Is the pcap driver used by ethereal/wireshark going to need to be in kernel mode or user mode?
What about my Alcohol 120% imagedrive(Though I imagine alcohol soft can afford $500/year). What about the network tun/tap driver coLinux used for network communication?
As long as I can still do everything I want to do on my computer, I'll be ok with it.
Well, mostly ok, except that sony's next rootkit will look like it belongs there.
There is one good thing about the versign, et al. CA's, and it is only usable in a certain situation, and it is definately still abusable.
But, essentially, supposedly, verisign will only give a cert for somewhere.com to the person who OWNS somewhere.com.(Of course, if the owner sells the domain, they still have a valid cert for that domain until it expires, unless verisign publishes a proper revocation cert). This is of course, only good if the user-agent checks the domain listed in the cert vs. the domain presenting the cert. And then you check the CA vs. the known good list of CA certs and you know that 'one of these big companies has verified that the person this cert was given to does own the domain handing out this cert'. It doesn't mean anything more than that, but that alone is a big difference from "Gee, I have no way of knowing if I am connected to my Bank's website, or some random asshat's".
"If someone really wants to build one of the things you mention then they'll pay the frieght." I think you are missing the point of hobbyist, enthusiast, and open source development.
I agree that in a corporate environment(And really any security-conscious environment) that driver signing is a Good Thing(TM).
However: I think it should be CONFIGURABLE, even if the option to disable it is a PITA and has to be done at install time(Of the os?), I want to be able to configure it so I can run the software I want to run, not the software microsoft wants me to run. If I can't run the software(and hardware... and regardless of someone's narrow experience above, many smaller-volume commercial hardware companies distribute unsigned drivers) I have legally acquired on a legally licensed version of windows.... I won't run it. (Windows, that is.)
All that said, I'm about 99% sure there will be SOME way to disable it, but I haven't tried in the betas or RCs (And I gave up on getting RC2 to install under vmware, I finally got it to see the CD drive after booting from the CD, but it didn't see the hard drive. That was monday night and I haven't switched the drive to IDE to try again yet).
"And Vista isn't open source." And that is completely irrelevant. Windows has never been open source, but it is still just a platform, an operating system, that is used to run other software. and if it arbitrarily blocks much of the software I use from running, just because the developers haven't paid microsoft $500/year, I won't use windows.
Also for the price of the high-end PS3 you can by a Wii, an XBox 360 Core, and one game. And then you can sigh and wish you had bought a hard drive too.;)
So lets see if I'm understanding this right. Dude who sells DNS server software, is saying that an extra DNS query now and then is going to cause 'massive slowdowns'.
Maybe in user interaction. Perhaps, once IPv6 is used now and then, that second dns query will cause an extra 100 ms delay on top of the first 100 ms delay for the first dns query.. causing a human-noticeable slowdown after clicking a link.
This is a slowdown due to round trip times, not because of bandwidth or processing limits. More sequential round trips = more latency. Nothing new. And the second time you visit a given site? It's cached, no round trip at all. So yes, people might, maybe, kinda notice a difference.. on the first visit to a given website on a given reboot of their computer.
But I don't think an extra lookup will be a huge inconvenience even given the sorry state of ISP dns servers(Which, in my experience, aren't that bad unless they can't look up an address. Timeouts are are bad, mmkay? The correct response is nxdomain, not 'server did not respond' 'lets try the next!' 'server did not respond'.....
"The month then day format is much nicer though. Every try to sort a list of files that are similar but have a different date. Good luck sorting them nicely by that date."
Actually, neither m-d-y nor d-m-y are good for that. y-m-d is the simplest way to sort by date when you are naming files, that way they're all sorted by year first, then month, then day. d-m-y makes logical sense, but in america most people say/see august 2nd, 2006... so we get confused when we see 2-8-06.;P
"This is also where net neutrality could be an impediment to transitioning from broad to narrow-casting: companies that already have broadvideo will want to prioritize their narrowvideo transmissions over the IP portion of the line, but they might be restricted from doing so if their narrowvideo distribution company is considered a seperate company. Ever consider that problem with net neutrality as a law?"
I don't buy that. Nothing is forcing the phone companies to send 'narrowcasted' video over the same IP network as the internet traffic travels on.
