WalMart isn't the only store... Believe it or not, I was in K-Mart of all places purchasing several cans of spray paint with a fellow fraternity brother of mine (he's 27, I'm 23) for a project we were working on (totally legit). Him and I were both ID'd to my amazement. As annoying as it might have been, I am *glad* to see that age verification is finally being done! Granted minors purchasing spray paint (for use other than what it was intended) is the least of our concerns, but it is a start.
A disinterested third party probably don't even exist, but don't pretending IBM is unbiased, and that their whitepapers, etc. aren't filled with marketing bias as well.
Perhaps, but any respectable IT professional will recall Microsoft's "history" and lovely business practices, especially with their hate for Linux and keep that in consideration when reading this FUD (or should I more appropriately say: BS)
However, as akedia has previously mentioned... the problem lies in the advertising to upper management.
Agreed... The only problem ever have with Google is the fact sometimes I can't seem to locate any hits on what I want!
It's really going to take something special to top Google and I don't see either of these having the ability to do so. Especially Grokker... who is really going to pay to use a search engine (for the web)? I'd be a poor man (well I already am) if I had to pay for every time I Googled something.
Forgive me if it's been stated before, I *really* don't feel like reading all these posts but...
How come it seems that all the top stories in the Hall of Fame are something related to politics/war in the world? This is SLASHDOT. A way to GET AWAY from everything else in the world, at least it is for me. Anyone else find this ironic/funny?
Yes, but buy then any normal computer user would go out and RMA the drive anyway (or replace otherwise if needbe)...It's pointless for a filesystem to deal with bad blocks if it won't be running on a drive with defective media in it.
I guess it's just the attitude SGI took awhile back, but it's what I follow as a professional in the field along with my colleagues (and what makes sense) so I don't view that as a limitation of the filesystem.
While biometrics methods may help to increase security, they are certainly not foolproof by any means. Any determined hacker/criminal can fake actual results without too much difficulty (if they have the proper equipment/tools). However, by far the most secure (as in hardest to fool) biometrics device is the faceprint scanner (sorry, I can't seem to remember the actual real name). In any event, it does an infrared scan of the human face and maps the network of blood vessels under the surface of the skin. While it is quite secure, it is also probably ridiculously expensive (can someone verify that?)
(Background: 23 years as of yesterday, single male. Had my own PC since 6. Graduating with BS in CS from NJIT this December)
I would *never* think about denying a PC outside in my child's room. My father first bought a computer when I was the ripe age of 2 and I had my own PC (I guess if you consider an 8088 a PC) when I was about 6 or 7. Of course I didn't have Internet back then (it didn't exist), but I used to play merrily with my computer games and eventually picked up programming. If I didn't have that background there would be no way I know what I do today. However, I didn't get my first modem until I was in 8th grade (it was 33.6). My father was rather paranoid about viruses and wouldn't allow me one until I made a new close friend that had one. Once I realized the potential the provided, I immeadiately bought one.
The majority of us out there at or somewhat close to my age are probably in a similar ballpark - Their parents didn't have to worry about this back then because the Internet wasn't around so it does throw us in a rather unique situation. I think the thing to consider is providing a certain amount of freedom online yet still having somekind of control.
Another thing to consider is the age of the target user - obviously I think most would agree that young children should be denied ability to have free reign. Most children approaching adolescense (sp?) and young teens obviously will use the Internet a great deal today - I believe trust is a good thing to use, until it is violated. One possibility might be to install a logging proxy/gateway - and let the child know this, inform them that you can and will watch what they do (websites, chatrooms, etc... not private things such as IM's, e-mail's, etc) if you feel the need to. If the child isn't problematic to begin with I think it could work fairly well, however if they aren't good luck finding another solution.
Agreed. Perhaps it is my fault for not making this clear before, but LG is definately at fault here. However, if malicious code overwrote the flash memory then LG could not be blamed whatsoever.
