The problem is the Microsoft solution doesn't really disable autorun fully because they didn't think of all codepaths by which the behavior can be launched. The solution CERT gives is beautiful in its simplicity:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
Basically it just associates autorun.inf with a NULL system function as the default handler.
Very cool, I knew of the effect and had a basic understanding of the cause but that was quite informative. Thank you, you've added to my list of thing's I've learned this week =)
No, minor skirmishes don't count. Even with the most pessimistic of calculations about civilian deaths in Iraq there have been about as many traffic fatalities in the US since the conflict began as there have been deaths there. I'm not saying conflict isn't horrible and bloody and messy, I'm just saying that most people alive today have no real concept of what war is.
Hanford is also the site where the DoE is trying a really cool bio-remediation project. The scary thing is that the mobile Pu is only one small part of the nastiness in the groundwater there, they have to chemically treat the water with multiple steps in order to get it clean enough for the bacteria to survive long enough to accomplish the remediation.
According to this site the core of Fat Man was ~13.6 lbs or ~6,200g. Pu239 has a density of a little under 20g/cm^3 so the core of Fat Man was ~300cc. Fat Man used a subcritical mass of Pu detonated through the compression mechanism but it just goes to show that a weapon could have been created from the sample assuming the isotope mix hadn't degraded too badly.
Actually different isotopes can glow green or purple depending on what kind of water (normal or heavy) they are in and what kind of impurities are present. You see this all the time when they show long term storage pools or moderator pools for things like industrial irradiation plants.
All of it? Yeah we've had skirmishes since then but we haven't had a significant percentage of GDP geared towards war since. Even the trillion dollar fiasco in Iraq has only been about 1.3% of GDP over the time we've been there. Our standing army and research and procurement programs during times of absolute peace are around 3% of GDP so it's been nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Hibernate in an ATX system will NOT bring power draw to 0 watts, just low power state. The motherboard header is still powered to allow things like WoL, keyboard power up, peripheral and clock based power on, etc.
Interesting idea, combine PoE and WoL. You send the magic packet, the switchport intercepts it and provides power to that port then the NIC uses the PoE power to switch a relay in the PSU. Would be very efficient and still allow the computers to be managed for patching. It wouldn't add much in the consumer space but I see it as a future direction for large enterprise deployments. Oh and if anyone tries to patent it, prior art =)
My 80+ PSU has one of those on the back, I use it whenever I'm messing around in the case since it's easier than constantly plugging and unplugging the power cord.
Our HP's allow you to have both on the same controller but not in the same RAID set for obvious reasons. Check the detailed specs for the controller or ask you rep/presales engineer.
Looking at the 3 month chart they are moving almost exactly with the market and are down about 2% less then the NASDAQ composite over that time period. Over the 1 year period they are down about 12% more than the NASDAQ composite but the movements are mostly market tracking.
The Well was by far my favorite map, it was great fun for just about every class but had special appeal to snipers. I loved playing with a 600DPI trackball, made it super easy to get a headshot =)
You act like it was Pandora's fault they had to close off non-US access. In reality it was the media cartels greed combined with the fact that many other countries don't have statutory rates for internet broadcasting yet.
Pandora can provide better stats then what you show, that's the same kind of thing they get from Nielson and company today. Pandora could actually tell them that people with profile properties x,y,z voted songs a,b,c up and songs q,r,s down and were likely to skip songs l,m,n during this time of day. The detailed information they could gather could really help them with both singles selection and with time of day rotation for terrestrial radio.
Do you mean they scrapped the technology, or fired all the people and closed the plants, or what? The reason I ask is Seagate certainly still uses the Maxtor name, specifically for external drive products.
How many people are running a datacenter full of SATA? Out of ~700 drives in my small datacenter only about 30 are SATA, the rest are a mix of SAS, SCSI, and FC.
I wonder if this is coming from the Seagate side of the house or the Maxtor side? This sure seems a LOT more like something the old Maxtor would have done than the enterprise provider of choice Seagate.
Do you ever actually get free memory below a couple hundred meg? If not then you might not experience what I'm talking about. On XP with fast user switching it can happen with a gig and a half free on a 2GB machine, log out a user and load up something with a VM size of a couple hundred megs then log back in as the first user, the HDD thrashes as the app is paged back in.
Every Windows desktop machine I use from my old T42 XP laptop to the new HP workstation with 8GB of ram running XP64 to the T60 laptop running Vista SP1. Two minutes for the T42, 30-60 seconds for the more powerful machines.
Except it doesn't really, just like every MS VM it often decides that keeping system cache is more important than keeping applications in memory and so it decides to swap out "infrequently" used code and data. The problem is when you go to switch from your photo app to your browser after not having used the browser for 30 minutes Windows has to swap it back in, in the meantime it might have just been using that ram to hold autosave files that were never re-read. This leads to your browser taking up to a minute or two to come back to usability.
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Uh, from the CERT advisory:
III. Solution
Disable AutoRun in Microsoft Windows
To effectively disable AutoRun in Microsoft Windows, import the following registry value:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
If you think you know more than the people at CERT, good luck to ya.
