I find it a little amusing that MS needs to hire a team of programmers to "HIDE" the MS middleware that'll be installed with Windows XP.
OOOoooo.. a fancy ass little control panel option to trash icons for IE MSN , and outlook. 700megs later, we have people with so much crap on the HD who are oblivious to whats installed.
Another thing... MS claims they have "locked" a WinXP installation to the hardware. If I get a new PC... does that mean I can't uninstall from my old PC, and reinstall on the other? or what if I swap a harddisk?
Someone please fill me in here.
Wasn't there a recent Slashdot article regarding a fold out lcd screen? you could have some sort of pocket on the side of this box to carry a folded LCD screen.
It's people like you who give me comfort that the ice caps melting is a good thing.
Should change people's attitude once our climate kills many of our population.
See you at the shoreline dickhead.
Unfounded yes, there is no physical evidence that I have of the those claims. But would YOU trust a company that has been caught it such recent scams as the Zdnet poll? It was that poll of.NET vs java and Zdnet had detected huge amounts of polling comming form Microsoft.com in an attempt to Rig the results. They are proven scumbags, and I'm not pulling this info out of my ass.
You call that spyware? How about WinXP spyware?
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Boo hoo, netscape knows your IP address and your search terms.
At least it doesn't keep a detailed record of your uploads/downloads and directory structure. Some people claim Windows XP xfers that information to home base.
close look at the system configuration reveals the horrific. Here we have configurations files hanging around on the firewall, freely readable and partially writable: The password for the DSL access was in plain text in an unprotected file, even the secret key for a VPN connection wasn't particularly well protected. Furthermore, SmoothWall doesn't use Shadow-Passwords, a security feature included in all modern Linux distributions, which protects the password file from direct user access, consequently protecting from dictionary attacks. The PPP-Daemon complains in the log file, every start, about the permissive reading rights to its password file, hard to imagine that the developers missed this one.
Of course nobody except the Administrator should be anywhere near the system, so these problems don't present a direct threat. But, the purpose of a Firewall is to protect the system against all eventualities-and not to override existing protection mechanisms. Ultimately a mistake in an installed program such as the Web Proxy could eventually lead to the access to local data from other computers-and easily accessible files with passwords or secret keys increase the risks unnecessarily.
Further investigations show that the systems security isn't taken very seriously. The CGI scripts used to Administrate do not verify user data satisfactorily.
When a group of developers- more than ever one active in the spirit of GPL-want to successfully distribute a good product, they are usually interested in feedback, in order to improve their product. My concrete indications of security problems within SmoothWall found sheer disinterest with Richard Morrell, developer and project initiator. "That doesn't matter" was about the politest of all comments comment. Trust in the developer's competence and integrity is a basic pre-requisite for the usage of security relevant software. Morell has thoroughly destroyed mine. (ju)
I'm a little paranoid when I read releases of these CPUs.
I'm still running a Celeron O/C to 700mhz, and it runs my games/winXP/RedHat just fine.
Of course I used to believe that slackware linux and Xwindows ran just fine on my old 486... and it did!!
Are faster CPUs leading to lazy programmers? How can we combat this as consumers? Would a minimum install of RedHat and Xwindows run at all respectably on my 486? Is not.. is it because now I'm just pampered by my Celeron, or is "software bloat" and wasted memory feeding the market?
If life is too short to wait for something to compile. Buddy, have you thought about doing something else for a living?
Be a scuba Diving instructor in the bahamas!
Be an english teacher in South Italy!
Do nano-technology research, and extend your life eternally!
Although z/VM can start and stop Linux images, it cannot dynamically add resources to match demand. As a result, a mainframe would need to size for peak demand just as the Linux farm would; high utilization is a myth.
Is that true? And, if it is... it's a good point I would think. If multiple linux server images are to be the new fashion of servers, what would be involved in having resources such as ram and diskspace allocated dynamically based on demand of one of the linux images running?
On a final note, I'm starting to really think this whole multiple linux images running on one machine trend to be just a "fad". In most cases (granted not all), isn't it just as effective and easier to have all the services running under one linux server? maybe some extra magical software to control resources etc?
--Me
Are times tough? find each day at work you age another year? Do you really hate mondays?
My friends, sex is the answer. I find when having tons and tons of sex nothing really seems to matter:)
Is your girlfriend not at work? Have sex with the boss! or a co-worker!
Having a bad day? fuck something!
Just speaking from my heart guys... as a last resort you can pay for sex, or masturbate quietly in the bathroom.
yeah I had that problem... I fixed it myself. I changed the thread_Saved_pc function on line 444.
Instead of returning that useless pointer.. I have it returning the number 42.
Compiles fine now!!
