Yeah, I've got a "friend" close to the scene too, but I never thought it was cash, it was usually bandwidth or desirable hardware that got you preferred access. (Guess it's just as well as cash anyway.)
The thing you seam to be missing is that IPv4 and IPv6 can coexist, as they do right now. The move can be gradual. To think that overnight, bam, we've got IPv6 is kind of silly. With an IPv4 to IPv6 gateways I can be on the 6 and 4 net at the same time. Certain networks may choose to coexist or just go solely to IPv6. I believe the move to IPv6 is necessary and that the author's claims are just sky-is-falling material.
Did fears of the HTTP protocol being unsecure and slower than Gopher stop its progress? Did fear that engines weren't as reliable as horses stop them from revolutionizing travel? Sometimes you must bite the bullet, take the hard road of progress and make the world a better place.
Cisco routers support it, as do the routing stacks in Linux and the BSDs. If you would have read the article, you would have at least known Cisco routers support ipv6.
Well sure the ipv6 code isn't as tested as ipv4 and might be insecure at first... But did that stop the internet from being built on ipv4? It's a stupid argument against upgrading to a new technology.
But then how would you know it was there in the first place? The person sending off your internal data won't be caught and will probably just try other ways. But, if you detect steganography in outgoing/incoming data, you can try and hunt down who is sending it and who he is speaking to. And, if you can decipher the files, you can find out what they are after.
Regarding those metal clips from hell, I've always wondered why Intel and AMD never followed the examples of Alpha, Sun, SGI, etc. machines. They usually have bolt on heatsinks that either bolt the CPU and heatsink together or sandwich the CPU between the mainboard and the heatsink.
It takes care of the flat head screwdriver ruined mainboard, and there are no clips to break off the socket itself. I'm glad they are finally changing the way x86 sockets work.
Sherwood even brings in an FBI consultant specializing in hostage negotiation techniques to help management.
I can't help but wonder: How do hostage negotiation techniques help managers? Is this what we saw happen with SCO? Quick! Find code and Fortune 500 companies we can hold hostage!
..grey imported machines, fully modded with two original controllers and 5 free games (which only cost $0.73 a pop anyway) cost $217.47. The offical non-modded Chinese PS2's with only one controller and no games cost $277.88. In two cities where the average income is below $181.22 per month, who would buy the official version?
Apologies for hijacking your post, I hope you don't mind.
I agree with you, the power supply is quiet. I run some old pentiums as routers and such with just large heat sinks on the CPU. The power supply has the only fan in the box, and without the hard disk, I wouldn't be able to tell these things were running.
The smaller, higher RPM fans are the noisy ones, the larger 80mm (Power Supply) fans can move the same ammount of air at a lower rpm, and are quieter. The thing is, they won't fit on a normal CPU heatsink, so you must duct them (Dell does this on a lot of the machines I have seen).
Via is the reason I still use Intel. I've always thought AMD made good CPUs, but were held down by bad motherboard chipsets. The funny thing is, a lot of the issues weren't common between boards. I'd have identical machines that had different issues. It always scared me away. I used to call it "Playing the Via lottery."
I can relate, I worked in local PC shops for a few years and worked some more in network consulting. The early via chipsets were a nightmare, and most of the times the 4-in-1 drivers would break more things than they fixed. Windows 2000 support was especially bad. I worked in the AMD K6 to Athlon 2.0GHz timeline, I don't know if things have got better since.
Via didn't make great chipsets for Intel CPUs either, same problems with those. The Intel CPU/Chipset combo always gave the least problems/most stability. The AMD made (limited production) chipsets were decent, better than Via at least.
I'll probably get modded redundant, because a million others will tell you the same thing. The AAC file is lossy compression already, by burning and ripping into mp3, you lose more quality, a lot more. Just because you put it on CD doesn't magically transform your music back into CD quality sound.
Yeah, I understand this now, the AC beat you too it. You say MP3s, ripped movies, etc. do not contain executable code, but say, a buffer exploit would make parts of them executable, no? Heh.