"Net neutrality" is being spun as 500 things it isn't, and a few fundamentally different versions are being championed and panned.
The only "neutrality" we need, is that content delivered through the internet is treated equally, as long as it is generated/requested in good faith. Yes, that leaves a LOT of wiggle room, intentionally. That allows phone companies to block DoSes while forcing them to allow google/yahoo/whoever to keep using the internet as intended.
Even if that wiggle room is removed, it allows several things, 90% of which are things I already fully expect...
"Net neutrality" should really be called "internet neutrality", because noone is trying to tell them what they can do with their private network completely internally. I don't think any IPTV provider who provides TV over their own lines will be sending that TV over the public IP space - which means it is essentially a seperate network from the internet, even if it shares the same physical lines. Even if somehow a stupid law gets passed that requires all IP traffic, regardless of scope/origin/destination/etc to be treated equally.. What is stopping the phone companies from just talking to their set top box through MPLS instead of IP? If anyone should have MPLS experience, it's the major phone companies. The concern people have isn't forcing phone companies to give you all 45Mbit or 622Mbit of line bandwidth, it's forcing them to actually give you all of what they promised for what you want. Internet neutrality would be a way to make sure, that if you're paying for 45Mbit/s downstream, that you can use that 45Mbit, as long as the server you are connected to is capable of supplying 45Mbit to your ISP, etc... and not letting your ISP limit that bandwidth because google/yahoo/itunes/msn hasn't paid your specific ISP a bribe.
I have no issue with them prioritizing internal traffic however they want. As an example, if verizon runs 622Mbit of fiber connectivity to my house, and sells me 'fiber' TV(x-hundred channels) and 'fiber' internet(45+Mbit/s).. if they have put aside over 600 Mbit of their connectiivty aside for the 'fiber TV', so that I only have 22 Mbit of internet bandwidth, I don't NEED net neturality to sue them for false advertising.
But the problem didn't really exist publically before then, did it? In April, VMware and XenSource were both allegedly "fine" about the change. And if you read the current article, they're both still 'fine' and 'working' toward a 'good technical solution'.
Many guns WILL knock you on your back when you fire them, if you aren't in a proper stance to handle the recoil.
Those same guns, even if the shooter is standing and holding the gun properly, will very well knock someone backwards who wasn't ready to be hit by something like that.
Granted, most of those guns aren't handguns, but that doesn't mean there are no handguns like that(And this is why they're not guns that just anyone can pick up and shoot safely with no training)
BMP is a bad example, "bitmap" is less syllables, and I prefer saying bitmap than BMP.
SCSI is a GREAT example. how many people say "Ess See Ess Eye" instead of scuzzy? Who would think 'Skuzzy' refers to SCSI?:) That alone threw many people off back when SCSI was still popular for scanners and other home/"prosumer" devices.
Go try and defrag a windows drive with less than 20% free, it'll give you a warning.:)
Most modern filesystems do some amount of 'defrag' automatically over time. Windows XP w/ NTFS does this, I would bet HFS+ is designed to do this. Of course, if there isn't a lot of free space to play with, the automatic 'opportunistic' defrag has a lot less chance of moving a large file to a bit of contiguous free space. If you can manage it, don't fill your drives to the brim. It will hamper performance, and it will make defrags take MUCH longer if you seriously fragment your files.
The way I understand it, sometimes when you overwrite a file, instead of reusing the same blocks, the FS marks those as free and writes to some currently free blocks, 'defragging' that file.
I don't know about where you live, but where I live, pedestrians have the right of way, unless you're on a divided highway. That doesn't mean I like people expecting me to SLAM ON THE BRAKES to not hit them - but legally, they can almost get away with it (I might get criminal charges, but I bet I can make back the money with the civil suit.)
How exactly do cars enforce the speed rating on your tires?
They may enforce the speed rating of the tires the car is sold with, but every tire change you're likely to change the rating. I've never heard of the tire shop going in and changing a setting.
For the record, my old Altima was governed to about 120(So I'm told. I never got it that high), but I had it well over the 80mph speed rating of the tires I had at the time. (Yes, I was young.:P)
Overall, I'm fine with that. I'm actually used to that behavoir - I use scriptblock for firefox at home, and flashblock at work. I LIKE not seeing active content when I don't want to.
I do NOT look forward to the calls I get the day after we deploy this patch at work though.. "My internet doesn't work!".
Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking,
Bull. It was well on its way to being entrenched with or without their help.
PCI Express communications technology
Pfffft. 3gio has been in the works for a LONG time, and intel was the major pusher.
and 64-bit extensions to Intel's x86 line of processors.
Ok, I'll give them this one. Without dell saying 'screw you intel, if you don't at least feature match AMD, we might actually start buying from them!' intel would have dragged its feet on that another year or two.
Hopefully those links will still work when my jsessionid expires, but removing it from the links wasn't working. (There were other addresses/phone #s that showed up in a lot of registrars, but that one is very easy to spot going down the list)
I think it means that if you rely on britannica for something you're submitting to your school, and you're wrong(But so was britannica), you'll probably be off the hook.;)
Assuming you're not in an institute of higher learning, that is.
Mod chips will always be legal and legitimate, because:
You own the hardware. End of story. Mod chips that allow you to play pirated games may eventually be illegal, but modding hardware will always be legal(As long as geeks have any say about it).
It's been done, in a (rather good, in my opinion) trilogy of books. Officially, the books are 'official' parts of the storyline, but noone at lucasfilm cares enough to keep them from contradicting eachother, or to keep the movie from contradicting any of the books(Like the one that explicitly gives you Boba Fett's back-story, which doesn't match the movies...)
Actually, I very specifically remember a few In Living Color skits making fun of sports fans.
Between "Men on.." sports and the "Da Bearrrrrs" and "Da Buuuulls" fat chicago fans they made fun of(and a couple less funny ones), I think they made fun of sports fans a decent bit too.:P
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What drivers are still kernel mode?
Is the pcap driver used by ethereal/wireshark going to need to be in kernel mode or user mode?
What about my Alcohol 120% imagedrive(Though I imagine alcohol soft can afford $500/year). What about the network tun/tap driver coLinux used for network communication?
As long as I can still do everything I want to do on my computer, I'll be ok with it.
Well, mostly ok, except that sony's next rootkit will look like it belongs there.
There is one good thing about the versign, et al. CA's, and it is only usable in a certain situation, and it is definately still abusable.
But, essentially, supposedly, verisign will only give a cert for somewhere.com to the person who OWNS somewhere.com.(Of course, if the owner sells the domain, they still have a valid cert for that domain until it expires, unless verisign publishes a proper revocation cert). This is of course, only good if the user-agent checks the domain listed in the cert vs. the domain presenting the cert. And then you check the CA vs. the known good list of CA certs and you know that 'one of these big companies has verified that the person this cert was given to does own the domain handing out this cert'. It doesn't mean anything more than that, but that alone is a big difference from "Gee, I have no way of knowing if I am connected to my Bank's website, or some random asshat's".
"If someone really wants to build one of the things you mention then they'll pay the frieght."
I think you are missing the point of hobbyist, enthusiast, and open source development.
I agree that in a corporate environment(And really any security-conscious environment) that driver signing is a Good Thing(TM).
However: I think it should be CONFIGURABLE, even if the option to disable it is a PITA and has to be done at install time(Of the os?), I want to be able to configure it so I can run the software I want to run, not the software microsoft wants me to run. If I can't run the software(and hardware... and regardless of someone's narrow experience above, many smaller-volume commercial hardware companies distribute unsigned drivers) I have legally acquired on a legally licensed version of windows.... I won't run it. (Windows, that is.)
All that said, I'm about 99% sure there will be SOME way to disable it, but I haven't tried in the betas or RCs (And I gave up on getting RC2 to install under vmware, I finally got it to see the CD drive after booting from the CD, but it didn't see the hard drive. That was monday night and I haven't switched the drive to IDE to try again yet).
"And Vista isn't open source."
And that is completely irrelevant. Windows has never been open source, but it is still just a platform, an operating system, that is used to run other software. and if it arbitrarily blocks much of the software I use from running, just because the developers haven't paid microsoft $500/year, I won't use windows.
Also for the price of the high-end PS3 you can by a Wii, an XBox 360 Core, and one game. ;)
And then you can sigh and wish you had bought a hard drive too.
So lets see if I'm understanding this right. Dude who sells DNS server software, is saying that an extra DNS query now and then is going to cause 'massive slowdowns'.
