Sniff-wise, how about connecting to the server on a completely open port, that upon the port being connected to, immediately send info then closes the connection. This info is the DSA info, verify that there has been no swap-arounds. Knocking then occurs to open port 22, and client connects as normal. I can't see any reason why ports 40000-50000 could not be used, I can't think of any game or app that uses this range. There are 65536 ports right? That's plenty... As earlier in thread, 10000 ** 10 is a hell of a big number! In fact, why not make it 100 knocks, which although slow, has no chance of being hacked, as each port connect takes what, 1/100th of a second? 1 second extra to log-in... Big deal! And yeah, carry around the DSA key and the latest knock sequence on a USB Memory Stick. And at the end of every connect, a new sequence is generated and sent to the stick... I think it'd be really safe, and if I'm right, it'll be resistant to DoS as well, won't it?
Am I right in thinking that BTX is also Intel sponsored? I thought Intel machines are supposed to run cooler anyway, and that AMD although gave more bang per buck, also ran hotter?
Maybe I'm just imagining things... I run a 1700+ XP and never complained. I can run all the latest games, and nothing at all runs slow, and I regularly use much faster machines elsewhere... I can't see an appreciable difference. 200-450MHz I could understand, but what's the difference between 1.47GHz and 3GHz? Not a lot as far as I can tell... All seems to be about video cards now... Even 512MB RAM seems enough. Thoughts?
I like Assembly better as it's demo-centric still, as opposed to the Gathering which is going the way of TheParty. Hoping to get a UK Demo Party up soon-ish.
I know it's about cooling... WHY DO WE NEED COOLING? Remember, only about 10 years ago, all chips we just that - chips. They didn't even have heatsinks some of them. I remember having a Pentium that first had a fan on it... Now everyone is expected to have a massive 6lb copper heatsink with water-cooling, a giant pump, a fan that would rival wind farms, and to top it all - they require ridiculous amounts of power!
Who bets this will be the new marketing feature to "power users"? Why don't we just stick with ATX? It's suited us fine for years, computers run too hot these days, maybe we ought to concentrate on stability and quality rather than quantity and TLA's...
Word on the street is that Intel invented the Pentium brand as you can't copyright/trademark a number, and the logical succesor to the 486 is the 586 - hence PENT-ium. Well, isn't that trademarkable? Otherwise, surely the Nuclear research facilities at CERN etc would have a valid preexistence case? Errr... I'm inventing the new Unium chip... With new salsa dip...
There used to be a cluster fs for windows called Mango - but that's now obsolete thanks to Win2003, which clusters. But Linux can't access that as far as I know. So there is a middleman - Coda. Coda is a clustered file system for use with WinNt/Win95/Linux and is already in the kernel as far as I know. Just clearing up the hole that appears to be at the bottom of the article (really... it's been in since 2.4!)
OO doesn't have bugs, it has features... No wait, I'm getting confused... Microsoft DOESN'T own a patent on office apps. Shame really, I was up for some Microsoft bashing then. We're concentrating too much on Darl and not enough on Bill! It's Darl's evil plan!
Right, how about... Everyone on slashdot donates 20GBP ($30) to my PayPal account, then I'll pay the Russians to fly me to the moon (off to mars and jupiter... no wait... stop it...) so I can make a little base with loads of solar panels. The solar panels will store electricity in a big battery, and some of the energy heats up the rocks releasing Helium-3. Then I use more energy to cool it down so I can bottle it... Then I get it to throw it Earthwards (it has got strong arms) and I get to sell it to all the major countries... Then i pay slashdotters $1000 each back! That's a massive 30 times on your investment! And I get a nice sum too;) [Assuming 1 million Slashdot users... Just for nice figures]
Who's with me? First person to donate gets to come along with me! Make that first girl;) Hah hah!
Tell you, what, i made one for my Uni wall... Just uploaded it to my website (I love the smell of slashdot in the morning...) if you fancy a peek. It's at http://www.walster.org/Calendar.pdf
Just one thing, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you like it, either send a donation to a local charity that is worth giving to, like in the UK, we have the British Heart Foundation. Either that or gimme loads of paypal donations;)
Feedback to bfg [at] amigascne [dot [org]. Thanks! Enjoy!
