Personally I have a projector hooked up to my pc. Whenever I want a large screen I just switch it on, kick back and watch the image projected on the wall.
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HL2 is a single player offline game. It shouldn't have to phone home each time.
Atleast on each MMORPG games I've played every time there is significant outages your account gets credited for the outage. Howm any people are going to see even a penny compensation from valve because of this?.
The problem with this sort of error is that the problem is causing a bad login which invalidates your copy of HL2 (and any other games requiring steam) until valve gets steam working again.
It's not a simple case of "Steam servers down, do you want to play in offline mode" it's a "Our servers believe you're not authorized to play this game any longer"
I think in the business world the cellular carriers would should be all over this (though it will probably end up being similar to the RIAA / MPAA missing the indicators).
Already a bunch of businesses of all sizes are starting to use SIP / VOIP. Some with external providers like Vonage, some with their own VOIP PBX.
Now lets say for the ones that have their own PBX call comes in, while user is in the office it goes over the local wi-fi to the phone. When that phone leaves the office the call is routed to the cellular provider.
Ofcourse the setup could be the other way, call comes into cellular provider who routes the call to the customers office, or to the regular cell phone nodes.
The cellular companies have a huge advantage of having alot of the infrastructure (cell phone nodes) in place already.
Well I'd want to agree with you, but if you look at the volume of things that are outsourced already.
It isn't just the first line tech support jobs that are going overseas, it's everything except senior management and look at the stupid salaries they are getting.
There are already research, design & manufacture happening with the results then being filed through the US Patent office.
The main problems about patients is that they were introduced when the lifespan of a product was 20 years or so. and the idea's that made patents would last almost unchanged for 50 years.
Now things are happening at a much faster rate. I'm not sure if they need to be disposed of completely, but I'm sure you'd agree that they need a serious overhaul.
I'm running a 800mhz G4 powerbook with 1gb ram. I've edited DV from a camera to burn to DVD without it feeling sluggish. Your average mpg expanded from 320x240 to near full screen 1280x854) in mplayer uses about 25% of the cpu (using top to watch it) avi's about 30%.
wmv's & rm's take more but still run smoothly.
A 1.2ghz or 1.4ghz G4 will do most things quite smoothly, though you might want to consider upgrading the ram to 512mb. After all what pc's don't like more ram.
You're talking about a completely different architecture. I have a I have a 800mhz G4 with 1gb ram and the same video card. It plays all file formats at full screen quite happily while doing a bunch of things in the background. A mplayer playing a mpg stretched to full screen is only 25% cpu usage. An Avi about 30%, A WMV is about 35%. The worst seems to be a real player (.rm) video which can be up to 45%-50% (but how many of them would you play).
In short I agree the spec's are lower than x86, but it's certainly NOT bad. Get one of these put a larger disk and more memory in it and you'd have quite a serviceable desktop (with screen keyboard etc.
Yes it could do with 5.1 sound, and a better video card. Alternatively at 6.5" square and 2" high you could fit a bunch of these in 1U of colo space.
While in an ideal world I'd have to agree with you about reverse dns lookups, too many places don't care / have bad / missing reverse lookup data. So if a Phiser was was to have no reverse lookup data, then they would probably match ALOT of legit sites
eg www.barclays.co.uk (a major bank in the UK) www.barclays.co.uk has address 193.128.3.187 www.barclays.co.uk has address 62.172.239.187
Host 187.3.128.193.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Host 187.239.172.62.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
That's exactly the problem even your dig or nslookup on 4 or 5 servers won't work.
If a server is compromised high enough up the DNS chain then all the 4 or 5 servers will be getting the same info.
Assume one of the root servers was compromised. Instead of giving you whois for the real domain holder they give you whois info (authoritive DNS servers) for the Phisher.
Eg whois slashdot.org gives me the following name server info
Name Server:NS2.OSDN.COM Name Server:NS1.OSDN.COM Name Server:NS1.VASOFTWARE.COM Name Server:NS2.VASOFTWARE.COM Name Server:NS3.VASOFTWARE.COM
A Phisher gets a key dns server and you might as well have Name Server:NS1.Phisher.COM Name Server:NS2.Phisher.COM Name Server:NS3.Phisher.COM
For the most part getting into AOL's resolvers would provide enough victims if they changed www.paypal.com to point to their server.
Funny, yes, Insightful, no Most web sites are hosted on a shared platform. That's the whole reason HTTP 1.1 was invented. Go to any site on there and unless you type in the commands directly and like reading text with html tags (not displayed as web pages), then over 90% of web sites will be inaccessable.
You'll never stop this sort of stuff, there is always someone smarter and more determined to find loopholes than the overworked, caffeine addicted guy paid to write the code.
