Netgear/Infrant has never gone into the specifics of how it's done, but I'm guessing the drives are partitioned and the partitions are then RAIDed to ensure drive-level failure can't cause a problem. I know I've seen people do the same thing in software on x86 machines (in LVM, maybe?), so I'd guess that's what they're up to.
That's exactly how it's done. On my 1000S with v3 firmware, the raid partitions were sd[abcd]3 and were in raid 5 with one big lvm volume on top. Unfortunately, I know this because I had to recover my data this way after my 1000S went south due to firmware image corruption. Getting the raid reassembled under linux was easy: modprobe md, force reassembly of the raid, scan and activate the lvm volume group, mount the volume.
Netgear support was next to useless when reflashing the CF didn't solve the problem. I wouldn't call their tech support terrible; I figure that they probably solve at least 95% of their customers' issues. I suspect that they could have solved my issue as well, but once you're out of the warranty period, they really have no motivation to do so. The 1000S was only warrantied for a pitiful 1 year; at least the current versions come with a very respectable 5 year warranty.
The other sticky thing about purchasing these devices from any company is that while you may care about your data, they don't. Their responsibility within the warranty period is only to keep your hardware operational. Backups are wonderful, and presumably everyone will back up the super important stuff at regular intervals, but most people don't have another place on their network that will hold the full 1.5->4+ TB of data that these things can store. Sure, you could buy additional units/drives/whatever, but that's pricy if what you're protecting is just music/video files or something of that nature.
I don't think you're off-base here because I really can't think of any other reason to do this.
Not only does it restrict the character options available for RL male players, it completely changes the gaming experience for RL female players who choose female characters.
When I played WoW, there seemed to be roughly the same amount of female and male characters. There were plenty of men who played female characters, so people didn't see a female character wander onto their screen and immediately start sending "Pics plz" "R U hot?" "Wanna cyber?" tells. In that situation, RL women who play female characters had the option to keep their sex to themselves. This requirement removes that option, and will certainly result in a increase of (probably undesired) attention.
Either way, it seems like it'll be hard for someone to immediately get T-mobile service on their hacked iPhone, but I could be wrong - I'm looking forward to the first story of someone who goes into a T-mobile store or thereabouts and requests service for their unlocked iPhone. If that person is already a T-Mobile customer, there would be no need to request service at all - just swap SIMs.
As T-Mo customer, I can tell you from firsthand experience that they really don't care what phone you use (with the obvious caveat that if they didn't sell it, they won't support it). I'm kind of a cell phone geek, and I tend to buy nonlocked, nonbranded Euro phones that aren't available here through any carrier. I switched to T-Mo from Cingular a couple years back when Cingular bought out AT&T and converted everything around here from 1900 MHz to 850 MHz. This change made my tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz Nokia 9500 Communicator about as useful as a brick, which it already resembled in other ways. When I went in to the local T-mobile store, I showed them the phone and told them I wanted to verify that it would work as expected on their network before even bothering to talk about plans. The SA removed the SIM from her phone, put it in mine, and everything was golden so we hashed out the plan details. It seemed to me that having a non-T-Mobile phone was actually advantageous: if you buy one of their phones, they only allow you to choose from the certain subset of their data plans that they have deemed appropriate for your phone model. Since my phone wasn't pigeonholed, they let me make my choice from the whole list.
If you're asking whether T-Mobile will give a new customer just a SIM (without a contract), as opposed to a SIM + phone (with contract), I really don't know because I've never tried it. I kind of doubt it though; US phone providers are really locked into the idea of "contracts". If you sign a contract, you can just choose one of their free phones and have a backup ready if you ever need one. After you've been a customer for a short time (90 days IIRC), they'll even give you the unlock code for the phone that you got from them so that you can use it on someone else's network.
Mine beeped like that when I didn't have anything connected to the PS/2 or USB ports bc it powers itself that way unless you connect the (optional) power adapter. You don't need to buy the one from Belkin; you can get the specs from their site and pick up one locally.
This was the route I took since I use it to share video between Sun/Mac/Lintel and wanted to use the separate keyboards and mice for each system independently of the KVM.
My only real complaint with that KVM was the beeping sound whenever you switch inputs. I opened it up and desoldered the beeper about a year ago, and it's been much more pleasant since then.
You didn't get burned by Apple, you got burned by whatever reseller you bought it from. Had you ordered it from the Apple Online Store yesterday, or even last week, they would have automatically shipped you out the new model for the new price.
I realize that doesn't help you very much at this point, but maybe it will be useful in the future...
Sorry about your situation though, that sucks:-(
With 1GB of space, an address not on your personal domain, threading, and searching, this seems like it would be nice to use for mailing lists and Usenet replies.
That sort of mail is generally public anyway, so the privacy issues would be negligible.
Is your friend 100% positive that this vulnerability is to blame?
All the reports say that it is a Denial of Service vulnerability rather than one that allows execution of arbitrary code...
I'm sure that security researchers at companies like EEye are providing Microsoft with proof-of-concept exploit code when submitting vulnerabilities.
It's pretty obvious from that fact that exploit code does exist before a patch is released almost 100% of the time; it's just not released to the public until after the patch is available most of the time.
From the article:
"Instead, the security breach will be placed into the open source software from inside, by someone working on the project."
That's just as likely to happen in a closed-source project as an open source project. It is, however, much more likely thatthis kind of activity will be discovered in an open-source product since anyone and everyone can look at the source to see it.
Screw swinging tux pendants - diamonds are a girl's best friend.
