That's a very good point....I hadn't thought about not vacuuming the closets and things like that, which would be a significant chunk. But still, the house itself (no garage yet) is ~2000 sq ft and if it takes the thing 90 minutes to do 400 sq ft, its still gonna take the thing 3 or 4 charges to do my house, since I am one of those wierd people that vacuums everything, including the tile.
I don't know about you, but if I have to do the vacuuming, I usually wait until the last minute and I can DEFINITELY tell where the vacuum has been and where it has not just by looking at the newly created swath of carpet that is now free whatever shit had collected there over the last few months.
There was a blurb on the Roomba in this month's What's New section of PopSci. They quoted a battery time of 90 minutes, which to me seems like WAY more than enough time to vacuum. However, the blurb said that it can only do 2 10x20 rooms in that amount of time. Well, I don't know what everyone lives in, but it would take this thing all day to vacuum my house which measures in at about 2000 sq. ft, and I for one wouldn't want to hear a vacuum running all day. And I can't just let the thing run all day at work, since the batteries only last 90 min! Guess I'll be vacuuming the old way for some time to come still....
If we were talking about companies where there was no government influence, then market economics would influence price. However, since most of these damn telecom/cable companies are nothing more than government sanctioned (and funded!) monopolies, they do help control pricing. Unfortunately, they control it the wrong way.
When I first got Verizon DSL a couple of years ago, I got it at an rate of $35 a month, for the life of my connection, and indeed, my rate never changed for as long as I had DSL. However, after the big broadband fallout when people like Covad were dropping like flies, the price immediately shot up to $50 a month. Granted, Verizon did increase the minimum line speed from 640k to 768k, but still, how does that justify $15/month more?
So it comes right down to competition. At the time Verizon did this, we didn't have cable modems available around here, and I figured that when Charter got off their asses and got them in here that we would see some kind of price competition. Boy, was I wrong. Charter is $5 a month more! Granted, much more bandwidth, but you get the point.
It just pisses me off that they can raise the price that much and get away with it!
....is probably the same one that can route that fast. Dropping a packet based on IP add. is probably easier than figuring out where to route it, since you can just send it to the bit bucket, and not out another interface that is specified in the routing table.
This is WAY off-topic, but calling ANY linux distro maker an enemy will not help the linux cause 1 bit. I'm sure MS is banking on infighting like this to disrupt the linux movement much like early unix fragmentation helped other vendors way back when.
Come on now, I mean XP is still only 1 disc. My box set of RH 7.0 was like 7 or 8 CDs. Even the download editions of many distros are 2 or 3 discs.
I'm no MS lover (writing this on a Mandrake 8.2 box), but please bash only when bashing is due.
I seem to remember a few hacks to programs running on C64s that would do exactly that...they would borrow the video memory and use it as system memory if you didn't have enough to run whatever it was you wanted to run.
If you could deal with the bottom or top third of video fscked up, you just scored a few K of free memory.
If it's coming as a service pack, most people will still be downloading it, either via Windows Update or maybe as a separate download. Very few people will get this on a CD, I would suspect. The only possible exception to this I would think would be OEMs who integrate the pack into their default XP installations.
Actually, I did read that part. However, the use of the word tolerance in his reply really means: "You're not really supposed to go to the bathroom, but we can't exactly lock you up for taking a leak". (at least not yet)
Man, am I glad to hear somebody else say that. I thought I was the only one looking for that thing. That board has the potential for some seriously cool projeccts. Personally, I'd be using it for an in car pc system as well as a set-top box type system. The only info I've seen about availability is 2nd quarter 2002. If anyone else has info (perhaps where to get a development board), please post.
Technically yes, license wise - not a chance. Ran into exactly that situation here at work. Had a big terminal server with about 300 users and one copy of Office 2K on it. Long story short - got audited and was forced to buy 299 more copies of office. Thankfully, since we are a college, we can get a copy of Office 2k pro for about $40, so we weren't out anywhere near as much as we could have been.
