This version broke something related to the proxy configuration. I can no longer authenticate myself at any website using saved passwords if I use my university proxy server.:(
Its called co-operation. It has often been argued as being a better model then competition, and especially when it involves lots of smaller entities up against a giant like MS, it would probably work out to the best for everyone in the long run.
If this is a sign of things to come in the industry, we have a lot of good things to look forward to.
I wasnt particularly amused when I got the 503 on Mozilla FireFox, but the main page managed to load in IE successfully. However, upon trying to login, IE got 503ed as well. Whats happening with you folks?
forgive my very little knowledge on the subject, but wont it be possible to sniff for & duplicate the port-knocking behavior of windows using any other OS?
and from yet another rumor-mill, it is also supposed to support quantum computing, since it looks like the final release date will be close to the time when we're all using quantum computers!
Agreed. The weakest link remains the end-user running with defaut administrative permissions.
But ZA, just like many antivirus softwares out there, already has the ability to set a password for enabling access, or for shutting it down. Without the password, it is only possible to shut down the interactive component (zlclient.exe), but the core firewall runs as a privileged service, and cant be shut down in this fashion.
In addition, there is a user-invisible component to ZA, which loads up as a non PnP service at bootup (these drivers load before everything else), which offers boot-time protection.
All in all, this one well designed soft-firewall.
ZoneAlarmPro is best known for its ability to block to control outgoing traffic. However, lesser known is its ability to control outgoing email, by specifying which applications can send email, along with how many emails are sent at once before an alarm is raised about possible virus/worm, and the offending application is frozen by ZoneAlarm until the user intervenes & allows it permission to do so. So, the functionality of the reverse firewall to reduce spam that the author is asking for is already available.
My gripe with Olympics coverage in the US is that you never get to see any event which does not involve some US team/athlete. So I'm assuming that this would likely be 1200 something hours of US athletes-only fest. Entirely goes against the spirit of the Olympics itself.
YaST is the only config tool you'll need if you have Novell/SUSE linux. Since it has now been GLPed, there's some potential to port it to manage other distros as well.
Actually, the 500MHz systems you are comparing are G4s Vs the P-IIIs at that time, in which case the 20% lead would be reasonable. However, before the G5 arrived, the G4 lineup was pretty much stagnated, whereas AMD Vs Intel literally took off with Athlons & P-4s, both of which also sported longer pipelines, parallelism & SIMD units (MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3dNow, etc).
A better comparison would be between PPC Power 4 & the existing Opterons/Xeons, but bear in mind that Power-4 is big tin, with multiple cores & loads of cache, which the PPC970 (G5) lacks. Scaling the Power-4 numbers for clock speed of the new G5, 2.5GHz puts them in the same league as existing Xeons & Opterons... so the 2.5GHz PowerPC may not be all that better than a Xeon 3.2 GHz after all.
Oh, and BTW, the 8080 joke is getting really old!:)
At first they ignore us, then they laugh at us, then they fight us, then we win
-Mahatma Gandhi
Funny how this seems to be already happening with Linux & MS... technology used by our competitors... whatever!
The outcomes of the latest election were interpreted by the political experts as an outright rejection of the notion that the country's newly-found strength in IT had benefitted the rural poor. In the light of this, it would seem unlikely that any one technology (not just Linux) would have had a noticeable improvement in their lives. Then again, perception and reality can sometimes be two completely opposite things, so one can never be sure of that either.
The 1300 & 2500 are virtually identical, except that the latter is twice as fast as the former; and according to the forums on 2510, it is no different in design than the 2500. Although NEC would probably never release any firmware that would allow 1300 users to upgrade to 2500/2510, its simply a matter of time before someone back-ports the latest drivers to the 1300.
I dont understand why, if its possible to make low power-consumption varieties of the hot-running desktop chips that AMD and Intel seem to keep coming up with, they dont make more of an effort for marketting it. Although small, I'm sure there must be a market out there for cool running, low-power varieties of these processors for something besides laptops. Considering the incredibly noisy machine I have on my desktop at work, I wouldnt mind going for something like that at all.
