Between 5 CD-ROMs, 3 CD-RWs, 1 DVD/CD-RW, and 1 DVD+-RW I have never needed a driver on any OS other than DOS. Even for DOS, it still just used a generic driver which shipped with the OS, not a manufacturer-provided piece of software.
"Hmm. Is this a new feature of XP? I've never seen Worpad open a Word document before, but I haven't tried it in a long long time, either."
I just checked on a fresh install of XP SP2 (formatted and rebuilt yesterday), and yes Wordpad does list "Word for Windows" in the Open dialog. Of course, it doesn't like anything fron recent versions of Word or advanced features. OO.o is more compatible than Wordpad with MSWord docs.
"What amazes me is that on the new cisco ultra-router, the CRS-1, the slowest port it has is 10GigE. That's silly."
How so? That thing is designed for serious backbone duty, and should thus be built to handle insane amounts of data. That thing makes a business-class router on a GigE line look like a Linksys on a DSL line (not knocking Linksys, I love my WRTs).
"Well, let's say you were moving at 5mph below c. Relatively speaking, wouldn't that mean that the radio signal would only be moving 5mph towards the other guy? If not, wouldn't that imply that the speed of light isn't the limit that RF can travel?"
This is where relativity comes in. The RF signals are traveling at C relative to the transmitter. If the transmitters are moving at C - 5 MPH, then the radio waves are moving at 2C-5 MPH.
This scheme will not be broken for at least 20 years.
There's no way they'll make the same mistake twice. DirecTV upgraded all their smart cards 2 or 3 years ago and it has yet to be broken. Bell Canada's expressvu is adopting the same technology because _everybody_ and their mom is pirating the signals.
Here's the big difference...
Gaining access to DirecTV's signal requires hacking proprietary hardware. If PC-based players are ever allowed, reverse engineering will be along the same lines as last time around. It's just so easy to monitor everything your computer is doing in real-time, especially with the help of emulators like QEMU, Bochs, VMware, or Virtual PC.
"I don't understand why the US doesn't just use GSM anyway. I mean just about the whole freakin planet uses GSM... except the US."/me looks at my euro-spec Sony Ericsson T610 GSM phone, running perfectly with 5 bars in the middle of Ohio
The speed limiter on my old truck (2003 Ranger) was at 93. Of course the tires were only rated for 85, so I guess that's a good thing.
Two other 4x4s I've pushed the limit in (2001 F-150 and 2004 Liberty [Cherokee for the rest of the world] both passed 115 with no problems. I have no idea there the limiter is on either of those two, but again being on 85 rated tires, I didn't feel like pushing it any farther.
I can't wait to pick up a Crown Vic this weekend...P71 police package = factory limiter moved up to 150 (from 120 I think). I gotta get a radar detector...
There was a BeOS version that loaded from within Win9x, and that has been now tweaked to run as a full standalone system (see BeOS Max), but BeOS full always cost money.
They do not make the source of the current version available, even to subscribers. If you want source, you get an older version. If you complain about this, you get your account terminated.
Sveasoft also attempts to shut down sites hosting current firmware versions, claiming it is copyright infringement, while the GPL clearly says that we can redistribute as we please.
Take a look at the journal of a user on here by the name of TheIndividual and see what shit Sveasoft pulls.
and some of us remember getting rid of those ads by either modifying the client or logging the DUN connection, to get the password so you can use a regular dial-in client.
Hell, I think this very project has been posted here before. I know I've come across Stripe Snoop a few times, and the main place that I get links to projects like this is here.
"I hope your are being sarcastic as all attacks from the Internet are being redirected to your laptop via NAT. That is, unless that router can do something else like filtering ports to that laptop."
No I'm not being sarcastic. I keep my laptop locked down so it's safe to be out on the wild internet. I don't give a shit if some 1337 skript kiddie or an infected winbox is trying to get in to my machine, they aren't going to be successful.
NAT is a lazy, half-ass solution, but it works for the most part. That's why I keepy my parents' and brother's machines behind it. I know they won't keep their machines up to date (they have the XP RTM and 98SE boxes I mentioned above), so I just stick them behind a NAT and call it a day.
For myself, I prefer to have the simplicity of a globally routable IP address, since I know a security fix is usually only a click of Synaptic or Windows Update (depending on which OS I'm running at the time) away, and if not, it's trivial to either update, disable, or block the service. I have the basic Windows Firewall and a simple ruleset on Linux, aside from that I'm exposed to everything, and in the last 6 months of nearly 24/7 uptime with an unfiltered internet connection, not one attack has been successful.