That said, we should've known better. MS has gone almost completely to a per-user (or per-seat) licensing scheme.
The data was probably just simulated using something that can modulate the signal as fast or faster than that pipe could hold. It was probably just a nonsense stream of bits randomly generated, but I'm just guessing.
Actually, they may have to backdate that slogan. The problem has existed since version 2.0, so this hole would have existed since whenever they started shipping with at least version 2.0.
And by the way, it is local exploit as of yet, however, remote exploitation has not been ruled out.
But wouldn't that also mean that skiiers who tend to carve/zig zag often would experience large swings in percieved speed as the travel from the inner disc to outer disc and back again? Or perhaps with a big enough disc, this wouldn't be a problem, but then skiing at the edges would be at some seriously scary speeds!
I imagine that blizzard did not give these guys the code to battle.net, so bnetd is essentially a clean room, reverse-engineered implementation, correct?
If so, I would think that bnetd would be well within the bounds of the law, as AMD did this same thing with the x86 instruction set. Of course, being within the law and having the means to fight for those rights are entirely separate things, unfortunately.
You're crazy if you think every spammer out there looks for new relays every time they send out a mass mailing. Of course they use these lists. Half the mail server admins out there have no idea what an open relay is, let alone close it. I'm sure that a very large proportion of the relays in those databases are still open. Some people actually DESIRE an open relay. These lists just make the abuse worse.
Yes, you're right, the reason these servers are on the list is because they were discovered and abused already, but what's the point in making it easier for others to find them?
And, getting right down to it, open relays are not the problem. Spammers are the problem. Let's compare mail servers to routers for a second. Think of what would happen if internet backbone routers didn't relay packets to other routers -- no internet. Mail servers were originally designed in much the same manner: get the mail wherever it needs to go, in case some other server is down. Granted, this is no longer necessary, but you get the idea.
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That's a very good point....I hadn't thought about not vacuuming the closets and things like that, which would be a significant chunk. But still, the house itself (no garage yet) is ~2000 sq ft and if it takes the thing 90 minutes to do 400 sq ft, its still gonna take the thing 3 or 4 charges to do my house, since I am one of those wierd people that vacuums everything, including the tile.
I don't know about you, but if I have to do the vacuuming, I usually wait until the last minute and I can DEFINITELY tell where the vacuum has been and where it has not just by looking at the newly created swath of carpet that is now free whatever shit had collected there over the last few months.
There was a blurb on the Roomba in this month's What's New section of PopSci. They quoted a battery time of 90 minutes, which to me seems like WAY more than enough time to vacuum. However, the blurb said that it can only do 2 10x20 rooms in that amount of time. Well, I don't know what everyone lives in, but it would take this thing all day to vacuum my house which measures in at about 2000 sq. ft, and I for one wouldn't want to hear a vacuum running all day. And I can't just let the thing run all day at work, since the batteries only last 90 min! Guess I'll be vacuuming the old way for some time to come still....
IIRC, this isn't really a new player. I believe VIA bought this architecture from Cyrix. I think it used to be called the C3 (or could be M3).
if I only lived in Ecuador! :) I mean they're giving out free 802.11b cards? I'll take some!
No, you're wrong.
If we were talking about companies where there was no government influence, then market economics would influence price. However, since most of these damn telecom/cable companies are nothing more than government sanctioned (and funded!) monopolies, they do help control pricing. Unfortunately, they control it the wrong way.
...it was the damn increase in cost!
When I first got Verizon DSL a couple of years ago, I got it at an rate of $35 a month, for the life of my connection, and indeed, my rate never changed for as long as I had DSL. However, after the big broadband fallout when people like Covad were dropping like flies, the price immediately shot up to $50 a month. Granted, Verizon did increase the minimum line speed from 640k to 768k, but still, how does that justify $15/month more?
