as bad and very similar to the RIAA wanting a part of the iPod sales money from Apple
Why? Does the iPod's package have a label on it saying "Designed for the RIAA's music"? Or even a "Designed to satisfy the RIAA's stupidity over DRM"... in which case, yeah Apple should cough up!!
Remember when many websites used to have the IE or Netscape logo on it with a "Best Viewed In" tag? Did people have to pay MS or NS a fee?
I can see a day when every paid job in the USA is in the legal profession, and no other businesses exist, everyone just earns a living suing everyone else.
NAT is a useful tool, but like many tools, it's been abused and bent to fit. On the other hand, some protocols like SIP do *not* do any favours when IP addresses are translated.
I do not think the use of NAT has been exhausted: many mobile/cellular operators use nasty NAT tricks for mobile terminals (i.e. phones doing GPRS/EDGE)... and some consumer ISPs do it too. As ipv4 space becomes harder to get, I can see that NATting by ISPs will become more of a problem, so instead of counting yourself lucky getting a static IP, you'll be asking for a static port forwarding instead or something equally nasty.
I work for an ISP as a programmer and the network engineers scoff at the idea of needing to roll out ipv6, saying that they'd only do it if big customers began to ask for it. Given that we're doing VOIP now, and NATting by customers is a problem, I would prefer them to bite the bullet and just get on with it!
As you say, there are v few ISPs who do ipv6 on DSL, the only one I can think of is A&A in the UK.
the classes would have to change slightly for internet retailers, mentioning talking fast is sort of moot
Talking fast would be q. important if Ebay use Skype to conduct online telephone/conference-style auctions. This is one of the few reasons, to me at least, that makes the purchase have any purpose.
Snag is, the network lag/latency; you could make a final bid, denial of service attack the VOIP server and blot anyone else out from bidding:-)
spent 2 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars designing and developing a retail solution based around a particular domain name
Have you ever considered that putting all your eggs into SUCH a critical but easy to lose resource such as a domain name is really REALLY stupid? Did you really have no "plan B", to have a couple of other good (but maybe not QUITE so good) domain names that would allow continuity of business? Even if you didn't lose control of the domains, any kind of major outage or error on your DNS hosting for just a day would have been disastrous!
Of course, you might have been talking about sex.com, in which case, yeah, I'd be pissed off too, and maybe a tad bitter, as that case dragged on for *years*.
I would guess that their problem has been signing up the manufacturers of PDAs and cellphones to actually build-in their product, and to protect their intellectual property as it seems to be an obvious solution (just like many of the best inventions).
I once worked for one of the company's senior staff, John Halfpenny; he's a very smart guy, widely respected round Cambridge, a good businessman and knows his technology, so I've been following this product with interest.
while sony has surely made some serious profits off having a proprietary memory card, it seems to have helped them make all of their devices able to share cards, which helps people like me that have owned multiple sony products at a time.
you imply there's just one type of Sony Memory Stick... let's count them, shall we?
original memory stick
magicgate memory stick
memory stick select (same as original only 2 banks, with a switch)
memory stick duo (thinner, shorter)
memory stick pro (same as original only more capacity)
magicgate memory stick pro (same as original only more capacity)
newly released minute memory stick
some of the smaller units can be used with adaptors to fit into older larger sockets, but older kit which doesn't know about the Pro sticks can't touch them.
the only Sony products I have are a camcorder (because it was the only true 16:9 sensor camcorder at the time, and I don't care about the stills function and the memory stick), and a Wega flat screen TV (which isn't actually as good as Sony zealots say, but it's half decent)... I'd never buy a Sony product which depended solely on their proprietary technology to work such as a still ms-only digicam.
it seems to me that the most portable (as in software-wise rather than physical size) solution is to create a qemu disk image, in which you install your entire working environment, copy that disk image to your USB flash drive. Then, on any computer, Mac OSX, Intel X86 (windows or linux, 32 or 64 bit), boot up and run qemu. That way it doesn't matter what the host machine *is*, as qemu provides a complete virtual machine with all the required virtual drivers for basic use.
Qemu allows you to pause the virtual machine, and save its state, thus allowing a sort of "instant-on" effect. It's not as quick as vmware, but it's cheaper, albeit the qemu x86 accelerator is not GPL and does require custom modules to be installed in kernel.
If you're going to be running this for a while, copy the disk image onto the host's own hard drive for speed.
You could also use a hard-drive based MP3 player with USB or firewire if you really need a humongous sized disk image.
If MS and AOL combine, could it even get any more evil than that?
[rising to the tollbait]
yeah, they'll be running it all on SCO, powered by bio-diesel created from dead genetically-modified baby seals which were clubbed to death by Larry Ellison.
it's in a kind of geostationary orbit, snag is, at sea level.. but at least the images it takes are *really* detailed, even if they don't cover a wide area!
