Hell yeah I'd rather pay for the window. That's overwith real fast, whereas 2 year probation means no more quake3 and possibly missing out on the new Doom? And missing all those late nights of coding and hacking? Forget it! I'm 15, I'm stupid, I know I'm stupid, punish me and get it overwith so I can learn from my mistakes and give another go at things. Do a bad thing online now and your whole life could get ruined, or at least seriously set back.
Maybe if people didn't run such horribly insecure websites, then they would get taken over by 15 script kiddies. Here's a hint admins: try those bugtraq scripts, etc out for yourself on your own servers. See what you can do and learn. And then secure the damn things. I know your time is precious, and the web server currently "works as is". But seriously, take a few days a month to try hacking stuff, that's your job.
I can vouche for this. One I figured out that I needed to turn off TLS, all secure stuff works fine, even Snake Oil, and sites using the wrong key and self signed keys.:)
Edit-->Preferences->Privacy and Security->SSL, it's the 3rd option from the top, uncheck "Enable TLS"
I never knew about installing into an empty dir... I've always installed into the same dir and never had a problem. I'm a "just keep on clicking next" type person, if I have a problem, then I reinstall and go back and read.:) You have to hit me over the head with a sledge hammer if you want to catch my attention in an installer.
BTW, the linux gui installer pops up a box prompting you to "delete your old mozilla dir", or "cancel" if you install into the same dir. I'm assuming this isn't possible under windows due to "files being in use" or something equally retarded that linux has no problems with.
I always use the binary executable installers, they're usually smaller anyway:)
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Hmmm cept the multitrillion digit number's offset would probably be larger. I realize you were kidding, but I got intrigued for a split second there.:)
I wonder if any sort of compression alorithm could do such a thing. With enough horse power, could we record all the steps to find the random sequence of digits in a series of known non-repeating contants or whatever? Maybe bzip2 -9 the data first to get it as small as possible first.:) Of course it would take enourmous horse power to decompress it also, but who's to say we won't have this kind of computer speed in 50 years or more?
I was thinking the same thing... Can we find the gzipped source of decss in pi and then state the number at which the source code begins and the length? Then all the decompressor would need to do is calucalate arbitrary digits of pi and starting a given number and for a given length. (there's already algorithms for calulating stand alone digits of pi at a given place) And voila!
This may have already been said, but I'm lazy, and there's too many comments to read on/. for me to check, I just read this thread.:)
The funny thing about the CD Macrovision protection is that it appears that there's no way to tell if the CD has Macrovision errors on it or not, so there's no way for the user or coder to tell if the CD has "copyright protection". (Please correct me if I'm wrong) So the error correction software is doing nothing but correcting errors.
Please don't tell me that correcting errors is illegal now too. Is it?
I dropped my cable modem because it was slower than a 56k modem. Whenever I started up a game of quake3, I couldn't move, and my pings shot through the roof. I'd have my housemate do an icmp and it would be like 2000ms, exit quake3? Everything's fine again. I could download at 50KB/sec maybe. One person downloading would have a similar effect. If someone else starting downloading something, pings shot through the roof. We spent way too long speaking with the clueless tech support at Comcast.
Oh and we would "loose sync" multiple times a day.
The weird thing is, that we had the exactl same cable modem even at our old apartment, and the thing flew! (Comcast@Home, in Gaithersburg, MD)
Anyway, we dumped comcast@home after over two months of frustration and no solution or even a hint of what might be going on and now have speakeasy 384 sdsl, it's over twice as expensive, ($109/mo) but it's a dream.
There's no possible way to prove that's all software downloads though. All bandwidth usage is probably 99% porn anyway... If I start getting charged per meg, then screw that... I'll go back to BBS's or start up my own internet or something.
