in stability with apps like Netscape, that are known to crash.
Netscape crashes 1/2 as often at 256 than at 128, half again at 512, and half again at a gig. It's nearly stable there. Only problem is: Do you know how much this gig of ECC EDO SDRAM cost me?!?!
Actually, it would be closer to say it runs OS/3x0/Linux, which in turn runs MVS/Hercules, (A S/3x0 emulator for Linux) which in turn runs OS/3x0/Linux. Whew, that was a mouthful!
the machine can virtual within virtual within virtual with no real penalty.
Yep. No penalty, save a tiny amount of MVS overhead. But it's not quite VMware in hardware. MVS is required, but the hardware is designed to help MVS out.
Oh, the networking driver does rock.. It amounts to something like a 10,000T Ethernet card, shoved across the bus. Granted, you can only talk to other machines on the virtual network, that is, inside the S/3x0. Add a single firewall/router session bound to and piping out the real Ethernet feature and you're set tho.;)
More benefits of Windsor over Detroit: - Drinking age is 19. - Exchange rate! Buy that $3.00 import beer for $1.70 US!
Benefits of Detroit over Windsor:
- We're right across the river from Windsor. - We've got these three kick ass casinos, for those hoping to make REAL money. - Over four times the stray bullets! - Over five times the illegal drugs! - Police? They don't give a shit! - No nasty, invasive body-cavity searches at the border for all the long-hair US hacks. - Camping at techno's place! 100T LAN and 110 to all the tents, 220 available upon request.
There are cars that only use one pedal, at least a couple of the prototype electrics have been this way, and at least one Mercedes Benz prototype tossed out both of them for a joystick. (*drool..)
Anyway, stopping and starting are two very different and concrete things to a novice driver. Screwing up, even once, could render you dead as well, so they have incentive to learn as well.
Clicking is always clicking to the novice computer user. There is no concrete action aside from 'push the button', and the only incentive to learn is so they don't have to call tech support/their kids/their instructor.
Great, and I had to miss it. Vegas is always damn fun. Add to that a thousand morally-flexible, half-intoxicated geeks looking for fun and a good hack at all hours of the day and night, and it's too good to miss!
"One hotel ice bucket, three two liter bottles of Dew, a pound of mashed potatoes from room service, gaffers tape, and thirteen paperclips. Sounds like we have all the parts for world domination, boys! Let's get to work!"
Trust me, she's damn cute, even with the laugh lines. She worked for AT&T/Lucent's upper management staff when I was a tech at AT&T Capital. Met her a couple times..
the artists I love would give away their music for free, but they choose not to
It's not their music anymore. Say I make a thousand pirate copies of, ehrm, let's say Britney Spears albums. I promptly call her up, and tell her I'm pirating her music, and dare her to sue me.
She can't. She doesn't hold the copyright, her label does. Music became a work for hire, not distribution. Sign a contract, and even if it doesn't grant the company copyright to the songs, they still own every line, and your name, and your likeness, and quite possibly your genetic material. (They claim any publically recognized personal trait as theirs)
She couldn't even give it away for free if she wanted to. Shit, she couldn't sue me for BritneySpearsSucksMyDickOnDVD.com, she doesn't own her name.
Prolly.. You don't want it though.. I played with the initial SLS release, and ended up rolling my own after a week or two. Granted, it was convenient, and I did use it as a base for the roll, but still..
Bzzzt.. Utter crap. If he were going to buy Diablo 2, he would have done so by now. No one loses money when you give a copy the recipient wouldn't have paid for anyway.
Lars's pocket? The only one who would ever notice the small percentage drop in purchases would be the RIAA and the studios. They don't deserve it. Christ, Toni Braxton sang her way into two platinum albums and then had to declare bankrupcy because she owed the record company more money in promotion fees than they paid her. Limp Bizkit had to get day jobs after their first album, because the industry hoovered them dry.
I say we walk into the offices at Sony music and shoot everyone with a Rolex or an imported sports car. That would put the money back in artists pockets.
Redundancy doesn't count. I own every Metallica album. That's about 90 songs. 4 songs from unsigned bands is 4% percent. But say we're just talking Metallica. Add in the Metallica bootlegs, one-off tape circulations, etc, the Lars professes not to mind being shared. I have thirty+ unique mp3s that fall into this category. Thats at least 33%. Proof enough for the Metallica lawsuit.
