I'd love to pay for legal downloads. It'll never happen though. It's great that the iTunes store is offering generic MP3s (although lossless would be nice)... but for $1/track? Forget it. I can buy it used for $6 and get the case, liner notes, and have it in whatever format I want. Downloadable TV? It had better be high def and MPEG4, and no commercials, and cheaper than they would ever dream of offering it. When I can buy a DVD box set for cheaper than buying a download of each individual episode, you're doing it wrong.
The content industry will simply never offer it in formats or at a price I find acceptable.
The article doesn't make it particularly clear what that might be though. The closest I found was:
"There's a pretty key reason for whitelisting," Temkin explains. "It's really, really easy for anyone using, for example, Hurricane Electric's tunneling to find that the IPv6 network becomes an island and that it is broken because they didn't update a tunnel...You end up with the customer having a bad experience. They never see the content or they only see the content after a 30-second wait."
Which seems like a no-brainer to me: Fix the tunnel. I don't even understand how the whitelist might help that -- if the whitelist says "This user has IPv6 connectivity" and you have a broken tunnel either you don't get the content at all, or you still only see the content after a 30-second wait.
The real 'island' problem is that IPv6 routing is kind of a mess. If you're on the east coast of North America and want to connect to western Europe, depending on who your provider is it may well decide to send all of your traffic through Korea, if it even makes it to your target at all. I imagine that's a problem that will solve itself as more routes come online.
The youtube clip is some knob plugging in ram and an *IDE* disk cable in what appears to be a several-year-old desktop. If any of you can't match that, turn in your computer geek card now...
New York isn't subject to earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. If you'll recall the former occupants of the World Trade Center had a bit of a problem with low flying planes though. Those with a second site were up the same day. The guys that didn't... hooboy.
"Overdesign" depends on your requirements. Billy-Bob's Bargain Basement Hosting doesn't require high availability. If you really need high availability, you don't just have a second site, you have a third or a fourth. You also need a disaster recovery plan -- companies I've worked for in the past have drilled for whole-building outages. They've HAD whole-building outages too.
This guy just wants batteries so he can shut his stuff down cleanly when the power dies. He's not worrying about availability.
It varies, I imagine. I tried it a while ago with foobar2000's ABX plugin. I don't have especially exciting headphones (~$300 studio model, no pre-amp) and I could differentiate between V0 and V2 (static bitrates? feh) but not between V0 and FLAC.
What was more interesting though was that I didn't always prefer the higher bitrate. Go figure.
I still rip to FLAC just in case I ever want to re-encode, because disk space is cheap, and because I want a backup of my music.
The distros STILL stick with older versions and backport fixes, because who in their right mind is going to bump a kernel version in the middle of a support cycle? It's even MORE broken because the kernel devs rarely identify security fixes as such, and often don't understand the security implications of a fix, so they don't always get backported as they should.
The Linux dev model is NOT something to be proud of.
Seriously, what mouth-breather decided you should only be able to search tags instead of a full-text search?
It's also likely that the apparent (I've only skimmed the site) quality of the questions and answers there are because of the subject matter. What works for programming questions probably won't work for a lot of other domains -- just look at the dreck that is wiki.answers.com, yahoo answers etc.
OSX is a multi-user OS. This turns any local account compromise, even an unprivileged account (sshd privsep user? nobody?) into a full compromise of the machine.
Local escalations are always scary on a multi-user machine.
The bug lets you write arbitrary, user-controlled bytes into kernel space. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could change the current process' priv structure in memory. Now you're root. Or why not use it to hook syscalls, or do really whatever you want? You're in ring0, go nuts.
It will vary by provider. After being hit by a hurricane, the telco's landlines did fine -- they were centrally powered, and assuming the lines between you and the CO were fine, your phone worked the whole time. The local Cable provider did not fare so well. They had pole-top boxes that were battery-backed -- initially they put out some generators for those, but the generators had a tendency to... vanish. After a couple days, no phone service.
