that a demo virus for os x gets posted weeks after I read that Vista has locked out Symantec and NAI. Will Symantec start publishing more proof of concept viruses? Will NAI? If you thought the virus boom was bad when the USSR collapsed (out of work Russian programmers) think about Symantec laying off a few thousand employees because Vista wont play nice, we may get our first vista worm quicker than previously thought.
*when* OSX retail is hacked to work on a dell or other generic x86 hardware, it will benefit Apple greatly. Look at photoshop for instance, it is the defacto standard in photo manipulation partly due to the rampant copying of its software. The same could easily happen to OSX. While Apple would never support the install, I'm sure they will gain something from it.
You could be right, however I'm just having a hard time seeing Apple eat crow TWICE, once on the x86 switch, and then twice on the fall back to 32bit when they hyped up the 64bit g5's so much, thats all.
I agree, I'm pretty confident that Apple would choose the M line, especially after watching the keynote with the whole performance per watt graph. I expect the Pentium M line to make it into the Ibook/Imac/Mini first, possibly the powerbook. Then have a nice, dual core, 64bit chip lined up in late 2006 to replace the G5. I'm doubting the P4 will jump right into the Powermac first. Also, after watching the keynote, that system ran *fast* on one intel P4. If that is a sign of things to come from the intel/Apple wedding then count me switched...again...
Am I the only one who feels like I'm reading an "alternate reality" article here? Tom Ridge now has a bad goatee and a sash to store is saber, and laughs like this muHAHAHA. oh wait...
Disclaimer, I don't own an xbox or xbox live, but I've played it a bunch.
I've played a few games on Xbox live like Crimson Skies, Splinter Cell, RTCW and so on. I was skeptical at first, but it won me over quickly. The online buddy list and game invites work flawlessly, and very rarely do I see lag in game. Despite the drawbacks of live chat during game "dude I'm so stoned" "no way dude, so am I!" "PoWNED!", it actually works over DSL without a hitch. I see xbox LIVE as MS's iTunes Music store.
Yes because ISP's get bandwidth free flowing from the backbone, which they repackage and sell for an outrageous markup. Massive worm traffic costs ISP's too, they pay for bandwidth at some level too, less flooding, more customers per t-1 ds3 oc whatever = more money, at some point the profit/cost of filtering vs more users per line has become favorable to the ISP.
A lot, especially in High School Land California. Programs for underacheivers are outpacing programs like GATE for a simple reason. MONEY. They would rather use credit recovery programs to help keep kids from dropping out or get on the 7 year plan because its a numbers game. Smart kids will generally attend school on a fairly regular basis, allowing schools to get money. They are outnumbered by kids on the 7 year graduation plan and kids 2 days away from dropping out entirely. Because of the budget crisis, all the attention right now is focused on how to keep "underperforming" children in the classroom for funding.
'...the full and vast resources of the army will be at Ubisoft's disposal.'"
Reminds me of a great story, I was working *somewhere* for the gov and they we're testing a handheld device for the marines that would say simple phrases in arabic like "get down on the ground" "freeze!" etc. A bunch of grunts are sitting around in a room messing with these things while the CO is rambling on about how many millions they blew on this thing and how much its going to help, one marine manages to say the following "sir, I've got an M-16 with a huge frikin knife on the end of it, and, well, I'm pretty sure that will be all the translation I need. The CO looks around, shakes his head and dismissed them all. God I love the Mil.
Many non-corporate level A/V programs have a user configurable list of what extenstions to scan. If a trojan could modify that list to remove.exe files from being scanned, an average user would have a heck of a time even detecting the infection even with updated DAT files. I'm not sure if thats even possible at this point in time.
Feedback ratings from the players themselves seems the most direct and simple solution to rewarding good DM/GM'ing. I mean thats how it's done in the flesh right?
Good Lord, if the general public can't figure out how to vote correctly its a miracle they were able to pick a president based on political agenda and platform...oh......right....carry on
Don't forget the people who hired the director if I.T as well, if you just fire the admin, how do you make sure he's not replaced with another reckless, unskilled, administrator?
Even cooler would be a location to download and execute this worm on purpose. That way you don't have to sit around hoping your network gets "infected." Hell why doesn't the symantec tool work like this. It's a little fight fire with fire-ish but jeez you would think they could at least give it a shot.
Windows 2000/XP machines can be easy to update and maintain, with programs that limit access in conjunction with remote shares to house files and disk imaging software. Management of Win2k/XP PC's,in my opinion, has become much eaiser over the last 2 years. We are pushing out the RPC patch over our network to about 4000 pc's and then running microsoft's network tool to verify that they are patched. With a staff of 3-4 techs/admins we are able to maintain a firm grip on our PC's here at work, the trick is proactive planning at a department level for stuff like this.
I feel your pain on Ikaruga, I've always wanted to play Radiant Silvergun for the Sega Saturn, it was also developed by Treasure (the same company that did Ikaruga). Another good shooter IMHO is Mars Matrix for the Dreamcast. I'm glad more games of this type are being created, maybe next we can get some more people back on the adventure game ala Kings Quest.
Good lord I can picture it now,
MS Air Flight 223 exploded shortly after take off today, the cockpit recorder was recovered, unfortunately the only sound audible is a single frantic voice chanting, "developers, developers, developers" shortly before the plane exploded. All MS Air flights have been grounded for what Microsoft calls a "service pack update"
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that a demo virus for os x gets posted weeks after I read that Vista has locked out Symantec and NAI. Will Symantec start publishing more proof of concept viruses? Will NAI? If you thought the virus boom was bad when the USSR collapsed (out of work Russian programmers) think about Symantec laying off a few thousand employees because Vista wont play nice, we may get our first vista worm quicker than previously thought.
