I know this will be modded down, but I feel I must comment on this being a bad thing, as they will only use it to write more cheats and wall hacks for counter-strike, and ruin the game play for the rest of us. Down with those communists!
I feel I should plug this program, since it's relevant to the topic. It's called SuperCleaner, and can be found here: http://www.southbaypc.com/SuperCleaner/. It does a rather nice job cleaning up random garbage files on your system, however you have to pay to register it, for anybody that might be turned off by that sort of thing. It only cost me a few dollars to register it back in the day, however the price tag has gone up a lot to $32.99.
Are there any OpenSource/Freeware alternatives to this program, that anybody can suggest?
I remember I once tried to scan in some money (no, not to counterfeit it -- didn't have a magnifying glass, and I wanted to check out the owl on the dollar bill, up close), and some of it came out really "wavey" to describe it best. The blank space that has the pattern printed, looked like a bunch of sin/cos curves next to each other. Is this because of the scanner driver or could it be because of built in counterfeit protection, into the dollar bill?
The comment for the story says: "Morse's company, Razorpoint Security Technologies does not employ hackers who've decided to come in from the cold."
Does anyone have any links regarding that? I read the link in the story, and all it gives is some very brief information. I'd just like to see the guys reasoning for not hiring "hackers who have come in from the cold."
I have a honeywell hepa filter in my room, and my computers still collect plenty of dust:D
What I can say, is that my allergies haven't been as bad as previous years when I did not have it in my room. However, it is a bit more difficult to sleep now, with it running 24/7, even on the Low setting. Sometimes I just turn it off, for the sake of sleep.
Cablevision/Optimum Online is definately insanely fast. I downloaded the matrix reloaded trailer at like a constant 1mb/sec...
Apparently, though, they have an outgoing bandwidth limit... something like only 1 gig per 24 hours or something of that sort. I heard this from a friend of a friend, though, so it may not be true. If anyone knows anything more about this, please reply!
By nature, terrorists obviously aren't going to obey any laws... much less SOFTWARE LICENSES. This makes Windows a FREE OS.
And with Microsoft's latest effort to try to make their OS's as "secure" as possible, shouldn't all these people picking on opensource be targeting Microsoft as well, since they are now SECURE?
All this post-9/11 paranoia is getting really ridiculous, and I can't wait till someone in power finally realizes how stupid we are being.
Seriously! I'm pulling it down at like 900k/s. What the heck is going on? I hope to god no script kiddie gets their hands on the connection they are serving this with, or else we will all be in a world of hurt.
It would be so great if spammers had to come within a proximity of your home, to send you spam... I'd have an electric fence around my house, with one entrance, and 400 guard dogs.
This was always possible, using a Cisco 3660 with a voice card, and SIP.
Simply dial sip:1800429739@1.2.3.4:5060 with any software SIP phone for Linux, and you're good... granted the hardware would cost you around 10,000 plus the monthly service fee for a 4 channel BRI (at least).
Re:Would that be US government prices?
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Ya, it has always pissed me off that US government prices are like 15x what regular people pay, and like 150x what it costs to actually manufacture.
OVERPAYING for a bunch of military hardware that wouldn't be necessary if Bush wasn't an idiot (sorry, I just had to make fun of him -- I hate him) is what puts us in a national deficit... but I guess it helps the economy, so whatever.
I recently saw a piece on the local news about some Senators (I believe) in Connecticut out-lawing car rental agencies placing GPS devices in automobiles, and surcharging the drivers additional fees for every time they go over the speed limit. Their rational was that they are fining people for doing stuff illegally, when there are no police officers or proper authorities involved. They plan on totally outlawing the charging of fees, and tracking of drivers through GPS... While it should remain local legislation for a while, they said they are going to try to pass it nation wide.
Can the same be done for broadband? I know their rationale is more to save them bandwidth, not enforce the law, but couldn't we say that the broadband providers are trying to surcharge us or fine us (I didn't read the full article, so forgive me if they AREN'T trying to add fees for using more bandwidth for P2P) in trying to enforce the laws themselves?
