When having discrete, 30GB matters (for doing backups and archives and stuff), you almost always end up sacrificing speed to access said media. But this format is a vast improvement.
Of course, we won't now how much these systems will cost in the near future; just adding more tape drives in parallel could be more affordable!
This is an important question... what else is there that we can do using Gecko et. al that breaks or goes beyond the HTTP/IMAP/FTP document request model?
Net whiteboards using SVG? Anyone?
Let's pretend I'm on linux...
on
Windows Rootkits
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Aha! I compromised a process running as root (for example). What shall I do now? I know, I'll insmod IHAX0REDUGOOD.so after dld'ng it from my xoom.com warez page. Oooh, now I can install zombieslaved and use IHAX0REDUGOOD to prevent anyone from seeing it.
So what about this is more difficult than windows? An API must exist for a driver to be loaded, therefore it can be exploited. The tool that interacts with a user installing a driver uses this API, the rootkit bypasses all possible interaction (and uses its priveledged position to hide its existance)
If you saw a person waving a few of the aforementioned red flags, it would warrant closer investigation of the claims then might normally be required, not dismissal.
Dogmatism is bad no matter how you slice it; the author of the 7 rules was aware of this.
While you are correct about the use of prime number and large composite factoring for the security of public key cryptography, that has nothing to do with the Riemann Hypothesis.
The RH will let mathematicians know certain things about prime numbers they already assume are true (but don't know yet). Some advanced composite numbering factoring algorithms (which are used to break PKI) make assumptions about number theoretical consequences of RH; they assume its true already.
So proving it won't make breaking PKC any easier. But it will let a few mathematicians caught in its grip move on to other Hilbert problems. ^_^
I have been using stuff like that in it's beta iterations for awhile now without problems. Just stay away from risque el-cheapo hardware and all is well.
Ext3 and ReiserFS are very good. LVM is a dream too. No shortcomings yet.
Also, look at PVFS. It's a weird hack of an idea, but it totally rocks on gigabit backbones. (Let's you multihome a volume of files across machines, load balancing by locality)
Never buy your servers from Dell. Where does your price advantage go then? I would stick with the Sun then; I am going to get better support for my OS from the hardware vendor in that case.
I would rather spec up one from parts + advanced server from parts, especially if I had to set it up myself anyway.
http://www.zrelsa.com/product/supermicro/P4QH8.h tm::salivating:: garrrgllle.... only $4000 with 4U rackmount. Add CPUs, RAM, U160 Seagates: $15000 easy.
Maybe we're not C2 now, but I don't think there's anything we can't do in Linux that you can in Solaris (except STREAMS, but that has questionable merits... there hasn't been a need in Linux really).
If you want an analogue to Trusted Solaris, there's always NSA SeLinux. But some people don't trust it.
The Great Hacker (later read: me) would dig up docs on VT10x escape sequence interpretation. Then I would look to see what that trimmed down file translates to in terms of screen manipulation code.
I would think to myself, does that series of actions even make sense? It probably wouldn't (seeing as it tends to crash xterm).
The next thing would be to trim the sequence down to just escape codes (removing any printable characters in the sequence), and see if still dumps core. If not, its probably due to a simple segfault (whether writing character or blitting a bitmapped font in an invalid buffer).
Then try removing an escape code or chaning a parameter. Does it still dump core? Are there ranges of values for each escape code that cause the behavior?
Finally, you'd grab the source code and see if the are any obvious flaws. Does the emulator load a parameter and then cast it into a signed value? Then does it not check to see if it was negative? etc.
All those steps (which I've never done nor considered before your post) would be my plan to handle and investigate the situation.
I think what it requires to be a Good Hacker, therefore, is a sick motivation to get to the bottom of things, no matter how painful or time consuming the excercise. The steps I outlined above could easily take 15 hrs. to adequately address. Are the potential results worth that time? To a great hacker, who relishes such experiences, yes they are, even if she cannot pinpoint the problem or fix it.
There was nothing that you did wrong. I think maybe you didn't really want to be one. Great hackers do not just have fits of ingenuity and shit. They just hack at things until it becomes clear. It's time consuming, tiring, and often thankless. But over time, you get to have a certain knack for relating new problems to old ones, and it becomes easier.
Nothing says you can't start now either. Go for it!
Because if you hadn't, I'da marked you down -1 Fucking_Idiot.
a) You fed the worst troll ever, (1337) God b) Someone wasted mod points on you c) The PS2 is not like a fucking LISP machine or JVM hardware thing... you program it in whatever. If they used C, they used C. If C++, then C++. etc. The PS2 dev kit doesn't come with uber-pseudo-C, just an SDK and toolchain. It could be ADA, the language of criminals, for all you know.
NO GAMING CONSOLE IS 128-bit (nor will they be 256-bit) The PS2 is a 32-bit system. It has a 32-bit wide address space and word space. It happens to have a quad-word SIMD execution unit. By this logic, the MMX-enabled pentium is also 128-bit.
Okay... got that out of my system.