Cell continued to work fine, although nothing to charge it with;)
I dislike many things, spinach is one of them, and yet I have a disease because I hate it?
No you don't have a disease. If you join a group of vegetable lovers (my god is this a bad analogy) and spend half your time rambling about how awful $pinach (note 'clever' use of $ instead of S that totally isn't tired by this point...), then you ARE the disease. You're entitled to your opinions, just try to avoid poisoning the community.
I use FOSS because it works the way I want it to not because of a blind Microsoft-spawned rage, and I'm not in the minority here. As proof, what do you suppose the usage stats are for gNewSense vs. Ubuntu?
I've never heard that referring to anyone in the BSDs but Theo himself. When was the last time you heard complaints about NetBSD or the FreeBSD core team?
Matt Dillon, before the FreeBSD -> DragonflyBSD split. I liked him, there were plenty of people who felt otherwise though. I don't pay attention to NetBSD.
I agree Marvell is garbage but it's not like "high-end" board shops (whoever you think those are) are above including shitty parts. My Intel desktop board (D975XBX2)'s primary SATA controller is Intel, the second group of four is powered by some Marvell piece of shit though... 88SE6145 I think. The 4 drives on the Intel chip have no problems. The 4 drives on the Marvell chip randomly reset and have generally poor performance.
Every member of congress is trying to get as much as they can for their district. As a result, people generally like their congresscritter (stuff for me!), and rarely like congress as a whole (why are you wasting my taxes on THOSE jerks?)
Every single set of instructions on that sharearchy link tells you to create a completely open proxy.
For the love of Christ, don't do that, the last thing we need is a ton of fresh new high bandwidth open proxy servers on the internet.
Please use Squid ACLs to only allow traffic from Iran. You can find a list of ACLs on Austin's blog. Reposted here since the coral cache wasn't working when I just tried:
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If you would like to limit your proxy to Iranian IP blocks, you want to change "http_access deny all" to read "http_access allow TRUSTED" add a line (BEFORE the http_access line to setup an access control list [ACL]). This ACL line that defines TRUSTED should read:
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I'd love to pay for legal downloads. It'll never happen though. It's great that the iTunes store is offering generic MP3s (although lossless would be nice) ... but for $1/track? Forget it. I can buy it used for $6 and get the case, liner notes, and have it in whatever format I want. Downloadable TV? It had better be high def and MPEG4, and no commercials, and cheaper than they would ever dream of offering it. When I can buy a DVD box set for cheaper than buying a download of each individual episode, you're doing it wrong.
The content industry will simply never offer it in formats or at a price I find acceptable.
The article doesn't make it particularly clear what that might be though. The closest I found was:
Which seems like a no-brainer to me: Fix the tunnel. I don't even understand how the whitelist might help that -- if the whitelist says "This user has IPv6 connectivity" and you have a broken tunnel either you don't get the content at all, or you still only see the content after a 30-second wait.
The real 'island' problem is that IPv6 routing is kind of a mess. If you're on the east coast of North America and want to connect to western Europe, depending on who your provider is it may well decide to send all of your traffic through Korea, if it even makes it to your target at all. I imagine that's a problem that will solve itself as more routes come online.
... and that's not speedy.
The youtube clip is some knob plugging in ram and an *IDE* disk cable in what appears to be a several-year-old desktop. If any of you can't match that, turn in your computer geek card now...
... it's also vulnerable to MITM. There's no verification of the cert, the servers blindly trust each other.
(Yes it's possible to set up verification, but nobody actually does for external hosts)
New York isn't subject to earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. If you'll recall the former occupants of the World Trade Center had a bit of a problem with low flying planes though. Those with a second site were up the same day. The guys that didn't... hooboy.
"Overdesign" depends on your requirements. Billy-Bob's Bargain Basement Hosting doesn't require high availability. If you really need high availability, you don't just have a second site, you have a third or a fourth. You also need a disaster recovery plan -- companies I've worked for in the past have drilled for whole-building outages. They've HAD whole-building outages too.