The problem is the Microsoft solution doesn't really disable autorun fully because they didn't think of all codepaths by which the behavior can be launched. The solution CERT gives is beautiful in its simplicity:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
Basically it just associates autorun.inf with a NULL system function as the default handler.
Very cool, I knew of the effect and had a basic understanding of the cause but that was quite informative. Thank you, you've added to my list of thing's I've learned this week =)
No, minor skirmishes don't count. Even with the most pessimistic of calculations about civilian deaths in Iraq there have been about as many traffic fatalities in the US since the conflict began as there have been deaths there. I'm not saying conflict isn't horrible and bloody and messy, I'm just saying that most people alive today have no real concept of what war is.
Hanford is also the site where the DoE is trying a really cool bio-remediation project. The scary thing is that the mobile Pu is only one small part of the nastiness in the groundwater there, they have to chemically treat the water with multiple steps in order to get it clean enough for the bacteria to survive long enough to accomplish the remediation.
According to this site the core of Fat Man was ~13.6 lbs or ~6,200g. Pu239 has a density of a little under 20g/cm^3 so the core of Fat Man was ~300cc. Fat Man used a subcritical mass of Pu detonated through the compression mechanism but it just goes to show that a weapon could have been created from the sample assuming the isotope mix hadn't degraded too badly.
Actually different isotopes can glow green or purple depending on what kind of water (normal or heavy) they are in and what kind of impurities are present. You see this all the time when they show long term storage pools or moderator pools for things like industrial irradiation plants.
All of it? Yeah we've had skirmishes since then but we haven't had a significant percentage of GDP geared towards war since. Even the trillion dollar fiasco in Iraq has only been about 1.3% of GDP over the time we've been there. Our standing army and research and procurement programs during times of absolute peace are around 3% of GDP so it's been nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Hibernate in an ATX system will NOT bring power draw to 0 watts, just low power state. The motherboard header is still powered to allow things like WoL, keyboard power up, peripheral and clock based power on, etc.
Interesting idea, combine PoE and WoL. You send the magic packet, the switchport intercepts it and provides power to that port then the NIC uses the PoE power to switch a relay in the PSU. Would be very efficient and still allow the computers to be managed for patching. It wouldn't add much in the consumer space but I see it as a future direction for large enterprise deployments. Oh and if anyone tries to patent it, prior art =)
My 80+ PSU has one of those on the back, I use it whenever I'm messing around in the case since it's easier than constantly plugging and unplugging the power cord.
Our HP's allow you to have both on the same controller but not in the same RAID set for obvious reasons. Check the detailed specs for the controller or ask you rep/presales engineer.
Looking at the 3 month chart they are moving almost exactly with the market and are down about 2% less then the NASDAQ composite over that time period. Over the 1 year period they are down about 12% more than the NASDAQ composite but the movements are mostly market tracking.
The Well was by far my favorite map, it was great fun for just about every class but had special appeal to snipers. I loved playing with a 600DPI trackball, made it super easy to get a headshot =)
You act like it was Pandora's fault they had to close off non-US access. In reality it was the media cartels greed combined with the fact that many other countries don't have statutory rates for internet broadcasting yet.
Pandora can provide better stats then what you show, that's the same kind of thing they get from Nielson and company today. Pandora could actually tell them that people with profile properties x,y,z voted songs a,b,c up and songs q,r,s down and were likely to skip songs l,m,n during this time of day. The detailed information they could gather could really help them with both singles selection and with time of day rotation for terrestrial radio.
Or you could roll your own with Mediaportal and use Comskip to automatically filter the ads for you.
Do you mean they scrapped the technology, or fired all the people and closed the plants, or what? The reason I ask is Seagate certainly still uses the Maxtor name, specifically for external drive products.
How many people are running a datacenter full of SATA? Out of ~700 drives in my small datacenter only about 30 are SATA, the rest are a mix of SAS, SCSI, and FC.
I wonder if this is coming from the Seagate side of the house or the Maxtor side? This sure seems a LOT more like something the old Maxtor would have done than the enterprise provider of choice Seagate.
Do you ever actually get free memory below a couple hundred meg? If not then you might not experience what I'm talking about. On XP with fast user switching it can happen with a gig and a half free on a 2GB machine, log out a user and load up something with a VM size of a couple hundred megs then log back in as the first user, the HDD thrashes as the app is paged back in.
Every Windows desktop machine I use from my old T42 XP laptop to the new HP workstation with 8GB of ram running XP64 to the T60 laptop running Vista SP1. Two minutes for the T42, 30-60 seconds for the more powerful machines.
Except it doesn't really, just like every MS VM it often decides that keeping system cache is more important than keeping applications in memory and so it decides to swap out "infrequently" used code and data. The problem is when you go to switch from your photo app to your browser after not having used the browser for 30 minutes Windows has to swap it back in, in the meantime it might have just been using that ram to hold autosave files that were never re-read. This leads to your browser taking up to a minute or two to come back to usability.
On the server side that's exactly what they are calling it, the server release based on the Win7 codebase is to be called Windows Server 2008R2.
They fixed Standard and Standard One, but OBIEE, ODI, and Enterprise are still stuck with per core licensing.