That is the (at risk of sounding gay) cutest thing I've ever seen. I wonder how he managed to get the suckers to stand up, holding the various parts, without falling. Tape or glue or something?
I guess the easy solution would be to have a bunch of interior designers and Powerpuff Girls fans come in and tell the interface designers what they want in their GUI... The key is to make it configurable, so if you don't want crap, turn it off.
However, my original idea was just to change how we interact with the computer. The article said that computers nowadays just boot into windows and sit there, and do nothing. Why not make them do something? Why not make the computer into a secretary/newscaster?
How about a GUI that acts like a person. You fire up the computer and it starts shooting out information at you, if it's just idling. Perhaps have a little face with a bubble with stuff in it, and maybe use text-to-speech to spit out the words.
"The time is sdfjsdf. This just happened in the news. The following holidays are near. Your hard disk is running low on space. You haven't run this application for a while"
Just random crap... and when you're using an app, the apps can give that person stuff to say... there could be difference classes of information. If you're browsing the web, the computer could be more friendly and informative to you. If you're coding it could just sit there and shut up. If you're writing a paper it could perhaps search the internet in the background for related information and pop up ideas or something.
I'm not sure how to elaborate any further, cause it's just an idea floating around my head, but it could be neat.
And even if a poster were to use the search feature to check if the article had been posted before, that wouldn't be much help either. If you do a search for the simple term "gravestone", which I would probably do to check if this link had been posted before, a rather irrelevent link shows up...
However a search for "gravestones" does return the previously posted article, so how's that for shooting yourself in the foot.
Either way, I think the search feature could use a little work, as many times I've searched for articles and have not been able to find them until keying in a few different search terms.
Does anyone know if the search uses MySQL fulltext searching?
BTW, Did Acclaim ever succeed in placing the advertisements on the headstones?
No need to devise a way of sending out a power-down signal for those with APC UPSes. They have a product named PowerChute (and even a linux version!) that machines connected to a UPS can use to communicate to each other. It has configurable shutdown times, so mission critical servers can stay up for the longest time possible, while not so important ones can be shut down immediately. We use it extensively in my office, and it really lengthens the battery length on our UPS.
Also worth nothing -- we have our Exchange server begin shutdown almost immediately after the power goes out, as it takes exchange nearly 15 minutes just to shut down. We are actively looking for an alternative to Exchange.
Ok... I've heard different things about this all over the place. When you're talking about bandwidth, does a kilo mean 1000 or 1024? I read somewhere on the MRTG page that in bandwidth terms kilo is 1000, mega is 1000000, etc, and that in storage terms a kilo is 1024, mega is 1048576, etc.
In this post the submitter went against that and said giga is 10737418240 (which is not equal to 1024^3, but this is confusing enough as it is, so lets forget about it).
Which one is it? Is there an RFC that makes some kind of standard for all of this?
Ok. Don't be to quick to flame, because I'll admit it... I am stupid.
I see these posts on slashdot a lot, about seeing meteor showers etc, but I'm never able to actually see them. A couple times I've made the effort to go outside with some binoculars or whatever and looked at the sky, but I've never seen anything. Am I looking in the wrong place? Am I looking at the wrong time? Does being 20 miles outside of NYC have anything to do with it?
I'm really interested in space, the sky, stars, but I never get to see cool stuff happening with them. Any pointers? =P
Re:Verizon DSL is NOT THAT EVIL
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Please forgive me if I don't make entirely too much sense right now, as I just woke up. (Yes I'm on the East Coast, Yes it's 2:29 AM, Yes I have insomnia)
I noticed this happened around 5 am yesterday morning (Tuesday, August 7th). Well I didn't notice it, I just tailed my apache logs and web requests seemed to stop coming in around that time. None the less, I got into work that day and noticed I couldn't access my personal web page... NOTE: Personal, not commercial. I put pretty pictures, that I've taken with my digital camera, on it. I was however able to ssh into it and ftp into it.
What was going on? I got scared for a second cause I thought perhaps they started enforcing some term of their service, but it wasn't until I got home and (not so thoroughly) skimmed through their TOS that I realized running a server was not against their TOS, as a matter of fact they worded it so JUST dialup users cannot run a "server of any kind", and it seemed to be fine for DSL users.