As for ASUS, I find that somewhat disheartening hearing that from them. I can understand why the jumper no longer worked on the EEPROM (because, yes you are correct they are different. EEPROM requires single bytes to be written to it at a time while flash memory allows for writes in blocks at a time which obviously makes it faster) but they should have that feature, as should all hardware components with flashable memory.
That idea for a worm has crossed my mind several times before but the only thing I could see making it difficult is that (as far as I know) each manufacturer has a different method of writing to firmware (different memory/IO locations, different commands, etc). Writing a worm encompassing features for a good portion for all the hardware out there would certainly bloat it quite a bit, but time will tell on that one.
Ok let's say your the grandma in her '96 Corolla doing 40 in a 65. That's not a hazard? Bullshit.
Now while that case is rather extreme, here in Jersey drivers normally do 75 in a 55 during the day, and yes I mean almost ALL drivers. The ones who do not, CAN BE HAZARDS. While increased velocity does lessen reaction time at least you don't have to worry about some jackass doing 20-25 under the rest of traffic if everyone is going at relatively the same speed.
You, my friend, are forgetting one simple thing... Mandrake was not attempting to upgrade firmware in the el-cheapo LG CD-ROM drives, it was simply TRYING TO READ FROM IT.
Of course you can write code to kill hardware by overwriting the flash BIOS with garbage (or something else destructive). The point trying to be made is that hardware should not be able to be destroyed by software that is simply trying to use it "under normal operating conditions"
And on that note, I know on at least some mobo's there exists a jumper to disable BIOS flashing (some of em even have dual BIOS's, ain't that neat?), but I'm not exactly sure if the other hardware devices have a simliar "feature"... My better judgement is telling me this is a definate no, can anyone else comment?
HAHA that sounds all too familar... that damn "shell" command... I can't resist, I wrote this once for a friend who deserved it but I decided to take it easy on him that time:
dim i as long
i=0
do
cmd$ = "mkdir haha" + i
shell cmd$
i=i+1
loop
Granted this could only do so much damage due to limitations on FAT16 and directory names, but it could still be fun nonetheless. (Oh, and this was back in the day before deltree)
I'm wondering if anyone either has real-world experience or benchmarks on optimium filesystems/partitions for a Linux workstation (the usual: web browsing, games, multimedia, etc)...
I'm thinking about the following (planning on switching back to Linux sometime soon hopefully):
/home - JFS (fast but still has journaling support) /etc,/usr - ext2 (mostly read-only operations, correct?) /var - ext3, maybe JFS... still thinking. Like to run a database & webserver but only for my own use (practically zero load)
Well.. this wasn't a "coworker" but still funny as hell nonetheless.
My friends and I used to host netgames at our houses every month or so, each time we'd go to a different place. Well this one time I was getting bored and my friend left to take care of something... of course leaving his computer unlocked.
We began with the stupid things: renaming "My Computer" to "My Computer Sucks", "Internet Exploder", etc... changing backgrounds, changing start page, you get the idea.
Now we used to do this everytime someone left their computer unlocked and it was all in good fun... However, one time I was annoyed at one of them (forgot why) so I decided to install back orifice on it (this was before NAV picked it up as a virus)... Hehehe.
Ever try playing Quake and getting constantly fragged because your computer decided to start up defrag in the background? Or perhaps the random message boxes coming up.. or maybe it just shutting down randomly. Yeah, that was fun. Ever since then, *no one* left their PC unlocked when they were afk.
It's a little unfortunate that Mars had to have its perigee and opposition during the summer months. Scientific observations taken from ground-level are always clearer during the wintertime (atmosphere more calm, less air turbulance).
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WalMart isn't the only store... Believe it or not, I was in K-Mart of all places purchasing several cans of spray paint with a fellow fraternity brother of mine (he's 27, I'm 23) for a project we were working on (totally legit). Him and I were both ID'd to my amazement. As annoying as it might have been, I am *glad* to see that age verification is finally being done! Granted minors purchasing spray paint (for use other than what it was intended) is the least of our concerns, but it is a start.
A disinterested third party probably don't even exist, but don't pretending IBM is unbiased, and that their whitepapers, etc. aren't filled with marketing bias as well.