Torrent? .....anyone? oh wait...
*when* OSX retail is hacked to work on a dell or other generic x86 hardware, it will benefit Apple greatly. Look at photoshop for instance, it is the defacto standard in photo manipulation partly due to the rampant copying of its software. The same could easily happen to OSX. While Apple would never support the install, I'm sure they will gain something from it.
Oh ok sorry, lack of doing the homework on the intel roadmap on my part, my bad, I agree with your statement entirely. =P
You could be right, however I'm just having a hard time seeing Apple eat crow TWICE, once on the x86 switch, and then twice on the fall back to 32bit when they hyped up the 64bit g5's so much, thats all.
I agree, I'm pretty confident that Apple would choose the M line, especially after watching the keynote with the whole performance per watt graph. I expect the Pentium M line to make it into the Ibook/Imac/Mini first, possibly the powerbook. Then have a nice, dual core, 64bit chip lined up in late 2006 to replace the G5. I'm doubting the P4 will jump right into the Powermac first. Also, after watching the keynote, that system ran *fast* on one intel P4. If that is a sign of things to come from the intel/Apple wedding then count me switched...again...
Am I the only one who feels like I'm reading an "alternate reality" article here? Tom Ridge now has a bad goatee and a sash to store is saber, and laughs like this muHAHAHA. oh wait...
Didn't a bunch of viruses come from the former USSR after the end of the cold war from a bunch of suddenly unemployed technology workers?
Makes me all misty eyed over BeOS boot time of about 7 seconds to usability on a pIII 500. It CAN be done still.
Disclaimer, I don't own an xbox or xbox live, but I've played it a bunch. I've played a few games on Xbox live like Crimson Skies, Splinter Cell, RTCW and so on. I was skeptical at first, but it won me over quickly. The online buddy list and game invites work flawlessly, and very rarely do I see lag in game. Despite the drawbacks of live chat during game "dude I'm so stoned" "no way dude, so am I!" "PoWNED!", it actually works over DSL without a hitch. I see xbox LIVE as MS's iTunes Music store.
Yes because ISP's get bandwidth free flowing from the backbone, which they repackage and sell for an outrageous markup. Massive worm traffic costs ISP's too, they pay for bandwidth at some level too, less flooding, more customers per t-1 ds3 oc whatever = more money, at some point the profit/cost of filtering vs more users per line has become favorable to the ISP.
More like a "hot" spot that NOW draws tourists. That area has and will be hot for a long time.
Or has been scanned by Anti-Virus software
A lot, especially in High School Land California. Programs for underacheivers are outpacing programs like GATE for a simple reason. MONEY. They would rather use credit recovery programs to help keep kids from dropping out or get on the 7 year plan because its a numbers game. Smart kids will generally attend school on a fairly regular basis, allowing schools to get money. They are outnumbered by kids on the 7 year graduation plan and kids 2 days away from dropping out entirely. Because of the budget crisis, all the attention right now is focused on how to keep "underperforming" children in the classroom for funding.
'...the full and vast resources of the army will be at Ubisoft's disposal.'" Reminds me of a great story, I was working *somewhere* for the gov and they we're testing a handheld device for the marines that would say simple phrases in arabic like "get down on the ground" "freeze!" etc. A bunch of grunts are sitting around in a room messing with these things while the CO is rambling on about how many millions they blew on this thing and how much its going to help, one marine manages to say the following "sir, I've got an M-16 with a huge frikin knife on the end of it, and, well, I'm pretty sure that will be all the translation I need. The CO looks around, shakes his head and dismissed them all. God I love the Mil.
Many non-corporate level A/V programs have a user configurable list of what extenstions to scan. If a trojan could modify that list to remove .exe files from being scanned, an average user would have a heck of a time even detecting the infection even with updated DAT files. I'm not sure if thats even possible at this point in time.
Feedback ratings from the players themselves seems the most direct and simple solution to rewarding good DM/GM'ing. I mean thats how it's done in the flesh right?
Dude, Windows IS an "alternative" OS in Apple's point of view.
I'm sure you could cram open bsd on there
Good Lord, if the general public can't figure out how to vote correctly its a miracle they were able to pick a president based on political agenda and platform...oh......right....carry on
Don't forget the people who hired the director if I.T as well, if you just fire the admin, how do you make sure he's not replaced with another reckless, unskilled, administrator?
Even cooler would be a location to download and execute this worm on purpose. That way you don't have to sit around hoping your network gets "infected." Hell why doesn't the symantec tool work like this. It's a little fight fire with fire-ish but jeez you would think they could at least give it a shot.
Windows 2000/XP machines can be easy to update and maintain, with programs that limit access in conjunction with remote shares to house files and disk imaging software. Management of Win2k/XP PC's,in my opinion, has become much eaiser over the last 2 years. We are pushing out the RPC patch over our network to about 4000 pc's and then running microsoft's network tool to verify that they are patched. With a staff of 3-4 techs/admins we are able to maintain a firm grip on our PC's here at work, the trick is proactive planning at a department level for stuff like this.
I feel your pain on Ikaruga, I've always wanted to play Radiant Silvergun for the Sega Saturn, it was also developed by Treasure (the same company that did Ikaruga). Another good shooter IMHO is Mars Matrix for the Dreamcast. I'm glad more games of this type are being created, maybe next we can get some more people back on the adventure game ala Kings Quest.
Good lord I can picture it now, MS Air Flight 223 exploded shortly after take off today, the cockpit recorder was recovered, unfortunately the only sound audible is a single frantic voice chanting, "developers, developers, developers" shortly before the plane exploded. All MS Air flights have been grounded for what Microsoft calls a "service pack update"