"At a minimum, providers of Cable and DSL should make customers use modems with built-in NAT/firewall."
I was happily surprised with Verizon. Not only did we get a 4 port NAT router with 802.11g, but it also supports what the router's software calls "IP Passthrough", which takes the concept of a DMZed IP one layer further and basically makes the NAT completely invisible to the selected computer. I have it set up so my laptop is the one to pass through to, so from my end it looks just like I was plugged straight in to the wire, and every other computer in the house still gets their 192.168.whatever IPs behind the NAT where they can stay reasonably secure, even if the software isn't up to date. (for various reasons, my LAN contains 98SE and XP RTM machines, which would be 100% owned in minutes without the NAT)
"Percentage of Households with a TV: 98.2 down from a high of 98.4. Of course, this combines Cable and Megawatt transmitters, but that will give you an idea. If you have cable, you already have internet accesibility."
umm...forgetting satellite are we? that's how so many households get TV where they otherwise couldn't, but it's a last-resort choice for internet access due to high latency and costs.
your post's parent was pointing out how a large portion of the country can not recieve OTA TV or radio, which would mean that WiMax is likely out as well.
Picket it up freshly rebuilt with a JetDirect card and the RAM maxed out for $50 (gotta love having a friend who worked at a printer shop)
I don't give it nearly the usage it was designed for, but I love having a printer that doesn't complain when I send a 300 page PDF its way, and network printing is a godsend for a laptop user like myself.
My school hands out public IPs on their LAN, so I can actually print from anywhere on campus, and sometimes even when off campus, depending on if the firewall is working that day.
I've worked with plenty of older Dell hardware, and even the Pentium 2 Optiplexes I had to work on were perfectly supported by XP out of the box. This entire story reeks of bullshit.
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"4. Insert the virus into their device drivers."
They must be running very outdated OSes...
Between 5 CD-ROMs, 3 CD-RWs, 1 DVD/CD-RW, and 1 DVD+-RW I have never needed a driver on any OS other than DOS. Even for DOS, it still just used a generic driver which shipped with the OS, not a manufacturer-provided piece of software.
lol....
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"Hmm. Is this a new feature of XP? I've never seen Worpad open a Word document before, but I haven't tried it in a long long time, either."
I just checked on a fresh install of XP SP2 (formatted and rebuilt yesterday), and yes Wordpad does list "Word for Windows" in the Open dialog. Of course, it doesn't like anything fron recent versions of Word or advanced features. OO.o is more compatible than Wordpad with MSWord docs.
"And many cars could still do a lot to improve their aerodynamics. For God's sake, they still make the Hummer."
Because for God's sake we all know the Hummer is built to go fast and get good mileage[/sarcasm]
"What amazes me is that on the new cisco ultra-router, the CRS-1, the slowest port it has is 10GigE. That's silly."
How so? That thing is designed for serious backbone duty, and should thus be built to handle insane amounts of data. That thing makes a business-class router on a GigE line look like a Linksys on a DSL line (not knocking Linksys, I love my WRTs).
"Well, let's say you were moving at 5mph below c. Relatively speaking, wouldn't that mean that the radio signal would only be moving 5mph towards the other guy? If not, wouldn't that imply that the speed of light isn't the limit that RF can travel?"
This is where relativity comes in. The RF signals are traveling at C relative to the transmitter. If the transmitters are moving at C - 5 MPH, then the radio waves are moving at 2C-5 MPH.
Get it?
Here's the big difference...
Gaining access to DirecTV's signal requires hacking proprietary hardware. If PC-based players are ever allowed, reverse engineering will be along the same lines as last time around. It's just so easy to monitor everything your computer is doing in real-time, especially with the help of emulators like QEMU, Bochs, VMware, or Virtual PC.
"I don't understand why the US doesn't just use GSM anyway. I mean just about the whole freakin planet uses GSM... except the US." /me looks at my euro-spec Sony Ericsson T610 GSM phone, running perfectly with 5 bars in the middle of Ohio
What was that about GSM in the US?
The speed limiter on my old truck (2003 Ranger) was at 93. Of course the tires were only rated for 85, so I guess that's a good thing.
Two other 4x4s I've pushed the limit in (2001 F-150 and 2004 Liberty [Cherokee for the rest of the world] both passed 115 with no problems. I have no idea there the limiter is on either of those two, but again being on 85 rated tires, I didn't feel like pushing it any farther.
I can't wait to pick up a Crown Vic this weekend...P71 police package = factory limiter moved up to 150 (from 120 I think). I gotta get a radar detector...
Um...no it wasn't....