When was 9.3 released? Wasn't it only a few months ago?
yes and no. 9.3 was release maybe five months ago for people willing to buy it, and then a few months later (late August/early September IIRC) put on the ftp servers for free download/install. Think of it as a little like region encoding on DVDs - designed to allow SuSE to make some money out of sales before freeloaders come along.
Novell have broken this cycle, and are now releasing the boxed/$ suite - which includes licensed packages that they can't give away for anonymous download - at the same time as the OSS downloadable version which doesn't have any licensing restrictions.
indeed, you can install suse from local media: dvd, from multiple CDs, from a files stored on local hard drive.
You can also install over a network: SMB, http, ftp. You simply boot from CD, or even floppy (might need two or three floppies depending on drivers)
You can do a graphical install, or a text install. You can even use VNC to control a remote install, thus keeping physical interaction with the machine to a minimum - very useful for example when a machine is in a rack in a data center and it only takes a few minutes to talk someone through the network setup.
Now I will explain why I bought an xbox. I am not a games player, sure, some are great eye candy. I have three xbox games, legit (I intend to have one of each genre: driving, fighting, 1st person shooter, etc). No, I bought the Xbox to be a media player: built-in hard drive stores media, plus some downloaded games (only illegimate because they were not done with licensed MS SDK), and the network connection allows SMB access to my main media jukebox, and to listen to streaming radio.
Thank you Microsoft for providing me with a subsidised living room PC: I couldn't have bought a uATX mobo, P3/700, memory, hdd, dvd, case/psu for the GBP100 it cost 2 years ago. Even now I'd be hard pressed. I hope the Xbox360 will be a great upgrade!
a failed handshake on a port where netstat doesn't show a process is a near-certain indicator. If you combine with handshake with an actual connection attempt to a remote system
This supposes that the rootkit doesn't intercept IP at a low level and only responds on stealthed ports to specific IP addresses. The rootkit doesn't even have to use TCP or UDP, it'd be possible to use a different protocol number in the IP datagram.
Basically, you need a NIDS box which passively sniffs the network to your server, and looks for any sort of traffic which doesn't look "normal" - this is hard to do.
As an example of the trickery that can be played with what looks like normal traffic, see ozymandns or nstx - tunnelling over DNS.
there has been a tremendous increase in miniturization and technology since the original GPS sats
your statement is naive in that it supposes that mil-spec and rad-hardened technology has advanced at the same rate. Once, it was the military who led the way and consumer devices followed; now, it's the other way round, and in fact the military/space people have big problems with obsolescence, especially with the recent EU rules on Reductions Of Hazardous Substances (often known as "lead free", but actually covers other things as well). In some instances, military kit is being forced to use automotive-spec components as replacements, because that's all that's available and at least the devices have a wider temperature range.
so, yes, mil- and space-spec hardware is advancing, but the testing cycle is far longer - think months rather than weeks. when you're spending $M's in launch fees, you've got to get it right!
I have been asked for years, "What if you get hit by a Mack truck?"
I recall one company asking their sole programmer on their key product this and what would happen to their software maintenance. He replied "I don't care, I'll be dead"!
This phenonema has been commented on for some time... the ability to customise your online TV, radio, newspaper etc in order to only hear news you'd like to hear.
The idea is sold to us as a way to simplify our lives. The snag is it also helps disenfranchise sections of the population, and if abused allow gov'ts to control the flow of news by simply ensuring it gets marked as irrelevant. People could also then decide to never hear bad news, and could cause even greater polarisation in society between rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy. Imagine if 60% of the US population never knew about Hurricane Katrina?
Is it inevitable? Can society decide to control the viewing habits of everyone, i.e. a reverse censorship to make people NOT turn off? That's a big question!
making it scratch proof, I can't stand so many scratches. Cases do not work so well
do what most people do:
take this fine example of 21st century technology - the ultimate in microminiaturization, massive portable data storage, and state-of-the-art psycho-acoustic digital music compression algorithms, and wrap it in a bit of dead cow.
When the only time you get a say in the running of the country is the 20 seconds it takes to cast a vote, you're not playing a part in a democratic process, you're simply playing the part of an insignificant cog in the marketing machine of the parties who exploit us.
We all, pretty much, like in republics, not democracies, if you want to be accurate.
I remember an early amiga program which generated music and had this sort of graphical display - lines, blocks etc.
I think it was "Instant Music" from Electronic arts, but I can't be sure. I'd have to go into my attic to find the disk... and the Amiga.