Thanks for the reply. The article wasn't quite thorough in explaining the feature, and the picture of the configuration dialog doesn't say much either. After some google research, it seams the Linux kernel supports these extensions too. I guess my Microsoft feelings can be expressed as "once bitten, twice shy." Tinfoil hat? Foil is not nearly think enough! You'll be lucky to block half of the brain carrier signals.
One major change in the core is the addition of support for hardware-enforced no-execute. CPUs that support this feature can protect application code from data, which will help prevent attacks from viruses that work by attacking memory marked for data.
Unfortunately the only known XP-compatible processors that support this feature are the Athlon 64/Opteron family.
I like the blurb that appears on the screen shot too: You can disable the built-in protection that helps prevent incompatible and non-secure software from running on your computer. I wonder what gets deamed incompatible or non-secure. At least they offer the ability to disable it at the moment. It'll be hard to trust Microsoft with such a technology. Execution control would be a nice feature for a OS, but as we all know, with great power comes great responsibility, and MS seams to be responsible for one thing: profit.
I'm a Linux/MS user and I can even see where this article goes wrong. He might as well write an article explaining how all the Linux/BSD security zealots are wrong. We all know, and we don't care. Some products achieve a cult-like following, and that's the way it will be.
The advancement of their Quicktime software part makes sense, but I don't see how the Windows architecture makes it so Apple has to disable other clients. The iPod is USB or Firewire, both of which are standard interfaces and well supported on Windows. It is Apple that is limiting access to the iPod, not the OS.
Why would Apple's iTunes for Windows software disable competing software if they didn't make money off the iTunes service anyway? I'd think they'd want as many working software options available for their iPod as possible to increase sales of the hardware. Even if Musicmatch does suck, think about it, with this suspected business model, they would be doing Apple a favor.
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I'm still not going to give up my Model M.
Yeah, I've got a "friend" close to the scene too, but I never thought it was cash, it was usually bandwidth or desirable hardware that got you preferred access. (Guess it's just as well as cash anyway.)
...and a foreign permanent resident who is said to have been purchasing cracked software from Fairlight since 2001.
As far as I know, these releasing groups do not charge for their releases, they make them available free over FTP/IRC/USENET.
The thing you seam to be missing is that IPv4 and IPv6 can coexist, as they do right now. The move can be gradual. To think that overnight, bam, we've got IPv6 is kind of silly. With an IPv4 to IPv6 gateways I can be on the 6 and 4 net at the same time. Certain networks may choose to coexist or just go solely to IPv6. I believe the move to IPv6 is necessary and that the author's claims are just sky-is-falling material.
Did fears of the HTTP protocol being unsecure and slower than Gopher stop its progress? Did fear that engines weren't as reliable as horses stop them from revolutionizing travel? Sometimes you must bite the bullet, take the hard road of progress and make the world a better place.
Cisco routers support it, as do the routing stacks in Linux and the BSDs. If you would have read the article, you would have at least known Cisco routers support ipv6.
Well sure the ipv6 code isn't as tested as ipv4 and might be insecure at first... But did that stop the internet from being built on ipv4? It's a stupid argument against upgrading to a new technology.
Are you insinuating that they would feast off the light emitted from the diodes like some sort of freakish plant monster?
I'm sure there are tons of slashdotters whose apartments are already soley lit by LEDs.
But then how would you know it was there in the first place? The person sending off your internal data won't be caught and will probably just try other ways. But, if you detect steganography in outgoing/incoming data, you can try and hunt down who is sending it and who he is speaking to. And, if you can decipher the files, you can find out what they are after.
Regarding those metal clips from hell, I've always wondered why Intel and AMD never followed the examples of Alpha, Sun, SGI, etc. machines. They usually have bolt on heatsinks that either bolt the CPU and heatsink together or sandwich the CPU between the mainboard and the heatsink.
It takes care of the flat head screwdriver ruined mainboard, and there are no clips to break off the socket itself. I'm glad they are finally changing the way x86 sockets work.
From the article:
Sherwood even brings in an FBI consultant specializing in hostage negotiation techniques to help management.
