So hold whoever LAUNCHES an attack responsible.. If you flood, you pay If you get hacked and your machine used for flooding, you pay (afterall its your own fault your machine was insecure)
If you GET flooded, then you take it up with your isp and take action against the culprit.
If someone`s machine becomes compromised, either by virus, worm, malicious user, cracker etc... then they should be liable for not only their own bandwidth usage, but also for bandwidth usage caused to third parties by the illegal activity eminating from their box. If you cant keep your box secure, you pay the consequences. Maybe large financial costs would encourage people and organizations to adopt tougher security policies, and to actually hire competent admins instead of "that drone from sector 7G who says he knows about computers" Think of it this way, if you dont keep your door locked, then no insurance company will pay out. Besides, if your machine becomes infected with a worm/virus that tries to propogate itself, you may be causing damages/losses to SOMEONE ELSE... you may increase the bandwidth bill of someone who never did anything wrong, why should they have to suffer?
How about some of the 24" SGI and SUN displays? some of the old 24" SGI CRT`s were very nice, expensive in their day but can be had quite cheap nowadays.
Last i heard it was free for less than 8 processors, i guess they figure that if you buy such a machine you can afford the software too, and most likely want a support contract anyway
The IRIX windowmanager (4DWm) has supported vector icons for years, and it`s still an order of magnitude faster than kde. Even my old 100mhz indy can run 4DWm at a more than useable speed. As for the size measurements, what you say is all well and good, but there should be a way to override it.. I remember a school for the blind and poor of sight where all the workstations had 21" monitors running in 640x480 so those with poor eyesight could use them more easily.
A friend of mine dropped a DEC Personal Workstation 600/au down a regular flight of 13 stairs in his house... The front door came off, but these machines used to lose the doors all the time... and the plastic front panel that held the door in place got smashed.. And it made a hole in the wall at the bottom of the stairs, But the machine still works perfectly and is now sitting with an uptime of over 80 days of daily use.
Well if you will use common words as the name for your program, then you make it far more difficult to have an automated tool searching for people pirating it. Also, those who are really pirating it will likely start renaming it 0ff1c3 or such.... the idea of substituting numbers for letters first started as a means of hiding warez from sysadmins while keeping it recogniseable for anyone who wants it.
Computers which are a few years old can often be obtained for free (dumpsters?) or for negligible amounts of money. And ofcourse theres always illegal methods of obtaining hardware aswell.
"As secure as bind" is hardly an ideal to live up to, bind has probably had more remote-root vulnerabilities than any other application.. and as a consequence is obviously poorly coded. Whats more, its widespread use has meant that whenever a remote root vulnerability is discovered, exploits are quickly written and distributed to blackhats... and thousands of servers became compromised every time, and each time people installed the so-called "secure" patch... only to be at risk again the next time a flaw was found. Any alternative to the bind monoculture is good, the idea of the next flaw in bind bringing the entire dns system crashing down doesn't sit well with me. And no talk of chroot... its ofcourse possible to break chroot, and whats more, crashed dns servers are almost as bad as rooted ones, and its still possible to hijack the bind process instead of exploiting it to execute a shell... you could cause it to serve bogus data or such.
1.4 times the integer rate, almost 3 times the clockrate, imagine the speed of a 3.06ghz EV7... which hp could easily do if they wanted, they could also improve their compiler somewhat, since it doesnt even support the ev7.. but theyre more concerned with promoting the itanic
And how exactly is a 32bit word processor running on a 32bit os gonna load into memory a document larger than the address space of the processor? If you want to process files that large, you need the unix shell commands sed/awk/grep etc.. not an app that tries to load it all into memory.
Even so, the adresses are still stored as 64bit longs, so with a processor upgrade and possibly minor tweaks to the os, the address space could be extended to the full 64bit range... I believe it was done this way for cost reasons, but i could be wrong...
But saying that, there arent many uses that would require more than 256tb of ram..
Infact, only an os installer should write to the boot sector, anything else should be considered a virus. Infact many bioses have the option to detect and block attempts to write to the bootsector under the name of bootsector virus protection.
But it`s highly likely, as evidenced by other areas of the software industry, that you would only end up with a single software company (a monopoly) offering a single bloated product at an over inflated price and full of bugs, and ofcourse charging you for a new version each time the tax rates change or such. What`s more, a commercial company would want to write the most generic software possible, so it can be sold in as many countries as possible, so you will need to configure it to the way your tax system works, and may lose out if you make errors. The IRS would have software which is specifically designed for the american tax system, just like the software produced by the swiss.
What exactly is that key used for? it`s present on a lot of PS/2 keyboards but doesn`t function as a regular alt key, and i`ve never had to use it for anything.. Why can`t it just function like another alt key, that way i could switch to TTY12 just using 1 hand.