NSA's full charter is classified. You're thinking of the CIA, who has an obligation not to do domestic intel work. That isn't even in their charter, it's a standing executive order meant to keep the FBI happy.
The NSA could see that, but not with Echelon. AOL doesn't own the entire network from you to Iran. They lease the dialups from a local company and buy the bandwidth from another.
Example: Some AOL users in Canada still use SprintNet and Tymnet dialup banks. While technically a part of the 'AOL network', anybody sniffing the Tymnet routers can get an eyeful, NSA included. Or if they have the dialup lines, in Canada, tapped. Relitivly easy to 'play back'.
'Sides, Echelon is sigint. We haven't heard about their global data intel operations, yet.
Carnivore is a FBI playtoy for domestic computer network intelligence. So the FBI can read your email to that Iranian fellow telling him when and to pick up the missile guidance system.
Echelon is a NSA playtoy for foreign signals intelligence. So the NSA can hear the phone call from the Iranian fellow to his Russian buddy asking for thirty kilos of Plutonium, and the call to Red China for a rocket motor.
In fact, I find it funnier as a total hoax than I did when I came to the realization that thousands of bored, lonely geeks are going to buy one. Shit, if ARS, Tom or Sharky had gotten their hands on one and declared it met or exceeded the claimed spec, I would have been a bit bummed..
Come on. Twain played along along with one death rumor, and Conan Doyle started a few. Hoaxes are nothing new. Now we have a few million people sharing a single medium, and they propogate a little farther than the days when print media were the rumormongers.
> have the power to sue the hoaxer for damages
You do. You can sue anyone, anythime, for anything. Real damages, compensatory, and punitive. Only problem is, not only are these hoax'ers German, and not really subject to US judicial decisions, but you'll be laughed out of court by a judge.
Why don't we sue Microsoft for vaporware? It is a hoax, meant to decieve it's customers and hurt its rivals. Big pockets, bad reputation..
Sonic booms do not break windows at cruise altitude. If you hit Mach 1 at 2,000 feet perhaps, but if you're going that fast at that altitude a couple windows don't matter because you're probably spiralling into the ground.
They just don't fly supersonic over well-populated areas because of regulations concerning noise. It would drive people nuts. (Not to mention leading to overpopulation. Old study showed that sonic booms were directly linked to a 8% unplanned pregnancy jump in some small British burg affected by the Concorde. Men, draw your own concusions.;)
Yeah, but you still need a raw percentage of servers to give an estimate of how likely a given server/OS is to be cracked.. Eg, the Netcraft monthly totals.. attrition only gives the number of cracks..
Let's see.. NT accounts for 65% of the cracks, but only 20% of the market.. Unix-only webservers account for almost 75% of the market, but only 29% of the cracks. That only makes NT 8 to 9 times more likely to be hacked. (I discarded the other 6 percent as the error percentage, hence the range.)
Apologies to Microsoft; Their product sucks, but it isn't as insecure as I stated!
Actually, Linux is gaining on the list by the same margin Windows is falling.. Solaris is being eaten as well, but far slower. Oh, and the only sites using W2K in any capacity are Microsoft & Co, and they have since release.
Then again, I've only been tracking it bi-weekly since December, so my conclusions may be skewed by the short timespan.
BTW, a Windows NT/2000 webserver in the internet is something like twenty-five times more likely than Linux to be cracked because of a security flaw. Go take a look at the attrition.org's hack counts and the last webserver report. I wouldn't trust NT or Windows2000 to be secure unless in a locked box surrounded by twenty bags of Redi-Mix.
Apparently a lot of people disagree with you, or rather think the security merits of OpenBSD are vastly outweighed by the performance and features of the other free unixen.
Remember that story about Fortune 500 companies running only NT? Well, I ran a similar test on the sites on the Hot100 list. OpenBSD did not get a single entry in 120+ URLs (some entries had more than one URL listed). Linux got 17%, FreeBSD in the low twenties, and Solaris took it home with over 40%. There were AIX, IRIX, BSDI, and NetBSD, in the sample, so you really can't say the results weren't spread out.