So I call up Verizon, talk to a couple different people, none of which knew a single thing about anything. One tried to accuse me of violating the TOS, and I told them it said I'm allowed to run a server in it. She shut up immediately.
Another told me that since I wasn't patched against code red, my internet service was being blocked. I told her I wasn't using a Microsoft operating system therefore I'm not affected by it, and even if I wanted to I wouldn't be able to apply the patch. She told me that because I didn't apply the patch, port 80 was being blocked. Again, I explained to her I wasn't running a Microsoft OS. In the end I think I explained it to her around 5 times... hopefully she knows a little more about computers now.
Finally I got to some guy who was somewhat intelligent, although he did call Linux, L-EYE-NUCKS, he seemed to have some understanding of how to press buttons. I asked him why port 80 was being filtered, and he told me because Microsoft had recommended they block the port. (BTW, I totally agree with someone else that commented on this, who said that because of Microsoft building insecure web servers, we are paying. That is fuct) I asked him if there was anything they could do to unblock the port for me, like put me on another subnet and give me a static IP (I'm a sneaky bastard), or put some kind of flag on my account. He told me that for the time being there was no work around, however he would post a memo and suggest to their tech team they find a way around the port blocking for users who are patched, or not running a Microsoft OS. I asked how long the filtering would stay in place... he told me it would only last for another couple hours. Right there I told him I didn't think that was true, but he insisted it would only last another hour or two, MAX... port 80 is still blocked.
I just thought I'd contribute this tid bit. I have Verizon DSL in Northern New Jersey, in Essex County. Again, their TOS did not prohibit running a server, unless you are on a dial up. I would post it here, but there is also some clause in their TOS that prohibits reproducing it, so if some brave soul wants to post it below this, go right ahead =]
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I know this will be modded down, but I feel I must comment on this being a bad thing, as they will only use it to write more cheats and wall hacks for counter-strike, and ruin the game play for the rest of us. Down with those communists!
I feel I should plug this program, since it's relevant to the topic. It's called SuperCleaner, and can be found here: http://www.southbaypc.com/SuperCleaner/. It does a rather nice job cleaning up random garbage files on your system, however you have to pay to register it, for anybody that might be turned off by that sort of thing. It only cost me a few dollars to register it back in the day, however the price tag has gone up a lot to $32.99.
Are there any OpenSource/Freeware alternatives to this program, that anybody can suggest?
I remember I once tried to scan in some money (no, not to counterfeit it -- didn't have a magnifying glass, and I wanted to check out the owl on the dollar bill, up close), and some of it came out really "wavey" to describe it best. The blank space that has the pattern printed, looked like a bunch of sin/cos curves next to each other. Is this because of the scanner driver or could it be because of built in counterfeit protection, into the dollar bill?
The comment for the story says: "Morse's company, Razorpoint Security Technologies does not employ hackers who've decided to come in from the cold."
Does anyone have any links regarding that? I read the link in the story, and all it gives is some very brief information. I'd just like to see the guys reasoning for not hiring "hackers who have come in from the cold."
Here are a bunch of FTP mirrors for it.
2 demo.exe&size=160931502
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=unreal
I'm getting 300k/sec off of the freenet.de one.
I have a honeywell hepa filter in my room, and my computers still collect plenty of dust :D
What I can say, is that my allergies haven't been as bad as previous years when I did not have it in my room. However, it is a bit more difficult to sleep now, with it running 24/7, even on the Low setting. Sometimes I just turn it off, for the sake of sleep.
Cablevision/Optimum Online is definately insanely fast. I downloaded the matrix reloaded trailer at like a constant 1mb/sec...
Apparently, though, they have an outgoing bandwidth limit... something like only 1 gig per 24 hours or something of that sort. I heard this from a friend of a friend, though, so it may not be true. If anyone knows anything more about this, please reply!
By nature, terrorists obviously aren't going to obey any laws... much less SOFTWARE LICENSES. This makes Windows a FREE OS.
And with Microsoft's latest effort to try to make their OS's as "secure" as possible, shouldn't all these people picking on opensource be targeting Microsoft as well, since they are now SECURE?
