Even worse.. Google's FAQ on Multiple Users states that it is not for multiple user systems, so all of this nonsense is perfectly within it's working parameters, and as a beta program, is to be expected. Don't like it? Don't use it. Period.
Seems like every step Google has taken to make searching more integrated into our life and software has been shot by the media saying it's "too intrusive", and this is on BETA software and BETA programs that Google are running.
This says that either Google's far too ahead of it's time, or that the media really needs to grow up. Google's policy is that their software does no evil, it's the user's responsibility to make sure that they are not evil with it. Besides, if someone wanted to write a trojan to scan all of a user's files and report back somewhere, it could be done a lot easier than hacking GDS.
Face facts people; Google's here to stay, and they're here to help.
It's very simple: keep no secrets, clean up after yourself. We shouldn't have left a piece of dangerous technology somewhere that accessible. Especially since a civilian could have found it just as easily.
Well, since Uncle Sam called for these weapons to be created, I'm sure they'll be thrilled to pay a billion dollars to all of the tax payers, then have to front the money to put this bomb away for good, and at least giving a try to find the other ten.
At this point, I'd be happy with them disposing of the radioisotopes in a safe mannor, then blowing the rest of the bomb. Hopefully not enough of the radiation has leaked into the environment to still allow this to be possible.
It should be a matter of National Security to secure the radioisotopes from this weapon. Since they practically broadcasted the location of the weapon, and the fact that a nuclear weapon on the bottom of the ocean is still viable as a dirty bomb, the question is, how long will it to be until a terrorist organization or a country with enough balls goes looking for one of these bombs? I'm not too worried, but I'm just tired of the government hiding things like this from us.
I would call Deepfreeze a script kiddie deterent. I was given the task to break a machine with deepfreeze on it, just because our network administrators were really, well, not up to par.
I took the task head on and found that Deepfreeze works (to my knowledge, I'm not exactly sure about the internals) on keeping a transaction record, and then playing it back. It also is almost continually checking checksums of access files so that it knows which ones to fix later. Destroy either the ability to keep the checksum, the checksum itself, or the transaction data, and Deepfreeze has lost that file. Of course, it takes a lot to be able to do that, and I would say it would be very difficult with an NT kernel, but simply hooking into its device driver and fucking it up will prevent the system from it's delete/restore function on reboot. Of course, all of this is much easier said than done, and I wasn't asked to implement such a tool (and HAVEN'T, and WON'T), but I can say that this is far outside of the reach of a script kiddie. (Would have to know how the Windows kernel interfaces with device drivers, how that device driver works, and then how to break it in a way that will leave you with a viable system afterwards and not the BSOD. These are things that people typically don't know, and don't feel like working out.)
Not practical. We store ghost images on bootable cds, so the only way to restore the system was to boot from cd. We tried PXE, but our network just didn't like that idea. We tried floppies, but nearly 90% of the machines either had bad floppy drives, wouldn't boot to floppy for some unknown reason, or were completely missing floppies. It's a wonder the kids could bring ANYTHING from home in, if they didn't have cd burners at home that is.
Just stating that there is something bigger than the Philly network if it were in existance. No harm in that. Besides, adversiting is half of what slashdot is, and competition drives people to build even larger WLANS, which is very good for us, the commonfolk. If you don't like sitting through the ad cruft, then slashdot probably isn't where you should be.
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Wireless is probably the only connection available in these areas; Dialup degrades as your distance increases from your core phone system, and dialup speeds in the middle of a corn field are probably not too hot (14.4k anyone?). The only other suggestion for high speed internet for these people would be satelite (read: expensive), or dedicated cable of any kind (read: even more expensive).
I would be more than willing to pay 40$ a month for 256kbps in the middle of nowhere, instead of paying 30$ a month for 14.4kbps AOL or 4-500$ a month for a dedicated T1 or something like that.
And it'll work fine for that, as long as the asshat isn't insane enough to actually hack deepfreeze. But this is exactly what this product was made for, and it works wonders for keeping machines alive after a virus storm or freak driver accident.
