Yes, as you might notice, many of the accelerated cards have both a kernel module and a GUI driver that communicates with it. The nice thing is that, assuming the kernel module is stable, farking something in userland does not necessarily bring your entire system to its knees.
I'm assuming there would still be a kernel component, but perhaps a seperation of the layers would allow for graphics cards to attain more stability in that a glitch won't lock your entire system.
It seems to me that moving graphical operations to userland would make them more hackable rather than more secure. One userland app could more easily preempt another userland app, and something kernel-loaded could be used to trick a userland app into ignoring copy protection.
Also, I believe that a userland application might be a little easier to decipher, and you wouldn't need to know as much about the hidden tricks that the windows kernel might be using (or you could intercept the various calls).
On the laptop I run the ATI drivers, all up to the newest, remind me of the nightmarish win9x days with older ATI cards. In windows my previous experience with ATI cards has been frightening as well. What good are features and clarity if you're getting bluescreens or freezing?
Now to be fair the NVidia cards have had some bugs, but generally not anything that seriously impacted usability, and the fix-time was usually much quicker for turnover.
Actually, the big issues many people have with paypal stems from being on the receiving end of a complaint. They will often reverse transactions or freeze accounts without legitimizing a complaint. Good if you're the one getting screwed by a bad seller, but bad if you're getting screwed by a bad buyer...
That use of one does not tie you to it. Resource usage definately comes into play, but you can run Gnome apps in KDE, or I'd imagine run Konqueror happily with all the kio-slaves in Gnome - it just means more overhead depending on the resources you have available.
Heck, quite often I'm running three worlds. KDE as my primary GUI, some gnome/gtk apps such as GAIM (with kde skinning/font control using gtk2-engines-gtk-qt), and often enough when I need a windows APP (as we have mixed desktops at work and sometimes I need to play with one of those) then I pop open a handy copy of win98 running on Qemu (I've been told XP works as well but 98 is a fast start).
So in reality, the most productive/useful environment for me would be... all three of those above?
will allow any website you visit to "read" your identity
The only use I could see for this might be in having the xxAA more able to track you down. I mean, it won't stop things like kiddy pr0n etc because (assumedly) the distributors are part of an "in" ring and wouldn't want your ID. Even if they did, most methods of getting them cash (Visa, etc) are pretty trackable.
It isn't going to be much use to the gov't in tracking who uses slashdot... unless slashdot starts tracking ID. So really, what use is it, other than allowing fishnets to snag passerbys?
I'm at work for >8h a day. I also have my wireless rig setup downstairs, though it is connected to a server through which I have a VPN for sensitive stuff.
The point is, if the guy is using wireless at home then
a) It's probably because his computer is not located conveniently near a network connection, thus his connection is not necessarily near where he might see das blinkenlights on the router as his bandwidth is being leeched (and how many people would notice anyhow).
b) Even if he did have the router somewhere he can see it, what are the changes it would strike a chord that bandwidth is being used by others, and what's to say it wasn't when he was at work, etc?
Does anyone know about any lawsuits or class-actions against Sony. It seems to me that to install trojaned rootkit on a machine, then apologize while at the same time issueing a patch which causes other security vulnerabilities would show obvious malicious intent.
No, but people have been canned for having major network issues, downtime, and other problems - oftimes in conjunction with migration to a particular MS product. There are admins that can make their corporations run well on MS technology, and some can't. Be sure which one you are first (the same applies in reference to migrating to non-MS products as well).
The problem is that for toilet-paper to feed/print properly in such a device (were it not a joke) then you would likely need some rather paper-like, non-fluppy TP.
The problem with this being... standard paper and one's backend would not agree with each other greatly. The cheap stuff they buy here at work is bad enough, but I really don't need roaring hemmaroids and an ink-trace of slashdot attached to my heiny.
I still have access to my previous employer's systems. Every now and then they call to check on various system configurations etc, allowing me access makes life easier for both of us.
If you're being fired, then it makes more sense as you may decide in the future to do something malicious as "payback." Surprise is on the side of the employer
If you're handing in your own resignation, then you are leaving of your own volition. The surprise is against the employer, and if you really wanted to you could have done something nasty *before* your papers were handed in.
Indeed, and there's nothing wrong with changing your background, etc. It's that most of the products out there that seem helpful in doing so actually contain nasty little tidbits.
