According to Heise Online (yes, it's German, machine translation here), AN.ON at TU-Dresden, the operators of the JAP service, no longer need to store connection logs as a court decided that unrestricted logging of connections to certain web pages has no legal basis.
Did Verisign even think when they implemented SiteFinder?
One of many problems is that web.archive.org will honor the/robots.txt of any host and remove that host from its archive. So, sooner or later, the archive of all formerly (and currently no longer) registered domains will be gone...
Dynamic Volumes are a partitioning scheme, not a file system, i.e., you can run NTFS on top of a dynamic volume instaed of the usual DOS partition table...
Building intelligence into the client, but making data-input difficult, and not using standard protocols - seems a huge waste of money and bandwidth.
No, running a VNC connection vis a GSM link is a waste of bandwidth and money... At least if you consider what a MB of data transfer over GPRS costs here in Germany...
Im currently pushing all the spam SpamAssassin finds to my Trustic account with procmail, to register my negative recommendations.
IMHO, automatic reporting is a bad idea. SpamAssassin isn't perfect and might flag legitimate mail as spam. It happens rarely, but it does happen. If you submit manually, you'll (hopefully) notice this, but automatic submission will report the IP of an innocent party as untrusted...
Single chip computers are fun, but if you're not working on something that HAS to be single chip I don't understand why you'd go there. An old P200 machine can be had pretty much for free, and the ISA bus is incredibly easy to use
If size, power consumption and reliability are non-issues, then you are right.;-)
As someone mentioned, The only moving parts would be in the drives, so everything else is probably more robust than the drives, they are the weak link you need to worry about.
Are you sure that radiation doesn't negatively influence the drive's controller electronics? NASA is normally using special testing procedures that electronic equipment is suitable to be operated under the high radiation levels which occur during a shuttle flight.
Maybe not in the US, but in Europe there are privacy laws which prohibit address harvesting. The main problem however is: As long as there is at least a single country which does not have such a law, address harvesters and spam operations will be run from this country. And there are many countries which do not care about privacy...
> Find a new provider that offers "pay by the GB"...
But make sure they can handle the load when a load spike actually happens.
An ISP cannot re-sell more bandwidth than they have purchased from their upstream provider. If they aren't prepared for the load, you'll get very slow downloads...
One problem might be corporate customers who have to pay for their bandwidth:
If you had to pay for your bandwidth, would you give it for free to some company from which you are currently downloading a product update? I wouldn't...
Dvorak, of PC Magazine fame, had a conspiratorial article once about the threat that this presents in that information on how to reset the microcode in the hands of a virus writer could be devastating
AFAIK microcode updates are signed or at least protected by a MAC, so it isn't that trivial to update...
Additionally, the CPU might only allow one update (remember, the update is volatile) after the CPU is reset which is always done by the BIOS in current systems. So, a malicious program would have to inject the (correctly signed) new microcode before the BIOS performs its upload.
But this opens interesting possibilities like running some time-intensive OPS until the CPU core shuts down due to overheating *eg*
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Why would anybody want to watch an entire movie in 5 seconds
Having access to an 8 Gb/s connection doesn't mean you'll have to saturate it 24/7;-)
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current hard drives don't even come close to handling this kind of bandwidth
Who needs hard disk capacity if you can stream a movie in realtime? *eg*
BTW, even if hard disks eventually reach the required capacity, you wouldn't be able to store it on disk anyway thanks to MPAA's DRM initiative...
I am... ehm... uncertain whether this will actually improve productivity;-)
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A translation:
A joint venture between the University of Wuppertal and Vigos AG showcase the prototype of a "GZIP accelerator board" at CeBIT (Hall 11, D26). The PCI card removes the burden of performing time-consuming data compression tasks from the system CPU and already achieves a data throughput of 32 MB/s in its current development state. This is sufficient to compress the traffic generated by a 100 MBit LAN connection in real-time; through the modular design, it will be possible to reach 64 MB/s in the future.
