If you transport it through the local machine, know what data should be going out, and what data should be received... you really should be able to decode what's going on.
I've never really figured out the difficulty in this, although I've not tried (yet). Netstat to figure out what server/port are being connected to... redirect that host to a local address (local PC or LAN)... ensure that the end recipient is on said LAN. Log all input/output from the either client as it goes through redirection, and then have it forwarded right back on to the proper destination.
Eventually with enough time and logs (and you know almost exactly what the logs should represent as far as outgoing data) then it should be decipherable.
Of course, the other concept is that MS really isn't much up on security - so chances are that somebody will be able to crack this easily enough anyhow.
Can see that it's false, and thus not freak out about DivX. A lot of people just glance the headlines, a few comments. A lot less actually dare clicking through to visit the page and check for themselves.
Wouldn't want to the robots to be mislead, after all.
One question I've had for awhile. Does anyone know a good program to convert between the various Codecs? I've got a lot of AVI files that until recently were converted fine to Mpeg-1 (.mpg) for VCD burning. Now, the recent files seem to either have small flaws or a slight variation on the codec, so that my converter cannot grab audio and misreads the end of file (making files 2-3x the proper length).
Heck, if the tools at divx.com actually work properly to do this, I might just buy 'em. Otherwise, though, a cheaper/OS/free solution would be appreciated.
Evolution in longer-living creatures is often slow. I don't believe lice actually live very long, therefore in a human lifespan you'd probably have many many louse lifespans.
Wasn't this one reason some tests were done with flies? Because evolution/change in the flies would occur faster due to the more rapid birth/reproduction/death cycle?
That, and we're talking hundreds of thousands of years... being off by a few centuries (which would be a lot of louse generations I would expect) wouldn't be a bad margin of error.
In the nearby large city, I heard they were having some problems with this. Apparently young couples with cellphones would experiment with the vibe feature, but some actually have the cellphone vibrate itself out of reach. Buzzz...oh...oH...OH...pop and it's gone
Several embarrassed females/couples ended up in hospitals to have a doctor remove "lost" cellphones.
One where they want to keep the same number for support, but have a rotating support person?
It's not really any different from a lot of companies that have a tech-on-call. Sometimes you have rotating tech-support shifts, but if you just pass the phone over at least the numbers that one has to call don't change.
How about an interview?
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The first thing that popped in my head was that it would be great to talk to either (or better both) John's about what it took to become the programmers/designers they are, how they got involved in the wave of revolutionary games, and how it changed their lives.
Strangely enough,/. searched showed no results for either Carmack or Romero (in case such an interview has already occurred)... but perhaps it's just being buggy. As somebody who is greatly interested in such things (hell, the games are why I started coding initially) it would be great to hear straight from the "Johns" about their experiences, mistakes, and successes.
a) In the case of video/audio conferencing, it could save a bundle on expensive phone-support calls.
b) When I used to get stuck with something, I'd pass on a question to some of my informed techie friends and hope they'd know the answer. Ditto the other way around. It's a great way to pass tech information/support along.
I think it really depends on your provider, whom your connecting to, and a number of other things. Hell, I remember 2-3 years ago connecting on dialup at 56K, having a voicechat with a small video video open to a gal in Australia. I can't remember if I was sending video too, but I think so.
Of course, doing anything else but voice/video chat was near impossible because it sucked up bandwidth, but if I could manage it nicely enough with the video codecs for 3 years ago on a slower PC with dialup and netmeeting... I'm sure there are decent solutions today.
I think a lot of the problems nowadays are related to firewalls, and maybe stuff like kazaa clogging up traffic. I haven't really used video/audio conferencing in the last while simply because I haven't found a tool that plays nicely with my firewall and doesn't require an extra bounce off a centralized server (now that is slow).
When you discover that your online girlfriend with the modelling career is actually a dude who has a job posing as the "before" model to a weight-loss or acne-treatment company.
Or, when your online girlfriend who really is a model request video chat and discovers you aren't really built like Shwartzenneger...
Chats are a geek's last bastion of reality denial... throwing cameras in could make a lot of people sad.
3: Dont run your water pump when there is no water passing through it. (that one is actually a serious one...)
Indeed, and this can apply to almost any liquid-flow system - especially using a pump. Ever been told not to let your gas tank run too low before filling? That's because if your pump sucks air pockets (going up a hill with gas sloshing in the tank) it has to work really hard to keep up flow. Additionally, if you have an in-tank pump, the gasoline fluid supposedly helps cool the pump itself.