Imagine World War 3 being started over the fact they use Emacs... You'd have to arrest RMS for supplying a weapon of mass destruction... Hang on, why did I not think of this earlier????;)
About Desktop Linux... The main reason I don't use Linux as MY Desktop OS, is that it doesn't have any decent WM's... Fluxbox is great, it's tiny, but just not practical for the average user. Gnome is too much like Mac OS 8/9 at default (yes, I know it's changing...) and KDE... Well, it's like Windows, but just not quite up to scratch for people like my dad... So... Is there a MacOSX WM out there? MacOSX it sooo user friendly, so nice to use, and best of all, it'd be easy to emulate. After all, I only want the front end, not the entire OS ported to x86...
People talk about charging, and most people write it off... But what if we did it slightly differently. You pay a worldwide organisation a small fee (say GBP1/$1) per email address you want registered, and the profits go to charity. They then authenticate that email address for all emails. If it turns out spam is being sent from that address, the account is terminated/suspended. SPAM would still be a problem, yes, but only to a lesser extent, and those spammers who don't get registered addresses, well, they go straight to the purge button...
It could also work on small systems, where you might not want to pay this organisation - you simply tell all your friends to add your email address to their allow list. Sure, you can't jsut send emails then, but it'd be a way around. What's stopping me (or someone who might want to start this off) from doing this? Non-profit, completely, probably with the profits going to some neutral cause (like a disaster fund) rather than some evil pharmaceutacal firm, "researching" cancer drugs. But that's for another time...
Seriously, could it work? BTW, I'm guessing I just released that idea into the public domain yeah? Is there such thing as a GPL for ideas? I'd have dozens...
Seems like single sales are still plummeting due to the "Napster effect" as people still call it. But album sales in the UK.. Hang on, they've INCREASED 7% in the past year... That can't be right? Hang on, people weren't being exposed to more music and hence buying more were they? Surely not...
Seems like copy-protection is more effort than it's worth. It's GOING to be copied somewhere, so why bother protecting it? Just put a nice label in it saying "Support the artist, get your friends to buy this too!". Of course, the artist gets less than 10% usually, but still...
hang on... 0.02MPH... How long would that take... Can't take too long... Maybe we ought to encourage George Bush to invade Mars, as they have WMD and as an aside, they can go locate it for us! Oh wait, you DON'T care about the British...
Sorry, run that by me again... PAL isn't that great... because you can see compression artifacts on digital TV? Right... So with higher resolution, you're going to get LESS compression artifacts??? The time I see a 1024x768 JPEG of size x compared to a JPEG of size 640x480 of same size x, and the 1024 looks BETTER... Is the day that someone's been cheating...
And yes, i agree, being a techie spoils not just the quality of the movie, but the movie itself... Oooh! I know this... This is UNIX!!! [cue flashy amazing graphics and whizzy sounds] (Jurassic Park)
You've been watching too much Waynes World. Either that or I have...
And these days, Champagne is for people who want to look exclusive and upper class, when truth be told, actually they're tosspots;) Red wine or real ale anyday...
Such a shame that most will play lower quality/higher frame rate NTSC. NTSC really does suck. I jest ye not, I put an NTSC DVD and a PAL DVD in two machines and roughly synced them, and even on a 24" TV, sitting at a normal distance, I could tell the quality difference. Just imagine what the TV signal difference will be. No wonder when I watch Baseball on five, they're always advocating "HDTV" because their pictures are awful! We don't need it, obviously, being British;) We had it the right way round from the start...
To the best of my knowledge, the RIAA seriously considered removing Region Coding, something to do with either legal advisement or public pressure. If I find the article I read, I'll post it.
OGG is not an academic project. It really is very efficient and very nice sounding, far better than WMA or MP3. I admit, I have not tried AAC. And DRM may be coming, but it sure as hell isn't going to stay. Look at Region Coding... It's being phased out as people realise that it is in fact a way for companies to weasle money out of people when they could in fact buy the same product, from the same manufacturer and artist, several months earlier in the case of the UK, and at a lesser cost. Needless to say, DRM will be a bad idea, as it restricts not only where the user may use the data, but when, and also from which agent they purchase it - they will HAVE to get an authorised version from the publisher of the music, and have to get permission to copy it to a CD, or their iPOD or the tape for their antiquated car stereo (yeah, I still have a tape deck). I will go out of my way to buy a higher quality CD rather than a rubbish quality MP3 off the internet. 128Kbps MP3's really are awful if you have spent more than a fiver on your speakers. 192Kbps OGG (equiv to at least 256Kbit MP3, or maybe more) preserves almost everything, and until companies get real and start providing lossless music downloads, I'm sticking to buying CD's. Sure, I may still download music, but as I think the radio is awful quality, and the adverts are sheer annoying waffle, I feel good knowing that by downloading (I admit, pirating) these tracks, I am exposing myself to their music, and consequently may purchase more.