Or heck, maybe even something more drastic, like going outside.
looking at this closely, those are backticks, which means that's shell code, I wouldn't run that if I were you, especially as root. I'm much to lazy to figure out what it does.
yikes man... what all you got running on that machine? I'm running barebones win2k and am only using up 114meg out of 384. And I have mozilla in turbo window. Here's all the stuff I have open:
mozilla in turbo mode with the following windows open: slashdot window comments, the slashdot comment post window which I'm typing in:), two pages on mozilla.org. and an about: mozilla window.
2 copies of mirc
miranda icq (great win32 icq clone, GPL'd)
innoculate it virus scanner (only free as in beer)
du meter
leechftp
taskmanager
I have a mozilla icon to execute "mozilla -turbo". That way I can boot up faster and execute it when I know I'm gonna be smurfing the web a lot. And if you want it out of memory, just select file->exit from the mozilla window. The quicklaunch thing definitely isn't end all be all, but for people with gobs of ram, it's great. My housemate found sticks of 256meg sdram dimms the other day for under $40. Anyway, I don't think it's a bad trade off, seeing as how I rarely use up 384 meg of ram in win2k anyway, well, unless I start up gamespy, then my ram usage shoots through the roof, I've caught that pos using near 100 megs of ram before
here.
Win2k takes forever to boot up anyways on this machine though, I really don't want some quicklaunch thing slowing it down, since I like to turn my machine off at night to save power and what not. Which is why I have the -turbo icon....:) There always an extra few minutes of grinding after my desktop comes up, win2k goes off starting up 10 million services I don't use and can't possibly turn off because they are "vital". My linux machine on the other hand only runs what I SAY to run. It's just a beautiful desktop machine, and runs quake3 great.:) What we really need is -turbo mode for linux, it's amazing how fast a 1.33ghz machine running reiserfs comes up, even when shutdown badly.:) And startx with windowmaker is no more than a few seconds, even with 6 retarded dock apps... heh
Both quake1 and quake2 didn't use the native opengl junk that now comes with X, because it didn't exist yet.
Quake3 does. Quake 3 runs GREAT on my linux box. In fact, it's pretty much the whole reason why I bought this box.:) GF2 GTS card 32 meg, usb mouse, 1.33ghz athlon 266mhz ddr sdram runs quake3 at about 100fps. I had to turn off turbo mode in my bios agp and change some flags in my nvdriver to make it stable, which cost me about 20fps. But hey, 100fps is just fine for me. I can start up quake3 whenever and it's smooth as win2k. And I typically have window2 maker, plus 6 retarded dock apps, mozilla, licq, a few wterms, xchat, xqf, maybe mysql_navigator, whatever and quake3 runs fine. Running X 4.0.3 on a Debian sid box.
I figure I'll just wait until X 4.1.0 gets put into sid (unstable). Kinda funny how unstable doesn't mean unstable.:) The big packages like X always go through decent testing before hand. I think someone posted the pre-release packages above. Not 4.1.0 is gonna help my nvidia card out any. But I haven't really had a complaint about the 4.x tree of XFree86 yet.
And no, you obviously don't need such a beastly box as my main game machine to run quake3, my p3-600 v3 runs it respectably (samn distro setup). I'm really looking forward to seeing the XFree86 4.1.0 v3 improvements with this box.:) I currently have to turn off some of the bells and whistles, running it in 800x600 in 16 bit color with vertex lighting to get what I feel a playable frame rate out of it.
I'm kinda pick when it comes to frame rate though. But not nearly as bad as some people I know.:)
Hey, I applaud them for using real format. Sure it's crappy quality, but it least I can watch it under linux. And as much as I disapprove of real, the rvplayer for linux is actually really damn nice. And it's painless install for debian, apt-get install realplayer, it then holds your hand the rest of the way.
