Anyone know when intel plans to release SMP enabled versions of the P4 and/or chipsets that support it? I've seen SMP P4 Xeons on their roadmaps, but nothing about the P4. They were supposed to announce something about it at microprocessor forum, but didn't. Any clues?
Yup. I do the same... works for all kinds of other things, too... it can be a doorstop, a small table, a step stool, a footrest, a bookend, a replacement for a broken couch leg, hot plate, chair...
By far the most creative and original game I've ever played. I recently tried to ressurect my old Apple II just to play it, and even tried an Atari ST emulator to no avail. My hat is off to the remenants of FTL games and the original designers.
If someone wants to ressurect Sundog, they've got my vote.;)
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According to the article linked by this slashdot story, foreign key support should show up in 4.1 along with subselects and a few other goodies. Would be nice to have these BASIC features...
I think we should attack this from a different angle. Congress is in a position now where they're willing to suspend civil liberties in this war... we may have to accept that for now. Decisions have already been made, and will continue to be made, that will have a serious impact on our privacy and personal freedoms. Cries of first ammendment rights aren't going to cut it; the people have already spoken.
But businesses, businesses that already pretty much drive american politics anyway, will not be ignored. For the first time in my life, I find that big business may be an ALLY against reactive crypto regulations. IBM, MS, AT&T, etc, may be able to convince congress that they need strong crypto in order to conduct secure business.
Other allies may include the RIAA and MPAA, who are investigating the use of cryptography for secure digital formats. It was the ridiculous crypto laws of the early 90's, after all, that led to the weak encryption used in DVDs that was eventually cracked.
So I suggest not writing to your congressmen, but to your business leaders. Perhaps THEY, who have a stronger voice than most individual americans, can convince the government that good crytpo is a necessity.
Good luck enforcing that... transmission of random data can be done for many reasons, mostly related to testing of networks and compression techniques.
For that matter, good luck with this law PERIOD... you can't really outlaw a one-time-pad, and that's certainly "unbreakable cryptography"
Congratulations on answering the question by not answering the question. Schneier is saying that encrypted data cannot be distinguished from random data because of the reasons you referenced. Enciphered data, at least that which is enciphered well, is indistinguishable from random data. Files like MS excel documents and ascii text files are not random... they're actually very, very regular.
*shrug* Of the thousands of Code Red and Nimda attempts on my boxes, only a handful of IPs have attacked. They just keep on trying. Remember, these both function as DoS, as well. By avoiding tarpits, the virus can avoid having the DoS component of its functionality slowed or stopped.
Actually, there were only about 300,000 known instances of Code Red. By this gentleman's estimation, only 1000 or so Tarpits would be necessary. If put in the right places, a single tarpit could stop multiple attackers.
Incidents.org is gathering information about Nimda to determine what networks are most heavily affected, and therefore in most need of LaBrea traps. I don't know if it's going to work, but the theory is a good start.
I've been looking into this for about a day... looks like it might have a chance, though it wouldn't be difficult to circumvent this kind of "tarpit" in future generations of viruses. By using multiple scanning threads, monitoring existing threads that might be getting stuck, and keeping an internal log of tarpits, a virus could learn which IPs to avoid. Handy in the short term, though, if enough people implement it.
Yes, my machines (on RR) are getting pounded as well. It seems to act a bit like Code Red in the manner in which it spreads, but is attempting to exploit a greater number of bugs.
I have no qualms about requiring color vision for programmers. Everyone does not need to be a programmer.
Well thanks, Chuck. I'm not completely blind, but close enough that your colorForth is inaccessable, as is most web content. Thanks for telling me that I don't have to be a programmer. Guess what? I want to be, buddy. And while I don't think I'm the best coder that ever walked the earth, I think I can get the job done. But thanks to people with dismissive views such as yours, it's becoming harder and harder every day to do what I enjoy: coding. It's bad enough that most developers don't consider the needs of people with disabilities, but to hear someone who has considered then DISMISSED those needs is truly disheartening.
Unlikely on two counts. The palms may have built in static protection to protect when not connected to a cradle, but the data, power, and grounding pins connect simultaenously when inserted into the cradle. Any potential built up in the palm will be discharged through all conductors simultaneously.
The motherboard issue is just plain not true... if the motherboards were not properly grounded, they would not be able to achieve CE or UL certification. Both USB and serial connectors include a grounding conductor, and they SHOULD ground to the motherboard, which should in turn ground out. If everything is working correctly, your components should be safe.
HOWEVER, the palm has an opportunity to steadily build up a great deal of potential when in your pocket, clipped to your belt, whatever. This won't seriously affect it while not connected, but this potential difference will blast back through whatever conductors are available, which may include the data lines. Which is bad.
Understand that I'm really just an amateur in the whole electronics field, and have likely left out some details above. The general gist should be correct, however. If not, I'm always happy to be corrected.