Perhaps, but any respectable IT professional will recall Microsoft's "history" and lovely business practices, especially with their hate for Linux and keep that in consideration when reading this FUD (or should I more appropriately say: BS)
However, as akedia has previously mentioned... the problem lies in the advertising to upper management.
Agreed... The only problem ever have with Google is the fact sometimes I can't seem to locate any hits on what I want!
It's really going to take something special to top Google and I don't see either of these having the ability to do so. Especially Grokker... who is really going to pay to use a search engine (for the web)? I'd be a poor man (well I already am) if I had to pay for every time I Googled something.
"In short: People in glass houses..."
...sink ships?
Well since none of the other posts under this actually addressed the issue of XFS, I must ask...
When will XFS "filesystem" be introducted into the 2.4.x series? It'll make things a lot easier getting FC1 working properly with it than 2.6 series
Forgive me if it's been stated before, I *really* don't feel like reading all these posts but...
How come it seems that all the top stories in the Hall of Fame are something related to politics/war in the world? This is SLASHDOT. A way to GET AWAY from everything else in the world, at least it is for me. Anyone else find this ironic/funny?
Yes, but buy then any normal computer user would go out and RMA the drive anyway (or replace otherwise if needbe) ...It's pointless for a filesystem to deal with bad blocks if it won't be running on a drive with defective media in it.
I guess it's just the attitude SGI took awhile back, but it's what I follow as a professional in the field along with my colleagues (and what makes sense) so I don't view that as a limitation of the filesystem.
While biometrics methods may help to increase security, they are certainly not foolproof by any means. Any determined hacker/criminal can fake actual results without too much difficulty (if they have the proper equipment/tools). However, by far the most secure (as in hardest to fool) biometrics device is the faceprint scanner (sorry, I can't seem to remember the actual real name). In any event, it does an infrared scan of the human face and maps the network of blood vessels under the surface of the skin. While it is quite secure, it is also probably ridiculously expensive (can someone verify that?)
Yes, my PC is almost all SCSI minus a large ATA drive.
But what about SCSI models? I can't find a decent SCSI one for under $300 something. Anyone have any information on this?
(Background: 23 years as of yesterday, single male. Had my own PC since 6. Graduating with BS in CS from NJIT this December)
I would *never* think about denying a PC outside in my child's room. My father first bought a computer when I was the ripe age of 2 and I had my own PC (I guess if you consider an 8088 a PC) when I was about 6 or 7. Of course I didn't have Internet back then (it didn't exist), but I used to play merrily with my computer games and eventually picked up programming. If I didn't have that background there would be no way I know what I do today. However, I didn't get my first modem until I was in 8th grade (it was 33.6). My father was rather paranoid about viruses and wouldn't allow me one until I made a new close friend that had one. Once I realized the potential the provided, I immeadiately bought one.
The majority of us out there at or somewhat close to my age are probably in a similar ballpark - Their parents didn't have to worry about this back then because the Internet wasn't around so it does throw us in a rather unique situation. I think the thing to consider is providing a certain amount of freedom online yet still having somekind of control.
Another thing to consider is the age of the target user - obviously I think most would agree that young children should be denied ability to have free reign. Most children approaching adolescense (sp?) and young teens obviously will use the Internet a great deal today - I believe trust is a good thing to use, until it is violated. One possibility might be to install a logging proxy/gateway - and let the child know this, inform them that you can and will watch what they do (websites, chatrooms, etc... not private things such as IM's, e-mail's, etc) if you feel the need to. If the child isn't problematic to begin with I think it could work fairly well, however if they aren't good luck finding another solution.
Agreed. Perhaps it is my fault for not making this clear before, but LG is definately at fault here. However, if malicious code overwrote the flash memory then LG could not be blamed whatsoever.
As for ASUS, I find that somewhat disheartening hearing that from them. I can understand why the jumper no longer worked on the EEPROM (because, yes you are correct they are different. EEPROM requires single bytes to be written to it at a time while flash memory allows for writes in blocks at a time which obviously makes it faster) but they should have that feature, as should all hardware components with flashable memory.