I can't help but wonder: How do hostage negotiation techniques help managers? Is this what we saw happen with SCO? Quick! Find code and Fortune 500 companies we can hold hostage!
For anyone lazy or that cares:
..grey imported machines, fully modded with two original controllers and 5 free games (which only cost $0.73 a pop anyway) cost $217.47. The offical non-modded Chinese PS2's with only one controller and no games cost $277.88. In two cities where the average income is below $181.22 per month, who would buy the official version?
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Apologies for hijacking your post, I hope you don't mind.
I agree with you, the power supply is quiet. I run some old pentiums as routers and such with just large heat sinks on the CPU. The power supply has the only fan in the box, and without the hard disk, I wouldn't be able to tell these things were running.
The smaller, higher RPM fans are the noisy ones, the larger 80mm (Power Supply) fans can move the same ammount of air at a lower rpm, and are quieter. The thing is, they won't fit on a normal CPU heatsink, so you must duct them (Dell does this on a lot of the machines I have seen).
Via is the reason I still use Intel. I've always thought AMD made good CPUs, but were held down by bad motherboard chipsets. The funny thing is, a lot of the issues weren't common between boards. I'd have identical machines that had different issues. It always scared me away. I used to call it "Playing the Via lottery."
I can relate, I worked in local PC shops for a few years and worked some more in network consulting. The early via chipsets were a nightmare, and most of the times the 4-in-1 drivers would break more things than they fixed. Windows 2000 support was especially bad. I worked in the AMD K6 to Athlon 2.0GHz timeline, I don't know if things have got better since.
Via didn't make great chipsets for Intel CPUs either, same problems with those. The Intel CPU/Chipset combo always gave the least problems/most stability. The AMD made (limited production) chipsets were decent, better than Via at least.
I'll probably get modded redundant, because a million others will tell you the same thing. The AAC file is lossy compression already, by burning and ripping into mp3, you lose more quality, a lot more. Just because you put it on CD doesn't magically transform your music back into CD quality sound.
Yeah, just like no one cared when he released the DeCSS code.
That will just start an arms race, perhaps even increasing the amount of people working against Apple.
Yeah, I understand this now, the AC beat you too it. You say MP3s, ripped movies, etc. do not contain executable code, but say, a buffer exploit would make parts of them executable, no? Heh.
Thanks for the reply. The article wasn't quite thorough in explaining the feature, and the picture of the configuration dialog doesn't say much either. After some google research, it seams the Linux kernel supports these extensions too. I guess my Microsoft feelings can be expressed as "once bitten, twice shy." Tinfoil hat? Foil is not nearly think enough! You'll be lucky to block half of the brain carrier signals.
From the article's last page:
One major change in the core is the addition of support for hardware-enforced no-execute. CPUs that support this feature can protect application code from data, which will help prevent attacks from viruses that work by attacking memory marked for data.
Unfortunately the only known XP-compatible processors that support this feature are the Athlon 64/Opteron family.
I like the blurb that appears on the screen shot too: You can disable the built-in protection that helps prevent incompatible and non-secure software from running on your computer. I wonder what gets deamed incompatible or non-secure. At least they offer the ability to disable it at the moment. It'll be hard to trust Microsoft with such a technology. Execution control would be a nice feature for a OS, but as we all know, with great power comes great responsibility, and MS seams to be responsible for one thing: profit.
I'm a Linux/MS user and I can even see where this article goes wrong. He might as well write an article explaining how all the Linux/BSD security zealots are wrong. We all know, and we don't care. Some products achieve a cult-like following, and that's the way it will be.
The advancement of their Quicktime software part makes sense, but I don't see how the Windows architecture makes it so Apple has to disable other clients. The iPod is USB or Firewire, both of which are standard interfaces and well supported on Windows. It is Apple that is limiting access to the iPod, not the OS.
Why would Apple's iTunes for Windows software disable competing software if they didn't make money off the iTunes service anyway? I'd think they'd want as many working software options available for their iPod as possible to increase sales of the hardware. Even if Musicmatch does suck, think about it, with this suspected business model, they would be doing Apple a favor.
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