Same thing in a fish-tank, or a PC. Sucking air overworks your pump. If things start getting hot, it can also steam, which can actually damage part of the pumping system or corrode pipes. I've had this effect in a car with a low "overflow" in the rad, steam is damaging to the pipes.
IBM will stand by that customer, supporting them in court. After all, it looks really bad for IBM if small customer X flounders in legal fees, with a product that is supposedly not legit but sold by IBM. In that case, at least lending the support of a few attack lawyers to any customers in need would be a good move by IBM. After all, all they need is a quick win in court and a judge saying "shut to f*** up SCO you retard" and then we have precedent set, customers feeling a lot more secure, and the death of SCO engraved on a tombstone.
P.S. Is it possible to reserve a tombstone for a business entity? Who wants to put up one that says R.I.P. SCO, suffocated due to heads up their posterior.
You can turn off a gas main, and I believe possibly even a whole block (fire dept) if there is a perceived hazard. Try lugging out a huge fricking hydrogen tank however...
So it's taking much less time for people to communicate with each other and pass on that a movie sucks incredible and isn't worth wasting money on.
Good for all of us, I think, bad for the MPAA.
But why even bother to mention it. Oh, people have a new way of informing each other when our movies suck. Will the MPAA actually try to put some type of block on text-messaging as opposed to making non-sucky movies? Then I'll do it the old fashioned way and tell people going in that the movie bites as I'm headed out.
And how about the high cost of movies and the fact that they start will bullshit advertising... I suppose they don't factor that in as a reason why in todays days of tighter coin moviewatching is declining.
We have an effect (less moviegoers in shorter time).... and a possibly contributing cause (textmessaging)... but the root cause is still shitty movies...
Linux *could* become a PDA platform now. Maybe Ximian should take a break from evolution and write some nice palm stuff, or another company in the area of productivity software.
For games, part of the holdback is the lack of hardware-software integration (driver issues) for the games. Handheld/palm devices shouldn't experience such a setback, as 2D graphics have been good on 'nix for awhile (though X could use some support for hardward 2D primitive drawing).
In which case it becomes the fault of the sysadmin. If the user really needs escalated privileges, one could either configure sudo for the require executable or other methods. Users running as root (*cough* Lindows) is as dumb as most of the MS stuff. Having the user properly sandboxed is one of the reasons that 'nix is more secure, as it requires an additional level of idiocy to allow such a virus to propagate.
Now in windows-land... it really wouldn't have been *that* hard to add a certain level of privilaging. If not on a user level at least on an app level (in 'nix it works both ways, with applications running under a certain UID)... Outlook and MSIE should not be trusted as privileged applications capable of executing downloaded trojans.
Linux is very nice for mobile devices in general, including/especially laptops. In desktops I think it tends to lag because of well, the games, and the whole mess around Wine, Hardware Acceleration, and proprietary/buggy 3d-accelerated hardware drivers. I *do* have it on my desktop at home, it just doesn't quite do everything my windows machine does (games, and the Nvidia driver craps out and locks if X gets shutdown in a way it doesn't like).
Now, on my laptop, I've got an iceWM XP-styled desktop with: MozillaFirebird, Evolution, SSH in my terminal, OpenOffice, gMerlin (VCD, Mpeg), and XMMS (mp3). Does everything I could want it to do. General computing is more lightweight than windows, though I do admit some things lag up a bit more too. I have a small windows partition to go online when I need dialup (particular lucent winmodem not supported yet), but otherwise it's always 'nix.
Now, on a PDA you may have games, but none of that 3d-accelerated high-end crap so you don't have to worry about weird drivers. A web-browser, organizer, and a bunch of open-source plugin software/games and I think it would do very nicely with linux.
Linux may not be ready for the multimedia/game desktop, but it could most definately be ready for PDA's and portables.
While the dealer tables may not be so well controlled, I distinctly remember hearing that the slots are controlled herabouts (Canada). In fact, at one point there was a large dispute over this due to the "use of a malfunctioning machine voids play" issue.
Apparently a lady won a whole bunch of money on slots or whatever, had a few quarters left and put another in the machine and won big twice. However, as the win (only the second one) didn't register at the main office to which all slots are linked, the casino refused to pay her out on the second winning, and I believe there was also some conflict over the initial win as well. A lot of machines have a "fault" indicator nowadays that say if they're malfunctioning (in which case they generally reject coins anyhow), but I don't believe this was the case.