All this post-9/11 paranoia is getting really ridiculous, and I can't wait till someone in power finally realizes how stupid we are being.
Seriously! I'm pulling it down at like 900k/s. What the heck is going on? I hope to god no script kiddie gets their hands on the connection they are serving this with, or else we will all be in a world of hurt.
Moderators, please mod the parent comment up!
It would be so great if spammers had to come within a proximity of your home, to send you spam... I'd have an electric fence around my house, with one entrance, and 400 guard dogs.
The same with waging war.
Operation _______ Freedom
a. Enduring
b. Iraqi
c. North Korea?
d. Cowboy Neal
I think he meant reign.
It would be nice if that EEtimes article even gave a slight, non-indepth, technical description of what exactly GDDR2 is.
Can anyone answer me that? What makes it special?
This was always possible, using a Cisco 3660 with a voice card, and SIP.
Simply dial sip:1800429739@1.2.3.4:5060 with any software SIP phone for Linux, and you're good... granted the hardware would cost you around 10,000 plus the monthly service fee for a 4 channel BRI (at least).
Ya, it has always pissed me off that US government prices are like 15x what regular people pay, and like 150x what it costs to actually manufacture.
OVERPAYING for a bunch of military hardware that wouldn't be necessary if Bush wasn't an idiot (sorry, I just had to make fun of him -- I hate him) is what puts us in a national deficit... but I guess it helps the economy, so whatever.
I recently saw a piece on the local news about some Senators (I believe) in Connecticut out-lawing car rental agencies placing GPS devices in automobiles, and surcharging the drivers additional fees for every time they go over the speed limit. Their rational was that they are fining people for doing stuff illegally, when there are no police officers or proper authorities involved. They plan on totally outlawing the charging of fees, and tracking of drivers through GPS... While it should remain local legislation for a while, they said they are going to try to pass it nation wide.
Can the same be done for broadband? I know their rationale is more to save them bandwidth, not enforce the law, but couldn't we say that the broadband providers are trying to surcharge us or fine us (I didn't read the full article, so forgive me if they AREN'T trying to add fees for using more bandwidth for P2P) in trying to enforce the laws themselves?
Hows that for run on sentences...
That is the (at risk of sounding gay) cutest thing I've ever seen. I wonder how he managed to get the suckers to stand up, holding the various parts, without falling. Tape or glue or something?
I guess the easy solution would be to have a bunch of interior designers and Powerpuff Girls fans come in and tell the interface designers what they want in their GUI... The key is to make it configurable, so if you don't want crap, turn it off.
However, my original idea was just to change how we interact with the computer. The article said that computers nowadays just boot into windows and sit there, and do nothing. Why not make them do something? Why not make the computer into a secretary/newscaster?
How about a GUI that acts like a person. You fire up the computer and it starts shooting out information at you, if it's just idling. Perhaps have a little face with a bubble with stuff in it, and maybe use text-to-speech to spit out the words.
"The time is sdfjsdf. This just happened in the news. The following holidays are near. Your hard disk is running low on space. You haven't run this application for a while"
Just random crap... and when you're using an app, the apps can give that person stuff to say... there could be difference classes of information. If you're browsing the web, the computer could be more friendly and informative to you. If you're coding it could just sit there and shut up. If you're writing a paper it could perhaps search the internet in the background for related information and pop up ideas or something.
I'm not sure how to elaborate any further, cause it's just an idea floating around my head, but it could be neat.
And even if a poster were to use the search feature to check if the article had been posted before, that wouldn't be much help either. If you do a search for the simple term "gravestone", which I would probably do to check if this link had been posted before, a rather irrelevent link shows up...
However a search for "gravestones" does return the previously posted article, so how's that for shooting yourself in the foot.
Either way, I think the search feature could use a little work, as many times I've searched for articles and have not been able to find them until keying in a few different search terms.
Does anyone know if the search uses MySQL fulltext searching?
BTW, Did Acclaim ever succeed in placing the advertisements on the headstones?