Take four star mary, I got interested in them back in 2000. I listened to one of their tracks that came on a compilation album. I liked it, so I downloaded a track or two more. Still, I liked it, but wasn't happy with the quality. Knowing they are a small time band, I went out and bought an album. I now own both the albums, and some merchandise, and have seen them live. I'm sure this rings true with other too. Downloading one or two tracks doesn't harm the artist or the industry, downloading an entire album when you like their music and could have afforded buying the CD DOES. It's down to the guilt of the involved party on whether they should contribute or not.
It's all about what people deserve, and if the recording (and indeed, movie) industry want to force us to pay through the nose for it all, they're going to have egg all over their collective faces when users start looking for alternatives. iMusic only works because it's cheaper than buying CD's, and doesn't force you to commit to one format - Microsofts way would more than likely commit to WMA.
To go back to my original point, with the right word of mouth techniques, OGG could go far. Really far, especially as it can't be stifled like WMA. You know what I mean, and you know it makes sense. It's not bad business, it's good business. Trust your customer, and they're more likely to make a return visit!
Yep, sounds about right. Remember Chuck Yeager? Yup, he was the first to fly faster than the speed of sound. Well, that's because the british were a few months off doing it, and they shared their data with the US. The US never made up their end of the deal, and a few months later... They flew. With our design. Bastards. Ah well, at least we can say "You're a bunch of fools" and live in ignorance/bliss.
No, you don't have to be English, you can get an honourary knighthood. And Tim Berners-Lee IS English. And ARPA didn't invent the world-wide-web. Just the internet (www implies HTTP and HTML)
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Sniff-wise, how about connecting to the server on a completely open port, that upon the port being connected to, immediately send info then closes the connection. This info is the DSA info, verify that there has been no swap-arounds. Knocking then occurs to open port 22, and client connects as normal. I can't see any reason why ports 40000-50000 could not be used, I can't think of any game or app that uses this range. There are 65536 ports right? That's plenty... As earlier in thread, 10000 ** 10 is a hell of a big number! In fact, why not make it 100 knocks, which although slow, has no chance of being hacked, as each port connect takes what, 1/100th of a second? 1 second extra to log-in... Big deal! And yeah, carry around the DSA key and the latest knock sequence on a USB Memory Stick. And at the end of every connect, a new sequence is generated and sent to the stick... I think it'd be really safe, and if I'm right, it'll be resistant to DoS as well, won't it?
Am I right in thinking that BTX is also Intel sponsored? I thought Intel machines are supposed to run cooler anyway, and that AMD although gave more bang per buck, also ran hotter?
Maybe I'm just imagining things... I run a 1700+ XP and never complained. I can run all the latest games, and nothing at all runs slow, and I regularly use much faster machines elsewhere... I can't see an appreciable difference. 200-450MHz I could understand, but what's the difference between 1.47GHz and 3GHz? Not a lot as far as I can tell... All seems to be about video cards now... Even 512MB RAM seems enough. Thoughts?
I like Assembly better as it's demo-centric still, as opposed to the Gathering which is going the way of TheParty. Hoping to get a UK Demo Party up soon-ish.
I know it's about cooling... WHY DO WE NEED COOLING? Remember, only about 10 years ago, all chips we just that - chips. They didn't even have heatsinks some of them. I remember having a Pentium that first had a fan on it... Now everyone is expected to have a massive 6lb copper heatsink with water-cooling, a giant pump, a fan that would rival wind farms, and to top it all - they require ridiculous amounts of power!
I'm 19... Yeah, I suppose I'm too old for this scene now ;)
Who bets this will be the new marketing feature to "power users"? Why don't we just stick with ATX? It's suited us fine for years, computers run too hot these days, maybe we ought to concentrate on stability and quality rather than quantity and TLA's...