Maybe in user interaction. Perhaps, once IPv6 is used now and then, that second dns query will cause an extra 100 ms delay on top of the first 100 ms delay for the first dns query.. causing a human-noticeable slowdown after clicking a link.
This is a slowdown due to round trip times, not because of bandwidth or processing limits. More sequential round trips = more latency. Nothing new. And the second time you visit a given site? It's cached, no round trip at all. So yes, people might, maybe, kinda notice a difference.. on the first visit to a given website on a given reboot of their computer.
But I don't think an extra lookup will be a huge inconvenience even given the sorry state of ISP dns servers(Which, in my experience, aren't that bad unless they can't look up an address. Timeouts are are bad, mmkay? The correct response is nxdomain, not 'server did not respond' 'lets try the next!' 'server did not respond'.....
You had me going until you mentioned MTV.
;)
I don't think MTV "Gets" anyone, let alone people who watch TV.
"Instead we treat everyone like morons because SOMEONE among them is bound to be."
I debate how many ARE morons.. but I take your point, and I agree with it.
Most of these abstractions and metaphors are made with good intentions, but they often do as much(if not more) harm as good.
"The month then day format is much nicer though. Every try to sort a list of files that are similar but have a different date. Good luck sorting them nicely by that date."
;P
Actually, neither m-d-y nor d-m-y are good for that. y-m-d is the simplest way to sort by date when you are naming files, that way they're all sorted by year first, then month, then day. d-m-y makes logical sense, but in america most people say/see august 2nd, 2006... so we get confused when we see 2-8-06.
"This is also where net neutrality could be an impediment to transitioning from broad to narrow-casting: companies that already have broadvideo will want to prioritize their narrowvideo transmissions over the IP portion of the line, but they might be restricted from doing so if their narrowvideo distribution company is considered a seperate company. Ever consider that problem with net neutrality as a law?"
I don't buy that. Nothing is forcing the phone companies to send 'narrowcasted' video over the same IP network as the internet traffic travels on.
"Net neutrality" is being spun as 500 things it isn't, and a few fundamentally different versions are being championed and panned.
The only "neutrality" we need, is that content delivered through the internet is treated equally, as long as it is generated/requested in good faith. Yes, that leaves a LOT of wiggle room, intentionally. That allows phone companies to block DoSes while forcing them to allow google/yahoo/whoever to keep using the internet as intended.
Even if that wiggle room is removed, it allows several things, 90% of which are things I already fully expect...
"Net neutrality" should really be called "internet neutrality", because noone is trying to tell them what they can do with their private network completely internally. I don't think any IPTV provider who provides TV over their own lines will be sending that TV over the public IP space - which means it is essentially a seperate network from the internet, even if it shares the same physical lines. Even if somehow a stupid law gets passed that requires all IP traffic, regardless of scope/origin/destination/etc to be treated equally.. What is stopping the phone companies from just talking to their set top box through MPLS instead of IP? If anyone should have MPLS experience, it's the major phone companies. The concern people have isn't forcing phone companies to give you all 45Mbit or 622Mbit of line bandwidth, it's forcing them to actually give you all of what they promised for what you want. Internet neutrality would be a way to make sure, that if you're paying for 45Mbit/s downstream, that you can use that 45Mbit, as long as the server you are connected to is capable of supplying 45Mbit to your ISP, etc... and not letting your ISP limit that bandwidth because google/yahoo/itunes/msn hasn't paid your specific ISP a bribe.
I have no issue with them prioritizing internal traffic however they want. As an example, if verizon runs 622Mbit of fiber connectivity to my house, and sells me 'fiber' TV(x-hundred channels) and 'fiber' internet(45+Mbit/s).. if they have put aside over 600 Mbit of their connectiivty aside for the 'fiber TV', so that I only have 22 Mbit of internet bandwidth, I don't NEED net neturality to sue them for false advertising.
But the problem didn't really exist publically before then, did it? In April, VMware and XenSource were both allegedly "fine" about the change.
And if you read the current article, they're both still 'fine' and 'working' toward a 'good technical solution'.
That is a very simplified view.
Many guns WILL knock you on your back when you fire them, if you aren't in a proper stance to handle the recoil.
Those same guns, even if the shooter is standing and holding the gun properly, will very well knock someone backwards who wasn't ready to be hit by something like that.