Sorenson codec encoded.mov's are worthless to me. Although it is a really nice high quality codec with great compression, it's just not available for linux. Well I can listen to the audio on Sorenson codec mov's I spose.:)
Why don't these companies use DiVX;-)? There's at least nice divx players for linux. The one I use is available here: http://divx.euro.ru/ just fyi. What's the deal with divx anyway? Was it stolen from microsoft like people claim or what? And if not, then why aren't big companies supporting it? Because apple and real pays them too much to use their format?:)
Kernel compile is real world. Hey, I compile stuff all the time. Besides, it gives comparisons between the performances of 3 different filesystems.
It's comparing how well these different filesystems can compile a kernel. Do these tests tell you how well ext2, reiserfs, xfs will be able to serve up dynamic php/mysql content on an apache server? Hell no. Use apache's bench mark stuff for that on a controlled network, controlled machines, reboot between tests to eliminate caching, etc. But that's another can of worms. Please don't try reading more into the results than what's given to you.
I hate to break it to you, but quake3 on a p2-450 and a voodoo3 on win32 is slow as dirt too. Maybe not as slow though. The voodoo3 drivers for linux in my experience are pretty damn slow. Who's fault is that? I dunno, can't blame 3dfx anymore since they are no longer.
the closed source NVidia drivers on the other hand are pretty darn solid and fast. I've heard numerous testimonials that the quake3 actually runs faster under linux. You do have to know what you're doing though. Such as enable all the crazy agp stuff, 32bit dma hard drive access, etc. There are very helpful people to be found on the *nix quake3world.com forums
Of course, always post after throughly researching the problem yourself, and after reading the FAQ.
Anyway, if you want to run quake3 fast, you're going to need new hardware. I just recently bought myself a new linux box, gigabye 7dx mobo, athlong 1.33ghz, 266mhz ddr sdram, asus 7700 gf2 gts 32 meg and all the fixins for well under a grand. again the *nix forums on quake3world.com is a great communitiy. There's many places like this on the net, you just have to find them. Disruptor there can probably sell you some hardware for cheap. I believe he runs some kind of business...
One thing you have remember about linux, it started out as a hacker linux, so you're going to need some know how to get things working the way you want them. And also remember, hey, it's free. Which in my mind, that means if things work at all, it's a miracle, and hey, they do.:) I'm totally with you on the "I just want things to work" attitude. But personally I don't mind spending a little time submitting bug reports for debian/mozilla/whatever project it is today working towards the great good of a free os that's really solid, trying to help it have more usable applications.
And yeah, printing sucks, I've yet to find a good howto on how to print to a friggin networked postscript printer. It's needle in haystack time, yeeha! You would think it wouldn't be that difficult, I've followed a few howto's and lpd just sits there with it's thumb up it's butt with no error message that I can tell. Besides the "i can't print" type error messsage:)
I realize that this is humor, but I thought I'd take a time out and add my 2 cents.
I just simply browse with javascript off. It's simply not a power I wish to give to web sites. Like amazon loves to pop up junk every now and then. I'm much happier with javascript off. I simply turn it on when I absolutely must have it. (damn I wish mozilla would support prefs on a site per site basis already) 75% of the time when I visit a site and it needs javascript for a form submital or something equally retarded. I'll close just close the window and be on my merry way.
Yes I realize javascript is useful for some things, but I've been programming web sites for over 2 years now in php/mysql and I've yet to run into a problem that absolutely REQUIRES javascript. I'll use it here and there for "enhancements", but it's never vital to the functionality of the site.
Yeah, I realize that this is offtopic, but you can only say "Happy Birthday Web" in so many ways. Some articles just beg for tangents.:)
He was quite touchy about the whole 42 thing, and how he just pulled it out of a hat and it was never supposed to mean anything more than a made up number. What do you get when you multiply 6x9? Or something to that extent, aparently some people figure out the failed match works in base 11 or 13 or something. He got kinda ticked about it, it sounded like from his words.
