Don't get too excited yet... I have yet to find any info on a Notes client on their site. If anyone can find the specifics, let me know. Notes would rock of course, there I could put linux on my workstation...
I have hit 400kps, but its very inconsistent. And the downtime is horrible.... the cable modem goes down several times a day, sometimes for just a few seconds, sometimes for over a day. I'd rather have 128kps DSL that worked and was consistent, rather than cable modem going up & down more often than a Viagra addict.
it could even be something like power being a problem. Recall that early athlon systems had problems simply because of the power required by the processor.
Some newer Geforce video cards come with heatsinks on the DDR SDRAM chips. My roommate has one without heatsinks, and I've noticed that the chips rarely get hot to the touch, so heatsinks may be overkill at this point (although some hardware sites I've read have claimed that the RAM can be clocked higher when cooled like this). Don't be surprised if next generations of DDR (or QDR) RAM get quite toasty, especially with constant heavy use.
They could come out and sa, "Everyone in the world is no longer allowed to use our software, and if you do, we will sue you." And guess what, they can and will Easily win in court
I have to disagree... I don't think this particular concept has ever been challenged in court, and I'm sure it wouldn't hold up. Just because you clicked on 'Agree', that doesn't make the contract 100% legal.
OT but: Another article on CNN states that the RIAA server was crushed by a huge amount of hits July 27th @ 11AM. They say it wasn't a DoS attack, just that there servers couldn't handle the sudden popularity.... they must be running NT.....
Its not necessarily laziness. Sometimes I moderate up an already +4 or +5 post because I want to award karma for an exceptionally funny, informative, or interesting post. I agree that moderators should browse at -1 or 0, otherwise it defeats one of the main purposes of moderation.
Well, there's still hope. You can use Napigator to switch to one of the "open" Napster servers out there (sorry, its Windows only, although there is probably a way to change the Linux client's server as well, so check out the Napigator server list on the site). I for one plan on using these open servers alot in the coming days as my own peaceful protest/civil disobediance. Good luck Napster!
(anal article correction: The driver is made by Asus, not nvidia, although it may work on any nvidia card.)
Apparently, performance is significantly slower, so that's at least one disadvantage of using this to cheat. I for one don't understand cheaters anyway - whats the point of playing a game if your just going to cheat? It stops getting fun really quick. I never play anyone I don't know anyway, partly because I'm not very good, but also because most of the fun of playing is social, i.e. get a bunch of guys together, drinks some beers, blow each other into mip-mapped chunks with a rail gun.
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Here is one positive usage of WAP - porn. Apparently its getting quite common to sign up for adult-oriented text and small, blurry pictures on your cell phone. Sigh.
The server was a dual-proc machine. Win2k has a multi-threaded TCP/IP stack, linux 2.2.x doesn't. That probably accounts for most of the issue right there - at around 24 users, the single processor limitation of the Linux TCP/IP stack was reached, and the Win2k mahcine just split the load up.
Of course, IANALOLT (I am not Alan Cox or Linus Torvalds), but it seems the most likely explanation to me...
A friend of mine wrote a program to hop onto a given list of usenet groups and download all attached binaries that end with.jpg. Running that thing for about an hour on my cable modem resulted in 500+ megs of porn, some of which was so disturbing it haunts me to this very day.
I did read the story, as a matter of fact I read it several hours before it was posted. It makes the problem look like AMD's fault, aside from a very few quotes from the Gateway reps. That's beside the point, however. My point is, this article was apparently written to dis AMD, and slashdot bit. Anyone simply browsing for news would come away with impression that AMD's 1Ghz processors sucks. Considering the popularity of slashdot, this is a remarkably irresponsible posting.
No, I just read the headline. It says "Gateway Says Bug Affects 1GHz Thunderbird Systems". This is like saying "Ford Says Bug Affects 350 HP Engines". Its misleading. Gateway has problems with some motherboards - so what. What the headlines is implying is that Thunderbirds have a fundamental bug, which is simply not true.
I agree - in a case like the FDIV bug, the CPU manufacturer should pick up the tab. But don't blame AMD in this case - it is Gateway's MOTHERBOARD that is at fault, not the CPU.
Tell me, where can you buy a 1Ghz pentium? On the other hand, 1Ghz Athlons are fairly easy to find. And not only that, 1ghz Thunderbirds are also easily found. Supply problems my ass.
YAEOSMH (Yet Another Example Of Slashdot Media Hype)
Read the headline - oh no! Athlons have a bug! I knew it!
Read the actual story - oh wait, Gateway announced that their motherboard may have a slight problem. Or maybe even their power supply. (How hard is it to build a power supply?) The same thing could affect Intel, Cyrix, G4, or Sparc motherboards, and HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROCESSOR.
Sorry, I'm a bit pissed about slashdot content lately. Is it just me, or have their been ALOT of crappy stories lately, as well as alot of missed ones.