My company used to do exactly that, and it seemed to cut down on the trading. Unfortunatly, 'upper management' got themselves DVD equipped Dell's six month back, and Compaq stopped shipping the soundcard free entry workstation we standardized on.
They now disable the device in BIOS, and 'forget' to install drivers for it. It's trivial to activate, but none of the marketdrones seem to have the technical ability to.
Still, it didn't stop the endless parade of family and freinds fu>oring the connection from mailing into the office; A mail filter noted almost 10G of MPEG and AVI movies in one day, as well as 5 in WAV files.
I thought about this a few months back when I needed to replace the 50 disc changer I had at work; Most of my CD's were already sampled to MP3, so just snagging the lot of them off my home PC would have been easy. But one of our TS drones had been fired for excessive bandwidth abuse and subsequent copyright infringement. (He was downloading 'Warez' from work)
First, I'd have had to install a sound device, then I'd eat most of the 10G hard disc with MP3's. Not to mention circumventing the Admin account to install said drivers and a copy of Winamp. Plus the 'You've got six gigs of MP3 files? Are they all legal?' question. While they're all legal, I'd be hard pressed to prove I bought each and every album.
I said 'screw it, I'll stay away from using ANYTHING company owned;' They don't own it, they can't say a word about it.
So I grabbed a Micro AT 486 off the scrap heap, added memory and a DX4-120. Bought a pair of used 8.2G 14mm laptop hard drives and a used ISA SoundBlaster. I intentionally left Ethernet connectivity out; If I need to change files, it will be over my personal LAN and a PLIP cable. The box is only capable of playing MP3s. No network drivers, no services, no utilities, no login. (It runs a root shell and a script to choose the playlist, and enters init-6 when the script is terminated.)
If they have a bitch about it, I can tell them to get stuffed. If they touch it, I have good reason to get them reprimanded and or fired; Corporate policy is pretty strict about employee owned devices, and there is the added complication that they are incapable of even making their way around a shell! Any 'touchy-touchy' would do harm, and they don't like that liability.
I doubt they're formally 'in league', but in league in spirit nonetheless.. More often than not I find myself in their camp, but I digress..
I honestly think Sig is irrationally peeved enough with the troll population (yourself included, no doubt) to jump ship, given a site with sufficient educated traffic and similar content.. Look at any of his good rants from Feb.. Enoch Root I have little opinion on, other than he seems to follow the same behavioral pattern as the other infamous longtime/. participants..
Now you strike me as an 'old newbie'. Semi-permanent Slashdot incarnation like me?? Or (And I use the term in the best possible sense; I am one of the trolls. afterall!) are you solely a troll?
After someone took a bite at it, I was honestly thinking of mailing the three of them to con em into pulling the hoax off. At least two would be sick enough to join the conspiracy..
One, if this account really were an exploitation attempt, I'd consider 300 karma in a year and a half a failed attempt at exploitation. Others have ramped to the 150 mark in less than two months.
Two, I'm only a part-time troll, but thanks for noticing!;)
Three, that was, and was supposed to be, more ridiculous than the conspiracy theory itself, eg, a joke. One would have to be an actor of top caliber, completely insane, and jobless to pull off a simultaneous performance of 'osm', 'Signal 11', 'Enoch Root', and 'technos', complete with supporting mail addresses and web pages.
Time to come clean.. I control both Signal 11 and Enoch Root.
'Signal 11', complete with mail-forwarding from the given mail account, cost me a pair of Alteon 571 SS7 motherboards and 300 MII chips back in January. Everybody wondered why he suddenly went whacko; It was just me having fun!
'Enoch Root' was one of my old Karma Whoring accounts, and I used it from time to time after people caught on to my whoring keep the name fresh in their minds.
I've been using 'Sig 11' for trolling mostly, in an effort to dwindle the 600 Karma down to +1 land (figured it might be good for a laugh) and 'Enoch Root' just when I feel like looking respectable. This account, 'technos' was one of my later failed attempts at abusing the moderation system. I only ever managed 300 karma on it, so it was a failure..
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in stability with apps like Netscape, that are known to crash.