You're joking right ? If my experiance in the IT sector is anything to go by the guy who wrote the code while most probably overworked and caffeine addicted, is almost certainly NOT paid to write this code.
More than likely he's paid to do something else and has had to put this together in an afternoon between other projects.
Perhaps the car analogy isn't the best one to use. After all there is very little software that can cause physical damage to people or loss of life (exceptions that I know of is military and health).
How about if this was a flaw in a heart monitor or something ?
One small hint when you have alot to write. Break it up into small, easy (easier) to read chunks.
That way If people read it (instead of looking at it and saying "Huge block of text, I'll skip over and read the next one") they will also be able to get the points from it.
Re-read your post. It's difficult to read simply because of the formatting.
Most places that provide DSL also provide hosting services. Most hosting places have large volumes of data being uploaded with small volumes being downloaded.
Combine hosting and DSL and you use most of your available bandwidth (both uploading and downloading).
Reliability - ISS crewpeople spend the bulk of their time doing housekeeping/maintenance chores. How are they gonna get a brand-new, untried vehicle to run for a six-month trip each way, without multiple someones keeping an eye on things?
Don't run a certain Redmond OS, Perhaps it might be a good idea to use a *nix one.
cron-apt then every now and again log in and run apt-get -y dselect-upgrade. Chances are you'll have all the packages thanks to cron apt, your packages will be up to date and it's just a case of applying them
ok so you've listed 1 example from windows and 5 from nix. That tell you about how much more choice.
Also you haven't stated if simple replication would be enough (cron + rsync), or maybe you want a real solution such as having the file system on a seperate network device with raid and both servers having access.
Why can't MS figure out what they are good at and do that, instead of talking a bunch of shit and doing things half way? They are already the largest software company in the world, why don't they use these resources to be the best?
Why be the best when you can spend that money to force their way into more markets?
You don't really get it to you ?
How could awarding contracts now provide armour at the beginning of this year ?
Think about it. The contracts have been awarded, how long before the vests / armour etc reach the front line troops ?
These contracts should have been awarded a year or more ago so that the troops had the protection you're talking about.
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Personally I'd say that the art world was already flooded well before computers were added to the already fragrant pile
Personally I have a projector hooked up to my pc. Whenever I want a large screen I just switch it on, kick back and watch the image projected on the wall.
HL2 is a single player offline game.
It shouldn't have to phone home each time.
Atleast on each MMORPG games I've played every time there is significant outages your account gets credited for the outage.
Howm any people are going to see even a penny compensation from valve because of this?.
The problem with this sort of error is that the problem is causing a bad login which invalidates your copy of HL2 (and any other games requiring steam) until valve gets steam working again.
It's not a simple case of "Steam servers down, do you want to play in offline mode" it's a "Our servers believe you're not authorized to play this game any longer"
I think in the business world the cellular carriers would should be all over this (though it will probably end up being similar to the RIAA / MPAA missing the indicators).
Already a bunch of businesses of all sizes are starting to use SIP / VOIP. Some with external providers like Vonage, some with their own VOIP PBX.
Now lets say for the ones that have their own PBX call comes in, while user is in the office it goes over the local wi-fi to the phone. When that phone leaves the office the call is routed to the cellular provider.
Ofcourse the setup could be the other way, call comes into cellular provider who routes the call to the customers office, or to the regular cell phone nodes.
The cellular companies have a huge advantage of having alot of the infrastructure (cell phone nodes) in place already.
Well I'd want to agree with you, but if you look at the volume of things that are outsourced already.
It isn't just the first line tech support jobs that are going overseas, it's everything except senior management and look at the stupid salaries they are getting.
There are already research, design & manufacture happening with the results then being filed through the US Patent office.
The main problems about patients is that they were introduced when the lifespan of a product was 20 years or so. and the idea's that made patents would last almost unchanged for 50 years.
Now things are happening at a much faster rate. I'm not sure if they need to be disposed of completely, but I'm sure you'd agree that they need a serious overhaul.
I'm running a 800mhz G4 powerbook with 1gb ram.
I've edited DV from a camera to burn to DVD without it feeling sluggish.
Your average mpg expanded from 320x240 to near full screen 1280x854) in mplayer uses about 25% of the cpu (using top to watch it) avi's about 30%.
wmv's & rm's take more but still run smoothly.
A 1.2ghz or 1.4ghz G4 will do most things quite smoothly, though you might want to consider upgrading the ram to 512mb. After all what pc's don't like more ram.
You're talking about a completely different architecture.
I have a I have a 800mhz G4 with 1gb ram and the same video card.