But I dunno, I'd personally feel proud if I made up the 42 thing. What's the meaning of life? 42. It's great, it's an instution now, you just gotta be proud of that sort of thing when you step back and look at it.:)
Hmmm I think you're onto something there, I remember way back when playing leasure suit larry on our family's Apple II GS there was a quiz that asked you some questions, supposedly to prove you were at least 18. Some of then were really tough when I was only 15 in highschool too, I'd have to restart it several times before I'd finally get in. Maybe all violent video games should have this now, plus throw in a few trick questions like:
1) What is your favorite color?
a) Blue
b) Green
c) Yellow
2) Carrying a gun to school is ok if you have no intention to use it (unless you're really pissed off of course):
a) True
b) False
c) Maybe
3) What's the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?
a) 2 mph
b) 4 mph
c) 8 mph
d) What do you mean? African or European?
The reason for making this report public is
that it specifically mentions that Randal was using Intel resources to crack password files from at least one other company.
On Thursday, October 28, at 12:30 in the afternoon, I noticed an unusual process running on a Sun computer which I administer. Further
checking convinced me that this was a program designed to break, or crack, passwords.
Check out Gnucleus. It's an open source gnutella client with many features, connection limiting, bandwidth throttling, drops unresponsive connections (ie, flooded modems), file filtering, such as no.exe.vbs.shs or any other dumb files that get returned, configureable of course. And one of the best features, it double checks results against what you searched on, so it filters out bogus garbage. Plus you can specify the file be more than so many kB, so all that 0kB garbage gets left out too.
One thing you do have to remember when getting porn^H^H^H^Hfiles is that many people do have connection limiting, so it'll may take awhile to find a client with an empty slot to transfer it to you. I believe gnucleus doesn't report any search results if it's connections are full. It's a great client, and it's on sourceforge, so you can report bugs or even peek at the source code/submit diffs if you feel so inclined, plus the author seems to be actively developing it. I'd say it's definitely a must check out for any gnutella frustrated people out there. Version 1.0.2 seems to be rather stable, been running it off an on here and there, pretty nice.
This is kinda offtopic, but I just wanted to set the facts straight.
I don't know about Elite Force, never played it, but both Halflife and Quake3a don't require net connectivity I'm pretty sure. And I KNOW that quake3a doesn't. When you install quake3a you put your cd in, run setup and enter in your key whatever. It runs some lame algorithm against the key probably to make sure it's valid. You don't need to be connected to the net. When you play local games it requires the CD to be in your drive, because it can't make sure you have net connectivity to verify your key against the the master key server. When you play an online game other than on a local network, the quake3 server you are connecting to forces the client to send your key and verify it against the master server database. (They keep a database of every key ever given out for each cd printed.)
So it's not exactly the same thing. Each game has a version of the game that can be played offline without outside contact. Whister seems like it will either require connectivity or require you to phone up an ms tech to activate you or something retarded. Which sounds to me like it will make it intesting for secure facilities. What are you gonna do, read off your MAC address to a phone tech? Right there MS has more information about you than some secure installations are willing to give away probably. I think this is great news personally.
At least the US Government kind of use to understand about privacy, Privacy act of 1972 anyone? By law you don't have to give your SOC SECURITY # out to anyone, but most banks require it, which is extremely annoying to me. Assigning a number to people is bad, they don't like it, people will flee if another solution is available that doesn't require you to have a number. I've been waiting for that one move to force me to use only linux, and I think I've just found it.:)
Undernet opers have all sorts of power, they can monitor private channels without being in them, they can do a whois on you and find out all the +s channels you are on etc, but I don't see why any of this would make the Undernet more of a target for a DDoS except that people might get a bit more pissed off when the discover something like this. Deal with it, if you want privacy, look into an SSL irc alternative, it can be done. I've connected to one before, albeit through ssh tunnelling.