It's easy enough to break, but for high school students it might be a little tough. All that needs to be done is corrupting the transaction log that it keeps, which can be done by either tampering with the checksum that it keeps of it, the checksum that it keeps of the old files, or tampering with the actual transactions, all of which would take a lot of work (and most likely wouldn't be worth the trouble, as it would require writing a program for the specific task of finding the memory space of the driver, then breaking it in your favor).
Funny, we had the opposite take affect at our school district. We migrated all of the machines we could to Win2k (some were just not powerful enough, sadly), and then got hit by a virus that thrashed the remaining Win98 systems, but left the Win2k machines completely alone. Needless to say, it was an older virus that someone brought in on floppy, but the effect nonetheless was devistating for quite a while. It also seems that the Win9x virus protection programs weren't as effective at scanning the floppy's on mount, verses the Win2k scanners that worked flawlessly for us (Norton for both, 2k3 on the Win2k machines, 2k1? on the Win98 machines).
We happened opon this product at the school where I used to work, and as far as I can tell from using it and poking around at the program, it keeps a log of all harddrive transactions, then when rebooted, it plays back the log backwards, restoring to the state in which the system was before; no Ghost partitioning required, but none-the-less not invunerable to attack. We had kids bring in Knoppix CDs and obliterate hard drives for no other reason than they could.
My suggestion is to use Deep Freeze with Ghost (It's a complex setup, but if you "un-freeze" the system for one reboot, then Ghost, all you have to do is cast the image, change the computer's name (we had a pretty complex naming scheme), then reboot the machine and it's ready to go.) It's a formittable combination, and far better than products like "Foolproof Security". Hope this helps.
You, and plenty of others, have failed to notice, that the stats they gave were *drumroll* PER NODE. And this machine has 502 NODES. So, multiply anything you saw by 502 (6 GB ram PER 502 NODES = 3.012 Teras of ram, 40 GB hds PER 502 NODES = 20 Teras!)
If you can't even read the stub correctly, I know you didn't RFTA...
Here's the facts:
Database filesystems REQUIRE traditional filesystems to write on top of (unless the SQL server is implemented IN the kernel, which everyone (and I) agree is too much bloat). So, for DESKTOP machines, and STORAGE SERVERS, this technology would rock. It improves the ability for a user to find his/her files effeciently.
Meanwhile, for mission critical systems, for the underlying systems, for EVERYTHING ELSE, they will continue using ordinary hierarchy file systems like Reiser.
understood, but it's based on the newer athlon cores with less cache, whereas the athlon xp.. well you get the picture. the question is why use a sempron-based system, when an athlon xp system can still be built cheaper?
Hell, why does the machine need such a fast processor? Does it automatically re-encode on the fly? And if not, why not just throw a cheaper Athlon XP in it and call it a day, cutting a good hundred bucks off the price.
read it again.. he's not saying that it IS toxic, he's saying "if there is no toxic capabilities". Palladium IS toxic at certain levels, and it is required for the process, so I can see his concerns as (at the very least) siteable.
let's not be retarded. the scientists found HELIUM and excess energy coming from these devices, not hydrogen gas and excess energy.
secondly, if it were as simple as this chemical reaction, then we would have known by now. We're incredibly knowledgable about studying chemical reactions, and could simply look at the terminal to tell if it were oxidized. Plain and simple.
hey, it's a signature.. and if it works, then two people get a new ipod and the world's all good. don't like it? don't click. I doubt anything in my signature will fuck you up when you go to search google for something. and if it does, then i'll fix it.
Another good one for the lyrics sites;). But seriously, I have to agree with you. It's getting kinda rough to search for anything involving music in Google or any search engine really, especially with the level of spam they introduce to the internet. Some sites should be taken out and shot (damn you omnipresent bloggers...). But that's life on the ever-evolving internet.
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The other chip reviewed is the Celeron D.
In other words: HEY SLASHDOT, TWO NEW BUDGET ATHLONS ARE OUT...oh..and that other.. Intel thing..
Seriously though, did anyone else laugh immediately at the bias in this community? I thought it was pretty humorous...
I'll go back to my troll hole now..
