QUOTE "My Windows 2000 server running IIS is fully visible to the public, and it never gets hacked. Know why? Because I can properly configure IPSec and maintain my patches."
90% of the people who have been rooted, don't usually know it...
The university I go to disabled bittorrent because they say thats where the MSBLASTER and MYDOOM viruses came from (this was said in a newsletter sent to all students in the dorms)
I'm not sure how they got this idea, but, crazy isn't it?
I've seen this guy before he's done several fake auctions of really weird stuff, like a Nuclear Reactor and other stuff, and then he takes it down near the end of the bid.... it's sad he's getting the glory on slashdot....
The 200JB, or BB or whatever is clearly impossible. There is no hidden space on them to recover at all, let alone 310GB! I can't imagine what kind of idiocy provoked someone to believe that was even possible. Western Digital doesn't make drives with more than 3 platters! The 200GB Western Digitals are only available with 80GB/platters. They only have 5 heads. It's therfore impossible to recover any capacity from them at all (5*40GB=200GB).
Some of the other drives are known to short stroke their platters. This raises the more serious problem of this idiocy... The problem is modern drives store important information on those hidden inner areas of their platters (firmware, disk information, reallocated bad sectors), who knows what you could be overwriting whenever you use that space. Put something down in the wrong place and the drive will never start again or corrupt data at certain sectors. It's a lottery ticket everytime you write data in that partition. That's not what I call useable capacity.
Also, if this was working properly, the 80GB deskstar would yield:
either 90GB (+10GB) if it was a 180GXP (three heads on 60GB platters) or 80GB (+0GB) if it was a 7K250 (2 heads on 80GB platters)
Anyone with most basic knowledge of hard drives should know that most of the numbers up there are simply impossible, not to mention simply ridiculous.
It's not that there aren't hard drives which are short stroked and sold at a capacity below that available for access in theory, but that something is clearly wrong with this method in that it is simply inventing space that physically can't be there. Perhaps hard drive manufacturers are shortstroking disks to the point that they are formatted with the capacity of drives with fewer platters or heads, but this could never justify the failure of this method on the 200GB Western Digital drive. This drive is a known quantity. No matter what, even if they got a disk that was a shortstroked 6 head drive (which would make no sense), the maximum capacity is 250GB, not 510GB. You would need 7 platters to get that capacity with todays technology!
I can't possibly see how this would work. They're reporting a (more than?) 2x size increase on the largest harddrive they alledgedly did this trick on.
If it works at all, all it really accomplishes is trick windows into thinking the partition really is bigger than it is. There's NO WAY it could get any bigger in reality, since drive capacity is based on the number of sectors the drive reports to the computer, and that is a fixed, hard-coded number that can't be changed by Norton Ghost or any other utility. If you try to address sector maxcapacity+1, you'll just get an error message back from the drive, it won't actually do anything.
This is just a case of someone making sh** up in order to appear on the front page of hardware websites... A bit like participating in a 'reality show' on TV.
Since the main website is slashdotted, heres what it says on the home-page (not much for those of you expecting specs)
``You can be first to get a new ZVUE!
The new ZVUE is here now! And it really plays full motion, color video right in the palm of your hand! Order the new ZVUE! and you'll be watching the coolest new music videos, extreme sports and outrageous action entertainment--while you're on the go, anytime, anyplace!
> Order your ZVUE now!
For just $99.00 you can be the first to own a ZVUE--the hottest new video product in years! With your cool new ZVUE you can view full-color, high-quality video right in the palm of your hand.
Watch our exciting, new ZCARD! videos: Hot new music videos, extreme radical sports, wild, action videos that wreak havoc and lay waste--playing now on the ZVUE Player!"
I've reviewed one of these directly from Hand Held Entertainment and it's not all it's cracked up to be, the design doesn't fit in your pocket (tested in bluejeans) very well and it only supports mp3 (not ogg)
Additionally, they sent some of the proprietary cartridges to try out, 2 out of the 3 freebie proprietary cartridges we tested did not work.
It is a bad thing. Outsourcing tech support even to US companys is bad...
Why? Because it's all about time... the outsourcer gets X amount of money if they answer Y amount of calls.
The more calls they answer, the more money they get.
What usually tends to happen in this type of situation is the execs at the outsource-500-support company come up and figure "Hey, fuck helping dell's customers, more calls = more money, let's make sure every call is under 7 minutes weather the problems fixed or not"
Therefore it's no longer important to hire qualified people. You can take any common person off of the streets in india and put them in the cubicle, doesn't matter, they don't care if she fixes the problem or not... as long as they get rid of the caller in under 7 minutes.