No need to devise a way of sending out a power-down signal for those with APC UPSes. They have a product named PowerChute (and even a linux version!) that machines connected to a UPS can use to communicate to each other. It has configurable shutdown times, so mission critical servers can stay up for the longest time possible, while not so important ones can be shut down immediately. We use it extensively in my office, and it really lengthens the battery length on our UPS.
Also worth nothing -- we have our Exchange server begin shutdown almost immediately after the power goes out, as it takes exchange nearly 15 minutes just to shut down. We are actively looking for an alternative to Exchange.
I was looking around SMC's site a few weeks ago and they had already released an 802.11a wireless access point.
Ok... I've heard different things about this all over the place. When you're talking about bandwidth, does a kilo mean 1000 or 1024? I read somewhere on the MRTG page that in bandwidth terms kilo is 1000, mega is 1000000, etc, and that in storage terms a kilo is 1024, mega is 1048576, etc.
In this post the submitter went against that and said giga is 10737418240 (which is not equal to 1024^3, but this is confusing enough as it is, so lets forget about it).
Which one is it? Is there an RFC that makes some kind of standard for all of this?
Ok. Don't be to quick to flame, because I'll admit it... I am stupid.
I see these posts on slashdot a lot, about seeing meteor showers etc, but I'm never able to actually see them. A couple times I've made the effort to go outside with some binoculars or whatever and looked at the sky, but I've never seen anything. Am I looking in the wrong place? Am I looking at the wrong time? Does being 20 miles outside of NYC have anything to do with it?
I'm really interested in space, the sky, stars, but I never get to see cool stuff happening with them. Any pointers? =P
I noticed this happened around 5 am yesterday morning (Tuesday, August 7th). Well I didn't notice it, I just tailed my apache logs and web requests seemed to stop coming in around that time. None the less, I got into work that day and noticed I couldn't access my personal web page... NOTE: Personal, not commercial. I put pretty pictures, that I've taken with my digital camera, on it. I was however able to ssh into it and ftp into it.
What was going on? I got scared for a second cause I thought perhaps they started enforcing some term of their service, but it wasn't until I got home and (not so thoroughly) skimmed through their TOS that I realized running a server was not against their TOS, as a matter of fact they worded it so JUST dialup users cannot run a "server of any kind", and it seemed to be fine for DSL users.
So I call up Verizon, talk to a couple different people, none of which knew a single thing about anything. One tried to accuse me of violating the TOS, and I told them it said I'm allowed to run a server in it. She shut up immediately.
Another told me that since I wasn't patched against code red, my internet service was being blocked. I told her I wasn't using a Microsoft operating system therefore I'm not affected by it, and even if I wanted to I wouldn't be able to apply the patch. She told me that because I didn't apply the patch, port 80 was being blocked. Again, I explained to her I wasn't running a Microsoft OS. In the end I think I explained it to her around 5 times... hopefully she knows a little more about computers now.
Finally I got to some guy who was somewhat intelligent, although he did call Linux, L-EYE-NUCKS, he seemed to have some understanding of how to press buttons. I asked him why port 80 was being filtered, and he told me because Microsoft had recommended they block the port. (BTW, I totally agree with someone else that commented on this, who said that because of Microsoft building insecure web servers, we are paying. That is fuct) I asked him if there was anything they could do to unblock the port for me, like put me on another subnet and give me a static IP (I'm a sneaky bastard), or put some kind of flag on my account. He told me that for the time being there was no work around, however he would post a memo and suggest to their tech team they find a way around the port blocking for users who are patched, or not running a Microsoft OS. I asked how long the filtering would stay in place ... he told me it would only last for another couple hours. Right there I told him I didn't think that was true, but he insisted it would only last another hour or two, MAX... port 80 is still blocked.
I just thought I'd contribute this tid bit. I have Verizon DSL in Northern New Jersey, in Essex County. Again, their TOS did not prohibit running a server, unless you are on a dial up. I would post it here, but there is also some clause in their TOS that prohibits reproducing it, so if some brave soul wants to post it below this, go right ahead =]
I need to get a higher paying job so I can get a T1 and then just have to deal with UUnet fiber-optic cuts because of train wrecks.