To that end, I've been showing secretaries how to right-click on a picture and set it as their wallpaper (that and stressed the importance of not downloading other software to do so). Five minutes, and a whole lot less potential problems in the future. As a bonus for the secretary, she found a picture of her grandkids in her email and prefers that much more over the latest "fluffy kittens and puppies" wallpaper schemes anyhow.
Cubicle decorations never mailed your TPS reports back to an unknown third party, or caused your stapler to work really slowly:-)
No problem with IM in general, I use it for work as well. Some stations I will work on though have MSN, AIM, Yahoo, and even other IM clients - all starting up at login - and generally none are used for work-related purposes.
My biggest beef is not the lack of staff or budget but the lack of discipline. Nowadays it seems that everyone *needs* a computer at their desk, and they seem to have no problem misusing company resources. I don't mean things like checking email while on the clock, but rather installing their favorite IM program, or perhaps a fancy calendar doodad or toolbar (laced with an unhealthy dose of spyware, of course). Let us not forget those "important people" higher up the chain that would have your hide if you even mentioned that perhaps they shouldn't be using Kazaa on a company machine or opening every email attachment under the sun.
There was a day where staff were wary of computers, and treated them with respect. Those days have long past... all they're wary of is that weird IT guy who tries to tell them what to do with their machine.
Personally, I'd be happy to lay down cash for a device which works as both. Having a device which has a secure (keyed or passworded) connection to the host machine and could be updated with incoming/outgoing block rules would be wicked. I have a 'nix box with iptables that does this to some extent, but it can't specifically block a piece of software running on the NAT'ed boxes (mainly because it doesn't know what is running).
Now one way would be to have a piece of software running on the client boxes which updates the router as to what software is running which ports, and which is authorized etc. At that point you'd still be running the overhead of software on the machine, but possibly less than if it were doing all the actual firewalling, etc etc.
Just out of curiousity, can anyone see any possible legimate/non-fraudulant use at all for a 3rd-party company to have keyloggers installed in their software?
It seems to me that when a corporation offers a "donation," and then withdraws it when somebody in government doesn't do them a "favor," then that donation was in fact a "bribe." I know there are lots of loopholes, but I thought that out and out blatant bribery was still illegal. Perhaps I'm wrong?
The problem with the ATM giving cash is, if you don't take it then what do you do with it? If you give it back to the bank, well they get the cash but there's a decent enough chance that it may have screwed up and come out of somebody else's account. There comes a certain point at which you can't prove ownership of a particular item, be it something valuable or hard, cold, cash. At that point you can either choose to pass ownership to somebody else who is not any more entitled to it than you, or take possession yourself.
Now I'm not talking about a lost wallet or credit card with appropriate ID, but sometimes chance passes something your way. There's a big difference between deliberately scamming somebody and accepting when fate throws something your way.
And for the record (and because I'll probably be flamed) I will point out that the last time I found a nice gold credit card stuck in a bank machine I took time to track it down... found the owner in the phonebook and returned it to him. Had it been cash which was not in any way tracable back to an original owner, yes I would have taken it... though likely after waiting around awhile to see if somebody came around looking for it (sometimes people will forget to snag some/all of their cash from the machine).
Ya know, if you were trying to escape with an unpaid for (see: stolen) stereo in your car, I think that you'd be expecting to be caught. It wouldn't exactly be random.
Not that I think it's a smart thing to try on part of the manager, as it's a good way to get either ones ass kicked or sued off.
Yes, but if 14,000 people donated $100 each to one or two specific lawsuits, then that's a $1.4m retainer to fight back against the RIAA with. Set a precedent and possibly even hit them back for extortion and then we're talkin'
But the problem is that many people would not know if the ISP is at fault. If "site X" happens to be loading a lot more slowly, perhaps it is because they have crappy servers or are under a lot of load.
How would one go about diagnosing deliberate VS unintential lag or connectivity issues?
a) Show item as in stock, net an order.
b) Call customer attempting to sell overpriced accessories
c) Customer only wants cheap item from (a), tell him it's not in stock
d) Customer cancels order, charge him/her a restocking fee
However, if (c) were true, there's no item to restock, because there was no item in stock. Also, given that (a) showed the item as in stock, it should have been if this were a reputable merchant.
So basically, either it's in stock and you get your cheap camera/etc, or it's not and there's no need to restock because there never was an item to restock in the first place.
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Yes, as you might notice, many of the accelerated cards have both a kernel module and a GUI driver that communicates with it. The nice thing is that, assuming the kernel module is stable, farking something in userland does not necessarily bring your entire system to its knees.