Some qualified people end up in the tech support dept, because they want to help people... but they end up getting fired because they have a few calls that took 20 minutes to fix the callers problem..
Both US and any other outsource tech support company's use this trick... i mean hey, it brings the money in, doesn't it?
So, I'm against outsourcing tech support, as, the outsourced company never does care about the people they're handling.
Now, what I would *really* like to see is an exploding dye packet, like the ones the banks slip into the stolen money during robberies. Slide it in and close the cover. When the thief opens the lid for the first time...BAM...all of a sudden he looks like one of those blue guys in the Pentium ads.
And once you get your coffee at the counter, you come back to your chair and open it up (BURST)........ SHIT!
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Solid Wood PC Keyboard - Ash
Regular price: $580.00 Sale price: $560.00
Solid Wood Mouse $105.00
Solid wood complete PC peripherals set (Monitor, Mouse, Keyboard) $5,250.00
Too pricey for me!
Yep! That was as much as it'd overclock, You stupid AC. ;-)
QUOTE "My Windows 2000 server running IIS is fully visible to the public, and it never gets hacked. Know why? Because I can properly configure IPSec and maintain my patches."
90% of the people who have been rooted, don't usually know it...
I have done something similar but I used a fridge cooling coil on my cooling mount on the processor, I gained up to 4ghz on my rig... was pretty fun
although, the computer isn't really mobile having a mini-fridge's heating coils/compressor outside of the case!
This must mean I'll be able to go into the device manager, disable the 'KINGSTON QUICKKAM' (the cam that snaps a pic after every transaction)
and then do my dirty deeds! Aha! No need for a disguise anymore!!
28 days later was a really good movie, I enjoyed it a lot.
Not the best scientific plot, but a good movie non the less...
Was about these monkeys infected with rage, and it was the end of the world, but they found out it was isolated to england, watch it, it's neat
Speaking of universitys banning torrent
The university I go to disabled bittorrent because they say thats where the MSBLASTER and MYDOOM viruses came from (this was said in a newsletter sent to all students in the dorms)
I'm not sure how they got this idea, but, crazy isn't it?
The people who did this research obviously haven't seen my bathroom...........
I've seen this guy before he's done several fake auctions of really weird stuff, like a Nuclear Reactor and other stuff, and then he takes it down near the end of the bid.... it's sad he's getting the glory on slashdot....
If I own a copy of the game, can I get the rom and play it legally on an emulator?
You're joking right?
On the subject of the Inquirer article.
The 200JB, or BB or whatever is clearly impossible. There is no hidden space on them to recover at all, let alone 310GB! I can't imagine what kind of idiocy provoked someone to believe that was even possible. Western Digital doesn't make drives with more than 3 platters! The 200GB Western Digitals are only available with 80GB/platters. They only have 5 heads. It's therfore impossible to recover any capacity from them at all (5*40GB=200GB).
Some of the other drives are known to short stroke their platters. This raises the more serious problem of this idiocy... The problem is modern drives store important information on those hidden inner areas of their platters (firmware, disk information, reallocated bad sectors), who knows what you could be overwriting whenever you use that space. Put something down in the wrong place and the drive will never start again or corrupt data at certain sectors. It's a lottery ticket everytime you write data in that partition. That's not what I call useable capacity.
Also, if this was working properly, the 80GB deskstar would yield:
either 90GB (+10GB) if it was a 180GXP (three heads on 60GB platters)
or 80GB (+0GB) if it was a 7K250 (2 heads on 80GB platters)
Anyone with most basic knowledge of hard drives should know that most of the numbers up there are simply impossible, not to mention simply ridiculous.
It's not that there aren't hard drives which are short stroked and sold at a capacity below that available for access in theory, but that something is clearly wrong with this method in that it is simply inventing space that physically can't be there. Perhaps hard drive manufacturers are shortstroking disks to the point that they are formatted with the capacity of drives with fewer platters or heads, but this could never justify the failure of this method on the 200GB Western Digital drive. This drive is a known quantity. No matter what, even if they got a disk that was a shortstroked 6 head drive (which would make no sense), the maximum capacity is 250GB, not 510GB. You would need 7 platters to get that capacity with todays technology!
I can't possibly see how this would work. They're reporting a (more than?) 2x size increase on the largest harddrive they alledgedly did this trick on.
