do - OGR sounds nice. But the fact is that we started cracking rc5 - and I like finishing what I've started. --
What if we (read: the world outside the USA) decided to start restricting processor, software etc. sales to USA. No longer cheap CPU's made in far east for you..
The Point:
The USA doesn't really do that much of hardware and software that they could really restrict anyones access to anything. They only block themselves out of the market. But that's only good for us:-) --
Re:There's a little more info in the Bugtraq post.
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It was rather a fast bug fix really.. Last about the last thing I saw before going to sleep was that bugtraq post about the bug - and today as I wake up I get the fix..:-)
Slashdot Mirror
You're quite right..
Just one thing that came to my mind: If the crackers are so good that they can do what they want (or at least that's what the banks think they are), why don't they just transfer the amount of money they want to their own accounts? Why go all the trouble in blackmailing the banks? Makes me wonder if a bank would give me money if I sent them a note I'll crash their machines if they don't..
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There is only support for Rage128 based cards. It's not nice to get ones hopes up by announcing "support for Rage cards" when there isn't one. I myself have Ati rage pro turbo -type of card, and I still have to use Accelerated X to get a decent support for it. (Yes, I know it works with Xfrees mach64 servers, but they are sloooow...)
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BTW anyone think of a solution to the /.effect ? Surely it's just going to get worse.
Sure. Mirroring the website before posting the url, and pointing the url to the mirror.
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Does this mean that we should start clear-signing our posts? I think it might be a good idea, except we already have to use a password to get into the system. Also, it might make the posts longer than they need to be (with the signature). Anyhow, I think adding public keys to the user profile was a great idea. (Thanks, Rob!)
I think this has been discussed before, and the result then was clearly: no. We already have to log in with a password, so signing our posts wouldn't improve much anything. We already can trust that the sender is "real". Besides adding a GPG signature would require lots of cut&paste work, making posting much more difficult a job.
On the other hand, having those keys in the User Info is clearly a good thing, as it serves as a place to look for them when needed.
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I had the same comment twice twice ! If that's not a bug then what is..?
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I'm running a 150 (clocked to 180) With 96MB RAM that used to be a p75, and it runs great. My Laptop is a 266MMX with 64MB RAM, and I HARDLY consider it obsolete.
I myself have a P133 (can't overclock it easily with my current mother board) with 80MB RAM and I wouldn't call it obsolete. Using ATI Xpert@Play it even runs most of todays games quite well (though I rarely play with it). Basically it runs everything I need it to - word processing (even M$ Word, but I try to avoid it), spreadsheets (even Excel which I also try to avoid..). Win 98 is a bit slow, but Win 95 runs smoothly. And since 98% of time it runs Linux, I have no problem using it as my primary workstation while it runs a www-server (I don't even notice some 20 hits/second, even though it's started from inetd), ftp-server, samba, etc.
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I just have to whine - just when I FINALLY got some ISA ISDN cards this morning, what happens? Almost simultunaeosly comes 2.2.11 with support for those teles pci -cards too..
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From the GUIs I've used, X is the only truly networking one. Running a program on a different computer is no problem at all. Yes, I know there are extensions to even Windows to run programs on other computers, but they all basically suck. ;-).
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There may be other windowing systems which are better on some other areas (like speed), but these two are the main factors that count for me:
1) networking (I run a LOT of programs on a LOT of machines)
2) configurability (I wish I could have window maker on my win98
It's obvious that X is not perfect. There are many things that should be improved, basically most of those things are due to the fact that X is old. But on the other hand there is no better alternative. If one wishes to have a better GUI than X, he has to make a new one. A new one with:
1) networking, I'd say exactly the same way as in X
2) Configurability - this includes two things: a) total configurability (something X has, and Windows lacks) b) easy configurability (something X lacks)
3) speed - there are already some quite snappy X-servers, and XFree 4 should be fast enough (since the rendering goes directly to the video card), if the programs take advantage of it. The system should however use direct rendering model always when it's possible, even if running programs which don't know about it. This brings me to
4) compatibility - Launching a new GUI is impossible if it has no programs to run with it. Therefore it should be possible to run X programs with it. This should be rather easy, but having it running X programs faster than current X servers isn't easy
Now, someone might ask why I've said "Windows" several times in my text, and not once mentioned his favourite GUI, which of course is OS/2 PM, Amigas GUI or some other ultrahyperfantasically great windowing system. Well. Take a look at the sales figures.