Right. So why does Big Business keep insisting that every be encrypted? DVD copy protection, region encoding, all that other stuff, is cracked. Dreamcast's proprietary CD format - cracked. Any software copy protection scheme is defeated shortly after the software hits the store shelves. What major brain dysfunction is responsible for entire industries to devote millions of dollars in what you pointed out is a futile effort?
Perhaps its the same reason we lock our doors - just to provide the "casual thief" a reasonable deterant. Joe Sixpack tries to copy some hot new song from his friend Ernie, it doesn't work, so he goes and buys it himself. Those of us with some technical knowledge know about the tools to get around such protection (or we create said tools if we have to, despite the possibility of arrest & harassment from the MPAA or RIAA). Some of us with a conscious refuse to use such tools, but then again such people would probably have spent the money for a legitimate copy anyway.
Good point, but then again corporations are hardly ever convicted of criminal activities, especially negligence such as creating a crappy OS. That tends to be civil suits, etc, that act as punishment. So if you crack into an NT machine which is running someone's life support, and you get in because of a security hole (netscape's engineers are weenies!), you can be convicted, and microsoft will have to pay $$$ to the victims family. Maybe.
BTW, I'm gonna check to see if my health insurance covers BSODs....
I believe thats the difference between manslaughter and murder - pre-meditated vs. accidental (but still with malicious intent). IE if I am driving drunk, and run over you, I can be charged with manslaughter even though I never intended to run you over.
IANAL, but yes, this would be murder, or at least manslaughter, if someone died as a direct result of the hackers actions. What's the difference between hacking into a hospital computer and deactivating someone's life support, versus simply walking up to and clipping the cords with a bolt cutter? Just because the former was done with a computer doesn't make the action any less deadly.
Also, your question about why these systems were connected to the internet: first, you don't know that for sure, it may have been a dialup or even someone overriding the actual satellite link up. Second, its becoming more & more clear that everything is going to be on the internet soon enough. As we move to a fully "wired" and interconnected world, issues like this are going to become more & more serious. I have no doubt that pretty soon we will have to deal with the legal question of whether a cracker can be judged as a murdered.
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Thanks for clearing this up, that is one point I always wondered about.
BTW, switched fabric bus should be coming to PCs in the next view years - its called Infiniband.
Don't get too excited yet... I have yet to find any info on a Notes client on their site. If anyone can find the specifics, let me know. Notes would rock of course, there I could put linux on my workstation...
I have hit 400kps, but its very inconsistent. And the downtime is horrible.... the cable modem goes down several times a day, sometimes for just a few seconds, sometimes for over a day. I'd rather have 128kps DSL that worked and was consistent, rather than cable modem going up & down more often than a Viagra addict.
it could even be something like power being a problem. Recall that early athlon systems had problems simply because of the power required by the processor.
Some newer Geforce video cards come with heatsinks on the DDR SDRAM chips. My roommate has one without heatsinks, and I've noticed that the chips rarely get hot to the touch, so heatsinks may be overkill at this point (although some hardware sites I've read have claimed that the RAM can be clocked higher when cooled like this). Don't be surprised if next generations of DDR (or QDR) RAM get quite toasty, especially with constant heavy use.
They could come out and sa, "Everyone in the world is no longer allowed to use our software, and if you do, we will sue you." And guess what, they can and will Easily win in court
I have to disagree... I don't think this particular concept has ever been challenged in court, and I'm sure it wouldn't hold up. Just because you clicked on 'Agree', that doesn't make the contract 100% legal.
Of course, I may just not be cynical enough....
OT but:
Another article on CNN states that the RIAA server was crushed by a huge amount of hits July 27th @ 11AM. They say it wasn't a DoS attack, just that there servers couldn't handle the sudden popularity.... they must be running NT.....
Its not necessarily laziness. Sometimes I moderate up an already +4 or +5 post because I want to award karma for an exceptionally funny, informative, or interesting post. I agree that moderators should browse at -1 or 0, otherwise it defeats one of the main purposes of moderation.
Well, there's still hope. You can use Napigator to switch to one of the "open" Napster servers out there (sorry, its Windows only, although there is probably a way to change the Linux client's server as well, so check out the Napigator server list on the site). I for one plan on using these open servers alot in the coming days as my own peaceful protest/civil disobediance. Good luck Napster!
(anal article correction: The driver is made by Asus, not nvidia, although it may work on any nvidia card.)
Apparently, performance is significantly slower, so that's at least one disadvantage of using this to cheat. I for one don't understand cheaters anyway - whats the point of playing a game if your just going to cheat? It stops getting fun really quick. I never play anyone I don't know anyway, partly because I'm not very good, but also because most of the fun of playing is social, i.e. get a bunch of guys together, drinks some beers, blow each other into mip-mapped chunks with a rail gun.
Here is one positive usage of WAP - porn. Apparently its getting quite common to sign up for adult-oriented text and small, blurry pictures on your cell phone. Sigh.