In the end, the public was starting to get sorely turned off lottery (not much fun if you win and they refuse you your winnings) so the lottery corp paid out eventually I believe. Later, I've heard that the slots are fully controlled by the central station, and cannot have a win unless the central system allows it. I assume this also means that the system somehow stacks the odds of winning to make a decent profit. You still have chances of winning big money, but the general users of the machines will never make more than the lottery itself shovels in.
Somewhere in there replies is a message indicating you can remove outlook from the DLL cache. Another trick to nuking "vampire" apps is to remove the container folder, then make a file in the parent having the same name as the indicated folder. It won't be able to create a folder as long as a file by the same name exists...
Another really large pain is apps that come bundles. Some of the Norton stuff is like this - I have one package that had a bunch of Utils and then the antivirus. I only wanted the AV, but the utils kept coming back from the dead when I deleted them from the registry etc. Best way to solve that was to start in "safe mode" and rename the folder so that it can't find the files - then nuke registry entries.
I've found that most patches, as they apply to functions/etc used by higher-level apps, tend to break those same apps. MySQL server fragged after being patch, and require a patch-fixing-patch, and I've heard the same for other server-type apps. Drivers can also be an issue, as a driver that misinstalls can fubar a machine nicely so that it requires a full reinstall of the OS.
Most cars have a security cap or door (opened from inside the car) on their gas tank. Now say, the security cap/door had an issue wherein it was liable to pop off/open, or if it was very simple to pop (5-year-old-with-a-paperclip easy) that would be the defect.
I think that one of the scariest things is not the lack of security, but the lack of security obfuscated behind a wall of ignorance which mistakenly indicates safetly.
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If you transport it through the local machine, know what data should be going out, and what data should be received... you really should be able to decode what's going on.
I've never really figured out the difficulty in this, although I've not tried (yet). Netstat to figure out what server/port are being connected to... redirect that host to a local address (local PC or LAN)... ensure that the end recipient is on said LAN. Log all input/output from the either client as it goes through redirection, and then have it forwarded right back on to the proper destination.
Eventually with enough time and logs (and you know almost exactly what the logs should represent as far as outgoing data) then it should be decipherable.
Of course, the other concept is that MS really isn't much up on security - so chances are that somebody will be able to crack this easily enough anyhow.
Can see that it's false, and thus not freak out about DivX. A lot of people just glance the headlines, a few comments. A lot less actually dare clicking through to visit the page and check for themselves.
Wouldn't want to the robots to be mislead, after all.
One question I've had for awhile. Does anyone know a good program to convert between the various Codecs? I've got a lot of AVI files that until recently were converted fine to Mpeg-1 (.mpg) for VCD burning. Now, the recent files seem to either have small flaws or a slight variation on the codec, so that my converter cannot grab audio and misreads the end of file (making files 2-3x the proper length).
Heck, if the tools at divx.com actually work properly to do this, I might just buy 'em. Otherwise, though, a cheaper/OS/free solution would be appreciated.
to study and eventually clone the world's great trees.
So they are planning to clone 'em. The initial seedlings aren't considered full clones because...
The seedlings aren't exact copies of Methuselah...they only contain half of the gnarled old tree's genetic materials.
So they add more DNA to complete the process:
the Milarchs plan to graft them with more genetic material taken from Methuselah
I think that parts from the branch or cones would be considered offspring of the parent - it's the extra DNA splicing that makes it a clone.
Evolution in longer-living creatures is often slow. I don't believe lice actually live very long, therefore in a human lifespan you'd probably have many many louse lifespans.
Wasn't this one reason some tests were done with flies? Because evolution/change in the flies would occur faster due to the more rapid birth/reproduction/death cycle?
That, and we're talking hundreds of thousands of years... being off by a few centuries (which would be a lot of louse generations I would expect) wouldn't be a bad margin of error.
In the nearby large city, I heard they were having some problems with this. Apparently young couples with cellphones would experiment with the vibe feature, but some actually have the cellphone vibrate itself out of reach.
Buzzz...oh...oH...OH...pop and it's gone
Several embarrassed females/couples ended up in hospitals to have a doctor remove "lost" cellphones.
One where they want to keep the same number for support, but have a rotating support person?
It's not really any different from a lot of companies that have a tech-on-call. Sometimes you have rotating tech-support shifts, but if you just pass the phone over at least the numbers that one has to call don't change.