Ok, the algorithm might me more sophisticated to generate something less apparently random noise, but I wouldn't rush out to buy the "music" it generates.
since your average generator-user willbe doing some field work, she would need to carry her basic equipment somewhere
the first thing I do when working on-site is to put down all the luggage. and since the backpack's generator is motion-driven, once you've arrived, you'll stop generating anyway. I guess you'd have to get up and go jogging every ten minutes to recharge the batteries!
warning! humour alert: with generators on the wrist, a few minutes surfing for porn will probably store a few megajoules ready to power everything!!!
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bring back Jon Postel and IANA... he did it all practically for free instead of the huge financial wasteland that is ICANN and Verisign.
Why? Does the iPod's package have a label on it saying "Designed for the RIAA's music"? Or even a "Designed to satisfy the RIAA's stupidity over DRM"... in which case, yeah Apple should cough up!!
Remember when many websites used to have the IE or Netscape logo on it with a "Best Viewed In" tag? Did people have to pay MS or NS a fee?
I can see a day when every paid job in the USA is in the legal profession, and no other businesses exist, everyone just earns a living suing everyone else.
NAT is a useful tool, but like many tools, it's been abused and bent to fit. On the other hand, some protocols like SIP do *not* do any favours when IP addresses are translated.
I do not think the use of NAT has been exhausted: many mobile/cellular operators use nasty NAT tricks for mobile terminals (i.e. phones doing GPRS/EDGE)... and some consumer ISPs do it too. As ipv4 space becomes harder to get, I can see that NATting by ISPs will become more of a problem, so instead of counting yourself lucky getting a static IP, you'll be asking for a static port forwarding instead or something equally nasty.
I work for an ISP as a programmer and the network engineers scoff at the idea of needing to roll out ipv6, saying that they'd only do it if big customers began to ask for it. Given that we're doing VOIP now, and NATting by customers is a problem, I would prefer them to bite the bullet and just get on with it!
As you say, there are v few ISPs who do ipv6 on DSL, the only one I can think of is A&A in the UK.
Talking fast would be q. important if Ebay use Skype to conduct online telephone/conference-style auctions. This is one of the few reasons, to me at least, that makes the purchase have any purpose.
Snag is, the network lag/latency; you could make a final bid, denial of service attack the VOIP server and blot anyone else out from bidding :-)
Have you ever considered that putting all your eggs into SUCH a critical but easy to lose resource such as a domain name is really REALLY stupid? Did you really have no "plan B", to have a couple of other good (but maybe not QUITE so good) domain names that would allow continuity of business? Even if you didn't lose control of the domains, any kind of major outage or error on your DNS hosting for just a day would have been disastrous!
Of course, you might have been talking about sex.com, in which case, yeah, I'd be pissed off too, and maybe a tad bitter, as that case dragged on for *years*.
their latest news page http://www.splashpower.com/news/latest_news.html shows they announced product in October 28, 2002: "Splashpower Announces Universal Wireless Recharging"
I would guess that their problem has been signing up the manufacturers of PDAs and cellphones to actually build-in their product, and to protect their intellectual property as it seems to be an obvious solution (just like many of the best inventions).
I once worked for one of the company's senior staff, John Halfpenny; he's a very smart guy, widely respected round Cambridge, a good businessman and knows his technology, so I've been following this product with interest.
you imply there's just one type of Sony Memory Stick... let's count them, shall we?
some of the smaller units can be used with adaptors to fit into older larger sockets, but older kit which doesn't know about the Pro sticks can't touch them.
the only Sony products I have are a camcorder (because it was the only true 16:9 sensor camcorder at the time, and I don't care about the stills function and the memory stick), and a Wega flat screen TV (which isn't actually as good as Sony zealots say, but it's half decent)... I'd never buy a Sony product which depended solely on their proprietary technology to work such as a still ms-only digicam.
Qemu allows you to pause the virtual machine, and save its state, thus allowing a sort of "instant-on" effect. It's not as quick as vmware, but it's cheaper, albeit the qemu x86 accelerator is not GPL and does require custom modules to be installed in kernel.
If you're going to be running this for a while, copy the disk image onto the host's own hard drive for speed.
You could also use a hard-drive based MP3 player with USB or firewire if you really need a humongous sized disk image.
[rising to the tollbait] yeah, they'll be running it all on SCO, powered by bio-diesel created from dead genetically-modified baby seals which were clubbed to death by Larry Ellison.
it's in a kind of geostationary orbit, snag is, at sea level.. but at least the images it takes are *really* detailed, even if they don't cover a wide area!
yes and no. 9.3 was release maybe five months ago for people willing to buy it, and then a few months later (late August/early September IIRC) put on the ftp servers for free download/install. Think of it as a little like region encoding on DVDs - designed to allow SuSE to make some money out of sales before freeloaders come along.