I'm assuming there would still be a kernel component, but perhaps a seperation of the layers would allow for graphics cards to attain more stability in that a glitch won't lock your entire system.
It seems to me that moving graphical operations to userland would make them more hackable rather than more secure. One userland app could more easily preempt another userland app, and something kernel-loaded could be used to trick a userland app into ignoring copy protection.
Also, I believe that a userland application might be a little easier to decipher, and you wouldn't need to know as much about the hidden tricks that the windows kernel might be using (or you could intercept the various calls).
On the laptop I run the ATI drivers, all up to the newest, remind me of the nightmarish win9x days with older ATI cards. In windows my previous experience with ATI cards has been frightening as well. What good are features and clarity if you're getting bluescreens or freezing?
Now to be fair the NVidia cards have had some bugs, but generally not anything that seriously impacted usability, and the fix-time was usually much quicker for turnover.
Actually, the big issues many people have with paypal stems from being on the receiving end of a complaint. They will often reverse transactions or freeze accounts without legitimizing a complaint. Good if you're the one getting screwed by a bad seller, but bad if you're getting screwed by a bad buyer...
That use of one does not tie you to it. Resource usage definately comes into play, but you can run Gnome apps in KDE, or I'd imagine run Konqueror happily with all the kio-slaves in Gnome - it just means more overhead depending on the resources you have available.
Heck, quite often I'm running three worlds. KDE as my primary GUI, some gnome/gtk apps such as GAIM (with kde skinning/font control using gtk2-engines-gtk-qt), and often enough when I need a windows APP (as we have mixed desktops at work and sometimes I need to play with one of those) then I pop open a handy copy of win98 running on Qemu (I've been told XP works as well but 98 is a fast start).
So in reality, the most productive/useful environment for me would be... all three of those above?
will allow any website you visit to "read" your identity
The only use I could see for this might be in having the xxAA more able to track you down. I mean, it won't stop things like kiddy pr0n etc because (assumedly) the distributors are part of an "in" ring and wouldn't want your ID. Even if they did, most methods of getting them cash (Visa, etc) are pretty trackable.
It isn't going to be much use to the gov't in tracking who uses slashdot... unless slashdot starts tracking ID. So really, what use is it, other than allowing fishnets to snag passerbys?
I'm at work for >8h a day. I also have my wireless rig setup downstairs, though it is connected to a server through which I have a VPN for sensitive stuff.
The point is, if the guy is using wireless at home then
a) It's probably because his computer is not located conveniently near a network connection, thus his connection is not necessarily near where he might see das blinkenlights on the router as his bandwidth is being leeched (and how many people would notice anyhow). b) Even if he did have the router somewhere he can see it, what are the changes it would strike a chord that bandwidth is being used by others, and what's to say it wasn't when he was at work, etc?
Just out of curiousity, what do you use to zero the free space, and do you have something that works on both FAT/NTFS and 'nix filesystems?
Does anyone know about any lawsuits or class-actions against Sony. It seems to me that to install trojaned rootkit on a machine, then apologize while at the same time issueing a patch which causes other security vulnerabilities would show obvious malicious intent.
No One Ever Got Fired For Buying Microsoft.
No, but people have been canned for having major network issues, downtime, and other problems - oftimes in conjunction with migration to a particular MS product. There are admins that can make their corporations run well on MS technology, and some can't. Be sure which one you are first (the same applies in reference to migrating to non-MS products as well).
Wait until they sue all the IM users who use song lyrics in their nickname/tag (lots in my list)...
The problem is that for toilet-paper to feed/print properly in such a device (were it not a joke) then you would likely need some rather paper-like, non-fluppy TP.
The problem with this being... standard paper and one's backend would not agree with each other greatly. The cheap stuff they buy here at work is bad enough, but I really don't need roaring hemmaroids and an ink-trace of slashdot attached to my heiny.
I still have access to my previous employer's systems. Every now and then they call to check on various system configurations etc, allowing me access makes life easier for both of us.
If you're being fired, then it makes more sense as you may decide in the future to do something malicious as "payback." Surprise is on the side of the employer
If you're handing in your own resignation, then you are leaving of your own volition. The surprise is against the employer, and if you really wanted to you could have done something nasty *before* your papers were handed in.
Indeed, and there's nothing wrong with changing your background, etc. It's that most of the products out there that seem helpful in doing so actually contain nasty little tidbits.
