This is something that can help some linux users out. Though, it would appear if you have to use a windows computer to this in the first place you mine as well update your firmware that way. Perhaps use this method to backup your pre-existing firmware? I've not seen the.exe, can anyone tell me if it has an option to backup your old firmware?
Their findings are just restating what we've heard time and time again. There is trouble with the file format; which is entirely microsoft's fault. Also, the user interface is slightly changed and users will have to learn to cope. Bottom line...it mostly works and users don't like change.
It sounds interesting enough that I wouldn't mind buying one to play w/ or port an os to. Their numbers of their 300mhz chip outperforming a 2ghz chips makes sense if the instruction set has been changed for a single purpose. A coworker pointed out that task switching can't be that speedy. So a general purpose chip that can automatically tune itself to a specific purpose is how this comes across. Still, this can be useful.
If one is arrested under any charge and found to have tone dialers, packet sniffers, port scanners, etc. one can be found to be in posession of "hacking devices." (This has happend in the past to Bernie S and others.) Essentially the government has no real evidence of any crime and uses it as a catch-all or as a way to increase sentence time. The annoying part of this is that sysadmins use sniffers and scanners quite often as part of their job. It would appear this "treaty" is just to strengthen previous laws and help to catch those evil hackers...er um hopefully not sysadmins?
UGH...someone write a count down for the ~2 years left before jpg's are free of patents. Getting parts or all of it invalidated due to prior art would be nice, but I won't hold my breath on that one.
They also mention various privacy concerns. The only thing they ever meant by not guaranteeing immediate deletion has to do with proper backups. I think the geek/media bridge failed yet again and something was blown out of proportion. I can't wait to see that you're using 99% of your available 1gb for email tho.
Usually people take it upon themselves to notify vendors of bugs and give them time to work on patches or workarounds before releasing the information. For anyone that reads full disclosure lists such as bugtraq this is very commoon. Also, when the bug affects key internet infrastructure, the admins of big isps/colos/routers are informed and given time to patch. This is good for the internet and good for vulnerability researches instead of looking like malicious people who just want to destroy the internet.
The funny thing about global warming is the lack of trend data over a long period of time. For example: ice ages happend and as far as we know they were natural trends in earth climate. Chances are we might speed up a radical climate change but I doubt we're the single reason for it. In any case we won't be able to have fully clean power for quite some time.
It sounds like a CTF match, except via the government. I somehow doubt they'd publish packet dumps and such of the event, but that'd be even more interesting. Kudos to the nsa/dod for trying to ensure some of our vital infrastructure is secured from attack.
It's good to see those who work heard to protect our freedoms receiving proper recognition. With the various problems closed source electronic voting has had we can cheer on those who are fighting for us.
don't forget streamripper.sourceforge.net They have support for just abt every os under the sun and if all else fails you can recompile yourself. I think finding a stream that spends 50% or more of it's time playing music you enjoy and ripping results in nice collection. (I do this because our bandwith at work is overused and streaming doesn't work out so well.)
There has been lots of speculation on google lately...they might offer stock, they might design their own operating system, why do we enjoy so much speculation about google? C'mon they're busy with Gmail and their secrecy will always out do our guessing.
How was choosing lossy formats even mildly interesting? That comparison was only for the purpose of pointing out that well defined standards for some audio and images exist. I would think fighting between 3d-studio and every other 3d graphics program allows for little to no transfering. Think every 3d program writing it's own non published file format and then think about having 1 published standard that everyone uses. Things like word and excel as open standards would also be nice.
