This indirect approach to communicate is very interesting, as it's indirect.
The trojan could broadcast the 'odd data', containing information, and such, while another trojan can listen for weird packets like those, and grab info from them.
As the source cannot be identified easily, it would be very hard to discover the infected computer, and the destination doesn't exist, it's a weird way to communicate.
A bit offtopic, but does anyone have a guide for 2.4 users to upgrade to 2.5? Lots of options seem to have moved/removed, and I dunno what to choose for my DFE-530TX card.
If the Pentagon takes the initative and starts using IPv6, soon the rest of the US government should follow suit, then companies, corporations, and then the rest of the world.
Which is a good thing, I suppose. Or does IPv6 have some evil bit that can track down Saddam?:p
Has Microsoft realised that most people just want an OS, without all the bundled software that comes with it. The majority of Windows users probably use Winamp over WMP, use Office/OO/SO over Wordpad, Photoshop/PSP over Paint, and more importantly, Mozilla/etc over IE.
If Microsoft removed all these obselete packages from Windows' default installation, maybe we can buy an OS cause it's an OS, not for the stuff that's in it, and maybe cut the costs, not to mention the bugs.
Also, Telstra has been playing dirty recently, saying that a certain customer's home cannot be connected to iiNet, but his application was accepted by Telstra.
I started using Telstra ADSL back before they started capping the bandwidth, and all I can say they are absolute shit.
When ringing them when the net is down, I had to wait at least 20 minutes before I got through, and when I did, they wouldn't help me because I wasn't using Windows, their USB-to-Ethernet converter, and my computer was plugged into a network. When I finally had reverted my network back to whatever they wanted, they finally started helping me, and the problem was on their end, as I already knew.
Usually it takes around a day before it starts working again, and that's nowhere near satisfactory.
After endless hours of surfing, I found iiNet, a Perth-based ISP that offered 512/128, 6gb on peak and 6gb off peak for $79.95 AUD. Which was much better than the $100 we were paying for unrealiable 3gb. And if you go past the limit, you get 'shaped' to 72kbits, which is good enough for surfing. Plus, they have an extensive peering network, PIPE Networks, which include a large amount of ISPs and FTPs to grab latest trailers, etc., off.
But wait! There's more! iiNet has an unique way of counting your bandwidth limit. It adds up the last 30 days of usage, and if it goes over your limit, it starts shaping the next day. That means if you manage your download effectively, you can squeeze in 12gb of downloads easily. Only downside to iiNet, however, is you have to pay in blocks of three months.
Otherwise, iiNet is a great ISP to look at if you wanna get of Telstra.
Why does Walmart want to go into the rental business anyway? To make more money? Probably, but the problem is as with any monoply, if we rely on them, and if they go down, we'll have to find somewhere else to rent our vids. And by the time that happens, competitors would have already been squashed, so we have no places to rent our pr0n out for a while:(
I think all companies should just stick to one main service and specialise in them. That way, if one business goes down, everything else doesn't go down either.
In other languages, like Chinese or Japanese, calligraphy is an art. Every single stroke must be done with care, and the end result is a very, very nice looking piece of art.
While Japan probably has the largest percentage of people using cell-phones and the such to type, only the older part of the population still hold the skill.
A skilled calligraphist(?) can easily make a fortune out of just working just producing piece after piece of philosophical and wise statements about life. Each piece can be from a rather small A4 sheet to a massive piece that can cover your whole wall. Those large pieces can easily cost more than a grand, depending on the style, and the words used. Each symbol/word can take as long as ten seconds for each one, so imagine trying to write an essay like that;-)
I usually type whatever I can myself, as my cursive is illegible, and my handwriting in general is ugly. There has been times when I lost my train of thought because I was crossing out my last sentence:/
Only thought of this after I clicked "Reply", but I think there should be a law for patents that if anything has been 'free' for so long, shouldn't be patented so there isn't a great deal of confusion over the royalties issue.
And all forms of communications shouldn't be patented either. Imagine if someone patented HTML...
PNG is far better IMHO, because it's 32bit, as opposed to GIF's limitation of 8bit. Also, PNG supports 8bit transparency, which allows AA to work with transparency.
Only problem I have with PNG is that IE 5.5 doesn't support it's transparency properly without some extra code.
I'm a fan of anime myself, but as middle-school student with no job, all the anime I can get my hands on are either fansubs... or fansubs.
And more often than not, one of my favourite series suddenly gets licensed, and then the fansubber group usually drops it, or it goes underground (if there is an absolutely HUGE fanbase who can't wait, someone will pick it up).
Same goes with manga. I'm a webmaster of a manga scanslation group (Manga-Sketchbook), and we have a policy to drop projects once they are licensed... or we remove all traces of it off the site, and it goes underground (Although I swear we haven't done that... yet:p).