Look at a SUN type 5 keyboard, there cut/copy/paste/undo keys and some others like stop, find, open, front aswell as volume controls, up down and mute, and even a help key.
So buy old keyboards, or keyboards designed for unix machines, theyre often better made than the new cheap flimsy windows keyboards anyway. This typed on an SGI keyboard that originally shipped with an indy workstation.
I frequently make use of the scroll lock (thats how you scroll in the freebsd console, and it can be used to interrupt fast scrolling text in pretty much any textmode environment) and the ` key, for instance in a unix shell when you include a command embedded inside ` ` it will execute the command inside the `` and feed its output into the commandline, so for instance: `echo bleh` is equivalent to: bleh Ofcourse, it has far more practical uses than this... The other functions you mention, cut/copy/paste atleast on X11 is handled by the mouse (select the text with the mouse = copy, middle button = paste) and is certainly far superior to having to press several keys at once, ofcourse even using a single key to copy/paste wouldnt be ideal, you have to use the mouse to select text so why not use it to copy/paste too, save you moving your hands back and forth all the time. Ofcourse, its possible to configure a key to emulate the functions of the middle mouse, this is done typically on apple mice which have only 1 button. As for switching between windows, this should be the job of your window manager, and any semi decent window manager will let you configure which keys are used for these functions. Back/forwards is typically done with the left/right cursor keys, in browsers atleast.. unless your in a text entry box like i am right now, but this is down the the individual app author to define, and again, decent apps should allow you to reconfigure the keys. The same for undo and redo. A new keyboard layout likely wouldn`t take off, there are far too many people invested in the qwerty form now... we have well over a hundred years of qwerty typewriters, and books/training on the subject, and most people are familiar with the qwerty layout and would take time to learn anything new... and ofcourse, most people resist change, even change for the better.
Like Cypress/Ross, Fujitsu-Siemens, SUN, Texas Instruments - and these are just the ones i have sitting on my desk right now. Also these sparc chips are all 100% compatible with the target revision of the sparc standard, whereas the various x86-compatible chips have huge differences... take 3dnow support for instance.
Wrong, the highest performing microprocessor in the world is the Alpha EV7. Also consider the fact that it can address a full 64bits of memory, and scale almost linearly to 64 or 128 processors, 2 things that the x86 architecture cannot do.
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So hold whoever LAUNCHES an attack responsible..
If you flood, you pay
If you get hacked and your machine used for flooding, you pay (afterall its your own fault your machine was insecure)
If you GET flooded, then you take it up with your isp and take action against the culprit.
If someone`s machine becomes compromised, either by virus, worm, malicious user, cracker etc... then they should be liable for not only their own bandwidth usage, but also for bandwidth usage caused to third parties by the illegal activity eminating from their box.
If you cant keep your box secure, you pay the consequences. Maybe large financial costs would encourage people and organizations to adopt tougher security policies, and to actually hire competent admins instead of "that drone from sector 7G who says he knows about computers"
Think of it this way, if you dont keep your door locked, then no insurance company will pay out.
Besides, if your machine becomes infected with a worm/virus that tries to propogate itself, you may be causing damages/losses to SOMEONE ELSE... you may increase the bandwidth bill of someone who never did anything wrong, why should they have to suffer?
How about some of the 24" SGI and SUN displays? some of the old 24" SGI CRT`s were very nice, expensive in their day but can be had quite cheap nowadays.
Last i heard it was free for less than 8 processors, i guess they figure that if you buy such a machine you can afford the software too, and most likely want a support contract anyway
Testing? charity? government?
The IRIX windowmanager (4DWm) has supported vector icons for years, and it`s still an order of magnitude faster than kde. Even my old 100mhz indy can run 4DWm at a more than useable speed.
As for the size measurements, what you say is all well and good, but there should be a way to override it.. I remember a school for the blind and poor of sight where all the workstations had 21" monitors running in 640x480 so those with poor eyesight could use them more easily.
A friend of mine dropped a DEC Personal Workstation 600/au down a regular flight of 13 stairs in his house... The front door came off, but these machines used to lose the doors all the time... and the plastic front panel that held the door in place got smashed.. And it made a hole in the wall at the bottom of the stairs, But the machine still works perfectly and is now sitting with an uptime of over 80 days of daily use.
Well if you will use common words as the name for your program, then you make it far more difficult to have an automated tool searching for people pirating it.
Also, those who are really pirating it will likely start renaming it 0ff1c3 or such.... the idea of substituting numbers for letters first started as a means of hiding warez from sysadmins while keeping it recogniseable for anyone who wants it.
Computers which are a few years old can often be obtained for free (dumpsters?) or for negligible amounts of money. And ofcourse theres always illegal methods of obtaining hardware aswell.