What the 64-bit address space WILL do is make OS design simpler. This is an important win for developers. I understand OS start-up times will be vastly improved because applications, libraries, etc. will all be able to load at static addresses in memory, all precomputed. It'll also make database-as-filesystems easier to implement.
Forget gaming machines, this is BIG stuff, a big step, and Intel is foolish to ignore it.
Writing one value over and over doesn't flip the field. This is a problem because the magic recovery methods look for the magnetic residue of field flips (and can guess how old they are due to some physical criteria that I can't recall). Writing ones lots and lots of times will make the 0's stick out harder "underneath". Unless you write it like more than a few hundred times.
Random bit patterns with equal mixes of 1's and 0's is ideal. I think the rule is 7 passes. You should always follow with a pass of 0 at the end, and then format it to make it look empty to a casual observer.
So what, the POST tests don't mean anything unless they fail and then you see the messages (or maybe you hit DEL or ESC out of curiousity). In any case this is only a feature of cheaper home machines; high-end/server boards still give you copious textual information, and some (Tyan Thunderbird line and Intel motherboards IIRC) even support serial heads instead of VGA.
The coolest thing is that we'll ditch the whole real-mode wiggle dance and get straight into loading to OS cold off the media. Not that it's a huge chunk of boot time but it would simplify the boot process (and make it more flexible; imagine exiting the OS without a warm boot and selecting a different one!)
There was only ONE good OS that ever came out of Redmond: Win2k. Until you can get the "professional network install" of XP SP1, I've found it isn't worth it.;-)
There will be NT 6.0, and I might get to liking it, but we'll see. In the meantime I can continue my love affair with anything spawned from/sbin/init. (except Irix, can't grok it)
Slashdot Mirror
on newer DLT drives, this is amazing.
When having discrete, 30GB matters (for doing backups and archives and stuff), you almost always end up sacrificing speed to access said media. But this format is a vast improvement.
Of course, we won't now how much these systems will cost in the near future; just adding more tape drives in parallel could be more affordable!
This is an important question... what else is there that we can do using Gecko et. al that breaks or goes beyond the HTTP/IMAP/FTP document request model?
Net whiteboards using SVG? Anyone?
Aha! I compromised a process running as root (for example). What shall I do now? I know, I'll insmod IHAX0REDUGOOD.so after dld'ng it from my xoom.com warez page. Oooh, now I can install zombieslaved and use IHAX0REDUGOOD to prevent anyone from seeing it.
So what about this is more difficult than windows? An API must exist for a driver to be loaded, therefore it can be exploited. The tool that interacts with a user installing a driver uses this API, the rootkit bypasses all possible interaction (and uses its priveledged position to hide its existance)
slashdot would still be up all day long - maybe without comments enabled. ^_^
These are WARNING SIGNS. Not litmus tests.
If you saw a person waving a few of the aforementioned red flags, it would warrant closer investigation of the claims then might normally be required, not dismissal.
Dogmatism is bad no matter how you slice it; the author of the 7 rules was aware of this.
There isn't one. Sorry to burst your new-age bubble. That's why I became a scientist- to whittle away at the edges of falsehoods.
(I'm not knocking alternative mecidine, it surely warrants scientific inquiry!)
I hated the Vanilla Coke classic. But Diet Vanilla Coke tastes great. If you like diet drinks, the diet vanilla is, IMHO, DA B0MBE.
So I can't write off this recent (mind-boggling) push for alternative drinks (Pepsi Blue, Red Fusion, Diet Coke w/ Lemon, etc.) as a total wash.
^_^
Jabber.
You've just described it (including the email address as ID idiom). Go do a search on google and you'll know why it addresses your suggestions.
While you are correct about the use of prime number and large composite factoring for the security of public key cryptography, that has nothing to do with the Riemann Hypothesis.
The RH will let mathematicians know certain things about prime numbers they already assume are true (but don't know yet). Some advanced composite numbering factoring algorithms (which are used to break PKI) make assumptions about number theoretical consequences of RH; they assume its true already.
So proving it won't make breaking PKC any easier. But it will let a few mathematicians caught in its grip move on to other Hilbert problems. ^_^
I have been using stuff like that in it's beta iterations for awhile now without problems. Just stay away from risque el-cheapo hardware and all is well.
Ext3 and ReiserFS are very good. LVM is a dream too. No shortcomings yet.
Also, look at PVFS. It's a weird hack of an idea, but it totally rocks on gigabit backbones. (Let's you multihome a volume of files across machines, load balancing by locality)
Never buy your servers from Dell. Where does your price advantage go then? I would stick with the Sun then; I am going to get better support for my OS from the hardware vendor in that case.
h tm ::salivating:: garrrgllle.... only $4000 with 4U rackmount. Add CPUs, RAM, U160 Seagates: $15000 easy.
I would rather spec up one from parts + advanced server from parts, especially if I had to set it up myself anyway.
http://www.zrelsa.com/product/supermicro/P4QH8.
Syscall Tracker
or...
SNARE System iNtrusion Analysis & Reporting Environment
Maybe we're not C2 now, but I don't think there's anything we can't do in Linux that you can in Solaris (except STREAMS, but that has questionable merits... there hasn't been a need in Linux really).