The server was a dual-proc machine. Win2k has a multi-threaded TCP/IP stack, linux 2.2.x doesn't. That probably accounts for most of the issue right there - at around 24 users, the single processor limitation of the Linux TCP/IP stack was reached, and the Win2k mahcine just split the load up.
Of course, IANALOLT (I am not Alan Cox or Linus Torvalds), but it seems the most likely explanation to me...
Highly offtopic, but.........
.jpg. Running that thing for about an hour on my cable modem resulted in 500+ megs of porn, some of which was so disturbing it haunts me to this very day.
A friend of mine wrote a program to hop onto a given list of usenet groups and download all attached binaries that end with
Cheeio
I did read the story, as a matter of fact I read it several hours before it was posted. It makes the problem look like AMD's fault, aside from a very few quotes from the Gateway reps. That's beside the point, however. My point is, this article was apparently written to dis AMD, and slashdot bit. Anyone simply browsing for news would come away with impression that AMD's 1Ghz processors sucks. Considering the popularity of slashdot, this is a remarkably irresponsible posting.
No, I just read the headline. It says "Gateway Says Bug Affects 1GHz Thunderbird Systems". This is like saying "Ford Says Bug Affects 350 HP Engines". Its misleading. Gateway has problems with some motherboards - so what. What the headlines is implying is that Thunderbirds have a fundamental bug, which is simply not true.
I agree - in a case like the FDIV bug, the CPU manufacturer should pick up the tab. But don't blame AMD in this case - it is Gateway's MOTHERBOARD that is at fault, not the CPU.
If you want to get technical....
Gateway Says Bug Affects 1GHz Thunderbird Systems
Gateway Says Bug Affects 1GHz their Thunderbird Systems?
Gateway Says Bug Affects 1GHz all Thunderbird Systems?
Gateway Says Bug Affects 1GHz all of their competitor's Thunderbird Systems?
Supply problems?
Tell me, where can you buy a 1Ghz pentium? On the other hand, 1Ghz Athlons are fairly easy to find. And not only that, 1ghz Thunderbirds are also easily found. Supply problems my ass.
YAEOSMH (Yet Another Example Of Slashdot Media Hype)
Read the headline - oh no! Athlons have a bug! I knew it!
Read the actual story - oh wait, Gateway announced that their motherboard may have a slight problem. Or maybe even their power supply. (How hard is it to build a power supply?) The same thing could affect Intel, Cyrix, G4, or Sparc motherboards, and HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROCESSOR.
Sorry, I'm a bit pissed about slashdot content lately. Is it just me, or have their been ALOT of crappy stories lately, as well as alot of missed ones.
.....and they'd all be buying tangerine imacs.
Right. So why does Big Business keep insisting that every be encrypted? DVD copy protection, region encoding, all that other stuff, is cracked. Dreamcast's proprietary CD format - cracked. Any software copy protection scheme is defeated shortly after the software hits the store shelves. What major brain dysfunction is responsible for entire industries to devote millions of dollars in what you pointed out is a futile effort?
Perhaps its the same reason we lock our doors - just to provide the "casual thief" a reasonable deterant. Joe Sixpack tries to copy some hot new song from his friend Ernie, it doesn't work, so he goes and buys it himself. Those of us with some technical knowledge know about the tools to get around such protection (or we create said tools if we have to, despite the possibility of arrest & harassment from the MPAA or RIAA). Some of us with a conscious refuse to use such tools, but then again such people would probably have spent the money for a legitimate copy anyway.
Thoughts?
Good point, but then again corporations are hardly ever convicted of criminal activities, especially negligence such as creating a crappy OS. That tends to be civil suits, etc, that act as punishment. So if you crack into an NT machine which is running someone's life support, and you get in because of a security hole (netscape's engineers are weenies!), you can be convicted, and microsoft will have to pay $$$ to the victims family. Maybe.
BTW, I'm gonna check to see if my health insurance covers BSODs....
I believe thats the difference between manslaughter and murder - pre-meditated vs. accidental (but still with malicious intent). IE if I am driving drunk, and run over you, I can be charged with manslaughter even though I never intended to run you over.
IANAL, but yes, this would be murder, or at least manslaughter, if someone died as a direct result of the hackers actions. What's the difference between hacking into a hospital computer and deactivating someone's life support, versus simply walking up to and clipping the cords with a bolt cutter? Just because the former was done with a computer doesn't make the action any less deadly.
Also, your question about why these systems were connected to the internet: first, you don't know that for sure, it may have been a dialup or even someone overriding the actual satellite link up. Second, its becoming more & more clear that everything is going to be on the internet soon enough. As we move to a fully "wired" and interconnected world, issues like this are going to become more & more serious. I have no doubt that pretty soon we will have to deal with the legal question of whether a cracker can be judged as a murdered.
Oops. Yes, I meant "can't", but I was wrong :), as you pointed out.