It plays all file formats at full screen quite happily while doing a bunch of things in the background. A mplayer playing a mpg stretched to full screen is only 25% cpu usage. An Avi about 30%, A WMV is about 35%. The worst seems to be a real player (.rm) video which can be up to 45%-50% (but how many of them would you play).
In short I agree the spec's are lower than x86, but it's certainly NOT bad.
Get one of these put a larger disk and more memory in it and you'd have quite a serviceable desktop (with screen keyboard etc.
Yes it could do with 5.1 sound, and a better video card.
Alternatively at 6.5" square and 2" high you could fit a bunch of these in 1U of colo space.
The Register story http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/patent_mep s_resolution/
While in an ideal world I'd have to agree with you about reverse dns lookups, too many places don't care / have bad / missing reverse lookup data.
So if a Phiser was was to have no reverse lookup data, then they would probably match ALOT of legit sites
eg www.barclays.co.uk (a major bank in the UK)
www.barclays.co.uk has address 193.128.3.187
www.barclays.co.uk has address 62.172.239.187
Host 187.3.128.193.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Host 187.239.172.62.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
That's exactly the problem even your dig or nslookup on 4 or 5 servers won't work.
If a server is compromised high enough up the DNS chain then all the 4 or 5 servers will be getting the same info.
Assume one of the root servers was compromised. Instead of giving you whois for the real domain holder they give you whois info (authoritive DNS servers) for the Phisher.
Eg whois slashdot.org gives me the following name server info
Name Server:NS2.OSDN.COM
Name Server:NS1.OSDN.COM
Name Server:NS1.VASOFTWARE.COM
Name Server:NS2.VASOFTWARE.COM
Name Server:NS3.VASOFTWARE.COM
A Phisher gets a key dns server and you might as well have
Name Server:NS1.Phisher.COM
Name Server:NS2.Phisher.COM
Name Server:NS3.Phisher.COM
For the most part getting into AOL's resolvers would provide enough victims if they changed www.paypal.com to point to their server.
Funny, yes, Insightful, no
Most web sites are hosted on a shared platform. That's the whole reason HTTP 1.1 was invented. Go to any site on there and unless you type in the commands directly and like reading text with html tags (not displayed as web pages), then over 90% of web sites will be inaccessable.
You're joking right ? If my experiance in the IT sector is anything to go by the guy who wrote the code while most probably overworked and caffeine addicted, is almost certainly NOT paid to write this code.
More than likely he's paid to do something else and has had to put this together in an afternoon between other projects.
yes it still works like that.
The trick is to use the same credit places.
When asked for credit they ask typically ask for 3-5 years of addresses.
Not only will the patches be coming out after an exploit, it will be after a critical mass of exploits that the company can't hide / deny.
Perhaps the car analogy isn't the best one to use. After all there is very little software that can cause physical damage to people or loss of life (exceptions that I know of is military and health).
How about if this was a flaw in a heart monitor or something ?
And there most *nix people I know would have just booted init=1 from lilo / grub
One small hint when you have alot to write. Break it up into small, easy (easier) to read chunks.
That way If people read it (instead of looking at it and saying "Huge block of text, I'll skip over and read the next one") they will also be able to get the points from it.
Re-read your post. It's difficult to read simply because of the formatting.
Most places that provide DSL also provide hosting services.
Most hosting places have large volumes of data being uploaded with small volumes being downloaded.
Combine hosting and DSL and you use most of your available bandwidth (both uploading and downloading).
Reliability - ISS crewpeople spend the bulk of their time doing housekeeping/maintenance chores. How are they gonna get a brand-new, untried vehicle to run for a six-month trip each way, without multiple someones keeping an eye on things?
Don't run a certain Redmond OS, Perhaps it might be a good idea to use a *nix one.
I've used software raid 5, I've always found it more reliable than hardware. and i've recovered from multiple disk failure.
I am looking at switching to raid 6 on a 2.6 kernel. 2 disk redundancy.
cron-apt
then every now and again log in and run apt-get -y dselect-upgrade.
Chances are you'll have all the packages thanks to cron apt, your packages will be up to date and it's just a case of applying them
ok so you've listed 1 example from windows and 5 from nix. That tell you about how much more choice.
Also you haven't stated if simple replication would be enough (cron + rsync), or maybe you want a real solution such as having the file system on a seperate network device with raid and both servers having access.
Why be the best when you can spend that money to force their way into more markets?
You're still not getting it.
You prepare in advance. You don't start preparing after you've been fighting in the theater for 6 months.
You don't really get it to you ? How could awarding contracts now provide armour at the beginning of this year ? Think about it. The contracts have been awarded, how long before the vests / armour etc reach the front line troops ? These contracts should have been awarded a year or more ago so that the troops had the protection you're talking about.