All they'll have to do is have a grounding connector pin placed slightly ahead of the data and power pins on the connector. Hot swap drives do this today, why can't handhelds?
Now that Netscape is essentially out of the picture, MS doesn't need to worry about consumers going to alternative browsers for software support. MS can now attack competitors' file formats by ensuring that they don't work with the dominant browser on the market (IE.) MS doesn't like Apple interfering with their multimedia formats, so they just render Apple obsolete. It's perfet.
I agree... if the driver is indeed tweaked to artificially tweak benchmarks, we have a VERY large problem on our hands, and I'd be rather pissed off at whoever it was that participated in such deception. And yes, the drop in performance for Giants is rather interesting, but a single deteriorating benchmark is hardly evidence that NVIDIA is doing anything dishonest.
Tom's perspective on an issue is indeed imporant to me. I've been reading his site since not long after it first opened, and have come to trust the opinions of Tom and his staff. Their reviews are more than thorough, usually competently written (some of the translations from German don't quite come off perfectly,) and very informative. Recently, however, I've noticed a great deal of editorializing on the part of their editors.
Take, for example, Tom's crusade against Rambus. Several of his early articles made broad statements about the ethics and tactics of the not-so-well-loved company. His comments later turned out to be accurate, and I believe that the public's rejection of Rambus is due in no small part to Tom's influence, but at the time of his initial comments, he had little to back up his claims.
Tom is in a position to influence a lot of people with his opinion, but I believe he needs to exercise a bit of journalistic integrity when posting unsubstntiated comments that will be read by such a large audience. Based on the article that was posted today, and the lack of evidence to back up Tom's claims that something is amiss, it wouldn't surprise me if NVIDIA filed a libel suit against Tom.
I'm starting to get a bit tired of Tom's preachiness. Throughout his review he menions that the recent release of the Detonator 4 drivers shows a lack of "sportsmanship" on the part of NVidia, and that the timing of the release was inteded to hurt ATI's release of the new chipset.
You know what, Tom? That's business.
NVIDIA is out to make money, and just happens to produce a goddamn good product while doing it. NVIDIA released (or is about to release, anyway,) a fully featured upgrade to their product to *gasp* beat out the competition? What horror! What an attrocity! The thing works, it's better, get over it. In the words of Coolio, "If you can't take the heat, get your ass outs the kitchen."
On the other hand, if Nvidia has been keeping this driver away from the public for an extended period of time for no other reason than to "drop the bomb" on ATI, well... that's quite dispicable, and could be considered harmful to us, the faithful consumers. And by a substantial period of time, I mean a month or more. A few weeks difference is strategy, a few months is downright rude.;P
I'm interested in buying the best product for my money, not the little games that ATI and Nvidia play with each other. So I don't want to hear about Tom's personal conspiracy theories and rants. "Here are two cards. This one costs this much, the other one costs this much. This one is better and here's why." Anything else is irrelevant.
My favorite part about code red is that the fault lies with a single person. This one person wrote code for a small, single aspect of IIS, and all of this is his fault. I wonder what he's doing today? Is he the type of person that's wracked with guilt over shutting down large portions of the internet, or is he the type of person that will realize that he single handedly impacted the entire virtual world, and be proud of it? I wonder what code red's author is doing today, too... rolling on the floor laughing his ass off, I imagine. We should try to get those two people together and see what they can come up with over a few beers.
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Anyone know when intel plans to release SMP enabled versions of the P4 and/or chipsets that support it? I've seen SMP P4 Xeons on their roadmaps, but nothing about the P4. They were supposed to announce something about it at microprocessor forum, but didn't. Any clues?
Yup. I do the same... works for all kinds of other things, too... it can be a doorstop, a small table, a step stool, a footrest, a bookend, a replacement for a broken couch leg, hot plate, chair...
By far the most creative and original game I've ever played. I recently tried to ressurect my old Apple II just to play it, and even tried an Atari ST emulator to no avail. My hat is off to the remenants of FTL games and the original designers.
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If someone wants to ressurect Sundog, they've got my vote.
According to the article linked by this slashdot story, foreign key support should show up in 4.1 along with subselects and a few other goodies. Would be nice to have these BASIC features...
How does their technique differ from dense wave divisional multiplexing? Anyone know?
Yeah, I want my Dell Lattitude XP Titanium 2002 Enhanced modbile with SuperStealth technology!
I think we should attack this from a different angle. Congress is in a position now where they're willing to suspend civil liberties in this war... we may have to accept that for now. Decisions have already been made, and will continue to be made, that will have a serious impact on our privacy and personal freedoms. Cries of first ammendment rights aren't going to cut it; the people have already spoken.
