Yep. Fragment your packets so much the router won't be able to recognise them. The admin will thank you, you've just downgraded your own performance yourself so much that no traffic shapers are needed. (Note: More packets=More overhead=Less data in one frame, plus what about incoming packets? How do you tell the remote host to fragment them?)
Errr, how? Copy&Paste the packet contents? Write a wrapper? And what about unwrapper? How many kazaa users worldwide will receive your kazaa packet if you sent it through ICQ and uuencoded?
Of course you may set up a tunnel between your home box and some remote host of some friend, outside the shaped network. But then the admin will notice excessive transfers over that tunnel between the two hosts and downgrade your transfers using old-fashioned source&dest IP match.
That's based on service, port number notwithstanding. Set up FTP on 25 and Kazaa on 80 and you still get FTP treated as FTP and Kazaa blocked completely;)
Your ISP may tell SSL transfers are minority, waste bandwidth, are uncontrollable (and whatever your ISP marketing drones can think of) and downgrade any SSL transfers till you switch back to plaintext.
1) I'd need to carry some funny modified program versions with me to get around this. 2) A small ISP with 500-1000 customers won't pay anyone to write kernel modules (neither, luckily, they could afford a sysadmin who would be able to configure that correctly) 3) if my school admins blocked the RMB context menu and command prompt+"Run..." (but you can still create a.bat with "command.com" in it to get a shell), I wouldn't be surprised if they put really VERY strange rules - they like to monkey around with options they don't quite understand and make very bad mess...
In one hand, >I can prioritize what I want how I want. And it was good. In the other hand, my ISP may downgrade my Quake performance or my school may block telnetting to my home box completely (no matter which port I put the demon on). And this was bad.
The idea is good but I'm worried it will be heavily abused and that worries me. In the other hand, it may mean a neat security tool...
Disqualified for being unable to press two "keys" simultaneously - except of "selected" shift, control, alt. But imagine changing weapon while strafing forward while crouching on that: W+A+3+Tab at the same time. Can't be done. Imagine using mouse "rocker gesture" in mozgest - RMB while holding LMB. Imagine typing a native Polish text in Emacs - where 10% of characters require ALT and most commands - ctrl. Switch to 'alt', type the letter, switch back to 'normal'.
Plus, yet one disqualifying property - I won't be able to use IRC with that keyboard, because it requires both hands to type!
$750M is obviously less than it would cost Microsoft to allow the case get to media, to let everyone hear there is a pretty good competition to IE and try "What is that Mozilla thing anyway"? If MSIE didn't put down the case before it got loud (way before the trial would end, and no matter what result it had) the cost in loss of browser market share control would reach billions. Blocking banners, no hardwired integration with MS Office and other expensive packets, influences gained by the competition, showing people that "It can be done much better and still free" would mean way heavier financial impact on Microsoft that that bit of media "low noise" as this article.
Admit this: Who of you purchased any SCO product over the last years? How many of you didn't hear about SCO before, or just heard the name without associating it with anything? What share of the computer market does SCO control?
SCO is forgotten.
So, what's the best way to get out of shadow and stand in spotlight? Oh well, miss Lewinsky showed that to all of us.
1. Make a lot of noise around something famous. 2. Gain fame. 3. Sell products, make claims. 4. PROFIT
The best target would be something as big as M$, but SCO had several reasons not to attack it (including M$ lawyers). So, the next target on the OS market seems obvious...
Why else would SCO care for 15 lines of code, whey would it make so dubious claim, than just to gain publicity? "No matter, good or bad, it's important that they talk about you". Old rule of showbusiness, may apply here too...
I guess the end will be quite mundane. Maybe putting a notice in sources "This part created by SCO". Maybe rewriting that parts of kernel. Maybe the charges will be dismissed. Maybe "SCO will bend under customers' pressure and withdraw its claims". What is important, is that people will talk about SCO over next few years, and whoever plans some new investment, will think "...And maybe consider that SCO thing..."?
Start a cluster of these with some profitable computations at work in the evening, using every worker's own PC, then come in first in the morning to remove all evidences quickly and painlessly... (or even watch over that all during your graveyard shift as a sysadmin)... Instant cluster - that's clever.
The network card has just enough of simple BIOS to grab some necessary info from the net - first a simple bootup code, then the kernel, then mount the network drives... Everything kept in RAM. Few modern network cards support this, but if you see an empty chip socket on a network card, it's most probable it's place for the boot code EEPROM.