When a company licences either a manga or anime, they usually take around 6 months to have anything to show, which is a very long time for whoever's addicted.
As for the threatening-fansites thing that sometimes happens, I think that's a stupid idea. I haven't heard of a case of any Japanese company that threatened a subbing/scanslation group so far, because it actually gives them more exposure.
More often than not, people will usually buy the licensed version of their favourite anime/manga (when they come out, that is), but there are always some selfish people that will never pay, cause they're such cheap bastards.
As for exposure, I often get emails from other scanslation groups from all over the world, asking permission to use our translations to translate to their own language, whether it's French, Indonesian, German, etc. That's a lot of exposure for free, don't you reckon?
I'd like to see more anime-related news on/., and make create a section for manga alone.
End of Rant.
Well, I think in about like 10 years time, we would have mastered bio-feedback, or whatever, and have it so it detects our physical attributes.
Instead of everyone being the same size, look, whatnot, it would be much more interesting if everyone played as themselves. After all, CS is supposed to be a team-based game, and a team means each person brings different skills to the table.
Still, the current mouse/keyboard combination isn't the best way to play FPSes yet, as I'd rather play with a gun. It gives you a certain satisfication when you actually get a headshot with your own bare hands...
Imagine having to do weights so you can actually pick up the para and run with it in the future...;)
True, but I'm pretty sure a fair bit of geeks get off their ass and go play a little LaserForce/Tag sometime... the ones that don't have an addiction for food, that is.
What I'm afraid of is the all the l33tsp34k/acronyms we'll find on the field:
"LOL! j00 missed!"
"omg that was so BS..."
"i'm gonna own j00 with my PNTBALL-16!"
CS IMHO is still a very unrealistic game... it's very hard to hit a moving target that's 40 or so meters away from you.
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This indirect approach to communicate is very interesting, as it's indirect.
The trojan could broadcast the 'odd data', containing information, and such, while another trojan can listen for weird packets like those, and grab info from them.
As the source cannot be identified easily, it would be very hard to discover the infected computer, and the destination doesn't exist, it's a weird way to communicate.
My two cents.
I couldn't see that option when configuring the 2.5 kernel, I'm using via-rhine for 2.4.20-r2 (Gentoo) now.
It seems this guy has pasted this piece of crap before: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=67877&cid=6220 788
.. I couldn't get AGP to work with 8x :/
A bit offtopic, but does anyone have a guide for 2.4 users to upgrade to 2.5? Lots of options seem to have moved/removed, and I dunno what to choose for my DFE-530TX card.
Why not chess? Give them 30 seconds per side for a whole game with physical clocks and see how they fare ;)
I've seen real life chess games with 5 seconds on each clock. Pieces flew everywhere, player's other hand was always on the clock, etc.
If the Pentagon takes the initative and starts using IPv6, soon the rest of the US government should follow suit, then companies, corporations, and then the rest of the world.
:p
Which is a good thing, I suppose. Or does IPv6 have some evil bit that can track down Saddam?
I'd do anything to make Microsoft look bad. :p
:P
Hold on, does Microsoft count as 'competition' or a monopoly?
Has Microsoft realised that most people just want an OS, without all the bundled software that comes with it. The majority of Windows users probably use Winamp over WMP, use Office/OO/SO over Wordpad, Photoshop/PSP over Paint, and more importantly, Mozilla/etc over IE.
If Microsoft removed all these obselete packages from Windows' default installation, maybe we can buy an OS cause it's an OS, not for the stuff that's in it, and maybe cut the costs, not to mention the bugs.
Also, Telstra has been playing dirty recently, saying that a certain customer's home cannot be connected to iiNet, but his application was accepted by Telstra.
More info here.
I started using Telstra ADSL back before they started capping the bandwidth, and all I can say they are absolute shit.
When ringing them when the net is down, I had to wait at least 20 minutes before I got through, and when I did, they wouldn't help me because I wasn't using Windows, their USB-to-Ethernet converter, and my computer was plugged into a network. When I finally had reverted my network back to whatever they wanted, they finally started helping me, and the problem was on their end, as I already knew. Usually it takes around a day before it starts working again, and that's nowhere near satisfactory.
After endless hours of surfing, I found iiNet, a Perth-based ISP that offered 512/128, 6gb on peak and 6gb off peak for $79.95 AUD. Which was much better than the $100 we were paying for unrealiable 3gb. And if you go past the limit, you get 'shaped' to 72kbits, which is good enough for surfing. Plus, they have an extensive peering network, PIPE Networks, which include a large amount of ISPs and FTPs to grab latest trailers, etc., off.