Even worse.. Google's FAQ on Multiple Users states that it is not for multiple user systems, so all of this nonsense is perfectly within it's working parameters, and as a beta program, is to be expected. Don't like it? Don't use it. Period.
Seems like every step Google has taken to make searching more integrated into our life and software has been shot by the media saying it's "too intrusive", and this is on BETA software and BETA programs that Google are running.
This says that either Google's far too ahead of it's time, or that the media really needs to grow up. Google's policy is that their software does no evil, it's the user's responsibility to make sure that they are not evil with it. Besides, if someone wanted to write a trojan to scan all of a user's files and report back somewhere, it could be done a lot easier than hacking GDS.
Face facts people; Google's here to stay, and they're here to help.
It's very simple: keep no secrets, clean up after yourself. We shouldn't have left a piece of dangerous technology somewhere that accessible. Especially since a civilian could have found it just as easily.
Well, since Uncle Sam called for these weapons to be created, I'm sure they'll be thrilled to pay a billion dollars to all of the tax payers, then have to front the money to put this bomb away for good, and at least giving a try to find the other ten.
At this point, I'd be happy with them disposing of the radioisotopes in a safe mannor, then blowing the rest of the bomb. Hopefully not enough of the radiation has leaked into the environment to still allow this to be possible.
It should be a matter of National Security to secure the radioisotopes from this weapon. Since they practically broadcasted the location of the weapon, and the fact that a nuclear weapon on the bottom of the ocean is still viable as a dirty bomb, the question is, how long will it to be until a terrorist organization or a country with enough balls goes looking for one of these bombs? I'm not too worried, but I'm just tired of the government hiding things like this from us.
Coral works perfectly fine for me, and has since I've known about it..
In fact, I've been using it more than Google cache, even though google's cache is ""always up"".
Try Coral..
I would call Deepfreeze a script kiddie deterent. I was given the task to break a machine with deepfreeze on it, just because our network administrators were really, well, not up to par.
I took the task head on and found that Deepfreeze works (to my knowledge, I'm not exactly sure about the internals) on keeping a transaction record, and then playing it back. It also is almost continually checking checksums of access files so that it knows which ones to fix later. Destroy either the ability to keep the checksum, the checksum itself, or the transaction data, and Deepfreeze has lost that file. Of course, it takes a lot to be able to do that, and I would say it would be very difficult with an NT kernel, but simply hooking into its device driver and fucking it up will prevent the system from it's delete/restore function on reboot. Of course, all of this is much easier said than done, and I wasn't asked to implement such a tool (and HAVEN'T, and WON'T), but I can say that this is far outside of the reach of a script kiddie. (Would have to know how the Windows kernel interfaces with device drivers, how that device driver works, and then how to break it in a way that will leave you with a viable system afterwards and not the BSOD. These are things that people typically don't know, and don't feel like working out.)
Not practical. We store ghost images on bootable cds, so the only way to restore the system was to boot from cd. We tried PXE, but our network just didn't like that idea. We tried floppies, but nearly 90% of the machines either had bad floppy drives, wouldn't boot to floppy for some unknown reason, or were completely missing floppies. It's a wonder the kids could bring ANYTHING from home in, if they didn't have cd burners at home that is.
Just stating that there is something bigger than the Philly network if it were in existance. No harm in that. Besides, adversiting is half of what slashdot is, and competition drives people to build even larger WLANS, which is very good for us, the commonfolk. If you don't like sitting through the ad cruft, then slashdot probably isn't where you should be.
Wireless is probably the only connection available in these areas; Dialup degrades as your distance increases from your core phone system, and dialup speeds in the middle of a corn field are probably not too hot (14.4k anyone?). The only other suggestion for high speed internet for these people would be satelite (read: expensive), or dedicated cable of any kind (read: even more expensive).
I would be more than willing to pay 40$ a month for 256kbps in the middle of nowhere, instead of paying 30$ a month for 14.4kbps AOL or 4-500$ a month for a dedicated T1 or something like that.
And it'll work fine for that, as long as the asshat isn't insane enough to actually hack deepfreeze. But this is exactly what this product was made for, and it works wonders for keeping machines alive after a virus storm or freak driver accident.