Word on the street is that Intel invented the Pentium brand as you can't copyright/trademark a number, and the logical succesor to the 486 is the 586 - hence PENT-ium. Well, isn't that trademarkable? Otherwise, surely the Nuclear research facilities at CERN etc would have a valid preexistence case? Errr... I'm inventing the new Unium chip... With new salsa dip...
ping? PING? That's such a bad idea... They'll block ping... Use Opera (linux client available) and tell it to refresh every 5 seconds say...
There used to be a cluster fs for windows called Mango - but that's now obsolete thanks to Win2003, which clusters. But Linux can't access that as far as I know. So there is a middleman - Coda. Coda is a clustered file system for use with WinNt/Win95/Linux and is already in the kernel as far as I know. Just clearing up the hole that appears to be at the bottom of the article (really... it's been in since 2.4!)
OO doesn't have bugs, it has features... No wait, I'm getting confused... Microsoft DOESN'T own a patent on office apps. Shame really, I was up for some Microsoft bashing then. We're concentrating too much on Darl and not enough on Bill! It's Darl's evil plan!
[insanerant]
;) [Assuming 1 million Slashdot users... Just for nice figures]
;) Hah hah!
Right, how about... Everyone on slashdot donates 20GBP ($30) to my PayPal account, then I'll pay the Russians to fly me to the moon (off to mars and jupiter... no wait... stop it...) so I can make a little base with loads of solar panels. The solar panels will store electricity in a big battery, and some of the energy heats up the rocks releasing Helium-3. Then I use more energy to cool it down so I can bottle it... Then I get it to throw it Earthwards (it has got strong arms) and I get to sell it to all the major countries... Then i pay slashdotters $1000 each back! That's a massive 30 times on your investment! And I get a nice sum too
Who's with me? First person to donate gets to come along with me! Make that first girl
[/insanerant]
Tell you, what, i made one for my Uni wall... Just uploaded it to my website (I love the smell of slashdot in the morning...) if you fancy a peek. It's at http://www.walster.org/Calendar.pdf
;)
Just one thing, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you like it, either send a donation to a local charity that is worth giving to, like in the UK, we have the British Heart Foundation. Either that or gimme loads of paypal donations
Feedback to bfg [at] amigascne [dot [org].
Thanks! Enjoy!
Imagine World War 3 being started over the fact they use Emacs... You'd have to arrest RMS for supplying a weapon of mass destruction... Hang on, why did I not think of this earlier???? ;)
About Desktop Linux... The main reason I don't use Linux as MY Desktop OS, is that it doesn't have any decent WM's... Fluxbox is great, it's tiny, but just not practical for the average user. Gnome is too much like Mac OS 8/9 at default (yes, I know it's changing...) and KDE... Well, it's like Windows, but just not quite up to scratch for people like my dad... So... Is there a MacOSX WM out there? MacOSX it sooo user friendly, so nice to use, and best of all, it'd be easy to emulate. After all, I only want the front end, not the entire OS ported to x86...
People talk about charging, and most people write it off... But what if we did it slightly differently. You pay a worldwide organisation a small fee (say GBP1/$1) per email address you want registered, and the profits go to charity. They then authenticate that email address for all emails. If it turns out spam is being sent from that address, the account is terminated/suspended. SPAM would still be a problem, yes, but only to a lesser extent, and those spammers who don't get registered addresses, well, they go straight to the purge button...
It could also work on small systems, where you might not want to pay this organisation - you simply tell all your friends to add your email address to their allow list. Sure, you can't jsut send emails then, but it'd be a way around. What's stopping me (or someone who might want to start this off) from doing this? Non-profit, completely, probably with the profits going to some neutral cause (like a disaster fund) rather than some evil pharmaceutacal firm, "researching" cancer drugs. But that's for another time...
Seriously, could it work? BTW, I'm guessing I just released that idea into the public domain yeah? Is there such thing as a GPL for ideas? I'd have dozens...
Seems like single sales are still plummeting due to the "Napster effect" as people still call it. But album sales in the UK.. Hang on, they've INCREASED 7% in the past year... That can't be right? Hang on, people weren't being exposed to more music and hence buying more were they? Surely not...
Seems like copy-protection is more effort than it's worth. It's GOING to be copied somewhere, so why bother protecting it? Just put a nice label in it saying "Support the artist, get your friends to buy this too!". Of course, the artist gets less than 10% usually, but still...