We're setting up a PC. Some hdd conflict, won't boot. CD drive broken, doesn't work. Floppy drive okay but not a single bootable floppy around. Let's see what it provides more, maybe some network boot... I look through BIOS options. Oh well, SCSI. What do we have attached to SCSI? A scanner?! Hey, come on, get a pencil and write some startup code on that sheet of paper, maybe we'll succeed booting it from the scanner!;)
Is this a part of the economical battle between Asia and US? Give them less IPs so they can't compete on the market on equal conditions? Usually I'm against theories of conspiracy but in this case I'm willing to make an exception...
Thousands of original games are written nowadays. None hits the market though. And here we get a game that is NOT original presented to the masses as something revolutionary.
...but what is it about? The problem of lack of originality was that the games had great gfx and music, but lacked new ideas. Here we read how many great technologies were used, that it has original music, uses some odd operating systems etc, but where's the originality?
Yes, that's just it:) One thing worries me. Nowadays I can once, maybe twice in a row, while all a mare needs is five minutes of rest and she's ready and willing again. Doh, I wish I had a condition to spend whole nights with them...
Hmm... Poor moddies wasting their precious points to troll us down... And I'm not really trolling, it's just plain offtopic!:)
...to create a "hotfix" for that? I guess that's 5 mins work and a 3k binary to repair this, for a skilled person... Then just put the "hotfix" along with your music list...
Amazing levels of freedom and detailed world (Morrowind) Thrill of sneaking up and tricking the enemies rather than killing them (Hitman 1 & 2) Really challenging AI (announced in Halflife 2) Atmosphere of real fear (Silent Hill 2) Amazing plotline (Final Fantasy, since 4 or 5) Easily extendable "create your own world" without quality loss. (Morrowind again, compare to average user-made levels in other FPP games)
These are but a few relatively new tricks that will not get old&boring anytime soon, and before they do, people will come up with new ones.
We're far beyond the times where everything could've been turned into a game: Brushing teeth, riding elevators, catching sheep, eating hamburgers... Nowadays all games need to have a plotline (not only some "intro legend" written in a paper manual), some 3D gfx, good music&fx, several hours of gameplay, more or less "closed ending" (at least a "main quest") - these are a must, and they make all games very similar to each other. But there's a whole big layer behind that, which evolves slowly but constantly and it's NOT just the looks.
"I don't share any illegal music, but I have to pay for that. So let me at least get something from that bargain". I bet illegal media sharing level at universities will quadruple as result.
Calling such people "hackers" is just a word game, true - but with a purpose, just giving a name to a certain group - certain kind of psyche. The name is not important. The common properties are. And these are fascination, curiosity, wild imagination with will to test all that crazy ideas... A scientist may work 9 to 5, just a job, just a way to make money. A programmer may sit 8 hours in his cubicle, produce 30 effective lines of code a day and do nothing else that has anything in common with computers. A biologist may reach students and write works in order to get grants that would allow him to travel the world by visiting conferences. But it's just the hacker spirit in all of them, that could make them do more than the job requires, enjoy it and find really strange ways to find a solution. An inventor may try to improve existing things by using stronger materials, to include modifications in construction to make it cheaper and better, he may even come to a major breakthrough that way. But without being a hacker he won't make anything really new, something people would describe "this can't work" but it works. Examples: Use CPU and memory of C64 floppy drive to decompress data into c64 memory. Build a computer that beats the industrial competition in a garage. Describe gravity. Try to reach India through the opposite side of the world. That are all ideas from a certain family. You may deny that people who got them should be called 'hackers', but most of people who call themselves 'hackers' nowadays, tend to get this kind of ideas.
Well, for now they can't STOP the WW3 like that, and that's the weakness, especially if the war, from lack of any more serious enemies to use up obsolete weapons on and produce new ones, is waged against them. Cybercrime, ecoscum, pacifist traitors, porn perversion, religious fanatics, paramilitary scouts... Any minority is good to attack to spend taxpayer's money.
I did, I tried to visit it and get all I needed. The problem is that I couldn't even load the main page, connection to that site really sucked at that time. And what if I didn't have ANY internet connection and installed Solaris for a standalone LAN server?
Anyway, the story ended when a guy who had more experience with Solaris came, installed everything that was needed from his own CD, configured it, charged us a 5-digit sum and left poorer but happy, with a well configured box. (Linux didn't last...)