:-)
To that end, I've been showing secretaries how to right-click on a picture and set it as their wallpaper (that and stressed the importance of not downloading other software to do so). Five minutes, and a whole lot less potential problems in the future. As a bonus for the secretary, she found a picture of her grandkids in her email and prefers that much more over the latest "fluffy kittens and puppies" wallpaper schemes anyhow.
Cubicle decorations never mailed your TPS reports back to an unknown third party, or caused your stapler to work really slowly
No problem with IM in general, I use it for work as well. Some stations I will work on though have MSN, AIM, Yahoo, and even other IM clients - all starting up at login - and generally none are used for work-related purposes.
My biggest beef is not the lack of staff or budget but the lack of discipline. Nowadays it seems that everyone *needs* a computer at their desk, and they seem to have no problem misusing company resources. I don't mean things like checking email while on the clock, but rather installing their favorite IM program, or perhaps a fancy calendar doodad or toolbar (laced with an unhealthy dose of spyware, of course). Let us not forget those "important people" higher up the chain that would have your hide if you even mentioned that perhaps they shouldn't be using Kazaa on a company machine or opening every email attachment under the sun.
There was a day where staff were wary of computers, and treated them with respect. Those days have long past... all they're wary of is that weird IT guy who tries to tell them what to do with their machine.
Personally, I'd be happy to lay down cash for a device which works as both. Having a device which has a secure (keyed or passworded) connection to the host machine and could be updated with incoming/outgoing block rules would be wicked. I have a 'nix box with iptables that does this to some extent, but it can't specifically block a piece of software running on the NAT'ed boxes (mainly because it doesn't know what is running).
Now one way would be to have a piece of software running on the client boxes which updates the router as to what software is running which ports, and which is authorized etc. At that point you'd still be running the overhead of software on the machine, but possibly less than if it were doing all the actual firewalling, etc etc.
Just out of curiousity, can anyone see any possible legimate/non-fraudulant use at all for a 3rd-party company to have keyloggers installed in their software?
It seems to me that when a corporation offers a "donation," and then withdraws it when somebody in government doesn't do them a "favor," then that donation was in fact a "bribe." I know there are lots of loopholes, but I thought that out and out blatant bribery was still illegal. Perhaps I'm wrong?
The problem with the ATM giving cash is, if you don't take it then what do you do with it? If you give it back to the bank, well they get the cash but there's a decent enough chance that it may have screwed up and come out of somebody else's account. There comes a certain point at which you can't prove ownership of a particular item, be it something valuable or hard, cold, cash. At that point you can either choose to pass ownership to somebody else who is not any more entitled to it than you, or take possession yourself.
Now I'm not talking about a lost wallet or credit card with appropriate ID, but sometimes chance passes something your way. There's a big difference between deliberately scamming somebody and accepting when fate throws something your way.
And for the record (and because I'll probably be flamed) I will point out that the last time I found a nice gold credit card stuck in a bank machine I took time to track it down... found the owner in the phonebook and returned it to him. Had it been cash which was not in any way tracable back to an original owner, yes I would have taken it... though likely after waiting around awhile to see if somebody came around looking for it (sometimes people will forget to snag some/all of their cash from the machine).
Ya know, if you were trying to escape with an unpaid for (see: stolen) stereo in your car, I think that you'd be expecting to be caught. It wouldn't exactly be random.
Not that I think it's a smart thing to try on part of the manager, as it's a good way to get either ones ass kicked or sued off.
Yes, but if 14,000 people donated $100 each to one or two specific lawsuits, then that's a $1.4m retainer to fight back against the RIAA with. Set a precedent and possibly even hit them back for extortion and then we're talkin'
But the problem is that many people would not know if the ISP is at fault. If "site X" happens to be loading a lot more slowly, perhaps it is because they have crappy servers or are under a lot of load.
How would one go about diagnosing deliberate VS unintential lag or connectivity issues?
a) Show item as in stock, net an order.
b) Call customer attempting to sell overpriced accessories
c) Customer only wants cheap item from (a), tell him it's not in stock
d) Customer cancels order, charge him/her a restocking fee
However, if (c) were true, there's no item to restock, because there was no item in stock. Also, given that (a) showed the item as in stock, it should have been if this were a reputable merchant.
So basically, either it's in stock and you get your cheap camera/etc, or it's not and there's no need to restock because there never was an item to restock in the first place.
Yup, sounds scammy to me.