When will NSV get it's feet off the ground? I've always wanted a Net TV Station publishing all manner of crap on my hard drive!
hang on... 0.02MPH... How long would that take... Can't take too long... Maybe we ought to encourage George Bush to invade Mars, as they have WMD and as an aside, they can go locate it for us! Oh wait, you DON'T care about the British...
Sorry, run that by me again... PAL isn't that great... because you can see compression artifacts on digital TV? Right... So with higher resolution, you're going to get LESS compression artifacts??? The time I see a 1024x768 JPEG of size x compared to a JPEG of size 640x480 of same size x, and the 1024 looks BETTER... Is the day that someone's been cheating...
And yes, i agree, being a techie spoils not just the quality of the movie, but the movie itself... Oooh! I know this... This is UNIX!!! [cue flashy amazing graphics and whizzy sounds] (Jurassic Park)
You've been watching too much Waynes World. Either that or I have...
;) Red wine or real ale anyday...
And these days, Champagne is for people who want to look exclusive and upper class, when truth be told, actually they're tosspots
Such a shame that most will play lower quality/higher frame rate NTSC. NTSC really does suck. I jest ye not, I put an NTSC DVD and a PAL DVD in two machines and roughly synced them, and even on a 24" TV, sitting at a normal distance, I could tell the quality difference. Just imagine what the TV signal difference will be. No wonder when I watch Baseball on five, they're always advocating "HDTV" because their pictures are awful! We don't need it, obviously, being British ;) We had it the right way round from the start...
To the best of my knowledge, the RIAA seriously considered removing Region Coding, something to do with either legal advisement or public pressure. If I find the article I read, I'll post it.
OGG is not an academic project. It really is very efficient and very nice sounding, far better than WMA or MP3. I admit, I have not tried AAC. And DRM may be coming, but it sure as hell isn't going to stay. Look at Region Coding... It's being phased out as people realise that it is in fact a way for companies to weasle money out of people when they could in fact buy the same product, from the same manufacturer and artist, several months earlier in the case of the UK, and at a lesser cost. Needless to say, DRM will be a bad idea, as it restricts not only where the user may use the data, but when, and also from which agent they purchase it - they will HAVE to get an authorised version from the publisher of the music, and have to get permission to copy it to a CD, or their iPOD or the tape for their antiquated car stereo (yeah, I still have a tape deck). I will go out of my way to buy a higher quality CD rather than a rubbish quality MP3 off the internet. 128Kbps MP3's really are awful if you have spent more than a fiver on your speakers. 192Kbps OGG (equiv to at least 256Kbit MP3, or maybe more) preserves almost everything, and until companies get real and start providing lossless music downloads, I'm sticking to buying CD's. Sure, I may still download music, but as I think the radio is awful quality, and the adverts are sheer annoying waffle, I feel good knowing that by downloading (I admit, pirating) these tracks, I am exposing myself to their music, and consequently may purchase more.
Take four star mary, I got interested in them back in 2000. I listened to one of their tracks that came on a compilation album. I liked it, so I downloaded a track or two more. Still, I liked it, but wasn't happy with the quality. Knowing they are a small time band, I went out and bought an album. I now own both the albums, and some merchandise, and have seen them live. I'm sure this rings true with other too. Downloading one or two tracks doesn't harm the artist or the industry, downloading an entire album when you like their music and could have afforded buying the CD DOES. It's down to the guilt of the involved party on whether they should contribute or not.
It's all about what people deserve, and if the recording (and indeed, movie) industry want to force us to pay through the nose for it all, they're going to have egg all over their collective faces when users start looking for alternatives. iMusic only works because it's cheaper than buying CD's, and doesn't force you to commit to one format - Microsofts way would more than likely commit to WMA.
To go back to my original point, with the right word of mouth techniques, OGG could go far. Really far, especially as it can't be stifled like WMA. You know what I mean, and you know it makes sense. It's not bad business, it's good business. Trust your customer, and they're more likely to make a return visit!
Yep, sounds about right. Remember Chuck Yeager? Yup, he was the first to fly faster than the speed of sound. Well, that's because the british were a few months off doing it, and they shared their data with the US. The US never made up their end of the deal, and a few months later... They flew. With our design. Bastards. Ah well, at least we can say "You're a bunch of fools" and live in ignorance/bliss.
No, you don't have to be English, you can get an honourary knighthood. And Tim Berners-Lee IS English. And ARPA didn't invent the world-wide-web. Just the internet (www implies HTTP and HTML)