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What if I live in Cuba or Iraq and have a web page with the movie? Would it be possible for someone to prevent that from being released? How big is this thing anyway? And where could it be retrieved from? I can't think of many ISP's or anyone who just has an extra 25Gb to spare for just one file.
Normal vcd movies take about 1.3GB - so no need for your 25GB HDD.. but basically you're right, you can't get such a space from most ISP's easily.
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I agree. I actually think the development of the PC in this respect has been slightly faster, up until now anyway. Think back to the days of the NES. If memory serves me right, those games seemed pretty advanced compared to what you could do on a PC. Yet right now (until PS2 anyway), I think most people would agree that the PC is superior. :-)
True.. But as you can see I didn't say "PC" in my post - PC wasn't originally developed to be used as a game machine at all. At that time there were other home computers which had games similar to NES - the only thing they lacked was Super Mario
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The main difference between "home computers" and "game machines" have been the same for as long as I can remember; the only thing you can do with a game machine is to play games. At the time a game machine comes to market it has superior technology compared to the computers at that time - at least with a reasonable price. In about 6 months the computers become better - and soon there is a new game machine out which is better. Many people have claimed that game machines would have been developing faster than home computers - I don't think so. The development speed is the same for both; hey, they use the same technology after all!
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But here's a question: why can't radio stations, who have a license or something to broadcast 'singles' over the air, 'broadcast' them over the net via mp3 for free?
Sure they can broadcast those singles, as a "radio show", even in mp3 format. But not for free though - they do have to pay for it. They even have to pay for broadcasting them over the air (at least in here in Finland they do..). And having a repository of mp3 files would be a totally different thing..
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That doesn't work either.. what's the correct url?
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connection refused isn't much of a show..
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I find it really amusing, that such a group claims to be founded in 1984 - and they still, after 15 years, don't have anything better to do than write trojan horses? Writing that kind of stuff is something I would believe about 14-15 old kids do, so a little calculation - they formed cDc about the same minute they were born.. Quite an impressive achievement!
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Go ahead and increase the swap size.. The reason you don't see more than 2 MB of swap usage is not because you have unbelieable light software - it's because you have too small swap size.
I myself used to have a "small" swap too, and linux almost never swapped more than 2MB. Then I increased it to be 160MB (I have 80MB memory), and even as we speak Linux has swapped out 26MB. This is because Linux behaves differently if it has lot's of space to swap on or if it hasn't. If Linux hasn't got a space to swap on and the memory becomes full, it simply throws some unused stuff "out". If it has enough swap space, it swaps in the same situation. And since when the stuff is again required it's faster to load it from the swap than from the disk (yes, I know, the swap is located on the disk too) this is the preferred method.
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Bovine fought the good fight, fought hard and
WON. Now it's time to move on.
You are definitely right. Cracking rc5 isn't really useful any more, since the point has already been made. Looking for aliens isn't much more useful, at least when seti@home send the same blocks to many clients.. Distributed.net should find something new to do - OGR sounds nice. But the fact is that we started cracking rc5 - and I like finishing what I've started.
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The Point:
The USA doesn't really do that much of hardware and software that they could really restrict anyones access to anything. They only block themselves out of the market. But that's only good for us
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It was rather a fast bug fix really.. Last about the last thing I saw before going to sleep was that bugtraq post about the bug - and today as I wake up I get the fix.. :-)