So it comes right down to competition. At the time Verizon did this, we didn't have cable modems available around here, and I figured that when Charter got off their asses and got them in here that we would see some kind of price competition. Boy, was I wrong. Charter is $5 a month more! Granted, much more bandwidth, but you get the point.
It just pisses me off that they can raise the price that much and get away with it!
....is probably the same one that can route that fast. Dropping a packet based on IP add. is probably easier than figuring out where to route it, since you can just send it to the bit bucket, and not out another interface that is specified in the routing table.
This is WAY off-topic, but calling ANY linux distro maker an enemy will not help the linux cause 1 bit. I'm sure MS is banking on infighting like this to disrupt the linux movement much like early unix fragmentation helped other vendors way back when.
Come on now, I mean XP is still only 1 disc. My box set of RH 7.0 was like 7 or 8 CDs. Even the download editions of many distros are 2 or 3 discs.
I'm no MS lover (writing this on a Mandrake 8.2 box), but please bash only when bashing is due.
I stand corrected.
I seem to remember a few hacks to programs running on C64s that would do exactly that...they would borrow the video memory and use it as system memory if you didn't have enough to run whatever it was you wanted to run.
If you could deal with the bottom or top third of video fscked up, you just scored a few K of free memory.
If it's coming as a service pack, most people will still be downloading it, either via Windows Update or maybe as a separate download. Very few people will get this on a CD, I would suspect. The only possible exception to this I would think would be OEMs who integrate the pack into their default XP installations.
Actually, I did read that part. However, the use of the word tolerance in his reply really means: "You're not really supposed to go to the bathroom, but we can't exactly lock you up for taking a leak". (at least not yet)
...during a commercial, I'm stealing? Give me a freaking break!
Man, am I glad to hear somebody else say that. I thought I was the only one looking for that thing. That board has the potential for some seriously cool projeccts. Personally, I'd be using it for an in car pc system as well as a set-top box type system. The only info I've seen about availability is 2nd quarter 2002. If anyone else has info (perhaps where to get a development board), please post.
Technically yes, license wise - not a chance. Ran into exactly that situation here at work. Had a big terminal server with about 300 users and one copy of Office 2K on it. Long story short - got audited and was forced to buy 299 more copies of office. Thankfully, since we are a college, we can get a copy of Office 2k pro for about $40, so we weren't out anywhere near as much as we could have been.
That said, we should've known better. MS has gone almost completely to a per-user (or per-seat) licensing scheme.
The data was probably just simulated using something that can modulate the signal as fast or faster than that pipe could hold. It was probably just a nonsense stream of bits randomly generated, but I'm just guessing.
Actually, they may have to backdate that slogan. The problem has existed since version 2.0, so this hole would have existed since whenever they started shipping with at least version 2.0. And by the way, it is local exploit as of yet, however, remote exploitation has not been ruled out.
But wouldn't that also mean that skiiers who tend to carve/zig zag often would experience large swings in percieved speed as the travel from the inner disc to outer disc and back again? Or perhaps with a big enough disc, this wouldn't be a problem, but then skiing at the edges would be at some seriously scary speeds!
Why not just use some treadmill like contraption? Seems like you'd circumvent all the centripetal force/motion problems that way.
If so, I would think that bnetd would be well within the bounds of the law, as AMD did this same thing with the x86 instruction set. Of course, being within the law and having the means to fight for those rights are entirely separate things, unfortunately.
If that's the case, nvidia probably wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
That said, I also have Mandrake 8.1 on the same machine, and that hasn't ever crashed. X has zonked out on it a few times, but never the whole OS.
Yes, you're right, the reason these servers are on the list is because they were discovered and abused already, but what's the point in making it easier for others to find them?
And, getting right down to it, open relays are not the problem. Spammers are the problem. Let's compare mail servers to routers for a second. Think of what would happen if internet backbone routers didn't relay packets to other routers -- no internet. Mail servers were originally designed in much the same manner: get the mail wherever it needs to go, in case some other server is down. Granted, this is no longer necessary, but you get the idea.