Novell have broken this cycle, and are now releasing the boxed/$ suite - which includes licensed packages that they can't give away for anonymous download - at the same time as the OSS downloadable version which doesn't have any licensing restrictions.
indeed, you can install suse from local media: dvd, from multiple CDs, from a files stored on local hard drive.
You can also install over a network: SMB, http, ftp. You simply boot from CD, or even floppy (might need two or three floppies depending on drivers)
You can do a graphical install, or a text install. You can even use VNC to control a remote install, thus keeping physical interaction with the machine to a minimum - very useful for example when a machine is in a rack in a data center and it only takes a few minutes to talk someone through the network setup.
maybe.. but I bought it off-the-shelf, ready made... ok, so I voided the warranty a week later!
Now I will explain why I bought an xbox. I am not a games player, sure, some are great eye candy. I have three xbox games, legit (I intend to have one of each genre: driving, fighting, 1st person shooter, etc). No, I bought the Xbox to be a media player: built-in hard drive stores media, plus some downloaded games (only illegimate because they were not done with licensed MS SDK), and the network connection allows SMB access to my main media jukebox, and to listen to streaming radio.
Thank you Microsoft for providing me with a subsidised living room PC: I couldn't have bought a uATX mobo, P3/700, memory, hdd, dvd, case/psu for the GBP100 it cost 2 years ago. Even now I'd be hard pressed. I hope the Xbox360 will be a great upgrade!
[ ] still no flying car
This supposes that the rootkit doesn't intercept IP at a low level and only responds on stealthed ports to specific IP addresses. The rootkit doesn't even have to use TCP or UDP, it'd be possible to use a different protocol number in the IP datagram.
Basically, you need a NIDS box which passively sniffs the network to your server, and looks for any sort of traffic which doesn't look "normal" - this is hard to do.
As an example of the trickery that can be played with what looks like normal traffic, see ozymandns or nstx - tunnelling over DNS.
your statement is naive in that it supposes that mil-spec and rad-hardened technology has advanced at the same rate. Once, it was the military who led the way and consumer devices followed; now, it's the other way round, and in fact the military/space people have big problems with obsolescence, especially with the recent EU rules on Reductions Of Hazardous Substances (often known as "lead free", but actually covers other things as well). In some instances, military kit is being forced to use automotive-spec components as replacements, because that's all that's available and at least the devices have a wider temperature range.
so, yes, mil- and space-spec hardware is advancing, but the testing cycle is far longer - think months rather than weeks. when you're spending $M's in launch fees, you've got to get it right!
everyone knows there's no such thing as a free lunch, or a free (as Pratchett said) a free launch!
I recall one company asking their sole programmer on their key product this and what would happen to their software maintenance. He replied "I don't care, I'll be dead"!
The idea is sold to us as a way to simplify our lives. The snag is it also helps disenfranchise sections of the population, and if abused allow gov'ts to control the flow of news by simply ensuring it gets marked as irrelevant. People could also then decide to never hear bad news, and could cause even greater polarisation in society between rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy. Imagine if 60% of the US population never knew about Hurricane Katrina?
About 8 or 9 years ago my boss at the time did a lecture on "The Daily Me".. the idea has been kicking around for years... e.g. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1017779142.php
Is it inevitable? Can society decide to control the viewing habits of everyone, i.e. a reverse censorship to make people NOT turn off? That's a big question!
Paul
a holdup person comes in and the first thing they want is everyone's hands in the air
put a detector in the wrist bands so that if both are held inverted, it will send an alert
or simply CCTV in the cabin seems the smartest move.
do what most people do:
take this fine example of 21st century technology - the ultimate in microminiaturization, massive portable data storage, and state-of-the-art psycho-acoustic digital music compression algorithms, and wrap it in a bit of dead cow.
When the only time you get a say in the running of the country is the 20 seconds it takes to cast a vote, you're not playing a part in a democratic process, you're simply playing the part of an insignificant cog in the marketing machine of the parties who exploit us.
We all, pretty much, like in republics, not democracies, if you want to be accurate.
I think it was "Instant Music" from Electronic arts, but I can't be sure. I'd have to go into my attic to find the disk... and the Amiga.
Ok, the algorithm might me more sophisticated to generate something less apparently random noise, but I wouldn't rush out to buy the "music" it generates.
the first thing I do when working on-site is to put down all the luggage. and since the backpack's generator is motion-driven, once you've arrived, you'll stop generating anyway. I guess you'd have to get up and go jogging every ten minutes to recharge the batteries!
warning! humour alert: with generators on the wrist, a few minutes surfing for porn will probably store a few megajoules ready to power everything!!!