Well the whole idea is that this article is in the "Ask Slashdot" section so hopefully someone would come up with a solution to the problem. But with the internet as chaotic as it is, it's extremely hard to stop. The only viable solutions as I see it are:
1: securing servers
2: have all routers set up anti spoof filters so the attacks are at least easily traceable
Immediate solutions? Find out what connections the massive traffic is comming from and track it back to it's source by making lots and lots of phone calls. The other immediate solution is of course simply delink the server and unplug it's ethernet, what the point of a DDoS if there's nothing to attack? I'm not too fond of this method, because it basically means the script kiddy won.
One thing that really annoys me about this discussion is the massive ammount of "Funny" comments. That annoys the crap out of me when I see that in the "Ask Slashdot" section. These are people that really need he help. I'm on the undernet daily idling while I work. I occassionally help someone with a php/mysql/perl/linux question or whatever, and it's getting ridiculous.
If you ask me, I think "Funny" moderations shouldn't be allowed in "Ask Slashdot". If I was a sysadmin of an isp with an OC12 that's currently pegged because of some retarded script kiddy, risking my oh so loved job because I was the one who thought was a good idea to give back to the community and run an irc server, the last thing I would want to see are suggestions like. "Go to Romania and shoot him, I'm serious!!!!" or even worse, "No castrate him!!! HAHAH ROFL OMGOMGOMGOMG" C'mon... grow up, save those retarded comments for the next article about the latest political blunder.
Someone should make an over complication patch, that adds more scrolling text flying by. Possibly animated graphics doing important looking stuff with text flying by like "connecting to FBI database...."... Just a big Hollywood sensationalized boot up process. All making it look like you have to be a rocket scientist just to run linux. Something to make all of your friends go "Oooooooooooo you must be smart". The only thing is I'd probably bust up laughing each time I turned my machine on:)
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Maybe if people didn't run such horribly insecure websites, then they would get taken over by 15 script kiddies. Here's a hint admins: try those bugtraq scripts, etc out for yourself on your own servers. See what you can do and learn. And then secure the damn things. I know your time is precious, and the web server currently "works as is". But seriously, take a few days a month to try hacking stuff, that's your job.
I can vouche for this. One I figured out that I needed to turn off TLS, all secure stuff works fine, even Snake Oil, and sites using the wrong key and self signed keys. :)
Edit-->Preferences->Privacy and Security->SSL, it's the 3rd option from the top, uncheck "Enable TLS"
I never knew about installing into an empty dir... I've always installed into the same dir and never had a problem. I'm a "just keep on clicking next" type person, if I have a problem, then I reinstall and go back and read. :) You have to hit me over the head with a sledge hammer if you want to catch my attention in an installer.
BTW, the linux gui installer pops up a box prompting you to "delete your old mozilla dir", or "cancel" if you install into the same dir. I'm assuming this isn't possible under windows due to "files being in use" or something equally retarded that linux has no problems with.
I always use the binary executable installers, they're usually smaller anyway :)
I wonder if any sort of compression alorithm could do such a thing. With enough horse power, could we record all the steps to find the random sequence of digits in a series of known non-repeating contants or whatever? Maybe bzip2 -9 the data first to get it as small as possible first. :) Of course it would take enourmous horse power to decompress it also, but who's to say we won't have this kind of computer speed in 50 years or more?
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I was thinking the same thing... Can we find the gzipped source of decss in pi and then state the number at which the source code begins and the length? Then all the decompressor would need to do is calucalate arbitrary digits of pi and starting a given number and for a given length. (there's already algorithms for calulating stand alone digits of pi at a given place) And voila! This may have already been said, but I'm lazy, and there's too many comments to read on /. for me to check, I just read this thread. :)
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Please don't tell me that correcting errors is illegal now too. Is it?
Oh and we would "loose sync" multiple times a day.
The weird thing is, that we had the exactl same cable modem even at our old apartment, and the thing flew! (Comcast@Home, in Gaithersburg, MD) Anyway, we dumped comcast@home after over two months of frustration and no solution or even a hint of what might be going on and now have speakeasy 384 sdsl, it's over twice as expensive, ($109/mo) but it's a dream.