That idea for a worm has crossed my mind several times before but the only thing I could see making it difficult is that (as far as I know) each manufacturer has a different method of writing to firmware (different memory/IO locations, different commands, etc). Writing a worm encompassing features for a good portion for all the hardware out there would certainly bloat it quite a bit, but time will tell on that one.
Ok let's say your the grandma in her '96 Corolla doing 40 in a 65. That's not a hazard? Bullshit.
Now while that case is rather extreme, here in Jersey drivers normally do 75 in a 55 during the day, and yes I mean almost ALL drivers. The ones who do not, CAN BE HAZARDS. While increased velocity does lessen reaction time at least you don't have to worry about some jackass doing 20-25 under the rest of traffic if everyone is going at relatively the same speed.
And on the fifth day God invented the manual transmission.
Yes, great. Since when do YOU pilot the plane? Thank you.
Thank you, someone else out there FINALLY knows the truth of low-level hard drive operations.
You, my friend, are forgetting one simple thing... Mandrake was not attempting to upgrade firmware in the el-cheapo LG CD-ROM drives, it was simply TRYING TO READ FROM IT.
Of course you can write code to kill hardware by overwriting the flash BIOS with garbage (or something else destructive). The point trying to be made is that hardware should not be able to be destroyed by software that is simply trying to use it "under normal operating conditions"
And on that note, I know on at least some mobo's there exists a jumper to disable BIOS flashing (some of em even have dual BIOS's, ain't that neat?), but I'm not exactly sure if the other hardware devices have a simliar "feature"... My better judgement is telling me this is a definate no, can anyone else comment?
HAHA that sounds all too familar... that damn "shell" command... I can't resist, I wrote this once for a friend who deserved it but I decided to take it easy on him that time:
dim i as long
i=0
do
cmd$ = "mkdir haha" + i
shell cmd$
i=i+1
loop
Granted this could only do so much damage due to limitations on FAT16 and directory names, but it could still be fun nonetheless. (Oh, and this was back in the day before deltree)
I'm wondering if anyone either has real-world experience or benchmarks on optimium filesystems/partitions for a Linux workstation (the usual: web browsing, games, multimedia, etc)...
/home - JFS (fast but still has journaling support)
/etc, /usr - ext2 (mostly read-only operations, correct?)
/var - ext3, maybe JFS... still thinking. Like to run a database & webserver but only for my own use (practically zero load)
I'm thinking about the following (planning on switching back to Linux sometime soon hopefully):
Any comments?
Well.. this wasn't a "coworker" but still funny as hell nonetheless.
My friends and I used to host netgames at our houses every month or so, each time we'd go to a different place. Well this one time I was getting bored and my friend left to take care of something... of course leaving his computer unlocked.
We began with the stupid things: renaming "My Computer" to "My Computer Sucks", "Internet Exploder", etc... changing backgrounds, changing start page, you get the idea.
Now we used to do this everytime someone left their computer unlocked and it was all in good fun... However, one time I was annoyed at one of them (forgot why) so I decided to install back orifice on it (this was before NAV picked it up as a virus)... Hehehe.
Ever try playing Quake and getting constantly fragged because your computer decided to start up defrag in the background? Or perhaps the random message boxes coming up.. or maybe it just shutting down randomly. Yeah, that was fun. Ever since then, *no one* left their PC unlocked when they were afk.
It's about time Ford finally does something right! Maybe now the reliability of the cars will increase along with their computing system. :)
Yeah, it's driving our telecom department nutty here at NJIT
It's a little unfortunate that Mars had to have its perigee and opposition during the summer months. Scientific observations taken from ground-level are always clearer during the wintertime (atmosphere more calm, less air turbulance).
Well... I'm hearing conflicting information, but if this is true... Congradulations DivX, you have just sunk your own battleship.
SAMBA!
This thing is the most difficult package I've ever set up (although it'd probably be BIND if I have decent experience with that)