... is turn it off. This stuff is for tarts. Give me the classic view which is fast and efficient. Turn off the shadow and fade effects; basically make it so that from power-on to is achieved as fast as humanly possible....
Your point is valid. But read the threads; how many people on/. just said ooooooh this is gonna save me tons of time at work. I might be able to cut out earlier if I start using this thing.
There might be some but I didn't catch them.
All I saw was a bunch of people pondering how much this is gonna help in class, help cheat in class, or whether they'll even allow it in class...
...only builds better idiots. I almost fell out of my chair three weeks ago when my professor said we are not allowed to use calculators in his Calculus II class.
And while I would not exactly say I am doing good in his class at this point, I am learning and just plain realizing things that I should have learned eons ago. The problem was that it was always more convenient to mash the keys on a calculator than to just think.
My cable modem is near my TV, but I wanted the computer in the other room[s], so I used HomePlug ethernet bridge to go over the electrical outlets to get there. You only get ~14Mbps but that beats the 1.5Mbps I'll never get on my cable modem. That then comes out of another Homeplug device into my linux server/firewall. From there its off to a second physical interface into a hub to which I plug my 802.11g Wireless Access Point and Sun Ultra 5. The WAP services two laptops.
CMHPHPFSHUBWAP
Cable Modem = CM
HomePlug = HP
Firewall/Server = FS
I looked at this after I had it all and I kinda thought about whether I should have gone with an all in one WAP/Hub/Cable Modem solution, but with wanting all the stuff in separate rooms I would have more or less ended up with the same number of devices at greater cost.
I guess it just depends whether you want all the stuff where you can plug it into one hub, don't care about wires strung across the house, or if you want it all over and plan to make it somehow look reasonable.
I suppose I could have run CAT 5 through the walls, but I guess I still would have wanted wireless for the laptops. The big motivator for not doing this was the fear that CAT 7e would come out tomorrow and I'd 'have' to rewire. OK that's a little absurd, but not too much so, in the ever evolving tech world.
A little lost. Where is Sparc64 Disc1? I have downloaded Disc2, but Disc1 is nowhere to be found. I am assuming (yea I know) that there is a Disc 1 as ver 5.0 had a Disc 1 and in 5.1 i386 has a Disc 1 and 2....
The README says look in the distro/floppies directory for a README.TXT with more information. Doesn't exist and can't find anything on the site...
The theory is the same. Change things up a bit, have a random/configurable (out of maybe a few hundred options) to change small things, like registers, slight bits of shader code, whatever. Beat them at their own game. If you make it too difficult to cheat maybe they'll just sit and optimize their drivers for real instead of taking the quick trick route.
We all know ATI did it in the past. We all know Nvidia is doing it now. And even better we know that ATI is up to its old tricks again as well.
And how have people figured this out time and time again? Oh, they renamed the executable...
Why does the benchmarking software not rename the executable to some-254-character-long-file-name-random-string.ex e? Use some kind of encryption to prevent the driver software from snooping in on the rename process and oooh no more cheating....
I'm sure that there is some way that Nvidia and ATI could get around even this but what are they gonna do make a 75MB driver in retaliation to what the benchmark companies do?
True firewalling is a good start, but consider knowing good OS practices too, liking patching up and hardening Solaris, using tools like HFNetChk and others to help harden Windows, up2date and hardening RedHat Linux. Sure that's not all operating systems, but it's a good start. Disable services you don't need, secure the ones you do want to run, and so on.
Understand firewalls, NAT, port forwarding; set up an internal LAN mess with doing scans with nmap, try and do some things with nc...
set up things like ssh and scp in place of telnet and ftp. Know about the different forms of encryption their strengths and weakness, when one might be appropriate over the other.
Learn about VirusScan. Maybe McAfee VirusScan and NetShield and centrally administrating it with e-Policy so that you can automatically update all your servers and clients in case of an emergency DAT rollout cause of the latest virus running amok.