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Or heck, maybe even something more drastic, like going outside.
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looking at this closely, those are backticks, which means that's shell code, I wouldn't run that if I were you, especially as root. I'm much to lazy to figure out what it does.
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mozilla in turbo mode with the following windows open: slashdot window comments, the slashdot comment post window which I'm typing in :), two pages on mozilla.org. and an about: mozilla window.
2 copies of mirc
miranda icq (great win32 icq clone, GPL'd)
innoculate it virus scanner (only free as in beer)
du meter
leechftp
taskmanager
I have a mozilla icon to execute "mozilla -turbo". That way I can boot up faster and execute it when I know I'm gonna be smurfing the web a lot. And if you want it out of memory, just select file->exit from the mozilla window. The quicklaunch thing definitely isn't end all be all, but for people with gobs of ram, it's great. My housemate found sticks of 256meg sdram dimms the other day for under $40. Anyway, I don't think it's a bad trade off, seeing as how I rarely use up 384 meg of ram in win2k anyway, well, unless I start up gamespy, then my ram usage shoots through the roof, I've caught that pos using near 100 megs of ram before here.
Win2k takes forever to boot up anyways on this machine though, I really don't want some quicklaunch thing slowing it down, since I like to turn my machine off at night to save power and what not. Which is why I have the -turbo icon.... :) There always an extra few minutes of grinding after my desktop comes up, win2k goes off starting up 10 million services I don't use and can't possibly turn off because they are "vital". My linux machine on the other hand only runs what I SAY to run. It's just a beautiful desktop machine, and runs quake3 great. :) What we really need is -turbo mode for linux, it's amazing how fast a 1.33ghz machine running reiserfs comes up, even when shutdown badly. :) And startx with windowmaker is no more than a few seconds, even with 6 retarded dock apps... heh
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Quake3 does. Quake 3 runs GREAT on my linux box. In fact, it's pretty much the whole reason why I bought this box.
I figure I'll just wait until X 4.1.0 gets put into sid (unstable). Kinda funny how unstable doesn't mean unstable. :) The big packages like X always go through decent testing before hand. I think someone posted the pre-release packages above. Not 4.1.0 is gonna help my nvidia card out any. But I haven't really had a complaint about the 4.x tree of XFree86 yet.
And no, you obviously don't need such a beastly box as my main game machine to run quake3, my p3-600 v3 runs it respectably (samn distro setup). I'm really looking forward to seeing the XFree86 4.1.0 v3 improvements with this box. :) I currently have to turn off some of the bells and whistles, running it in 800x600 in 16 bit color with vertex lighting to get what I feel a playable frame rate out of it.
I'm kinda pick when it comes to frame rate though. But not nearly as bad as some people I know. :)
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Sorenson codec encoded .mov's are worthless to me. Although it is a really nice high quality codec with great compression, it's just not available for linux. Well I can listen to the audio on Sorenson codec mov's I spose. :)
Why don't these companies use DiVX ;-)? There's at least nice divx players for linux. The one I use is available here: http://divx.euro.ru/ just fyi. What's the deal with divx anyway? Was it stolen from microsoft like people claim or what? And if not, then why aren't big companies supporting it? Because apple and real pays them too much to use their format? :)
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It's comparing how well these different filesystems can compile a kernel. Do these tests tell you how well ext2, reiserfs, xfs will be able to serve up dynamic php/mysql content on an apache server? Hell no. Use apache's bench mark stuff for that on a controlled network, controlled machines, reboot between tests to eliminate caching, etc. But that's another can of worms. Please don't try reading more into the results than what's given to you.