I dont know about hotmail specifically, but MSN communities doesnt seem to delete stuff after they delete your account. In my case, I received a bunch of warnings that my community had become inactive and would be deleted if I didnt take action. Surely enough, after some time, they did delete it. Then, a few months later, I created a new community with the exact same name. Imagine my surprize when I found my old folders & files in this newly created community! I dont think we can take any of these services for granted when it comes to archiving our data.
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US law, per se, does not apply to any other country. However for countries that have ratified WTO, patents can be enforced one way or another.
Secondly, even if they are not able to enforce the the patent in India, if the device is to be marketed outside India, then the laws of that country will apply. In the case of the US, Innoventions could probably get a cease & desist order blocking sales of the device in the US market.
Actually, the real shortage of IPv4 addresses is in the Asia-Pacific region. US really has all the IPv4 addresses it needs for the next few decades, which is why we have these kind of reports floating around in the first place!
If you have Zonealarm Pro installed, you can go to the privacy settings and block popups, pop-unders, banner ads, embedded activex & flash objects, etc. I tried the link http://www.unicast.com/gallery/index.asp# and Zonealarm Pro (I have the older version 3.0xx) was able to block ALL the new ads they have come up with.
It seems that everyone is really excited about being able to retain their old phone number, but the main problem with changing carriers for most americans is the need to cough up a large sum of money (typically $150 - $250 depending on the provider). As long as this issue is not addressed, I honestly dont believe that many people will simply change their carriers even if they are dissatisfied with the service. I feel that this 'termination fee' is more monopolistic than any other tactic that the carriers have implemented and needs to be tackled first.
When we retired a few older Macs in our lab last month, I was surprized to find one of the boards with an AMD chip in it. I guess this is how rumours about OSX/x86 get started.
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This version broke something related to the proxy configuration. I can no longer authenticate myself at any website using saved passwords if I use my university proxy server. :(
Its called co-operation. It has often been argued as being a better model then competition, and especially when it involves lots of smaller entities up against a giant like MS, it would probably work out to the best for everyone in the long run. If this is a sign of things to come in the industry, we have a lot of good things to look forward to.
I wasnt particularly amused when I got the 503 on Mozilla FireFox, but the main page managed to load in IE successfully. However, upon trying to login, IE got 503ed as well. Whats happening with you folks?
forgive my very little knowledge on the subject, but wont it be possible to sniff for & duplicate the port-knocking behavior of windows using any other OS?
and from yet another rumor-mill, it is also supposed to support quantum computing, since it looks like the final release date will be close to the time when we're all using quantum computers!
Agreed. The weakest link remains the end-user running with defaut administrative permissions. But ZA, just like many antivirus softwares out there, already has the ability to set a password for enabling access, or for shutting it down. Without the password, it is only possible to shut down the interactive component (zlclient.exe), but the core firewall runs as a privileged service, and cant be shut down in this fashion. In addition, there is a user-invisible component to ZA, which loads up as a non PnP service at bootup (these drivers load before everything else), which offers boot-time protection. All in all, this one well designed soft-firewall.
ZoneAlarmPro is best known for its ability to block to control outgoing traffic. However, lesser known is its ability to control outgoing email, by specifying which applications can send email, along with how many emails are sent at once before an alarm is raised about possible virus/worm, and the offending application is frozen by ZoneAlarm until the user intervenes & allows it permission to do so. So, the functionality of the reverse firewall to reduce spam that the author is asking for is already available.
" .. I must have missed a zero somewhere ... damn I always do that!"
My gripe with Olympics coverage in the US is that you never get to see any event which does not involve some US team/athlete. So I'm assuming that this would likely be 1200 something hours of US athletes-only fest. Entirely goes against the spirit of the Olympics itself.