If you want an analogue to Trusted Solaris, there's always NSA SeLinux. But some people don't trust it.
I control everyone's minds. I am the only person who has free will, thus I influence everyone else's decisions at my whim.
The Great Hacker (later read: me) would dig up docs on VT10x escape sequence interpretation. Then I would look to see what that trimmed down file translates to in terms of screen manipulation code.
I would think to myself, does that series of actions even make sense? It probably wouldn't (seeing as it tends to crash xterm).
The next thing would be to trim the sequence down to just escape codes (removing any printable characters in the sequence), and see if still dumps core. If not, its probably due to a simple segfault (whether writing character or blitting a bitmapped font in an invalid buffer).
Then try removing an escape code or chaning a parameter. Does it still dump core? Are there ranges of values for each escape code that cause the behavior?
Finally, you'd grab the source code and see if the are any obvious flaws. Does the emulator load a parameter and then cast it into a signed value? Then does it not check to see if it was negative? etc.
All those steps (which I've never done nor considered before your post) would be my plan to handle and investigate the situation.
I think what it requires to be a Good Hacker, therefore, is a sick motivation to get to the bottom of things, no matter how painful or time consuming the excercise. The steps I outlined above could easily take 15 hrs. to adequately address. Are the potential results worth that time? To a great hacker, who relishes such experiences, yes they are, even if she cannot pinpoint the problem or fix it.
There was nothing that you did wrong. I think maybe you didn't really want to be one. Great hackers do not just have fits of ingenuity and shit. They just hack at things until it becomes clear. It's time consuming, tiring, and often thankless. But over time, you get to have a certain knack for relating new problems to old ones, and it becomes easier.
Nothing says you can't start now either. Go for it!
the ps2 uses a derivative of C,
Because if you hadn't, I'da marked you down -1 Fucking_Idiot.
a) You fed the worst troll ever, (1337) God
b) Someone wasted mod points on you
c) The PS2 is not like a fucking LISP machine or JVM hardware thing... you program it in whatever. If they used C, they used C. If C++, then C++. etc. The PS2 dev kit doesn't come with uber-pseudo-C, just an SDK and toolchain. It could be ADA, the language of criminals, for all you know.
YHL, HAND!
(hint, treat post from high slashdot acct # with caution)
YHL, HAND.
Note that God (recently created annoying poster) is a troll. G'day mate.
Let me repeat this one more time:
NO GAMING CONSOLE IS 128-bit (nor will they be 256-bit)
The PS2 is a 32-bit system. It has a 32-bit wide address space and word space. It happens to have a quad-word SIMD execution unit. By this logic, the MMX-enabled pentium is also 128-bit.
Okay... got that out of my system.
What the 64-bit address space WILL do is make OS design simpler. This is an important win for developers. I understand OS start-up times will be vastly improved because applications, libraries, etc. will all be able to load at static addresses in memory, all precomputed. It'll also make database-as-filesystems easier to implement.
Forget gaming machines, this is BIG stuff, a big step, and Intel is foolish to ignore it.
The small ISPs aren't paying for the large ISPs backbone, and the usage flows both ways through it.
:-)
You don't GET PAID driving down a toll road one way, do you?
Writing one value over and over doesn't flip the field. This is a problem because the magic recovery methods look for the magnetic residue of field flips (and can guess how old they are due to some physical criteria that I can't recall). Writing ones lots and lots of times will make the 0's stick out harder "underneath". Unless you write it like more than a few hundred times.
Random bit patterns with equal mixes of 1's and 0's is ideal. I think the rule is 7 passes. You should always follow with a pass of 0 at the end, and then format it to make it look empty to a casual observer.
So what, the POST tests don't mean anything unless they fail and then you see the messages (or maybe you hit DEL or ESC out of curiousity). In any case this is only a feature of cheaper home machines; high-end/server boards still give you copious textual information, and some (Tyan Thunderbird line and Intel motherboards IIRC) even support serial heads instead of VGA.
The coolest thing is that we'll ditch the whole real-mode wiggle dance and get straight into loading to OS cold off the media. Not that it's a huge chunk of boot time but it would simplify the boot process (and make it more flexible; imagine exiting the OS without a warm boot and selecting a different one!)
Jesus christ, just beat us over the head with it. 9700 PRO jackoff edition.
/.
In other news, this is funnier than goatse.cx
If you're not reading StileSux by "Cave Deli" you are socially unfit for
There was only ONE good OS that ever came out of Redmond: ;-)
/sbin/init. (except Irix, can't grok it)
Win2k.
Until you can get the "professional network install" of XP SP1, I've found it isn't worth it.
There will be NT 6.0, and I might get to liking it, but we'll see. In the meantime I can continue my love affair with anything spawned from
YHL; HAND.
posted from ancient win2k. blue screens when I press ctrl+scrlk twice, on purpose. linux protects me from hax0rs and pimps wireless. W3rd!
Also you need some smack or some shit to cool the hell down. Better, I find you some dope honey so you can blow your load. Christ man!