When I read this I had to laugh. It's an entire technical article on a "vuln" that has been known since the bsd4.4 days. Predictable ISN's are bad...enter windows. Tcp/ip stacks are not created equally, this is how nmap fingerprinting and p0f passive fingerprinting work. Anyone who has read tcp/ip illustrated by richard stevens would also be aware of this, btw that author is dead. If all the core internet routers were windows boxes this would be a big issue and the internet would have been DDoS'ed into extinction years ago. I would think that cisco routers ISN's aren't nearly that bad and in any case it's no where near as bad as the doomsayer(s) claim.
i think you missed the point...
if i want to run linux on ppc i'm out of luck if I want to use java...the language AND the executable are unsupported by sun's java. Yes the java compiled byte code is portable in the sense that there is no recompile, but that assumes the jvm even runs on the machine...if it doesn't the point is mute.
unless you run on an unsupported platform?
sun java only supports linux/windows x86 (32bit), solaris sparc/sparc64
talk about portable...in order to run java on my freebsd laptop i have to use linux binary emulation to run the x86 linux sun java port...Come to think I can't name a single programming language that is less portable.
surely you jest...QOS w/ RR aka road runner, part of the crime warner corporation? I'm switching to dsl just so I can stream music. I will grant you my service was fairly decent but now they are expanding faster than than they can keep their network expanded. If I'm lucky I get 15kb/s upstream, I can't even keep music streams running for 5minutes. Latency? oh ya 600+ms pings to ANYTHING. The only way to have guaranteed anything is pay for buisness dsl and in the very least they'll go out of their way to fix things for you.
This is just like most solutions proposed, if EVERYONE adopted it, then it would work, otherwise it's futile. Though, if you run your own mailserver, you could decide to only accept messages from.mail's but i don't see aol.mail, yahoo.mail, and friends being up anytime soon.
no kidding, I sit in front of a screen all day, lots of days I just feel like voluntering to wire up a friend's house or some such. At least a trip to the co-lo is coming up. But honestly, some days one needs to just get away from the screen.
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This is something that can help some linux users out. Though, it would appear if you have to use a windows computer to this in the first place you mine as well update your firmware that way. Perhaps use this method to backup your pre-existing firmware? I've not seen the .exe, can anyone tell me if it has an option to backup your old firmware?
bash less enlightenment wget vim screen nmap phoenix/firebird/firefox Eterm xmms
Their findings are just restating what we've heard time and time again. There is trouble with the file format; which is entirely microsoft's fault. Also, the user interface is slightly changed and users will have to learn to cope. Bottom line...it mostly works and users don't like change.
It sounds interesting enough that I wouldn't mind buying one to play w/ or port an os to. Their numbers of their 300mhz chip outperforming a 2ghz chips makes sense if the instruction set has been changed for a single purpose. A coworker pointed out that task switching can't be that speedy. So a general purpose chip that can automatically tune itself to a specific purpose is how this comes across. Still, this can be useful.
I find it amazing that it's lived this long...*sigh* I suppose in another 10 years it'll still be here.
If one is arrested under any charge and found to have tone dialers, packet sniffers, port scanners, etc. one can be found to be in posession of "hacking devices." (This has happend in the past to Bernie S and others.) Essentially the government has no real evidence of any crime and uses it as a catch-all or as a way to increase sentence time. The annoying part of this is that sysadmins use sniffers and scanners quite often as part of their job. It would appear this "treaty" is just to strengthen previous laws and help to catch those evil hackers...er um hopefully not sysadmins?
"See that's what you have to do, come up with some really great idea and never have to work again. Like that guy, that invented the pet rock."
UGH...someone write a count down for the ~2 years left before jpg's are free of patents. Getting parts or all of it invalidated due to prior art would be nice, but I won't hold my breath on that one.
They also mention various privacy concerns. The only thing they ever meant by not guaranteeing immediate deletion has to do with proper backups. I think the geek/media bridge failed yet again and something was blown out of proportion. I can't wait to see that you're using 99% of your available 1gb for email tho.
Usually people take it upon themselves to notify vendors of bugs and give them time to work on patches or workarounds before releasing the information. For anyone that reads full disclosure lists such as bugtraq this is very commoon. Also, when the bug affects key internet infrastructure, the admins of big isps/colos/routers are informed and given time to patch. This is good for the internet and good for vulnerability researches instead of looking like malicious people who just want to destroy the internet.