If it works at all, all it really accomplishes is trick windows into thinking the partition really is bigger than it is. There's NO WAY it could get any bigger in reality, since drive capacity is based on the number of sectors the drive reports to the computer, and that is a fixed, hard-coded number that can't be changed by Norton Ghost or any other utility. If you try to address sector maxcapacity+1, you'll just get an error message back from the drive, it won't actually do anything.
This is just a case of someone making sh** up in order to appear on the front page of hardware websites... A bit like participating in a 'reality show' on TV.
http://www-idl.hpl.hp.com/blogstuff/index.html is where I typed 'cnn.com' in the search box BTW
I typed in cnn.com in the search box and got
"gay serfin parents" or something, a bunch of CNN sites, but no blogs copying other blogs
Mod this -1 troll if you want but that's kinda weird.
All them emails I sent them finally paid off!!
Since the main website is slashdotted, heres what it says on the home-page (not much for those of you expecting specs)
``You can be first to get a new ZVUE!
The new ZVUE is here now! And it really plays full motion, color video right in the palm of your hand! Order the new ZVUE! and you'll be watching the coolest new music videos, extreme sports and outrageous action entertainment--while you're on the go, anytime, anyplace!
> Order your ZVUE now!
For just $99.00 you can be the first to own a ZVUE--the hottest new video product in years! With your cool new ZVUE you can view full-color, high-quality video right in the palm of your hand.
Watch our exciting, new ZCARD! videos: Hot new music videos, extreme radical sports, wild, action videos that wreak havoc and lay waste--playing now on the ZVUE Player!"
I've reviewed one of these directly from Hand Held Entertainment and it's not all it's cracked up to be, the design doesn't fit in your pocket (tested in bluejeans) very well and it only supports mp3 (not ogg)
Additionally, they sent some of the proprietary cartridges to try out, 2 out of the 3 freebie proprietary cartridges we tested did not work.
I wouldn't pay cash for it.
Regards
"No. Mozilla's built on an entirely different codebase"
Then why if you type about:mozilla it gives you that passage from the book in both of the versions, if it's not the same code?
Thanks for the replies everyone, and the links to the FTP with netscape on them... it's appriciated, that mosaic 0.4 really is amazing....
I've noticed netscape 3.04Gold loads quicker than lightning, but, webpages load slow even on DSL 1mbps down....
Images don't load quickly, for instance, google.com, google logo takes like half a second as you see it construct it line by line...
Guess GIF/jpeg implimentation was crappy those days
Does anyone recall Netscape 2.0 that was on the Macintosh III LC's that were like 16mhz or so...
Netscape (which mozilla is built off) loaded within about 10 seconds on those machines....
Man, I wish I could get the PC version of that, I'm sure it'd load and run quicker than even firefox could hope to do.
(What took 10 seconds on 16mhz would take how long on 1.4ghz again?)
I live in Cincinnati and it's causing terrible interference in the HF bands, we can't hear -ANYTHING- now...
I talked to our local HAM club and they said that there's nothing we can do about it legally... seems like this is already a lost battle
It is a bad thing. Outsourcing tech support even to US companys is bad...
Why? Because it's all about time... the outsourcer gets X amount of money if they answer Y amount of calls.
The more calls they answer, the more money they get.
What usually tends to happen in this type of situation is the execs at the outsource-500-support company come up and figure "Hey, fuck helping dell's customers, more calls = more money, let's make sure every call is under 7 minutes weather the problems fixed or not"
Therefore it's no longer important to hire qualified people. You can take any common person off of the streets in india and put them in the cubicle, doesn't matter, they don't care if she fixes the problem or not... as long as they get rid of the caller in under 7 minutes.
Some qualified people end up in the tech support dept, because they want to help people... but they end up getting fired because they have a few calls that took 20 minutes to fix the callers problem..
Both US and any other outsource tech support company's use this trick... i mean hey, it brings the money in, doesn't it?
So, I'm against outsourcing tech support, as, the outsourced company never does care about the people they're handling.
Excuse my grammar,
Just my two cents,
Now, what I would *really* like to see is an exploding dye packet, like the ones the banks slip into the stolen money during robberies. Slide it in and close the cover. When the thief opens the lid for the first time...BAM...all of a sudden he looks like one of those blue guys in the Pentium ads.
And once you get your coffee at the counter, you come back to your chair and open it up (BURST)........ SHIT!
How do you determine weather a company is a monopoly by raiding its offices...
What did they intend to find, a written confession by Bill?
You and I both know that Microsoft is definately going to make a settlement.... it'll never happen