"As secure as bind" is hardly an ideal to live up to, bind has probably had more remote-root vulnerabilities than any other application.. and as a consequence is obviously poorly coded. Whats more, its widespread use has meant that whenever a remote root vulnerability is discovered, exploits are quickly written and distributed to blackhats... and thousands of servers became compromised every time, and each time people installed the so-called "secure" patch... only to be at risk again the next time a flaw was found.
Any alternative to the bind monoculture is good, the idea of the next flaw in bind bringing the entire dns system crashing down doesn't sit well with me.
And no talk of chroot... its ofcourse possible to break chroot, and whats more, crashed dns servers are almost as bad as rooted ones, and its still possible to hijack the bind process instead of exploiting it to execute a shell... you could cause it to serve bogus data or such.
Well but its true for once, atleast MicroBSD is dying, and its even on topic!
1.4 times the integer rate, almost 3 times the clockrate, imagine the speed of a 3.06ghz EV7... which hp could easily do if they wanted, they could also improve their compiler somewhat, since it doesnt even support the ev7.. but theyre more concerned with promoting the itanic
And how exactly is a 32bit word processor running on a 32bit os gonna load into memory a document larger than the address space of the processor?
If you want to process files that large, you need the unix shell commands sed/awk/grep etc.. not an app that tries to load it all into memory.
Which is why irc supports keyword protected and invite-only channels, aswell as banlists and exemptions from bans/invites for known hosts.
Even so, the adresses are still stored as 64bit longs, so with a processor upgrade and possibly minor tweaks to the os, the address space could be extended to the full 64bit range... I believe it was done this way for cost reasons, but i could be wrong... But saying that, there arent many uses that would require more than 256tb of ram..
And what if you wish to have 3ds max AND turbotax on the same machine?
Infact, only an os installer should write to the boot sector, anything else should be considered a virus. Infact many bioses have the option to detect and block attempts to write to the bootsector under the name of bootsector virus protection.
But it`s highly likely, as evidenced by other areas of the software industry, that you would only end up with a single software company (a monopoly) offering a single bloated product at an over inflated price and full of bugs, and ofcourse charging you for a new version each time the tax rates change or such.
What`s more, a commercial company would want to write the most generic software possible, so it can be sold in as many countries as possible, so you will need to configure it to the way your tax system works, and may lose out if you make errors. The IRS would have software which is specifically designed for the american tax system, just like the software produced by the swiss.
What exactly is that key used for? it`s present on a lot of PS/2 keyboards but doesn`t function as a regular alt key, and i`ve never had to use it for anything.. Why can`t it just function like another alt key, that way i could switch to TTY12 just using 1 hand.
Look at a SUN type 5 keyboard, there cut/copy/paste/undo keys and some others like stop, find, open, front aswell as volume controls, up down and mute, and even a help key.
So buy old keyboards, or keyboards designed for unix machines, theyre often better made than the new cheap flimsy windows keyboards anyway.
This typed on an SGI keyboard that originally shipped with an indy workstation.
I frequently make use of the scroll lock (thats how you scroll in the freebsd console, and it can be used to interrupt fast scrolling text in pretty much any textmode environment) and the ` key, for instance in a unix shell when you include a command embedded inside ` ` it will execute the command inside the `` and feed its output into the commandline, so for instance:
`echo bleh`
is equivalent to:
bleh
Ofcourse, it has far more practical uses than this...
The other functions you mention, cut/copy/paste atleast on X11 is handled by the mouse (select the text with the mouse = copy, middle button = paste) and is certainly far superior to having to press several keys at once, ofcourse even using a single key to copy/paste wouldnt be ideal, you have to use the mouse to select text so why not use it to copy/paste too, save you moving your hands back and forth all the time. Ofcourse, its possible to configure a key to emulate the functions of the middle mouse, this is done typically on apple mice which have only 1 button.
As for switching between windows, this should be the job of your window manager, and any semi decent window manager will let you configure which keys are used for these functions.
Back/forwards is typically done with the left/right cursor keys, in browsers atleast.. unless your in a text entry box like i am right now, but this is down the the individual app author to define, and again, decent apps should allow you to reconfigure the keys. The same for undo and redo.
A new keyboard layout likely wouldn`t take off, there are far too many people invested in the qwerty form now... we have well over a hundred years of qwerty typewriters, and books/training on the subject, and most people are familiar with the qwerty layout and would take time to learn anything new... and ofcourse, most people resist change, even change for the better.
Like Cypress/Ross, Fujitsu-Siemens, SUN, Texas Instruments - and these are just the ones i have sitting on my desk right now.
Also these sparc chips are all 100% compatible with the target revision of the sparc standard, whereas the various x86-compatible chips have huge differences... take 3dnow support for instance.
Wrong, the highest performing microprocessor in the world is the Alpha EV7. Also consider the fact that it can address a full 64bits of memory, and scale almost linearly to 64 or 128 processors, 2 things that the x86 architecture cannot do.
This is why tcp windowing exists, it will send you multiple packets and you ACK them all at once.