Netscape crashes 1/2 as often at 256 than at 128, half again at 512, and half again at a gig. It's nearly stable there. Only problem is: Do you know how much this gig of ECC EDO SDRAM cost me?!?!
the S/390 runs VM (Virtual Machine).
;)
Actually, it would be closer to say it runs OS/3x0/Linux, which in turn runs MVS/Hercules, (A S/3x0 emulator for Linux) which in turn runs OS/3x0/Linux. Whew, that was a mouthful!
the machine can virtual within virtual within virtual with no real penalty.
Yep. No penalty, save a tiny amount of MVS overhead. But it's not quite VMware in hardware. MVS is required, but the hardware is designed to help MVS out.
Oh, the networking driver does rock.. It amounts to something like a 10,000T Ethernet card, shoved across the bus. Granted, you can only talk to other machines on the virtual network, that is, inside the S/3x0. Add a single firewall/router session bound to and piping out the real Ethernet feature and you're set tho.
More benefits of Windsor over Detroit:
- Drinking age is 19.
- Exchange rate! Buy that $3.00 import beer for
$1.70 US!
Benefits of Detroit over Windsor:
- We're right across the river from Windsor.
- We've got these three kick ass casinos, for
those hoping to make REAL money.
- Over four times the stray bullets!
- Over five times the illegal drugs!
- Police? They don't give a shit!
- No nasty, invasive body-cavity searches at the
border for all the long-hair US hacks.
- Camping at techno's place! 100T LAN and 110 to
all the tents, 220 available upon request.
There are cars that only use one pedal, at least a couple of the prototype electrics have been this way, and at least one Mercedes Benz prototype tossed out both of them for a joystick. (*drool..)
Anyway, stopping and starting are two very different and concrete things to a novice driver. Screwing up, even once, could render you dead as well, so they have incentive to learn as well.
Clicking is always clicking to the novice computer user. There is no concrete action aside from 'push the button', and the only incentive to learn is so they don't have to call tech support/their kids/their instructor.
Great, and I had to miss it. Vegas is always damn fun. Add to that a thousand morally-flexible, half-intoxicated geeks looking for fun and a good hack at all hours of the day and night, and it's too good to miss!
"One hotel ice bucket, three two liter bottles of Dew, a pound of mashed potatoes from room service, gaffers tape, and thirteen paperclips. Sounds like we have all the parts for world domination, boys! Let's get to work!"
Trust me, she's damn cute, even with the laugh lines. She worked for AT&T/Lucent's upper management staff when I was a tech at AT&T Capital. Met her a couple times..
Yes, Carly Fiorina is really that hot in person. Mabye hotter.
the artists I love would give away their music for free, but they choose not to
It's not their music anymore. Say I make a thousand pirate copies of, ehrm, let's say Britney Spears albums. I promptly call her up, and tell her I'm pirating her music, and dare her to sue me.
She can't. She doesn't hold the copyright, her label does. Music became a work for hire, not distribution. Sign a contract, and even if it doesn't grant the company copyright to the songs, they still own every line, and your name, and your likeness, and quite possibly your genetic material. (They claim any publically recognized personal trait as theirs)
She couldn't even give it away for free if she wanted to. Shit, she couldn't sue me for BritneySpearsSucksMyDickOnDVD.com, she doesn't own her name.
Prolly.. You don't want it though.. I played with the initial SLS release, and ended up rolling my own after a week or two. Granted, it was convenient, and I did use it as a base for the roll, but still..
That would take money out of a programmers pocket
Bzzzt.. Utter crap. If he were going to buy Diablo 2, he would have done so by now. No one loses money when you give a copy the recipient wouldn't have paid for anyway.
Lars's pocket? The only one who would ever notice the small percentage drop in purchases would be the RIAA and the studios. They don't deserve it. Christ, Toni Braxton sang her way into two platinum albums and then had to declare bankrupcy because she owed the record company more money in promotion fees than they paid her. Limp Bizkit had to get day jobs after their first album, because the industry hoovered them dry.
I say we walk into the offices at Sony music and shoot everyone with a Rolex or an imported sports car. That would put the money back in artists pockets.
Redundancy doesn't count. I own every Metallica album. That's about 90 songs. 4 songs from unsigned bands is 4% percent. But say we're just talking Metallica. Add in the Metallica bootlegs, one-off tape circulations, etc, the Lars professes not to mind being shared. I have thirty+ unique mp3s that fall into this category. Thats at least 33%. Proof enough for the Metallica lawsuit.