The first thing that popped in my head was that it would be great to talk to either (or better both) John's about what it took to become the programmers/designers they are, how they got involved in the wave of revolutionary games, and how it changed their lives.
/. searched showed no results for either Carmack or Romero (in case such an interview has already occurred)... but perhaps it's just being buggy. As somebody who is greatly interested in such things (hell, the games are why I started coding initially) it would be great to hear straight from the "Johns" about their experiences, mistakes, and successes.
Strangely enough,
a) In the case of video/audio conferencing, it could save a bundle on expensive phone-support calls.
b) When I used to get stuck with something, I'd pass on a question to some of my informed techie friends and hope they'd know the answer. Ditto the other way around. It's a great way to pass tech information/support along.
I think it really depends on your provider, whom your connecting to, and a number of other things. Hell, I remember 2-3 years ago connecting on dialup at 56K, having a voicechat with a small video video open to a gal in Australia. I can't remember if I was sending video too, but I think so.
Of course, doing anything else but voice/video chat was near impossible because it sucked up bandwidth, but if I could manage it nicely enough with the video codecs for 3 years ago on a slower PC with dialup and netmeeting... I'm sure there are decent solutions today.
I think a lot of the problems nowadays are related to firewalls, and maybe stuff like kazaa clogging up traffic. I haven't really used video/audio conferencing in the last while simply because I haven't found a tool that plays nicely with my firewall and doesn't require an extra bounce off a centralized server (now that is slow).
When you discover that your online girlfriend with the modelling career is actually a dude who has a job posing as the "before" model to a weight-loss or acne-treatment company.
Or, when your online girlfriend who really is a model request video chat and discovers you aren't really built like Shwartzenneger...
Chats are a geek's last bastion of reality denial... throwing cameras in could make a lot of people sad.
3: Dont run your water pump when there is no water passing through it. (that one is actually a serious one...)
Indeed, and this can apply to almost any liquid-flow system - especially using a pump. Ever been told not to let your gas tank run too low before filling? That's because if your pump sucks air pockets (going up a hill with gas sloshing in the tank) it has to work really hard to keep up flow. Additionally, if you have an in-tank pump, the gasoline fluid supposedly helps cool the pump itself.
Same thing in a fish-tank, or a PC. Sucking air overworks your pump. If things start getting hot, it can also steam, which can actually damage part of the pumping system or corrode pipes. I've had this effect in a car with a low "overflow" in the rad, steam is damaging to the pipes.
"Cream of the cream" isn't often used, usually one uses the french: Creme de la creme
In english, it's usually the "cream of the crop" I believe?
What's all this reference to cream for anyways though?
IBM will stand by that customer, supporting them in court. After all, it looks really bad for IBM if small customer X flounders in legal fees, with a product that is supposedly not legit but sold by IBM. In that case, at least lending the support of a few attack lawyers to any customers in need would be a good move by IBM. After all, all they need is a quick win in court and a judge saying "shut to f*** up SCO you retard" and then we have precedent set, customers feeling a lot more secure, and the death of SCO engraved on a tombstone.
P.S. Is it possible to reserve a tombstone for a business entity? Who wants to put up one that says R.I.P. SCO, suffocated due to heads up their posterior.
a) How much did it cost (component-wise). Geeze even a decent flight-style joystick is still expensive nowadays.
b) How long did it take to make?
c) What do you do for a living (running with "b", to see what skills he had to make this)
d) Will you design private cockpits, and for how much??
You can turn off a gas main, and I believe possibly even a whole block (fire dept) if there is a perceived hazard. Try lugging out a huge fricking hydrogen tank however...
So it's taking much less time for people to communicate with each other and pass on that a movie sucks incredible and isn't worth wasting money on.
Good for all of us, I think, bad for the MPAA.
But why even bother to mention it. Oh, people have a new way of informing each other when our movies suck. Will the MPAA actually try to put some type of block on text-messaging as opposed to making non-sucky movies? Then I'll do it the old fashioned way and tell people going in that the movie bites as I'm headed out.
And how about the high cost of movies and the fact that they start will bullshit advertising... I suppose they don't factor that in as a reason why in todays days of tighter coin moviewatching is declining.
We have an effect (less moviegoers in shorter time).... and a possibly contributing cause (textmessaging)... but the root cause is still shitty movies...
It would be a scary thing in the case of fires. Each house with its own little hydrogen-based explosive cannister. A little dangerous, perhaps?