The funny thing about global warming is the lack of trend data over a long period of time. For example: ice ages happend and as far as we know they were natural trends in earth climate. Chances are we might speed up a radical climate change but I doubt we're the single reason for it. In any case we won't be able to have fully clean power for quite some time.
It sounds like a CTF match, except via the government. I somehow doubt they'd publish packet dumps and such of the event, but that'd be even more interesting. Kudos to the nsa/dod for trying to ensure some of our vital infrastructure is secured from attack.
uaho we'll never keep up! Oh 1000x...and your desktop can't really do gigabit fiber yet..well, I'll be awfuly worried, but maybe we can manage.
It's good to see those who work heard to protect our freedoms receiving proper recognition. With the various problems closed source electronic voting has had we can cheer on those who are fighting for us.
don't forget streamripper.sourceforge.net They have support for just abt every os under the sun and if all else fails you can recompile yourself. I think finding a stream that spends 50% or more of it's time playing music you enjoy and ripping results in nice collection. (I do this because our bandwith at work is overused and streaming doesn't work out so well.)
There has been lots of speculation on google lately...they might offer stock, they might design their own operating system, why do we enjoy so much speculation about google? C'mon they're busy with Gmail and their secrecy will always out do our guessing.
How was choosing lossy formats even mildly interesting? That comparison was only for the purpose of pointing out that well defined standards for some audio and images exist. I would think fighting between 3d-studio and every other 3d graphics program allows for little to no transfering. Think every 3d program writing it's own non published file format and then think about having 1 published standard that everyone uses. Things like word and excel as open standards would also be nice.
When I read this I had to laugh. It's an entire technical article on a "vuln" that has been known since the bsd4.4 days. Predictable ISN's are bad...enter windows. Tcp/ip stacks are not created equally, this is how nmap fingerprinting and p0f passive fingerprinting work. Anyone who has read tcp/ip illustrated by richard stevens would also be aware of this, btw that author is dead. If all the core internet routers were windows boxes this would be a big issue and the internet would have been DDoS'ed into extinction years ago. I would think that cisco routers ISN's aren't nearly that bad and in any case it's no where near as bad as the doomsayer(s) claim.
i think you missed the point... if i want to run linux on ppc i'm out of luck if I want to use java...the language AND the executable are unsupported by sun's java. Yes the java compiled byte code is portable in the sense that there is no recompile, but that assumes the jvm even runs on the machine...if it doesn't the point is mute.
unless you run on an unsupported platform? sun java only supports linux/windows x86 (32bit), solaris sparc/sparc64 talk about portable...in order to run java on my freebsd laptop i have to use linux binary emulation to run the x86 linux sun java port...Come to think I can't name a single programming language that is less portable.
the site does have the layout of the netbsd site. Netbsd == runs on everything
I'm up for a free trip to the moon, it can't be any worse than IT here!
surely you jest...QOS w/ RR aka road runner, part of the crime warner corporation? I'm switching to dsl just so I can stream music. I will grant you my service was fairly decent but now they are expanding faster than than they can keep their network expanded. If I'm lucky I get 15kb/s upstream, I can't even keep music streams running for 5minutes. Latency? oh ya 600+ms pings to ANYTHING. The only way to have guaranteed anything is pay for buisness dsl and in the very least they'll go out of their way to fix things for you.
This is just like most solutions proposed, if EVERYONE adopted it, then it would work, otherwise it's futile. Though, if you run your own mailserver, you could decide to only accept messages from .mail's but i don't see aol.mail, yahoo.mail, and friends being up anytime soon.
no kidding, I sit in front of a screen all day, lots of days I just feel like voluntering to wire up a friend's house or some such. At least a trip to the co-lo is coming up. But honestly, some days one needs to just get away from the screen.