Bzzt.
NSA's full charter is classified. You're thinking of the CIA, who has an obligation not to do domestic intel work. That isn't even in their charter, it's a standing executive order meant to keep the FBI happy.
The NSA could see that, but not with Echelon. AOL doesn't own the entire network from you to Iran. They lease the dialups from a local company and buy the bandwidth from another.
Example: Some AOL users in Canada still use SprintNet and Tymnet dialup banks. While technically a part of the 'AOL network', anybody sniffing the Tymnet routers can get an eyeful, NSA included. Or if they have the dialup lines, in Canada, tapped. Relitivly easy to 'play back'.
'Sides, Echelon is sigint. We haven't heard about their global data intel operations, yet.
Carnivore is a FBI playtoy for domestic computer network intelligence. So the FBI can read your email to that Iranian fellow telling him when and to pick up the missile guidance system.
Echelon is a NSA playtoy for foreign signals intelligence. So the NSA can hear the phone call from the Iranian fellow to his Russian buddy asking for thirty kilos of Plutonium, and the call to Red China for a rocket motor.
See the differences now?
> They amuse nobody but the hoaxer.
I was amused!!
In fact, I find it funnier as a total hoax than I did when I came to the realization that thousands of bored, lonely geeks are going to buy one. Shit, if ARS, Tom or Sharky had gotten their hands on one and declared it met or exceeded the claimed spec, I would have been a bit bummed..
Come on. Twain played along along with one death rumor, and Conan Doyle started a few. Hoaxes are nothing new. Now we have a few million people sharing a single medium, and they propogate a little farther than the days when print media were the rumormongers.
> have the power to sue the hoaxer for damages
You do. You can sue anyone, anythime, for anything. Real damages, compensatory, and punitive. Only problem is, not only are these hoax'ers German, and not really subject to US judicial decisions, but you'll be laughed out of court by a judge.
Why don't we sue Microsoft for vaporware? It is a hoax, meant to decieve it's customers and hurt its rivals. Big pockets, bad reputation..
Sonic booms do not break windows at cruise altitude. If you hit Mach 1 at 2,000 feet perhaps, but if you're going that fast at that altitude a couple windows don't matter because you're probably spiralling into the ground.
;)
They just don't fly supersonic over well-populated areas because of regulations concerning noise. It would drive people nuts. (Not to mention leading to overpopulation. Old study showed that sonic booms were directly linked to a 8% unplanned pregnancy jump in some small British burg affected by the Concorde. Men, draw your own concusions.
Yeah, but you still need a raw percentage of servers to give an estimate of how likely a given server/OS is to be cracked.. Eg, the Netcraft monthly totals.. attrition only gives the number of cracks..
Let's see.. NT accounts for 65% of the cracks, but only 20% of the market.. Unix-only webservers account for almost 75% of the market, but only 29% of the cracks. That only makes NT 8 to 9 times more likely to be hacked. (I discarded the other 6 percent as the error percentage, hence the range.)
Apologies to Microsoft; Their product sucks, but it isn't as insecure as I stated!
Actually, Linux is gaining on the list by the same margin Windows is falling.. Solaris is being eaten as well, but far slower. Oh, and the only sites using W2K in any capacity are Microsoft & Co, and they have since release.
Then again, I've only been tracking it bi-weekly since December, so my conclusions may be skewed by the short timespan.
BTW, a Windows NT/2000 webserver in the internet is something like twenty-five times more likely than Linux to be cracked because of a security flaw. Go take a look at the attrition.org's hack counts and the last webserver report. I wouldn't trust NT or Windows2000 to be secure unless in a locked box surrounded by twenty bags of Redi-Mix.
Apparently a lot of people disagree with you, or rather think the security merits of OpenBSD are vastly outweighed by the performance and features of the other free unixen.
Remember that story about Fortune 500 companies running only NT? Well, I ran a similar test on the sites on the Hot100 list. OpenBSD did not get a single entry in 120+ URLs (some entries had more than one URL listed). Linux got 17%, FreeBSD in the low twenties, and Solaris took it home with over 40%. There were AIX, IRIX, BSDI, and NetBSD, in the sample, so you really can't say the results weren't spread out.