Linux *could* become a PDA platform now. Maybe Ximian should take a break from evolution and write some nice palm stuff, or another company in the area of productivity software.
For games, part of the holdback is the lack of hardware-software integration (driver issues) for the games. Handheld/palm devices shouldn't experience such a setback, as 2D graphics have been good on 'nix for awhile (though X could use some support for hardward 2D primitive drawing).
*nix box if the user has sufficient privileges.
In which case it becomes the fault of the sysadmin. If the user really needs escalated privileges, one could either configure sudo for the require executable or other methods. Users running as root (*cough* Lindows) is as dumb as most of the MS stuff. Having the user properly sandboxed is one of the reasons that 'nix is more secure, as it requires an additional level of idiocy to allow such a virus to propagate.
Now in windows-land... it really wouldn't have been *that* hard to add a certain level of privilaging. If not on a user level at least on an app level (in 'nix it works both ways, with applications running under a certain UID)... Outlook and MSIE should not be trusted as privileged applications capable of executing downloaded trojans.
Linux is very nice for mobile devices in general, including/especially laptops. In desktops I think it tends to lag because of well, the games, and the whole mess around Wine, Hardware Acceleration, and proprietary/buggy 3d-accelerated hardware drivers. I *do* have it on my desktop at home, it just doesn't quite do everything my windows machine does (games, and the Nvidia driver craps out and locks if X gets shutdown in a way it doesn't like).
Now, on my laptop, I've got an iceWM XP-styled desktop with: MozillaFirebird, Evolution, SSH in my terminal, OpenOffice, gMerlin (VCD, Mpeg), and XMMS (mp3). Does everything I could want it to do. General computing is more lightweight than windows, though I do admit some things lag up a bit more too. I have a small windows partition to go online when I need dialup (particular lucent winmodem not supported yet), but otherwise it's always 'nix.
Now, on a PDA you may have games, but none of that 3d-accelerated high-end crap so you don't have to worry about weird drivers. A web-browser, organizer, and a bunch of open-source plugin software/games and I think it would do very nicely with linux.
Linux may not be ready for the multimedia/game desktop, but it could most definately be ready for PDA's and portables.
While the dealer tables may not be so well controlled, I distinctly remember hearing that the slots are controlled herabouts (Canada). In fact, at one point there was a large dispute over this due to the "use of a malfunctioning machine voids play" issue.
Apparently a lady won a whole bunch of money on slots or whatever, had a few quarters left and put another in the machine and won big twice. However, as the win (only the second one) didn't register at the main office to which all slots are linked, the casino refused to pay her out on the second winning, and I believe there was also some conflict over the initial win as well. A lot of machines have a "fault" indicator nowadays that say if they're malfunctioning (in which case they generally reject coins anyhow), but I don't believe this was the case.
In the end, the public was starting to get sorely turned off lottery (not much fun if you win and they refuse you your winnings) so the lottery corp paid out eventually I believe. Later, I've heard that the slots are fully controlled by the central station, and cannot have a win unless the central system allows it. I assume this also means that the system somehow stacks the odds of winning to make a decent profit. You still have chances of winning big money, but the general users of the machines will never make more than the lottery itself shovels in.
Somewhere in there replies is a message indicating you can remove outlook from the DLL cache. Another trick to nuking "vampire" apps is to remove the container folder, then make a file in the parent having the same name as the indicated folder. It won't be able to create a folder as long as a file by the same name exists...
Another really large pain is apps that come bundles. Some of the Norton stuff is like this - I have one package that had a bunch of Utils and then the antivirus. I only wanted the AV, but the utils kept coming back from the dead when I deleted them from the registry etc. Best way to solve that was to start in "safe mode" and rename the folder so that it can't find the files - then nuke registry entries.
I've found that most patches, as they apply to functions/etc used by higher-level apps, tend to break those same apps. MySQL server fragged after being patch, and require a patch-fixing-patch, and I've heard the same for other server-type apps. Drivers can also be an issue, as a driver that misinstalls can fubar a machine nicely so that it requires a full reinstall of the OS.
Most cars have a security cap or door (opened from inside the car) on their gas tank. Now say, the security cap/door had an issue wherein it was liable to pop off/open, or if it was very simple to pop (5-year-old-with-a-paperclip easy) that would be the defect.
I think that one of the scariest things is not the lack of security, but the lack of security obfuscated behind a wall of ignorance which mistakenly indicates safetly.