This guy just wants batteries so he can shut his stuff down cleanly when the power dies. He's not worrying about availability.
It varies, I imagine. I tried it a while ago with foobar2000's ABX plugin. I don't have especially exciting headphones (~$300 studio model, no pre-amp) and I could differentiate between V0 and V2 (static bitrates? feh) but not between V0 and FLAC.
What was more interesting though was that I didn't always prefer the higher bitrate. Go figure.
I still rip to FLAC just in case I ever want to re-encode, because disk space is cheap, and because I want a backup of my music.
Yeah great work Linus.
The distros STILL stick with older versions and backport fixes, because who in their right mind is going to bump a kernel version in the middle of a support cycle? It's even MORE broken because the kernel devs rarely identify security fixes as such, and often don't understand the security implications of a fix, so they don't always get backported as they should.
The Linux dev model is NOT something to be proud of.
The behaviour their driver has in the benchmark is also used in several games... ie Crysis Warhead. RTFA.
The site is ugly and the usability is poor. I'll grant you that beauty is subjective, but a bad interface is not.
Now is where you tell me why it's good for reasons beyond the relative post quality (which we agree on.)
Seriously, what mouth-breather decided you should only be able to search tags instead of a full-text search?
It's also likely that the apparent (I've only skimmed the site) quality of the questions and answers there are because of the subject matter. What works for programming questions probably won't work for a lot of other domains -- just look at the dreck that is wiki.answers.com, yahoo answers etc.
fuck.db
Two thirds of the summary are lifted directly from the sdtimes link...
Maybe you should stop putting the Wordpress version in meta tags on the page? Or at least make it opt(-in)ional?
If you converted Apache into a web browser that might actually be worthy of a story...
OSX is a multi-user OS. This turns any local account compromise, even an unprivileged account (sshd privsep user? nobody?) into a full compromise of the machine.
Local escalations are always scary on a multi-user machine.
What are you, a Linux kernel dev? ;)
The bug lets you write arbitrary, user-controlled bytes into kernel space. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could change the current process' priv structure in memory. Now you're root. Or why not use it to hook syscalls, or do really whatever you want? You're in ring0, go nuts.
It's far more than just a DoS.
It will vary by provider. After being hit by a hurricane, the telco's landlines did fine -- they were centrally powered, and assuming the lines between you and the CO were fine, your phone worked the whole time. The local Cable provider did not fare so well. They had pole-top boxes that were battery-backed -- initially they put out some generators for those, but the generators had a tendency to... vanish. After a couple days, no phone service.
Cell continued to work fine, although nothing to charge it with ;)
If Code is Poetry then Wordpress is some 15 year old's notebook scribblings on angst, Twilight and Dashboard Confessional.
If you're looking for alternatives that don't have gaping security issues with seemingly every release, check out Serendipity.
No you don't have a disease. If you join a group of vegetable lovers (my god is this a bad analogy) and spend half your time rambling about how awful $pinach (note 'clever' use of $ instead of S that totally isn't tired by this point...), then you ARE the disease. You're entitled to your opinions, just try to avoid poisoning the community.
I use FOSS because it works the way I want it to not because of a blind Microsoft-spawned rage, and I'm not in the minority here. As proof, what do you suppose the usage stats are for gNewSense vs. Ubuntu?
Matt Dillon, before the FreeBSD -> DragonflyBSD split. I liked him, there were plenty of people who felt otherwise though. I don't pay attention to NetBSD.
I agree Marvell is garbage but it's not like "high-end" board shops (whoever you think those are) are above including shitty parts. My Intel desktop board (D975XBX2)'s primary SATA controller is Intel, the second group of four is powered by some Marvell piece of shit though... 88SE6145 I think. The 4 drives on the Intel chip have no problems. The 4 drives on the Marvell chip randomly reset and have generally poor performance.