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Yep. Fragment your packets so much the router won't be able to recognise them. The admin will thank you, you've just downgraded your own performance yourself so much that no traffic shapers are needed. (Note: More packets=More overhead=Less data in one frame, plus what about incoming packets? How do you tell the remote host to fragment them?)
Errr, how? Copy&Paste the packet contents? Write a wrapper? And what about unwrapper? How many kazaa users worldwide will receive your kazaa packet if you sent it through ICQ and uuencoded?
Of course you may set up a tunnel between your home box and some remote host of some friend, outside the shaped network. But then the admin will notice excessive transfers over that tunnel between the two hosts and downgrade your transfers using old-fashioned source&dest IP match.
That's based on service, port number notwithstanding. Set up FTP on 25 and Kazaa on 80 and you still get FTP treated as FTP and Kazaa blocked completely ;)
Your ISP may tell SSL transfers are minority, waste bandwidth, are uncontrollable (and whatever your ISP marketing drones can think of) and downgrade any SSL transfers till you switch back to plaintext.
1) I'd need to carry some funny modified program versions with me to get around this. 2) A small ISP with 500-1000 customers won't pay anyone to write kernel modules (neither, luckily, they could afford a sysadmin who would be able to configure that correctly) 3) if my school admins blocked the RMB context menu and command prompt+"Run..." (but you can still create a .bat with "command.com" in it to get a shell), I wouldn't be surprised if they put really VERY strange rules - they like to monkey around with options they don't quite understand and make very bad mess...
In one hand, >I can prioritize what I want how I want. And it was good.
In the other hand, my ISP may downgrade my Quake performance or my school may block telnetting to my home box completely (no matter which port I put the demon on). And this was bad.
The idea is good but I'm worried it will be heavily abused and that worries me. In the other hand, it may mean a neat security tool...
Disqualified for being unable to press two "keys" simultaneously - except of "selected" shift, control, alt. But imagine changing weapon while strafing forward while crouching on that: W+A+3+Tab at the same time. Can't be done. Imagine using mouse "rocker gesture" in mozgest - RMB while holding LMB. Imagine typing a native Polish text in Emacs - where 10% of characters require ALT and most commands - ctrl. Switch to 'alt', type the letter, switch back to 'normal'.
Plus, yet one disqualifying property - I won't be able to use IRC with that keyboard, because it requires both hands to type!
$750M is obviously less than it would cost Microsoft to allow the case get to media, to let everyone hear there is a pretty good competition to IE and try "What is that Mozilla thing anyway"? If MSIE didn't put down the case before it got loud (way before the trial would end, and no matter what result it had) the cost in loss of browser market share control would reach billions. Blocking banners, no hardwired integration with MS Office and other expensive packets, influences gained by the competition, showing people that "It can be done much better and still free" would mean way heavier financial impact on Microsoft that that bit of media "low noise" as this article.
Admit this: Who of you purchased any SCO product over the last years? How many of you didn't hear about SCO before, or just heard the name without associating it with anything? What share of the computer market does SCO control?
SCO is forgotten.
So, what's the best way to get out of shadow and stand in spotlight? Oh well, miss Lewinsky showed that to all of us.
1. Make a lot of noise around something famous.
2. Gain fame.
3. Sell products, make claims.
4. PROFIT
The best target would be something as big as M$, but SCO had several reasons not to attack it (including M$ lawyers). So, the next target on the OS market seems obvious...
Why else would SCO care for 15 lines of code, whey would it make so dubious claim, than just to gain publicity? "No matter, good or bad, it's important that they talk about you". Old rule of showbusiness, may apply here too...
I guess the end will be quite mundane. Maybe putting a notice in sources "This part created by SCO". Maybe rewriting that parts of kernel. Maybe the charges will be dismissed. Maybe "SCO will bend under customers' pressure and withdraw its claims". What is important, is that people will talk about SCO over next few years, and whoever plans some new investment, will think "...And maybe consider that SCO thing..."?
Start a cluster of these with some profitable computations at work in the evening, using every worker's own PC, then come in first in the morning to remove all evidences quickly and painlessly... (or even watch over that all during your graveyard shift as a sysadmin)... Instant cluster - that's clever.
The network card has just enough of simple BIOS to grab some necessary info from the net - first a simple bootup code, then the kernel, then mount the network drives... Everything kept in RAM. Few modern network cards support this, but if you see an empty chip socket on a network card, it's most probable it's place for the boot code EEPROM.