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the closed source NVidia drivers on the other hand are pretty darn solid and fast. I've heard numerous testimonials that the quake3 actually runs faster under linux. You do have to know what you're doing though. Such as enable all the crazy agp stuff, 32bit dma hard drive access, etc. There are very helpful people to be found on the *nix quake3world.com forums Of course, always post after throughly researching the problem yourself, and after reading the FAQ.
Anyway, if you want to run quake3 fast, you're going to need new hardware. I just recently bought myself a new linux box, gigabye 7dx mobo, athlong 1.33ghz, 266mhz ddr sdram, asus 7700 gf2 gts 32 meg and all the fixins for well under a grand. again the *nix forums on quake3world.com is a great communitiy. There's many places like this on the net, you just have to find them. Disruptor there can probably sell you some hardware for cheap. I believe he runs some kind of business...
One thing you have remember about linux, it started out as a hacker linux, so you're going to need some know how to get things working the way you want them. And also remember, hey, it's free. Which in my mind, that means if things work at all, it's a miracle, and hey, they do. :) I'm totally with you on the "I just want things to work" attitude. But personally I don't mind spending a little time submitting bug reports for debian/mozilla/whatever project it is today working towards the great good of a free os that's really solid, trying to help it have more usable applications.
And yeah, printing sucks, I've yet to find a good howto on how to print to a friggin networked postscript printer. It's needle in haystack time, yeeha! You would think it wouldn't be that difficult, I've followed a few howto's and lpd just sits there with it's thumb up it's butt with no error message that I can tell. Besides the "i can't print" type error messsage :)
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Anandtech has an intel bias, since when? You do know that they run their site on mostly Athlon based servers now, don't you?
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I just simply browse with javascript off. It's simply not a power I wish to give to web sites. Like amazon loves to pop up junk every now and then. I'm much happier with javascript off. I simply turn it on when I absolutely must have it. (damn I wish mozilla would support prefs on a site per site basis already) 75% of the time when I visit a site and it needs javascript for a form submital or something equally retarded. I'll close just close the window and be on my merry way.
Yes I realize javascript is useful for some things, but I've been programming web sites for over 2 years now in php/mysql and I've yet to run into a problem that absolutely REQUIRES javascript. I'll use it here and there for "enhancements", but it's never vital to the functionality of the site.
Yeah, I realize that this is offtopic, but you can only say "Happy Birthday Web" in so many ways. Some articles just beg for tangents. :)
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"Beeblebrox, over here!" he shouted.
Zaphod eyed him with distrust as another bomb blast rocked the building.
"No," called Zaphod, "Beeblebrox over here! Who are you?" "A friend!" shouted back the man. He ran towards Zaphod.
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He was quite touchy about the whole 42 thing, and how he just pulled it out of a hat and it was never supposed to mean anything more than a made up number. What do you get when you multiply 6x9? Or something to that extent, aparently some people figure out the failed match works in base 11 or 13 or something. He got kinda ticked about it, it sounded like from his words. But I dunno, I'd personally feel proud if I made up the 42 thing. What's the meaning of life? 42. It's great, it's an instution now, you just gotta be proud of that sort of thing when you step back and look at it. :)
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1) What is your favorite color?
a) Blue
b) Green
c) Yellow
2) Carrying a gun to school is ok if you have no intention to use it (unless you're really pissed off of course):
a) True
b) False
c) Maybe
3) What's the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?
a) 2 mph
b) 4 mph
c) 8 mph
d) What do you mean? African or European?
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http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/police/inte lrep.txt
For the lazy, I take an excerpt below :)
The reason for making this report public is that it specifically mentions that Randal was using Intel resources to crack password files from at least one other company.
On Thursday, October 28, at 12:30 in the afternoon, I noticed an unusual process running on a Sun computer which I administer. Further checking convinced me that this was a program designed to break, or crack, passwords.