(I kid you not). Just don't try it at home... muhahahah
Basically it's very unlikely you'll see internet over the powerlines in the near future.
I read in this article (Wired magazine... not on the web), the total corporate history and research of this project idea. Basically, big ass companies like AT&T etc.. did a lot of testing and decided that it was just too expensive to offer net over the powerlines. The main problem was that although one could effectively transmit data over the powerline.. once it hits a transformer the data is lost, and the only solution that 3 big companies could come up with was a device installed on each transformer to carry the signal, which is completely uneconomical and defeats the whole purpose of using the existing powergrid.
There is even a big scandal with another company that claimed they could overcome this problem.. and it turned out to be a total fake, and lawsuits galore occured.
Of course there is no problem with using the powerlines in your house to network... so Rock on Lan parties!
Excluding consoles in this comment. One of the major problems for regular computer games was obviously piracy. Since more and more games these days are online multiplayer only, Game companies can now do unique CDKEY checking online if you are connecting to an internet server.
Yes you can still play on a lan.. but if you plan on every playing Quake3 with buddies around the world it's virtually impossible to pirate it.
I'd say that would make vid games sales a bit better for the spoiled kids who can't download everything they want anymore.:) (nobody I know of course).
your kidding right? Darwin/Aqua is just terrible. You'll find way more software out there for linux, and much less bloat. Aqua is pretty looking... that's about it.
"the new twin-engined G4 runs professional applications like Adobe Photoshop up to 72 percent faster"
Uuuuhh... a 3d card runs a 2d app 72 percent faster? No I don't think so.
Anyways, aside from that.. this is a great machine. I actually run many of my linux servers at work off of "older" Mac G3 hardware. Yellowdog linux is a god-sent! Would Yellowgod automatically take advantage of the dual-cpu mac hardware? I'm not well versed in Multi cpu OS behavior. And of course it's a shame that I can get a dual ghz PC system for like half the price... but hey 1.5k for the pretty colors!!! mmmmm pretty colors.
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UUUhh for a webpage loading multiple images and perhaps a flash object... I'm pretty sure it has to do that in seperate threads anyways.
Thus an SMP system would handle that just fine without any extra programming.
I find it a little amusing that MS needs to hire a team of programmers to "HIDE" the MS middleware that'll be installed with Windows XP.
OOOoooo.. a fancy ass little control panel option to trash icons for IE MSN , and outlook. 700megs later, we have people with so much crap on the HD who are oblivious to whats installed.
Another thing... MS claims they have "locked" a WinXP installation to the hardware. If I get a new PC... does that mean I can't uninstall from my old PC, and reinstall on the other? or what if I swap a harddisk?
Someone please fill me in here.
--Me
Wasn't there a recent Slashdot article regarding a fold out lcd screen? you could have some sort of pocket on the side of this box to carry a folded LCD screen.
Bah I can't seem to find the link.
that's a joke right? :)
you didn't mention any platforms other than win32, or win16
ppp bug? Who cares about that?!
Could someone please track down the Infamous "aqua won't run on x86" bug.
thanks.
It's people like you who give me comfort that the ice caps melting is a good thing.
Should change people's attitude once our climate kills many of our population.
See you at the shoreline dickhead.
Unfounded yes, there is no physical evidence that I have of the those claims. But would YOU trust a company that has been caught it such recent scams as the Zdnet poll? It was that poll of .NET vs java and Zdnet had detected huge amounts of polling comming form Microsoft.com in an attempt to Rig the results. They are proven scumbags, and I'm not pulling this info out of my ass.
At least it doesn't keep a detailed record of your uploads/downloads and directory structure. Some people claim Windows XP xfers that information to home base.
Spooooky....
close look at the system configuration reveals the horrific. Here we have configurations files hanging around on the firewall, freely readable and partially writable: The password for the DSL access was in plain text in an unprotected file, even the secret key for a VPN connection wasn't particularly well protected. Furthermore, SmoothWall doesn't use Shadow-Passwords, a security feature included in all modern Linux distributions, which protects the password file from direct user access, consequently protecting from dictionary attacks. The PPP-Daemon complains in the log file, every start, about the permissive reading rights to its password file, hard to imagine that the developers missed this one. Of course nobody except the Administrator should be anywhere near the system, so these problems don't present a direct threat. But, the purpose of a Firewall is to protect the system against all eventualities-and not to override existing protection mechanisms. Ultimately a mistake in an installed program such as the Web Proxy could eventually lead to the access to local data from other computers-and easily accessible files with passwords or secret keys increase the risks unnecessarily. Further investigations show that the systems security isn't taken very seriously. The CGI scripts used to Administrate do not verify user data satisfactorily. When a group of developers- more than ever one active in the spirit of GPL-want to successfully distribute a good product, they are usually interested in feedback, in order to improve their product. My concrete indications of security problems within SmoothWall found sheer disinterest with Richard Morrell, developer and project initiator. "That doesn't matter" was about the politest of all comments comment. Trust in the developer's competence and integrity is a basic pre-requisite for the usage of security relevant software. Morell has thoroughly destroyed mine. (ju)
I'm still running a Celeron O/C to 700mhz, and it runs my games/winXP/RedHat just fine.