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OTOH, the idea of rewriting the Linux kernel in Perl is certainly nice *g*
According to Heise Online (yes, it's German, machine translation here), AN.ON at TU-Dresden, the operators of the JAP service, no longer need to store connection logs as a court decided that unrestricted logging of connections to certain web pages has no legal basis.
One of many problems is that web.archive.org will honor the /robots.txt of any host and remove that host from its archive. So, sooner or later, the archive of all formerly (and currently no longer) registered domains will be gone...
BTW, the reason does not necessarily need to be very elaborate. Just give a reason and most people will understand and not question it.
Dynamic Volumes are a partitioning scheme, not a file system, i.e., you can run NTFS on top of a dynamic volume instaed of the usual DOS partition table...
Nice, FAT16 with a cluster size of 3,6 MB. ;-)
Yes, I know this is not supported...
No, running a VNC connection vis a GSM link is a waste of bandwidth and money... At least if you consider what a MB of data transfer over GPRS costs here in Germany...
IMHO, automatic reporting is a bad idea. SpamAssassin isn't perfect and might flag legitimate mail as spam. It happens rarely, but it does happen. If you submit manually, you'll (hopefully) notice this, but automatic submission will report the IP of an innocent party as untrusted...
Not with a Pentium MMX 266...
This device definitely hasn't enough computing power to use it for anything fun... ;-)
S-A-VE has a list of software archives. It's in German, but also has a section of internation sites. Anyway, here is the Google translation.
If size, power consumption and reliability are non-issues, then you are right. ;-)
If you write your LaTeX documents under Windows, TeXnicCenter is the perfect IDE to use...
procmail should do the trick...
Are you sure that radiation doesn't negatively influence the drive's controller electronics? NASA is normally using special testing procedures that electronic equipment is suitable to be operated under the high radiation levels which occur during a shuttle flight.
It might be covered by the ASUS riser card which is propably the WiFi extension module...
Maybe not in the US, but in Europe there are privacy laws which prohibit address harvesting. The main problem however is: As long as there is at least a single country which does not have such a law, address harvesters and spam operations will be run from this country. And there are many countries which do not care about privacy...
But make sure they can handle the load when a load spike actually happens.
An ISP cannot re-sell more bandwidth than they have purchased from their upstream provider. If they aren't prepared for the load, you'll get very slow downloads...
If you had to pay for your bandwidth, would you give it for free to some company from which you are currently downloading a product update? I wouldn't...
cout << "member 1: " << local_struct.member1 << endl;
An Apache server with mod_proxy, HTTP basic authentication and mod_ssl should do the trick.
AFAIK microcode updates are signed or at least protected by a MAC, so it isn't that trivial to update...
Additionally, the CPU might only allow one update (remember, the update is volatile) after the CPU is reset which is always done by the BIOS in current systems. So, a malicious program would have to inject the (correctly signed) new microcode before the BIOS performs its upload.
But this opens interesting possibilities like running some time-intensive OPS until the CPU core shuts down due to overheating *eg*
Having access to an 8 Gb/s connection doesn't mean you'll have to saturate it 24/7 ;-)
Who needs hard disk capacity if you can stream a movie in realtime? *eg*
BTW, even if hard disks eventually reach the required capacity, you wouldn't be able to store it on disk anyway thanks to MPAA's DRM initiative...
I am... ehm... uncertain whether this will actually improve productivity ;-)
A translation: A joint venture between the University of Wuppertal and Vigos AG showcase the prototype of a "GZIP accelerator board" at CeBIT (Hall 11, D26). The PCI card removes the burden of performing time-consuming data compression tasks from the system CPU and already achieves a data throughput of 32 MB/s in its current development state. This is sufficient to compress the traffic generated by a 100 MBit LAN connection in real-time; through the modular design, it will be possible to reach 64 MB/s in the future. [end of first paragraph] Specialist