What this geek girl wants for Christmas:
- The plexiglass front door for my Middle Atlantic rack
- A good USB->serial adapter
- The O'Reilly Networking CD Bookshelf
Of course, if you really, really love me, nothing says it better than a 17" Powerbook;-D
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Netgear/Infrant has never gone into the specifics of how it's done, but I'm guessing the drives are partitioned and the partitions are then RAIDed to ensure drive-level failure can't cause a problem. I know I've seen people do the same thing in software on x86 machines (in LVM, maybe?), so I'd guess that's what they're up to.
That's exactly how it's done. On my 1000S with v3 firmware, the raid partitions were sd[abcd]3 and were in raid 5 with one big lvm volume on top. Unfortunately, I know this because I had to recover my data this way after my 1000S went south due to firmware image corruption. Getting the raid reassembled under linux was easy: modprobe md, force reassembly of the raid, scan and activate the lvm volume group, mount the volume.
Netgear support was next to useless when reflashing the CF didn't solve the problem. I wouldn't call their tech support terrible; I figure that they probably solve at least 95% of their customers' issues. I suspect that they could have solved my issue as well, but once you're out of the warranty period, they really have no motivation to do so. The 1000S was only warrantied for a pitiful 1 year; at least the current versions come with a very respectable 5 year warranty.
The other sticky thing about purchasing these devices from any company is that while you may care about your data, they don't. Their responsibility within the warranty period is only to keep your hardware operational. Backups are wonderful, and presumably everyone will back up the super important stuff at regular intervals, but most people don't have another place on their network that will hold the full 1.5->4+ TB of data that these things can store. Sure, you could buy additional units/drives/whatever, but that's pricy if what you're protecting is just music/video files or something of that nature.
I don't think you're off-base here because I really can't think of any other reason to do this.
Not only does it restrict the character options available for RL male players, it completely changes the gaming experience for RL female players who choose female characters.
When I played WoW, there seemed to be roughly the same amount of female and male characters. There were plenty of men who played female characters, so people didn't see a female character wander onto their screen and immediately start sending "Pics plz" "R U hot?" "Wanna cyber?" tells. In that situation, RL women who play female characters had the option to keep their sex to themselves. This requirement removes that option, and will certainly result in a increase of (probably undesired) attention.
As T-Mo customer, I can tell you from firsthand experience that they really don't care what phone you use (with the obvious caveat that if they didn't sell it, they won't support it). I'm kind of a cell phone geek, and I tend to buy nonlocked, nonbranded Euro phones that aren't available here through any carrier. I switched to T-Mo from Cingular a couple years back when Cingular bought out AT&T and converted everything around here from 1900 MHz to 850 MHz. This change made my tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz Nokia 9500 Communicator about as useful as a brick, which it already resembled in other ways. When I went in to the local T-mobile store, I showed them the phone and told them I wanted to verify that it would work as expected on their network before even bothering to talk about plans. The SA removed the SIM from her phone, put it in mine, and everything was golden so we hashed out the plan details. It seemed to me that having a non-T-Mobile phone was actually advantageous: if you buy one of their phones, they only allow you to choose from the certain subset of their data plans that they have deemed appropriate for your phone model. Since my phone wasn't pigeonholed, they let me make my choice from the whole list.
If you're asking whether T-Mobile will give a new customer just a SIM (without a contract), as opposed to a SIM + phone (with contract), I really don't know because I've never tried it. I kind of doubt it though; US phone providers are really locked into the idea of "contracts". If you sign a contract, you can just choose one of their free phones and have a backup ready if you ever need one. After you've been a customer for a short time (90 days IIRC), they'll even give you the unlock code for the phone that you got from them so that you can use it on someone else's network.
Mine beeped like that when I didn't have anything connected to the PS/2 or USB ports bc it powers itself that way unless you connect the (optional) power adapter. You don't need to buy the one from Belkin; you can get the specs from their site and pick up one locally.
This was the route I took since I use it to share video between Sun/Mac/Lintel and wanted to use the separate keyboards and mice for each system independently of the KVM.
My only real complaint with that KVM was the beeping sound whenever you switch inputs. I opened it up and desoldered the beeper about a year ago, and it's been much more pleasant since then.
This list is all the bugs that have been fixed in Windows XP through SP2, not bug fixes exclusive to SP2.
The "Diva Gem" from "Daisy"?
If they're not targetting 12 year old girls, I suspect they've made a mistake there.
You didn't get burned by Apple, you got burned by whatever reseller you bought it from. Had you ordered it from the Apple Online Store yesterday, or even last week, they would have automatically shipped you out the new model for the new price.
:-(
I realize that doesn't help you very much at this point, but maybe it will be useful in the future... Sorry about your situation though, that sucks
With 1GB of space, an address not on your personal domain, threading, and searching, this seems like it would be nice to use for mailing lists and Usenet replies.
That sort of mail is generally public anyway, so the privacy issues would be negligible.
Is your friend 100% positive that this vulnerability is to blame? All the reports say that it is a Denial of Service vulnerability rather than one that allows execution of arbitrary code...
I'm sure that security researchers at companies like EEye are providing Microsoft with proof-of-concept exploit code when submitting vulnerabilities.
It's pretty obvious from that fact that exploit code does exist before a patch is released almost 100% of the time; it's just not released to the public until after the patch is available most of the time.
From the article:
"Instead, the security breach will be placed into the open source software from inside, by someone working on the project."
That's just as likely to happen in a closed-source project as an open source project. It is, however, much more likely thatthis kind of activity will be discovered in an open-source product since anyone and everyone can look at the source to see it.
No more than I feel guilty for drinking champagne instead of Champale...
Screw swinging tux pendants - diamonds are a girl's best friend.
;-D
What this geek girl wants for Christmas:
- The plexiglass front door for my Middle Atlantic rack
- A good USB->serial adapter
- The O'Reilly Networking CD Bookshelf
Of course, if you really, really love me, nothing says it better than a 17" Powerbook