Granted, most of those guns aren't handguns, but that doesn't mean there are no handguns like that(And this is why they're not guns that just anyone can pick up and shoot safely with no training)
"No, you can copy the door's design and then make one of your own just like it. ANd the barn's owner will be just fine with that."
And they might even help you with the tough parts!
BMP is a bad example, "bitmap" is less syllables, and I prefer saying bitmap than BMP.
:) That alone threw many people off back when SCSI was still popular for scanners and other home/"prosumer" devices.
SCSI is a GREAT example. how many people say "Ess See Ess Eye" instead of scuzzy? Who would think 'Skuzzy' refers to SCSI?
Go try and defrag a windows drive with less than 20% free, it'll give you a warning. :)
Most modern filesystems do some amount of 'defrag' automatically over time. Windows XP w/ NTFS does this, I would bet HFS+ is designed to do this. Of course, if there isn't a lot of free space to play with, the automatic 'opportunistic' defrag has a lot less chance of moving a large file to a bit of contiguous free space. If you can manage it, don't fill your drives to the brim. It will hamper performance, and it will make defrags take MUCH longer if you seriously fragment your files.
The way I understand it, sometimes when you overwrite a file, instead of reusing the same blocks, the FS marks those as free and writes to some currently free blocks, 'defragging' that file.
I don't know about where you live, but where I live, pedestrians have the right of way, unless you're on a divided highway. That doesn't mean I like people expecting me to SLAM ON THE BRAKES to not hit them - but legally, they can almost get away with it (I might get criminal charges, but I bet I can make back the money with the civil suit.)
How exactly do cars enforce the speed rating on your tires?
:P)
They may enforce the speed rating of the tires the car is sold with, but every tire change you're likely to change the rating. I've never heard of the tire shop going in and changing a setting.
For the record, my old Altima was governed to about 120(So I'm told. I never got it that high), but I had it well over the 80mph speed rating of the tires I had at the time. (Yes, I was young.
Overall, I'm fine with that. I'm actually used to that behavoir - I use scriptblock for firefox at home, and flashblock at work. I LIKE not seeing active content when I don't want to.
I do NOT look forward to the calls I get the day after we deploy this patch at work though.. "My internet doesn't work!".
Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking,
Bull. It was well on its way to being entrenched with or without their help.
PCI Express communications technology
Pfffft. 3gio has been in the works for a LONG time, and intel was the major pusher.
and 64-bit extensions to Intel's x86 line of processors.
Ok, I'll give them this one. Without dell saying 'screw you intel, if you don't at least feature match AMD, we might actually start buying from them!' intel would have dragged its feet on that another year or two.
Here is the list of .eu accredited registrars:
Registrars
And here are a few entries, cherry picked from the list (I went down the list until I saw a lot of "United States" registrars listed together, and looked at many of them.
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
One Penn Plaza, #6177
Hopefully those links will still work when my jsessionid expires, but removing it from the links wasn't working. (There were other addresses/phone #s that showed up in a lot of registrars, but that one is very easy to spot going down the list)
I think it means that if you rely on britannica for something you're submitting to your school, and you're wrong(But so was britannica), you'll probably be off the hook. ;)
Assuming you're not in an institute of higher learning, that is.
Mod chips will always be legal and legitimate, because:
You own the hardware. End of story. Mod chips that allow you to play pirated games may eventually be illegal, but modding hardware will always be legal(As long as geeks have any say about it).
It's been done, in a (rather good, in my opinion) trilogy of books. Officially, the books are 'official' parts of the storyline, but noone at lucasfilm cares enough to keep them from contradicting eachother, or to keep the movie from contradicting any of the books(Like the one that explicitly gives you Boba Fett's back-story, which doesn't match the movies...)
Cheap PSUs support it because they are banned in the EU now if they don't support it.
Most cheap ones use the less good method he referred to(Often called 'passive' vs. 'active' PFC, in PSU literature.)
Actually, I very specifically remember a few In Living Color skits making fun of sports fans.
:P
Between "Men on.." sports and the "Da Bearrrrrs" and "Da Buuuulls" fat chicago fans they made fun of(and a couple less funny ones), I think they made fun of sports fans a decent bit too.
"Quantum Software Works Better Before Writing the Code Than After Writing the Code".
Well, to be fair, that's true about all software.