Also mail scanning, spam filtering, maybe things like clearswifts mailsweeper product, content filtering, lexical scanning, and other stuff.
Learn to set up postfix and sendmail so that they aren't acting as open relays, etc.
You might also consider something like Websense for URI filtering. Often not only are you trying to keep the bad things from getting in but also your users from getting to harmful material as well; in essence protecting them from themselves.
And of course you can mess with IDS, like say snort.
Learn about IPSec VPN's I'm sure there is free stuff to get you started, also learn about the big players in VPN's like say checkpoint, nortel networks with contivity, netscreen and probably lots of others.
Security only starts with a firewall. It also demands good practices with server updates and patches, mail scanning, web content scanning, virusscan, choosing secure methods over the easy ones....
Some of these programs are free, some you can download demos of, others you may not be able to get your hands on until your in a position to use them, but at least knowing about the different methods of making a network more secure is at least a start.
is that the Iraqi people need a lot of other things before they need the internet. Why don't we start from the ground up. CLEAN WATER, FOOD, WORKING HOSPITALS, HOMES, FUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT, AN ECONOMY, POWER, EDUCATION.... and then when we get everything they need to live and take care of themselves, let the Iraqi's, with the help of the rest of the world if they want, build THEIR corner of the internet.
Now the other uncle gets wind of what a wonderful job I did and now I'm fixing his 486/66 IBM Aptiva 2168-62P, with a whopping 48MB of RAM. All he wants is word processing.... and he's right it will do that...
If I get a 386 after this I'm gonna look at it and comment on what an archaic oversized doorstop it is. We have much more modern versions now, only a fraction of the size with 500x the door stopping power.
...ever buying a SCO Unix learning bundle. Granted it was 3 or 4 years ago, and only for the puposes of learning about UNIX, but I still regret it.
It was disregarded for the trash it was and I moved onto Linux, BSD, and Solaris x86 in more recent times to give myself an ongoing *nix education.
It sickens me to think 20 or 30 or 40 (whatever is was) dollars went to a company that openly wants to butcher the open source software movement; something that genuinely has the potential to help the world at large; and if not that then at least allows me to run more than one PC without paying taxes to 50 different software vendors & retailers, like SCO.
OK, for a Geoforce4 4200 Go with 64MB RAM, a 2.4 GHz processor, and 1 GB RAM using 2 DIMMS, I managed to run the price up to $3,277..........
Now I can get a Shuttle SB51G case for ~325, a 3.06 GHz P4 for $548, 2x512MB DIMMS for $88 [total], and a Built by ATI Radeon 9700 Pro for $320, total = 1281.... mind you I still need HDD, Display, and CD-ROM drive, but can I manage to rack up another 2K for that? Especially if upgrading and using my old CD-ROM, Display, and HDD???
Don't get me wrong, I love Dell; I think they typically make superior PC's/Servers&Notebooks. But, is portability at the sake of performance, and that whopping price tag worth it???
He doesn't know why? He doesn't know why? I hope he reads this site so I can clue him in on it.
I was watching an episode of enterprise; the one with the Klingons abusing the subdued duterium miners. Well heads blowing up all around, phaser fire filling the sky, Klingons on the hunt, and the total fatalities: 0
I mean good god I was sitting there screaming about how I was expecting Mr. T to come around the corner at any second. A visit to bureau42.com only reaffirmed that situation when someone with a similar sensation stated "I pity the fool who messes with duterium miners!"
In the end they trap the Klingons in a ring of fire, not one with a signed eyebrow and what do my ears behold. Did that Klingon just say, "We don't want your dueterium anyways!" and stomp off like a small child back to his ship (teleported out anyways...)
The Klingons I know would have teleported up, then back down directly behind the unsuspecting enterprise crew, slit their necks before they knew what happened, slain have the duterium miners as a lesson, and demanded the same yields. The two writers of that episode should have been hung up and bled dry for that sorry excuse of an episode.