My company used to do exactly that, and it seemed to cut down on the trading. Unfortunatly, 'upper management' got themselves DVD equipped Dell's six month back, and Compaq stopped shipping the soundcard free entry workstation we standardized on.
They now disable the device in BIOS, and 'forget' to install drivers for it. It's trivial to activate, but none of the marketdrones seem to have the technical ability to.
Still, it didn't stop the endless parade of family and freinds fu>oring the connection from mailing into the office; A mail filter noted almost 10G of MPEG and AVI movies in one day, as well as 5 in WAV files.
I thought about this a few months back when I needed to replace the 50 disc changer I had at work; Most of my CD's were already sampled to MP3, so just snagging the lot of them off my home PC would have been easy. But one of our TS drones had been fired for excessive bandwidth abuse and subsequent copyright infringement. (He was downloading 'Warez' from work)
First, I'd have had to install a sound device, then I'd eat most of the 10G hard disc with MP3's.
Not to mention circumventing the Admin account to install said drivers and a copy of Winamp. Plus the 'You've got six gigs of MP3 files? Are they all legal?' question. While they're all legal, I'd be hard pressed to prove I bought each and every album.
I said 'screw it, I'll stay away from using ANYTHING company owned;' They don't own it, they can't say a word about it.
So I grabbed a Micro AT 486 off the scrap heap, added memory and a DX4-120. Bought a pair of used 8.2G 14mm laptop hard drives and a used ISA SoundBlaster. I intentionally left Ethernet connectivity out; If I need to change files, it will be over my personal LAN and a PLIP cable. The box is only capable of playing MP3s. No network drivers, no services, no utilities, no login. (It runs a root shell and a script to choose the playlist, and enters init-6 when the script is terminated.)
If they have a bitch about it, I can tell them to get stuffed. If they touch it, I have good reason to get them reprimanded and or fired; Corporate policy is pretty strict about employee owned devices, and there is the added complication that they are incapable of even making their way around a shell! Any 'touchy-touchy' would do harm, and they don't like that liability.
I doubt they're formally 'in league', but in league in spirit nonetheless.. More often than not I find myself in their camp, but I digress..
/. participants..
I honestly think Sig is irrationally peeved enough with the troll population (yourself included, no doubt) to jump ship, given a site with sufficient educated traffic and similar content.. Look at any of his good rants from Feb.. Enoch Root I have little opinion on, other than he seems to follow the same behavioral pattern as the other infamous longtime
Now you strike me as an 'old newbie'. Semi-permanent Slashdot incarnation like me?? Or (And I use the term in the best possible sense; I am one of the trolls. afterall!) are you solely a troll?
After someone took a bite at it, I was honestly thinking of mailing the three of them to con em into pulling the hoax off. At least two would be sick enough to join the conspiracy..
One, if this account really were an exploitation attempt, I'd consider 300 karma in a year and a half a failed attempt at exploitation. Others have ramped to the 150 mark in less than two months.
;)
Two, I'm only a part-time troll, but thanks for noticing!
Three, that was, and was supposed to be, more ridiculous than the conspiracy theory itself, eg, a joke. One would have to be an actor of top caliber, completely insane, and jobless to pull off a simultaneous performance of 'osm', 'Signal 11', 'Enoch Root', and 'technos', complete with supporting mail addresses and web pages.
Time to come clean.. I control both Signal 11 and Enoch Root.
'Signal 11', complete with mail-forwarding from the given mail account, cost me a pair of Alteon 571 SS7 motherboards and 300 MII chips back in January. Everybody wondered why he suddenly went whacko; It was just me having fun!
'Enoch Root' was one of my old Karma Whoring accounts, and I used it from time to time after people caught on to my whoring keep the name fresh in their minds.
I've been using 'Sig 11' for trolling mostly, in an effort to dwindle the 600 Karma down to +1 land (figured it might be good for a laugh) and 'Enoch Root' just when I feel like looking
respectable. This account, 'technos' was one of my later failed attempts at abusing the moderation system. I only ever managed 300 karma on it, so it was a failure..
Sincerely,
osm