But wait! There's more! iiNet has an unique way of counting your bandwidth limit. It adds up the last 30 days of usage, and if it goes over your limit, it starts shaping the next day. That means if you manage your download effectively, you can squeeze in 12gb of downloads easily. Only downside to iiNet, however, is you have to pay in blocks of three months.
Otherwise, iiNet is a great ISP to look at if you wanna get of Telstra.
Ah.. so that's what Big W is :p
Never made the relation between Big W and Walmart.
Why does Walmart want to go into the rental business anyway? To make more money? Probably, but the problem is as with any monoply, if we rely on them, and if they go down, we'll have to find somewhere else to rent our vids. And by the time that happens, competitors would have already been squashed, so we have no places to rent our pr0n out for a while :(
:p
I think all companies should just stick to one main service and specialise in them. That way, if one business goes down, everything else doesn't go down either.
Kinda like Linux
If Walmart proceedes to start swallowing bits of everything, and succeeds in them all, we'll have something like Microsoft again :/
:p
Personally, I have never seen a Walmart in my entire life. They only have K'mart down here in Australia
In other languages, like Chinese or Japanese, calligraphy is an art. Every single stroke must be done with care, and the end result is a very, very nice looking piece of art.
;-)
:/
While Japan probably has the largest percentage of people using cell-phones and the such to type, only the older part of the population still hold the skill.
A skilled calligraphist(?) can easily make a fortune out of just working just producing piece after piece of philosophical and wise statements about life. Each piece can be from a rather small A4 sheet to a massive piece that can cover your whole wall. Those large pieces can easily cost more than a grand, depending on the style, and the words used. Each symbol/word can take as long as ten seconds for each one, so imagine trying to write an essay like that
I usually type whatever I can myself, as my cursive is illegible, and my handwriting in general is ugly. There has been times when I lost my train of thought because I was crossing out my last sentence
Only thought of this after I clicked "Reply", but I think there should be a law for patents that if anything has been 'free' for so long, shouldn't be patented so there isn't a great deal of confusion over the royalties issue.
And all forms of communications shouldn't be patented either. Imagine if someone patented HTML...
PNG is far better IMHO, because it's 32bit, as opposed to GIF's limitation of 8bit. Also, PNG supports 8bit transparency, which allows AA to work with transparency.
Only problem I have with PNG is that IE 5.5 doesn't support it's transparency properly without some extra code.
... but a real pity he's running winblows :p
I wouldn't mind a case like that though.
Sorry for the ugly formatting, but I thought /. automatically did the <br/>'s
I'm a fan of anime myself, but as middle-school student with no job, all the anime I can get my hands on are either fansubs... or fansubs. And more often than not, one of my favourite series suddenly gets licensed, and then the fansubber group usually drops it, or it goes underground (if there is an absolutely HUGE fanbase who can't wait, someone will pick it up). Same goes with manga. I'm a webmaster of a manga scanslation group (Manga-Sketchbook), and we have a policy to drop projects once they are licensed... or we remove all traces of it off the site, and it goes underground (Although I swear we haven't done that... yet :p).
When a company licences either a manga or anime, they usually take around 6 months to have anything to show, which is a very long time for whoever's addicted.
As for the threatening-fansites thing that sometimes happens, I think that's a stupid idea. I haven't heard of a case of any Japanese company that threatened a subbing/scanslation group so far, because it actually gives them more exposure.
More often than not, people will usually buy the licensed version of their favourite anime/manga (when they come out, that is), but there are always some selfish people that will never pay, cause they're such cheap bastards.
As for exposure, I often get emails from other scanslation groups from all over the world, asking permission to use our translations to translate to their own language, whether it's French, Indonesian, German, etc. That's a lot of exposure for free, don't you reckon?
I'd like to see more anime-related news on /., and make create a section for manga alone.
End of Rant.
Well, I think in about like 10 years time, we would have mastered bio-feedback, or whatever, and have it so it detects our physical attributes. Instead of everyone being the same size, look, whatnot, it would be much more interesting if everyone played as themselves. After all, CS is supposed to be a team-based game, and a team means each person brings different skills to the table. Still, the current mouse/keyboard combination isn't the best way to play FPSes yet, as I'd rather play with a gun. It gives you a certain satisfication when you actually get a headshot with your own bare hands... Imagine having to do weights so you can actually pick up the para and run with it in the future... ;)
True, but I'm pretty sure a fair bit of geeks get off their ass and go play a little LaserForce/Tag sometime... the ones that don't have an addiction for food, that is. What I'm afraid of is the all the l33tsp34k/acronyms we'll find on the field: "LOL! j00 missed!" "omg that was so BS..." "i'm gonna own j00 with my PNTBALL-16!" CS IMHO is still a very unrealistic game... it's very hard to hit a moving target that's 40 or so meters away from you.