We're setting up a PC. Some hdd conflict, won't boot. CD drive broken, doesn't work. Floppy drive okay but not a single bootable floppy around. Let's see what it provides more, maybe some network boot... I look through BIOS options. Oh well, SCSI. What do we have attached to SCSI? A scanner?! Hey, come on, get a pencil and write some startup code on that sheet of paper, maybe we'll succeed booting it from the scanner! ;)
Is this a part of the economical battle between Asia and US? Give them less IPs so they can't compete on the market on equal conditions? Usually I'm against theories of conspiracy but in this case I'm willing to make an exception...
Thousands of original games are written nowadays. None hits the market though. And here we get a game that is NOT original presented to the masses as something revolutionary.
...but what is it about?
The problem of lack of originality was that the games had great gfx and music, but lacked new ideas. Here we read how many great technologies were used, that it has original music, uses some odd operating systems etc, but where's the originality?
Yes, that's just it
Hmm... Poor moddies wasting their precious points to troll us down... And I'm not really trolling, it's just plain offtopic!
...to create a "hotfix" for that? I guess that's 5 mins work and a 3k binary to repair this, for a skilled person... Then just put the "hotfix" along with your music list...
Amazing levels of freedom and detailed world (Morrowind)
Thrill of sneaking up and tricking the enemies rather than killing them (Hitman 1 & 2)
Really challenging AI (announced in Halflife 2)
Atmosphere of real fear (Silent Hill 2)
Amazing plotline (Final Fantasy, since 4 or 5)
Easily extendable "create your own world" without quality loss. (Morrowind again, compare to average user-made levels in other FPP games)
These are but a few relatively new tricks that will not get old&boring anytime soon, and before they do, people will come up with new ones.
We're far beyond the times where everything could've been turned into a game: Brushing teeth, riding elevators, catching sheep, eating hamburgers... Nowadays all games need to have a plotline (not only some "intro legend" written in a paper manual), some 3D gfx, good music&fx, several hours of gameplay, more or less "closed ending" (at least a "main quest") - these are a must, and they make all games very similar to each other. But there's a whole big layer behind that, which evolves slowly but constantly and it's NOT just the looks.
"I don't share any illegal music, but I have to pay for that. So let me at least get something from that bargain".
I bet illegal media sharing level at universities will quadruple as result.
Calling such people "hackers" is just a word game, true - but with a purpose, just giving a name to a certain group - certain kind of psyche. The name is not important. The common properties are. And these are fascination, curiosity, wild imagination with will to test all that crazy ideas... A scientist may work 9 to 5, just a job, just a way to make money. A programmer may sit 8 hours in his cubicle, produce 30 effective lines of code a day and do nothing else that has anything in common with computers. A biologist may reach students and write works in order to get grants that would allow him to travel the world by visiting conferences. But it's just the hacker spirit in all of them, that could make them do more than the job requires, enjoy it and find really strange ways to find a solution. An inventor may try to improve existing things by using stronger materials, to include modifications in construction to make it cheaper and better, he may even come to a major breakthrough that way. But without being a hacker he won't make anything really new, something people would describe "this can't work" but it works.
Examples: Use CPU and memory of C64 floppy drive to decompress data into c64 memory. Build a computer that beats the industrial competition in a garage. Describe gravity. Try to reach India through the opposite side of the world.
That are all ideas from a certain family. You may deny that people who got them should be called 'hackers', but most of people who call themselves 'hackers' nowadays, tend to get this kind of ideas.
well, the problem is the fascination.
I triple-checked all CDs we got. No GNU was ever mentioned. It was quite early Solaris, 6 or 7 I think, quite a few years ago.
Well, for now they can't STOP the WW3 like that, and that's the weakness, especially if the war, from lack of any more serious enemies to use up obsolete weapons on and produce new ones, is waged against them. Cybercrime, ecoscum, pacifist traitors, porn perversion, religious fanatics, paramilitary scouts... Any minority is good to attack to spend taxpayer's money.
"How to make some room on your hard drive"? Is that what Slashdot writes about nowadays? - The editors must be on crack!
I did, I tried to visit it and get all I needed. The problem is that I couldn't even load the main page, connection to that site really sucked at that time.
And what if I didn't have ANY internet connection and installed Solaris for a standalone LAN server?
Anyway, the story ended when a guy who had more experience with Solaris came, installed everything that was needed from his own CD, configured it, charged us a 5-digit sum and left poorer but happy, with a well configured box. (Linux didn't last...)
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