Of course I used to believe that slackware linux and Xwindows ran just fine on my old 486... and it did!!
Are faster CPUs leading to lazy programmers? How can we combat this as consumers? Would a minimum install of RedHat and Xwindows run at all respectably on my 486? Is not.. is it because now I'm just pampered by my Celeron, or is "software bloat" and wasted memory feeding the market?
Throw me a friggin bone here!
ok?
Be a scuba Diving instructor in the bahamas!
Be an english teacher in South Italy!
Do nano-technology research, and extend your life eternally!
Just a thought :)
Although z/VM can start and stop Linux images, it cannot dynamically add resources to match demand. As a result, a mainframe would need to size for peak demand just as the Linux farm would; high utilization is a myth.
Is that true? And, if it is... it's a good point I would think. If multiple linux server images are to be the new fashion of servers, what would be involved in having resources such as ram and diskspace allocated dynamically based on demand of one of the linux images running?
On a final note, I'm starting to really think this whole multiple linux images running on one machine trend to be just a "fad". In most cases (granted not all), isn't it just as effective and easier to have all the services running under one linux server? maybe some extra magical software to control resources etc?
--Me
My friends, sex is the answer. I find when having tons and tons of sex nothing really seems to matter:)
Is your girlfriend not at work? Have sex with the boss! or a co-worker!
Having a bad day? fuck something!
Just speaking from my heart guys... as a last resort you can pay for sex, or masturbate quietly in the bathroom.
yeaah. light shoulda been like. typo scatnick poodle!
Imagine... laptops chained around your neck swinging around, generating battery life.
Who needs a pedal!?
yeah I had that problem... I fixed it myself. I changed the thread_Saved_pc function on line 444.
Instead of returning that useless pointer.. I have it returning the number 42.
Compiles fine now!! (I kid you not). Just don't try it at home... muhahahah
I read in this article (Wired magazine... not on the web), the total corporate history and research of this project idea.
Basically, big ass companies like AT&T etc.. did a lot of testing and decided that it was just too expensive to offer net over the powerlines. The main problem was that although one could effectively transmit data over the powerline.. once it hits a transformer the data is lost, and the only solution that 3 big companies could come up with was a device installed on each transformer to carry the signal, which is completely uneconomical and defeats the whole purpose of using the existing powergrid.
There is even a big scandal with another company that claimed they could overcome this problem.. and it turned out to be a total fake, and lawsuits galore occured.
Of course there is no problem with using the powerlines in your house to network... so Rock on Lan parties!
Since more and more games these days are online multiplayer only, Game companies can now do unique CDKEY checking online if you are connecting to an internet server.
Yes you can still play on a lan.. but if you plan on every playing Quake3 with buddies around the world it's virtually impossible to pirate it.
I'd say that would make vid games sales a bit better for the spoiled kids who can't download everything they want anymore.:) (nobody I know of course).
Honestly... do you really care about mod points? this is a msg forum for gods sake. Will you lose any sleep if you get +1 or +5 in some fucking post?
Live a little man...
Just remember while he's in prison for the next 5 years to mail him a prinout of that picture of him every week with a love letter attached :)
:)
always rub it in man.. always
your kidding right? Darwin/Aqua is just terrible. You'll find way more software out there for linux, and much less bloat. Aqua is pretty looking... that's about it.
lol I read G4 as geforce4... :) sorry
my brain is different this morning
"the new twin-engined G4 runs professional applications like Adobe Photoshop up to 72 percent faster"
Uuuuhh... a 3d card runs a 2d app 72 percent faster? No I don't think so.
Anyways, aside from that.. this is a great machine. I actually run many of my linux servers at work off of "older" Mac G3 hardware. Yellowdog linux is a god-sent!
Would Yellowgod automatically take advantage of the dual-cpu mac hardware? I'm not well versed in Multi cpu OS behavior.
And of course it's a shame that I can get a dual ghz PC system for like half the price... but hey 1.5k for the pretty colors!!! mmmmm pretty colors.
right ?
Could you explain that assembly snippet? all I've done is RISC assembly for sun sparcs.
oh ok:) glad we cleared that up.