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One thing you do have to remember when getting porn^H^H^H^Hfiles is that many people do have connection limiting, so it'll may take awhile to find a client with an empty slot to transfer it to you. I believe gnucleus doesn't report any search results if it's connections are full. It's a great client, and it's on sourceforge, so you can report bugs or even peek at the source code/submit diffs if you feel so inclined, plus the author seems to be actively developing it. I'd say it's definitely a must check out for any gnutella frustrated people out there. Version 1.0.2 seems to be rather stable, been running it off an on here and there, pretty nice.
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I don't know about Elite Force, never played it, but both Halflife and Quake3a don't require net connectivity I'm pretty sure. And I KNOW that quake3a doesn't. When you install quake3a you put your cd in, run setup and enter in your key whatever. It runs some lame algorithm against the key probably to make sure it's valid. You don't need to be connected to the net. When you play local games it requires the CD to be in your drive, because it can't make sure you have net connectivity to verify your key against the the master key server. When you play an online game other than on a local network, the quake3 server you are connecting to forces the client to send your key and verify it against the master server database. (They keep a database of every key ever given out for each cd printed.)
So it's not exactly the same thing. Each game has a version of the game that can be played offline without outside contact. Whister seems like it will either require connectivity or require you to phone up an ms tech to activate you or something retarded. Which sounds to me like it will make it intesting for secure facilities. What are you gonna do, read off your MAC address to a phone tech? Right there MS has more information about you than some secure installations are willing to give away probably. I think this is great news personally.
At least the US Government kind of use to understand about privacy, Privacy act of 1972 anyone? By law you don't have to give your SOC SECURITY # out to anyone, but most banks require it, which is extremely annoying to me. Assigning a number to people is bad, they don't like it, people will flee if another solution is available that doesn't require you to have a number. I've been waiting for that one move to force me to use only linux, and I think I've just found it. :)
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Undernet opers have all sorts of power, they can monitor private channels without being in them, they can do a whois on you and find out all the +s channels you are on etc, but I don't see why any of this would make the Undernet more of a target for a DDoS except that people might get a bit more pissed off when the discover something like this. Deal with it, if you want privacy, look into an SSL irc alternative, it can be done. I've connected to one before, albeit through ssh tunnelling.
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Well the whole idea is that this article is in the "Ask Slashdot" section so hopefully someone would come up with a solution to the problem. But with the internet as chaotic as it is, it's extremely hard to stop. The only viable solutions as I see it are:
1: securing servers
2: have all routers set up anti spoof filters so the attacks are at least easily traceable
Immediate solutions? Find out what connections the massive traffic is comming from and track it back to it's source by making lots and lots of phone calls. The other immediate solution is of course simply delink the server and unplug it's ethernet, what the point of a DDoS if there's nothing to attack? I'm not too fond of this method, because it basically means the script kiddy won.
One thing that really annoys me about this discussion is the massive ammount of "Funny" comments. That annoys the crap out of me when I see that in the "Ask Slashdot" section. These are people that really need he help. I'm on the undernet daily idling while I work. I occassionally help someone with a php/mysql/perl/linux question or whatever, and it's getting ridiculous.
If you ask me, I think "Funny" moderations shouldn't be allowed in "Ask Slashdot". If I was a sysadmin of an isp with an OC12 that's currently pegged because of some retarded script kiddy, risking my oh so loved job because I was the one who thought was a good idea to give back to the community and run an irc server, the last thing I would want to see are suggestions like. "Go to Romania and shoot him, I'm serious!!!!" or even worse, "No castrate him!!! HAHAH ROFL OMGOMGOMGOMG" C'mon... grow up, save those retarded comments for the next article about the latest political blunder.
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Someone should make an over complication patch, that adds more scrolling text flying by. Possibly animated graphics doing important looking stuff with text flying by like "connecting to FBI database...."... Just a big Hollywood sensationalized boot up process. All making it look like you have to be a rocket scientist just to run linux. Something to make all of your friends go "Oooooooooooo you must be smart". The only thing is I'd probably bust up laughing each time I turned my machine on :)
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