Nope Star Trek is just a T&A show now (thats TITS and ASS)... so anyways I digress. Rick Burman, obviously needs to pulls his ****ing head out of his ****ing ass.
Go ahead mod me down for troll. But it's true. Star Trek was great. How the mighty have fallen.
This may be new in classes outside of the CS/MIS..
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...but this sort of waste was common place even when in computer labs before wireless networks were installed in every classroom...
I remember being in the back row at my rinky dink college watching 75%+ of the class browsing online instead of paying attention to class. That same percentage would be later asking for more time to complete projects and complaining that the class is too hard without even ATTEMPTING to complete the work.
Each professor should give the same lecture on the first day of class each semester so that each student hears it and is brain washed to believe it. It is OK for you to waste your time. It is not OK to waste mine or any other students time. You may bring computers into the class and go about what ever business you like. If it impacts your school work though, expect no pity.
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... is turn it off. This stuff is for tarts. Give me the classic view which is fast and efficient. Turn off the shadow and fade effects; basically make it so that from power-on to is achieved as fast as humanly possible....
...if it gets me through Calculus II
learn to get along.
Then we can just have Klockwork Gnome. Think of it merge that gear thing KDE has going with Gnome and you have a full on Tinker Gnome thing going.
And what zit-faced-DND-Lovin'-slashdot-reading-dork wouldn't love that?
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Your point is valid. But read the threads; how many people on /. just said ooooooh this is gonna save me tons of time at work. I might be able to cut out earlier if I start using this thing.
There might be some but I didn't catch them.
All I saw was a bunch of people pondering how much this is gonna help in class, help cheat in class, or whether they'll even allow it in class...
...only builds better idiots. I almost fell out of my chair three weeks ago when my professor said we are not allowed to use calculators in his Calculus II class.
And while I would not exactly say I am doing good in his class at this point, I am learning and just plain realizing things that I should have learned eons ago. The problem was that it was always more convenient to mash the keys on a calculator than to just think.
... to get the job done.
My cable modem is near my TV, but I wanted the computer in the other room[s], so I used HomePlug ethernet bridge to go over the electrical outlets to get there. You only get ~14Mbps but that beats the 1.5Mbps I'll never get on my cable modem. That then comes out of another Homeplug device into my linux server/firewall. From there its off to a second physical interface into a hub to which I plug my 802.11g Wireless Access Point and Sun Ultra 5. The WAP services two laptops.
CMHPHPFSHUBWAP
Cable Modem = CM
HomePlug = HP
Firewall/Server = FS
I looked at this after I had it all and I kinda thought about whether I should have gone with an all in one WAP/Hub/Cable Modem solution, but with wanting all the stuff in separate rooms I would have more or less ended up with the same number of devices at greater cost.
I guess it just depends whether you want all the stuff where you can plug it into one hub, don't care about wires strung across the house, or if you want it all over and plan to make it somehow look reasonable.
I suppose I could have run CAT 5 through the walls, but I guess I still would have wanted wireless for the laptops. The big motivator for not doing this was the fear that CAT 7e would come out tomorrow and I'd 'have' to rewire. OK that's a little absurd, but not too much so, in the ever evolving tech world.
A little lost. Where is Sparc64 Disc1? I have downloaded Disc2, but Disc1 is nowhere to be found. I am assuming (yea I know) that there is a Disc 1 as ver 5.0 had a Disc 1 and in 5.1 i386 has a Disc 1 and 2....
The README says look in the distro/floppies directory for a README.TXT with more information. Doesn't exist and can't find anything on the site...
hints?
I still wouldn't mind these guys helping me understand my calculus homework...
Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk, is an awesome book. Awesome isn't the right word, but it's the first that comes to mind.