Hope it works out!
It's easy enough to break, but for high school students it might be a little tough. All that needs to be done is corrupting the transaction log that it keeps, which can be done by either tampering with the checksum that it keeps of it, the checksum that it keeps of the old files, or tampering with the actual transactions, all of which would take a lot of work (and most likely wouldn't be worth the trouble, as it would require writing a program for the specific task of finding the memory space of the driver, then breaking it in your favor).
Funny, we had the opposite take affect at our school district. We migrated all of the machines we could to Win2k (some were just not powerful enough, sadly), and then got hit by a virus that thrashed the remaining Win98 systems, but left the Win2k machines completely alone. Needless to say, it was an older virus that someone brought in on floppy, but the effect nonetheless was devistating for quite a while. It also seems that the Win9x virus protection programs weren't as effective at scanning the floppy's on mount, verses the Win2k scanners that worked flawlessly for us (Norton for both, 2k3 on the Win2k machines, 2k1? on the Win98 machines).
We happened opon this product at the school where I used to work, and as far as I can tell from using it and poking around at the program, it keeps a log of all harddrive transactions, then when rebooted, it plays back the log backwards, restoring to the state in which the system was before; no Ghost partitioning required, but none-the-less not invunerable to attack. We had kids bring in Knoppix CDs and obliterate hard drives for no other reason than they could.
My suggestion is to use Deep Freeze with Ghost (It's a complex setup, but if you "un-freeze" the system for one reboot, then Ghost, all you have to do is cast the image, change the computer's name (we had a pretty complex naming scheme), then reboot the machine and it's ready to go.) It's a formittable combination, and far better than products like "Foolproof Security". Hope this helps.
You, and plenty of others, have failed to notice, that the stats they gave were *drumroll* PER NODE. And this machine has 502 NODES. So, multiply anything you saw by 502 (6 GB ram PER 502 NODES = 3.012 Teras of ram, 40 GB hds PER 502 NODES = 20 Teras!)
If you can't even read the stub correctly, I know you didn't RFTA...
Here's the facts:
Database filesystems REQUIRE traditional filesystems to write on top of (unless the SQL server is implemented IN the kernel, which everyone (and I) agree is too much bloat). So, for DESKTOP machines, and STORAGE SERVERS, this technology would rock. It improves the ability for a user to find his/her files effeciently.
Meanwhile, for mission critical systems, for the underlying systems, for EVERYTHING ELSE, they will continue using ordinary hierarchy file systems like Reiser.
understood, but it's based on the newer athlon cores with less cache, whereas the athlon xp.. well you get the picture. the question is why use a sempron-based system, when an athlon xp system can still be built cheaper?
Hell, why does the machine need such a fast processor? Does it automatically re-encode on the fly? And if not, why not just throw a cheaper Athlon XP in it and call it a day, cutting a good hundred bucks off the price.
Less users using IE 6, more using Moz/Firefox with the extension that allows it to look like IE.
especially if no toxic by-products are produced
read it again.. he's not saying that it IS toxic, he's saying "if there is no toxic capabilities". Palladium IS toxic at certain levels, and it is required for the process, so I can see his concerns as (at the very least) siteable.
let's not be retarded. the scientists found HELIUM and excess energy coming from these devices, not hydrogen gas and excess energy.
secondly, if it were as simple as this chemical reaction, then we would have known by now. We're incredibly knowledgable about studying chemical reactions, and could simply look at the terminal to tell if it were oxidized. Plain and simple.
hey, it's a signature.. and if it works, then two people get a new ipod and the world's all good. don't like it? don't click. I doubt anything in my signature will fuck you up when you go to search google for something. and if it does, then i'll fix it.
Another good one for the lyrics sites ;). But seriously, I have to agree with you. It's getting kinda rough to search for anything involving music in Google or any search engine really, especially with the level of spam they introduce to the internet. Some sites should be taken out and shot (damn you omnipresent bloggers...). But that's life on the ever-evolving internet.
Oh a joke.. my laughter will be installed Tuesday as well.