Every member of congress is trying to get as much as they can for their district. As a result, people generally like their congresscritter (stuff for me!), and rarely like congress as a whole (why are you wasting my taxes on THOSE jerks?)
Really? Gee, if only you could update the rules to add missing netblocks.
Every single set of instructions on that sharearchy link tells you to create a completely open proxy.
For the love of Christ, don't do that, the last thing we need is a ton of fresh new high bandwidth open proxy servers on the internet.
Please use Squid ACLs to only allow traffic from Iran. You can find a list of ACLs on Austin's blog. Reposted here since the coral cache wasn't working when I just tried:
---------
If you would like to limit your proxy to Iranian IP blocks, you want to change "http_access deny all" to read "http_access allow TRUSTED" add a line (BEFORE the http_access line to setup an access control list [ACL]). This ACL line that defines TRUSTED should read:
acl TRUSTED src 62.60.128.0/17 62.193.0.0/19 62.220.96.0/19 77.36.128.0/17 77.77.64.0/18 77.104.64.0/18 77.237.64.0/19 77.237.160.0/19 77.245.224.0/20 78.38.0.0/15 78.109.192.0/20 78.110.112.0/20 78.111.0.0/20 78.154.32.0/19 78.157.32.0/19 78.158.160.0/19 79.127.0.0/17 79.132.192.0/19 79.170.144.0/21 79.175.128.0/18 80.66.176.0/20 80.69.240.0/20 80.71.112.0/20 80.75.0.0/20 80.191.0.0/16 80.242.0.0/20 80.253.128.0/20 80.253.144.0/20 81.12.0.0/17 81.28.32.0/20 81.28.48.0/20 81.31.160.0/20 81.31.176.0/20 81.90.144.0/20 81.91.128.0/20 81.91.144.0/20 82.99.192.0/18 82.115.0.0/19 83.147.192.0/18 84.47.192.0/18 84.241.0.0/18 85.9.64.0/18 85.15.0.0/18 85.133.128.0/17 85.185.0.0/16 85.198.0.0/18 86.109.32.0/19 87.107.0.0/16 87.247.160.0/19 87.248.128.0/19 89.144.128.0/18 89.165.0.0/17 89.221.80.0/20 89.235.64.0/18 91.98.0.0/15 91.184.64.0/19 91.186.192.0/19 91.206.122.0/23 91.208.165.0/24 91.209.242.0/24 91.212.16.0/24 91.212.19.0/24 91.212.252.0/24 92.42.48.0/21 92.50.0.0/18 92.61.176.0/20 92.62.176.0/20 92.242.192.0/19 93.110.0.0/16 93.190.24.0/21 94.74.128.0/18 94.101.128.0/20 94.101.176.0/20 94.101.240.0/20 94.139.160.0/19 94.182.0.0/15 94.184.0.0/17 94.232.168.0/21 94.241.128.0/18 95.38.0.0/16 95.80.128.0/18 95.81.64.0/18 95.82.0.0/18 95.82.64.0/18 95.130.56.0/21 95.130.240.0/21 188.34.0.0/16 188.93.64.0/21 188.121.96.0/19 188.121.128.0/19 188.136.128.0/17 188.158.0.0/15 193.189.122.0/23 194.225.0.0/16 195.146.32.0/19 212.16.64.0/19 212.33.192.0/19 212.50.224.0/19 212.80.0.0/19 212.95.128.0/19 212.120.192.0/19 213.176.0.0/19 213.176.32.0/19 213.176.64.0/18 213.195.0.0/18 213.207.192.0/18 213.217.32.0/19 213.233.160.0/19 217.11.16.0/20 217.24.144.0/20 217.25.48.0/20 217.64.144.0/20 217.66.192.0/20 217.66.208.0/20 217.146.208.0/20 217.172.96.0/19 217.174.16.0/20 217.218.0.0/15
Oh shit it is. It says 2009 at the top of the page and 2008 in grey-on-white text further down the page. My mistake.