The current price on the levy is 59 cents per CD. I go down to best buy and they have spindles of CD's that come out to 40 cents per CD. (They had a sale recently when it was $10 for 40 CD's). I've yet to find a spindle of CD's that is more than 60 cents per disc which would seem to be the give away price if the CD tax was actually being enforced.
Windows netbios will share your mac address on the net, simply use
nbtstat -a ipaddress
On any unfirewalled Windows system. (And then "net send ipaddress get a firewall!")
Use CSS and HTML!
So many pages out there use flash when its not required (Some people might even say its never required), a bad examples of flash www.shaw.ca, you get to wait as the stupid flash scroll slowly shows you the text in the boxes.
Is the person who ran the unsecured AP in any way liable for what was done from his connection?
This case could be used as further proof that if an illegal attack originated from your internet connection it doesn't provide reliable proof that you actually did it (Or that any authorized users at that connection for that matter).
Actually is an Intrustion prevention system, not only does it identify the attack/virus it also blocks it.
I'm waiting to see a nice open source/free IDS that would allow per protocol specifications so you could not only catch known viruses/exploits but also put in checks based on the protocol. For example you have an ftp server, you load up the ftp protocol module and it knows that the user field should be followed by a username, but that the username should be less than say 256 characters, so if someones tries to exploit some buffer overflow in the username for your ftp server the system would block it before it even got to the server. Also you could use them to remove identification information, so your service banner that identifies what is being run would be stripped for anything behind your IPS.
If a remote-control Trojan is on the PC, then the prosecution would have to prove that:
* The computer's owner is 133t enough to hack into a remote system, but clueless enough to allow a Trojan free rein on his own.
* Or, the computer's owner in fact installed the Trojan program on his PC for the explicit purpose of throwing off investigators.
Really you tell me how to detect a kernel level trojan on a windows box besides running your own seperate intrusion detection system that knows what way the trojan works. (So if its an unknown one you aint gonna find it). And if the person removes the trojan and overwrites itself you aint gonna find any evidence of it
Book 6 (Second half of ROTK) would be difficult for the movie, as it's after the climax. I will be very happy to see that part covered a bit more in the extended edition DVD.
Well first off I'm not sure why you would think the hard drive interface would have any impact on the reliability of the hard drive. Do you think SCSI drives require different iron for the plates? Are the heads different? I'd wager no, the difference would be in the circuit board that handles the logic for the hard drive, which should not have an impact on hard drive life.
If you really want a 5 year warranty for an ide hard drive you can always buy a Maxtor raptor, but really after 5 years in a raid configuration you might as well have replaced the hard drives already. You will be able to get way more performance and space at that time.
"Computer, End program!"
"Computer!"
"Computer!?"
"End this simulation, NOW!"..Crap, I'm still here.
Try "Arch", hey it worked for professor Moriarity.
I got that beat, doing support for the Imac at an ISP. Oh crap your 56k modem is incompatible with our modems...but all you need is the firmware update. Ok so you'll need to find another computer that can connect to the net and then bring over the update on a floppy, oh wait you don't have a floppy! Uh do you know anyone with a cdburner? (very rare at the time) ok crap...uh call Apple!
After seeing the benchmarks for the G5's and AMD opterons I'm not really blown away by the speed, in most cases they are slower than todays 32 bit cpus. While the programs they are running are mostly 32 bit, I still don't see the need to upgrade unless you really need to have more memory (Ie CAD people and real big servers). It will be weird to keep the same cpu for 2 years...
Googles listing of links is the subject of much debate amoung webmasters, but it is well known that is doesnt list all the links. A simple query on marketleap.com turned up the following:
Links to: www.msn.com alltheweb.com 2,792,044 AltaVista 514,819 google 51 HotBot/Inktomi 338,827 MSN 338,818
I should also point out www.msn.com shows 72,100 pages that contain the term www.msn.com
If thats 8 mega pixel at 24 bit color thats gonna be 22.8 mb per picture (non compressed)! I don't think I need my pictures to be THAT high quality (or large)
The choice is not out of 3, its out of 2, monty will always pick an bad door (no matter what door you pick) leaving you with 2 doors, your odds are 1/2 not 1/3.
You don't know what door the prize is behind, the game show host revealing one of the doors (That doesnt have the prize) doesnt change the fact that your choice still has the same chance as any other door (except the one revealed).
Why is it that the patent office approves any obvious idea that has existed in the real world for a long time as something new if a computer is involved?
You also become a distribution source for illegal downloading of movies, music and more, which makes you just as responsible if you had downloaded the movie yourself.
So the riaa should really sue the riaa since they were offering songs for download when their website got broken into?
I love his misuse of big O notation. Olog(n) faster? What by the size of the picture? No because If you change a constant value (bits per pixel) it will have a constant, not logorithmic effect on the size.
Image has 1000 pixels with 32 bit colors per pixel no compression:
Size = 1000x32bits = 32000 bits.
Image has 1000 pixels with 2 bits of color per pixel (although 8 bit greyscale would be better) = 2000 bits.
Now it seems a full color image is 16x large than the bw one, if you change the number of pixels the savings in size will be constant.
Well smart guy, if you bought a house and you were forced to buy an extra foundation that you didn't want and planned to rip up anyway, then you WOULD call it the foundation tax!
Just like with 802.11b you might as well assume the wireless part is insecure and use something like an SSL pipe to actually connect the user to the net.
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Has anyone paid this levy yet?
The current price on the levy is 59 cents per CD. I go down to best buy and they have spindles of CD's that come out to 40 cents per CD. (They had a sale recently when it was $10 for 40 CD's). I've yet to find a spindle of CD's that is more than 60 cents per disc which would seem to be the give away price if the CD tax was actually being enforced.