There was a BeOS version that loaded from within Win9x, and that has been now tweaked to run as a full standalone system (see BeOS Max), but BeOS full always cost money.
As a Clevelander (well, actually west of Medina, but close enough), I just had to laugh at that one...
Dammit....now I'm imagining an episode of the Drew Carey show subtitled in 13375p34|.....
They do not make the source of the current version available, even to subscribers. If you want source, you get an older version. If you complain about this, you get your account terminated.
Sveasoft also attempts to shut down sites hosting current firmware versions, claiming it is copyright infringement, while the GPL clearly says that we can redistribute as we please.
Take a look at the journal of a user on here by the name of TheIndividual and see what shit Sveasoft pulls.
and some of us remember getting rid of those ads by either modifying the client or logging the DUN connection, to get the password so you can use a regular dial-in client.
Correction: They WERE using BT, but with no more Suprnova or Lokitorrent, the BT noobs are lost.
Hell, I think this very project has been posted here before. I know I've come across Stripe Snoop a few times, and the main place that I get links to projects like this is here.
"I hope your are being sarcastic as all attacks from the Internet are being redirected to your laptop via NAT. That is, unless that router can do something else like filtering ports to that laptop."
No I'm not being sarcastic. I keep my laptop locked down so it's safe to be out on the wild internet. I don't give a shit if some 1337 skript kiddie or an infected winbox is trying to get in to my machine, they aren't going to be successful.
NAT is a lazy, half-ass solution, but it works for the most part. That's why I keepy my parents' and brother's machines behind it. I know they won't keep their machines up to date (they have the XP RTM and 98SE boxes I mentioned above), so I just stick them behind a NAT and call it a day.
For myself, I prefer to have the simplicity of a globally routable IP address, since I know a security fix is usually only a click of Synaptic or Windows Update (depending on which OS I'm running at the time) away, and if not, it's trivial to either update, disable, or block the service. I have the basic Windows Firewall and a simple ruleset on Linux, aside from that I'm exposed to everything, and in the last 6 months of nearly 24/7 uptime with an unfiltered internet connection, not one attack has been successful.
Just so you know, the "cheap, buggy" linksys hardware runs Linux. Same with Buffalo.
"At a minimum, providers of Cable and DSL should make customers use modems with built-in NAT/firewall."
I was happily surprised with Verizon. Not only did we get a 4 port NAT router with 802.11g, but it also supports what the router's software calls "IP Passthrough", which takes the concept of a DMZed IP one layer further and basically makes the NAT completely invisible to the selected computer. I have it set up so my laptop is the one to pass through to, so from my end it looks just like I was plugged straight in to the wire, and every other computer in the house still gets their 192.168.whatever IPs behind the NAT where they can stay reasonably secure, even if the software isn't up to date. (for various reasons, my LAN contains 98SE and XP RTM machines, which would be 100% owned in minutes without the NAT)
The above is copright 2005 wolrahnaes
"For example I was allowed to smoke in resturaunts."
This is where that whole majority-rule thing comes in to play.
Nowadays, most people don't want to be inhaling smoke. Their freedom to have clean lungs overrides your freedom to smoke.
A quick Google turns up this:a cos-x-gui-4.html
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-gui/m
Major tech site vs. your word. I've gotta go with ars technica on this one.
"Percentage of Households with a TV: 98.2 down from a high of 98.4. Of course, this combines Cable and Megawatt transmitters, but that will give you an idea. If you have cable, you already have internet accesibility."
umm...forgetting satellite are we? that's how so many households get TV where they otherwise couldn't, but it's a last-resort choice for internet access due to high latency and costs.
your post's parent was pointing out how a large portion of the country can not recieve OTA TV or radio, which would mean that WiMax is likely out as well.
I love my LJ4+
Picket it up freshly rebuilt with a JetDirect card and the RAM maxed out for $50 (gotta love having a friend who worked at a printer shop)
I don't give it nearly the usage it was designed for, but I love having a printer that doesn't complain when I send a 300 page PDF its way, and network printing is a godsend for a laptop user like myself.
My school hands out public IPs on their LAN, so I can actually print from anywhere on campus, and sometimes even when off campus, depending on if the firewall is working that day.
"2.To transfer or convey from one place to another: removed the family to Texas."
This is a flawed example, because it is meaning transfer as in "mv", as opposed to transfer as in "cp", which is what file sharing really is.
The difference is that when you remove something, the original is not there anymore.
I'm not in any way attampting to condone copyright infringement, but it is not theft.
I've worked with plenty of older Dell hardware, and even the Pentium 2 Optiplexes I had to work on were perfectly supported by XP out of the box. This entire story reeks of bullshit.