YaST is the only config tool you'll need if you have Novell/SUSE linux. Since it has now been GLPed, there's some potential to port it to manage other distros as well.
Actually, the 500MHz systems you are comparing are G4s Vs the P-IIIs at that time, in which case the 20% lead would be reasonable. However, before the G5 arrived, the G4 lineup was pretty much stagnated, whereas AMD Vs Intel literally took off with Athlons & P-4s, both of which also sported longer pipelines, parallelism & SIMD units (MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3dNow, etc).
... so the 2.5GHz PowerPC may not be all that better than a Xeon 3.2 GHz after all.
:)
A better comparison would be between PPC Power 4 & the existing Opterons/Xeons, but bear in mind that Power-4 is big tin, with multiple cores & loads of cache, which the PPC970 (G5) lacks. Scaling the Power-4 numbers for clock speed of the new G5, 2.5GHz puts them in the same league as existing Xeons & Opterons
Oh, and BTW, the 8080 joke is getting really old!
At first they ignore us, then they laugh at us, then they fight us, then we win -Mahatma Gandhi Funny how this seems to be already happening with Linux & MS ... technology used by our competitors ... whatever!
The outcomes of the latest election were interpreted by the political experts as an outright rejection of the notion that the country's newly-found strength in IT had benefitted the rural poor. In the light of this, it would seem unlikely that any one technology (not just Linux) would have had a noticeable improvement in their lives. Then again, perception and reality can sometimes be two completely opposite things, so one can never be sure of that either.
The 1300 & 2500 are virtually identical, except that the latter is twice as fast as the former; and according to the forums on 2510, it is no different in design than the 2500. Although NEC would probably never release any firmware that would allow 1300 users to upgrade to 2500/2510, its simply a matter of time before someone back-ports the latest drivers to the 1300.
I dont understand why, if its possible to make low power-consumption varieties of the hot-running desktop chips that AMD and Intel seem to keep coming up with, they dont make more of an effort for marketting it. Although small, I'm sure there must be a market out there for cool running, low-power varieties of these processors for something besides laptops. Considering the incredibly noisy machine I have on my desktop at work, I wouldnt mind going for something like that at all.
I dont know about hotmail specifically, but MSN communities doesnt seem to delete stuff after they delete your account. In my case, I received a bunch of warnings that my community had become inactive and would be deleted if I didnt take action. Surely enough, after some time, they did delete it. Then, a few months later, I created a new community with the exact same name. Imagine my surprize when I found my old folders & files in this newly created community! I dont think we can take any of these services for granted when it comes to archiving our data.
US law, per se, does not apply to any other country. However for countries that have ratified WTO, patents can be enforced one way or another. Secondly, even if they are not able to enforce the the patent in India, if the device is to be marketed outside India, then the laws of that country will apply. In the case of the US, Innoventions could probably get a cease & desist order blocking sales of the device in the US market.
Actually, the real shortage of IPv4 addresses is in the Asia-Pacific region. US really has all the IPv4 addresses it needs for the next few decades, which is why we have these kind of reports floating around in the first place!
If you have Zonealarm Pro installed, you can go to the privacy settings and block popups, pop-unders, banner ads, embedded activex & flash objects, etc. I tried the link http://www.unicast.com/gallery/index.asp# and Zonealarm Pro (I have the older version 3.0xx) was able to block ALL the new ads they have come up with.
It seems that everyone is really excited about being able to retain their old phone number, but the main problem with changing carriers for most americans is the need to cough up a large sum of money (typically $150 - $250 depending on the provider). As long as this issue is not addressed, I honestly dont believe that many people will simply change their carriers even if they are dissatisfied with the service. I feel that this 'termination fee' is more monopolistic than any other tactic that the carriers have implemented and needs to be tackled first.
... will be assimilated ... resistance is futile!
When we retired a few older Macs in our lab last month, I was surprized to find one of the boards with an AMD chip in it. I guess this is how rumours about OSX/x86 get started.