Windows netbios will share your mac address on the net, simply use nbtstat -a ipaddress On any unfirewalled Windows system. (And then "net send ipaddress get a firewall!")
Use CSS and HTML! So many pages out there use flash when its not required (Some people might even say its never required), a bad examples of flash www.shaw.ca, you get to wait as the stupid flash scroll slowly shows you the text in the boxes.
Is the person who ran the unsecured AP in any way liable for what was done from his connection?
This case could be used as further proof that if an illegal attack originated from your internet connection it doesn't provide reliable proof that you actually did it (Or that any authorized users at that connection for that matter).
Actually is an Intrustion prevention system, not only does it identify the attack/virus it also blocks it.
I'm waiting to see a nice open source/free IDS that would allow per protocol specifications so you could not only catch known viruses/exploits but also put in checks based on the protocol. For example you have an ftp server, you load up the ftp protocol module and it knows that the user field should be followed by a username, but that the username should be less than say 256 characters, so if someones tries to exploit some buffer overflow in the username for your ftp server the system would block it before it even got to the server. Also you could use them to remove identification information, so your service banner that identifies what is being run would be stripped for anything behind your IPS.
If a remote-control Trojan is on the PC, then the prosecution would have to prove that:
* The computer's owner is 133t enough to hack into a remote system, but clueless enough to allow a Trojan free rein on his own.
* Or, the computer's owner in fact installed the Trojan program on his PC for the explicit purpose of throwing off investigators.
Really you tell me how to detect a kernel level trojan on a windows box besides running your own seperate intrusion detection system that knows what way the trojan works. (So if its an unknown one you aint gonna find it). And if the person removes the trojan and overwrites itself you aint gonna find any evidence of it
Book 6 (Second half of ROTK) would be difficult for the movie, as it's after the climax. I will be very happy to see that part covered a bit more in the extended edition DVD.
Well first off I'm not sure why you would think the hard drive interface would have any impact on the reliability of the hard drive. Do you think SCSI drives require different iron for the plates? Are the heads different? I'd wager no, the difference would be in the circuit board that handles the logic for the hard drive, which should not have an impact on hard drive life.
If you really want a 5 year warranty for an ide hard drive you can always buy a Maxtor raptor, but really after 5 years in a raid configuration you might as well have replaced the hard drives already. You will be able to get way more performance and space at that time.
"Computer, End program!" "Computer!" "Computer!?" "End this simulation, NOW!" ..Crap, I'm still here.
Try "Arch", hey it worked for professor Moriarity.
I got that beat, doing support for the Imac at an ISP. Oh crap your 56k modem is incompatible with our modems...but all you need is the firmware update. Ok so you'll need to find another computer that can connect to the net and then bring over the update on a floppy, oh wait you don't have a floppy! Uh do you know anyone with a cdburner? (very rare at the time) ok crap...uh call Apple!
You could just record the mouse movements with some macro software and then play it back whenever it asks for their signature.
After seeing the benchmarks for the G5's and AMD opterons I'm not really blown away by the speed, in most cases they are slower than todays 32 bit cpus. While the programs they are running are mostly 32 bit, I still don't see the need to upgrade unless you really need to have more memory (Ie CAD people and real big servers). It will be weird to keep the same cpu for 2 years...
Googles listing of links is the subject of much debate amoung webmasters, but it is well known that is doesnt list all the links. A simple query on marketleap.com turned up the following:
Links to:
www.msn.com
alltheweb.com 2,792,044
AltaVista 514,819
google 51
HotBot/Inktomi 338,827
MSN 338,818
I should also point out www.msn.com shows 72,100 pages that contain the term www.msn.com
If thats 8 mega pixel at 24 bit color thats gonna be 22.8 mb per picture (non compressed)! I don't think I need my pictures to be THAT high quality (or large)
The choice is not out of 3, its out of 2, monty will always pick an bad door (no matter what door you pick) leaving you with 2 doors, your odds are 1/2 not 1/3.
Changing your choice makes no difference!
You don't know what door the prize is behind, the game show host revealing one of the doors (That doesnt have the prize) doesnt change the fact that your choice still has the same chance as any other door (except the one revealed).
Why is it that the patent office approves any obvious idea that has existed in the real world for a long time as something new if a computer is involved?
You also become a distribution source for illegal downloading of movies, music and more, which makes you just as responsible if you had downloaded the movie yourself.
So the riaa should really sue the riaa since they were offering songs for download when their website got broken into?
Is that they take up to two months to update their search results...last Google Dance was in June
If you want to do batch burns, get a Composer Max, the thing burns 400 CDs(and even DVDS) without user interaction!
I love his misuse of big O notation. Olog(n) faster? What by the size of the picture? No because If you change a constant value (bits per pixel) it will have a constant, not logorithmic effect on the size.
Image has 1000 pixels with 32 bit colors per pixel no compression: Size = 1000x32bits = 32000 bits.
Image has 1000 pixels with 2 bits of color per pixel (although 8 bit greyscale would be better) = 2000 bits.
Now it seems a full color image is 16x large than the bw one, if you change the number of pixels the savings in size will be constant.
So it's like an Xbox (Really a PC)but you have to download all yours games...
Well smart guy, if you bought a house and you were forced to buy an extra foundation that you didn't want and planned to rip up anyway, then you WOULD call it the foundation tax!
No, you would call that being stupid.
Just like with 802.11b you might as well assume the wireless part is insecure and use something like an SSL pipe to actually connect the user to the net.
3dmark released a patch today that avoids nvidias cheating in their benchmark, so all the reviews that used 3dmark need to rerun their tests.