The theory is the same. Change things up a bit, have a random/configurable (out of maybe a few hundred options) to change small things, like registers, slight bits of shader code, whatever. Beat them at their own game. If you make it too difficult to cheat maybe they'll just sit and optimize their drivers for real instead of taking the quick trick route.
We all know ATI did it in the past. We all know Nvidia is doing it now. And even better we know that ATI is up to its old tricks again as well.
x e? Use some kind of encryption to prevent the driver software from snooping in on the rename process and oooh no more cheating....
And how have people figured this out time and time again? Oh, they renamed the executable...
Why does the benchmarking software not rename the executable to some-254-character-long-file-name-random-string.e
I'm sure that there is some way that Nvidia and ATI could get around even this but what are they gonna do make a 75MB driver in retaliation to what the benchmark companies do?
True firewalling is a good start, but consider knowing good OS practices too, liking patching up and hardening Solaris, using tools like HFNetChk and others to help harden Windows, up2date and hardening RedHat Linux. Sure that's not all operating systems, but it's a good start. Disable services you don't need, secure the ones you do want to run, and so on.
Understand firewalls, NAT, port forwarding; set up an internal LAN mess with doing scans with nmap, try and do some things with nc...
set up things like ssh and scp in place of telnet and ftp. Know about the different forms of encryption their strengths and weakness, when one might be appropriate over the other.
Learn about VirusScan. Maybe McAfee VirusScan and NetShield and centrally administrating it with e-Policy so that you can automatically update all your servers and clients in case of an emergency DAT rollout cause of the latest virus running amok.
Also mail scanning, spam filtering, maybe things like clearswifts mailsweeper product, content filtering, lexical scanning, and other stuff.
Learn to set up postfix and sendmail so that they aren't acting as open relays, etc.
You might also consider something like Websense for URI filtering. Often not only are you trying to keep the bad things from getting in but also your users from getting to harmful material as well; in essence protecting them from themselves.
And of course you can mess with IDS, like say snort.
Learn about IPSec VPN's I'm sure there is free stuff to get you started, also learn about the big players in VPN's like say checkpoint, nortel networks with contivity, netscreen and probably lots of others.
Security only starts with a firewall. It also demands good practices with server updates and patches, mail scanning, web content scanning, virusscan, choosing secure methods over the easy ones....
Some of these programs are free, some you can download demos of, others you may not be able to get your hands on until your in a position to use them, but at least knowing about the different methods of making a network more secure is at least a start.
I've seen someone show for qmail and more than one for sendmail. Hope this isn't redundant.
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
/etc/postfix/transport:
/etc/postfix/transport'
For postfix add to
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
(for attbi/comcast) add to
aol.com smtp:mail.attbi.com
netscape.net smtp:mail.attbi.com
ssmb.com smtp:mail.attbi.com
citigroup.com smtp:mail.attbi.com
run 'postmap
restart postfix.
I've seen someone show for qmail and more than one for sendmail. Hope this isn't redundant.
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
/etc/postfix/transport:
aol.com smtp:mail.attbi.com
netscape.net smtp:mail.attbi.com
ssmb.com smtp:mail.attbi.com
citigroup.com smtp:mail.attbi.com
/etc/postfix/transport'
For postfix add to
(for attbi/comcast) add to
run 'postmap
restart postfix.
I think it is completely totally fucking tasteless to post a story that says something like "i just laid two guys off"
you're so fucking proud. Yea it's a fact of life. But you boast about it like you take joy in it.
Sod off bitch.
I got this (at the bottom of a) reply today after sending an e-mail around wednesday.
connect to mailin-03.mx.aol.com[64.12.137.152]: server refused mail service
Nice to at least know why...
is that the Iraqi people need a lot of other things before they need the internet. Why don't we start from the ground up. CLEAN WATER, FOOD, WORKING HOSPITALS, HOMES, FUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT, AN ECONOMY, POWER, EDUCATION.... and then when we get everything they need to live and take care of themselves, let the Iraqi's, with the help of the rest of the world if they want, build THEIR corner of the internet.
