Because due to the assymetrical nature of ADSL, once my upstream gets clogged, it cannot facilitate the neccisary ACK's that need to be sent out to the other end in order to ensure my download stays up.
"A combination of hit-list and permutation scanning can create what we term a Warhol worm, capable of attacking most vulnerable targets in well under an hour, possibly less than 15 minutes. "
Also, the name servers get a surprising number of queries FROM RFC1918 addresses (10.x, 192.168.x, etc.), and while it may be more efficient to use root server CPU (on big fast computers) than router CPU to dispose of these queries, ISPs have ENTIRELY no business accepting IP packets FROM these addresses, and they should be killing them at the incoming edges of their networks, not carrying them and passing them on to other people.
I really doubt root servers get queries FROM RFC1918 adresses. Every sane ISP blocks all such packets(not only DNS queries) on its border routers - ore else there will be much more spoofed packets around here.
I work at ISP and usually all that NAT'ed machines that use our DNS are quering us about x.x.168.192.in-addr.arpa
...saying that intel translates x86 instructions before executing them. This is true for the 16bit x86 instructions, but not for 32bit...
Native 32-bit instructions were executed ages ago, on x386/x486. Pentium already has RISC-like core and Pentium Pro/Pentium II added branch prediction.
BTW, I wonder if there will be Native Crusoe Support for GCC? Despite all this Code Morphing Coolness, native Crusoe VLIW instructions optimized by real compiler should run much faster. GCC++ knows all about program workflow and Code Morphing will tune (rearrange predictions?) it at run-time.
Furthermore, Transmeta can invent its own extentions like Intel's MMX and implement it real soon. Image tweaking the CPU to 3D card drivers!:-)
IMHO this technology will beat Intel in the long run.
(sorry if it has been posted before - can't read all the discussion)
Ideal Solution to Unix Config Trouble(TM)(IMHO!):
one stardatized "config language" - may be XML but personally I like BIND-style with {} & indents, it's easier to read and understand -and to edit with CLI tools
NB! open-sourced (of course) conf-parsing lib - to be used in new projects, let alone old ones If I was a real programmer I would extract it from BIND source and generalize enough to make it eligible for always busy FreeRadius folks - right now they need a new config-parsing engine, nobody wants those old ugly "users" files...
compatibility tools - to convert new-style configs into old-style (I'd love to write one for apache)
general GUI tools to edit configs as menus and so on - for experienced users who understand what they're doing
application-specific GUI tools like linuxconf logging everything they do to the configs - for newbies (and those logs - for theirs gurus)
or maybe WebMin clone + application-specific modules which write configs in common config language (see above:)
more programmers to port old programs to new config style
And we need much better config repository than/etc ! The idea of the registry is not so bad after all if we do some virtual file system of it
we have procfs and devfs - why not conffs?
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What licensing issues ? How does the ssh1.2 license differ from the ssh2 license ?
From OpenSSH History and Credits: Rapidly after the 1.2.12 release, newer versions bore successively more restrictive licenses. Earlier restrictive licenses forbade people from making a Windows or DOS version. Later licenses (read - v2.x) restricted the use of ssh in a commercial environment, instead requiring companies to buy an expensive version from Datafellows.
Chat.ru is an anonymous mail service with webmail or POP3 capabilities - similar to NetAddress or Hotmail.
So i'm guessing rc5whs@chat.ru is nothing to do with large LAN anyway, it's an anonymous mail account, to avoid spam.
Maybe we should ask distributed.net guys to clarify this issue a bit? they definitely know what client and how many CPUs are making million blocks a day.
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Theoretically it can run Windows inside Bochs x86 emulator (former plex86)
3D movies of the future will make any DVD look like a cave painting...
I wonder what it is?
It is made especially for that.
How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time
Interesting topics: "Better" worms techniques
"A combination of hit-list and permutation scanning can create what we term a Warhol worm, capable of attacking most vulnerable targets in well under an hour, possibly less than 15 minutes. "
I really doubt root servers get queries FROM RFC1918 adresses. Every sane ISP blocks all such packets(not only DNS queries) on its border routers - ore else there will be much more spoofed packets around here. I work at ISP and usually all that NAT'ed machines that use our DNS are quering us about x.x.168.192.in-addr.arpa
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"better late than never"
> Why should a free implementation of SMB upset RMS?
:-)
Read the original post - "Torvald's free operating system..."
GNU/Torvald's OS
I (versus) personally started that discussion.
But at first I made sure they violated GPL.
Yes, I have checked all the Gentus CD to make sure Abit didn't include the source to Gentus and modified BP6Mon to 'Abit' license.
I personally checked all the modified RPMs and found them really modified.
I sent them email and they didn't respond.
I asked staff at Gentus discussion page and they didn't respond.
Then I started a thread with that provoking title about violating GPL.
I wonder how can windoze keylogger do its job when your rebooted into live linux-on-CD ?
Here in Russia all security-aware people use international open-sourced strong crypto, not GOST or something like - because it's proven to be strong.
OpenSSH, SSL and PGP are strong enough to use even here, in Russia :)
I don't know any popular program which use GOST except latest versions of ARJ.
Native 32-bit instructions were executed ages ago, on x386/x486. Pentium already has RISC-like core and Pentium Pro/Pentium II added branch prediction.
BTW, I wonder if there will be Native Crusoe Support for GCC? Despite all this Code Morphing Coolness, native Crusoe VLIW instructions optimized by real compiler should run much faster. GCC++ knows all about program workflow and Code Morphing will tune (rearrange predictions?) it at run-time.
Furthermore, Transmeta can invent its own extentions like Intel's MMX and implement it real soon. Image tweaking the CPU to 3D card drivers! :-)
IMHO this technology will beat Intel in the long run.
Ideal Solution to Unix Config Trouble(TM)(IMHO!):
If I was a real programmer I would extract it from BIND source and generalize enough to make it eligible for always busy FreeRadius folks - right now they need a new config-parsing engine, nobody wants those old ugly "users" files...
And we need much better config repository than /etc !
The idea of the registry is not so bad after all if we do some virtual file system of it
we have procfs and devfs - why not conffs?
From OpenSSH History and Credits:
Rapidly after the 1.2.12 release, newer versions bore successively more restrictive licenses. Earlier restrictive licenses forbade people from making a Windows or DOS version. Later licenses (read - v2.x) restricted the use of ssh in a commercial environment, instead requiring companies to buy an expensive version from Datafellows.
Linux, DOS32 & Windows are supported. Though this thingy is outdated a bit - MGUI main page was last updated in October, 1998...
Did anyone try it?
So i'm guessing rc5whs@chat.ru is nothing to do with large LAN anyway, it's an anonymous mail account, to avoid spam.
Maybe we should ask distributed.net guys to clarify this issue a bit? they definitely know what client and how many CPUs are making million blocks a day.