Mother of all Bluescreens?
an old P133 Compaq Armada 1540DM for my uncle...
Now the other uncle gets wind of what a wonderful job I did and now I'm fixing his 486/66 IBM Aptiva 2168-62P, with a whopping 48MB of RAM. All he wants is word processing.... and he's right it will do that...
If I get a 386 after this I'm gonna look at it and comment on what an archaic oversized doorstop it is. We have much more modern versions now, only a fraction of the size with 500x the door stopping power.
...ever buying a SCO Unix learning bundle. Granted it was 3 or 4 years ago, and only for the puposes of learning about UNIX, but I still regret it.
It was disregarded for the trash it was and I moved onto Linux, BSD, and Solaris x86 in more recent times to give myself an ongoing *nix education.
It sickens me to think 20 or 30 or 40 (whatever is was) dollars went to a company that openly wants to butcher the open source software movement; something that genuinely has the potential to help the world at large; and if not that then at least allows me to run more than one PC without paying taxes to 50 different software vendors & retailers, like SCO.
OK, for a Geoforce4 4200 Go with 64MB RAM, a 2.4 GHz processor, and 1 GB RAM using 2 DIMMS, I managed to run the price up to $3,277..........
Now I can get a Shuttle SB51G case for ~325, a 3.06 GHz P4 for $548, 2x512MB DIMMS for $88 [total], and a Built by ATI Radeon 9700 Pro for $320, total = 1281.... mind you I still need HDD, Display, and CD-ROM drive, but can I manage to rack up another 2K for that? Especially if upgrading and using my old CD-ROM, Display, and HDD???
Don't get me wrong, I love Dell; I think they typically make superior PC's/Servers&Notebooks. But, is portability at the sake of performance, and that whopping price tag worth it???
Something fast enough to run Everquest.
Once for the 3e books.
Once for the PCGen files to go with those rules.
Once for the new core books, each at $29.95, with the new rules coming out in six months. Dungeon and Dragons 3.5 as they are calling.
And again for the new PCGen files to go with the new books.
He doesn't know why? He doesn't know why? I hope he reads this site so I can clue him in on it.
I was watching an episode of enterprise; the one with the Klingons abusing the subdued duterium miners. Well heads blowing up all around, phaser fire filling the sky, Klingons on the hunt, and the total fatalities: 0
I mean good god I was sitting there screaming about how I was expecting Mr. T to come around the corner at any second. A visit to bureau42.com only reaffirmed that situation when someone with a similar sensation stated "I pity the fool who messes with duterium miners!"
In the end they trap the Klingons in a ring of fire, not one with a signed eyebrow and what do my ears behold. Did that Klingon just say, "We don't want your dueterium anyways!" and stomp off like a small child back to his ship (teleported out anyways...)
The Klingons I know would have teleported up, then back down directly behind the unsuspecting enterprise crew, slit their necks before they knew what happened, slain have the duterium miners as a lesson, and demanded the same yields. The two writers of that episode should have been hung up and bled dry for that sorry excuse of an episode.
Nope Star Trek is just a T&A show now (thats TITS and ASS)... so anyways I digress. Rick Burman, obviously needs to pulls his ****ing head out of his ****ing ass.
Go ahead mod me down for troll. But it's true. Star Trek was great. How the mighty have fallen.
...but this sort of waste was common place even when in computer labs before wireless networks were installed in every classroom...
I remember being in the back row at my rinky dink college watching 75%+ of the class browsing online instead of paying attention to class. That same percentage would be later asking for more time to complete projects and complaining that the class is too hard without even ATTEMPTING to complete the work.
Each professor should give the same lecture on the first day of class each semester so that each student hears it and is brain washed to believe it. It is OK for you to waste your time. It is not OK to waste mine or any other students time. You may bring computers into the class and go about what ever business you like. If it impacts your school work though, expect no pity.
And that should be that.