But businesses, businesses that already pretty much drive american politics anyway, will not be ignored. For the first time in my life, I find that big business may be an ALLY against reactive crypto regulations. IBM, MS, AT&T, etc, may be able to convince congress that they need strong crypto in order to conduct secure business.
Other allies may include the RIAA and MPAA, who are investigating the use of cryptography for secure digital formats. It was the ridiculous crypto laws of the early 90's, after all, that led to the weak encryption used in DVDs that was eventually cracked.
So I suggest not writing to your congressmen, but to your business leaders. Perhaps THEY, who have a stronger voice than most individual americans, can convince the government that good crytpo is a necessity.
Good luck enforcing that... transmission of random data can be done for many reasons, mostly related to testing of networks and compression techniques.
For that matter, good luck with this law PERIOD... you can't really outlaw a one-time-pad, and that's certainly "unbreakable cryptography"
Congratulations on answering the question by not answering the question. Schneier is saying that encrypted data cannot be distinguished from random data because of the reasons you referenced. Enciphered data, at least that which is enciphered well, is indistinguishable from random data. Files like MS excel documents and ascii text files are not random... they're actually very, very regular.
*shrug* Of the thousands of Code Red and Nimda attempts on my boxes, only a handful of IPs have attacked. They just keep on trying. Remember, these both function as DoS, as well. By avoiding tarpits, the virus can avoid having the DoS component of its functionality slowed or stopped.
Actually, there were only about 300,000 known instances of Code Red. By this gentleman's estimation, only 1000 or so Tarpits would be necessary. If put in the right places, a single tarpit could stop multiple attackers.
Incidents.org is gathering information about Nimda to determine what networks are most heavily affected, and therefore in most need of LaBrea traps. I don't know if it's going to work, but the theory is a good start.
I've been looking into this for about a day... looks like it might have a chance, though it wouldn't be difficult to circumvent this kind of "tarpit" in future generations of viruses. By using multiple scanning threads, monitoring existing threads that might be getting stuck, and keeping an internal log of tarpits, a virus could learn which IPs to avoid. Handy in the short term, though, if enough people implement it.
Yes, my machines (on RR) are getting pounded as well. It seems to act a bit like Code Red in the manner in which it spreads, but is attempting to exploit a greater number of bugs.
Unlikely on two counts. The palms may have built in static protection to protect when not connected to a cradle, but the data, power, and grounding pins connect simultaenously when inserted into the cradle. Any potential built up in the palm will be discharged through all conductors simultaneously.
The motherboard issue is just plain not true... if the motherboards were not properly grounded, they would not be able to achieve CE or UL certification. Both USB and serial connectors include a grounding conductor, and they SHOULD ground to the motherboard, which should in turn ground out. If everything is working correctly, your components should be safe.
HOWEVER, the palm has an opportunity to steadily build up a great deal of potential when in your pocket, clipped to your belt, whatever. This won't seriously affect it while not connected, but this potential difference will blast back through whatever conductors are available, which may include the data lines. Which is bad.
Understand that I'm really just an amateur in the whole electronics field, and have likely left out some details above. The general gist should be correct, however. If not, I'm always happy to be corrected.
All they'll have to do is have a grounding connector pin placed slightly ahead of the data and power pins on the connector. Hot swap drives do this today, why can't handhelds?
40-50? Jebus, my cable modem gets 50 code red attempts PER HOUR, and about 20 port scans per day.
Now that Netscape is essentially out of the picture, MS doesn't need to worry about consumers going to alternative browsers for software support. MS can now attack competitors' file formats by ensuring that they don't work with the dominant browser on the market (IE.) MS doesn't like Apple interfering with their multimedia formats, so they just render Apple obsolete. It's perfet.
.4 frame per second is .4 FPS. It's a frame every .4 seconds that isn't .4 FPS. Your correction is correct, but your explanation of the correction isn't.
Moron.
Thus decreasing Tom's credibility and the validity of his conspiracy theory even further. Of course, you provide as much evidence as Tom, so... ;)
Actually, at 2.5 frames a second, you'll only need about 5 years, give or take a few months.
I agree... if the driver is indeed tweaked to artificially tweak benchmarks, we have a VERY large problem on our hands, and I'd be rather pissed off at whoever it was that participated in such deception. And yes, the drop in performance for Giants is rather interesting, but a single deteriorating benchmark is hardly evidence that NVIDIA is doing anything dishonest.
Tom's perspective on an issue is indeed imporant to me. I've been reading his site since not long after it first opened, and have come to trust the opinions of Tom and his staff. Their reviews are more than thorough, usually competently written (some of the translations from German don't quite come off perfectly,) and very informative. Recently, however, I've noticed a great deal of editorializing on the part of their editors.
Take, for example, Tom's crusade against Rambus. Several of his early articles made broad statements about the ethics and tactics of the not-so-well-loved company. His comments later turned out to be accurate, and I believe that the public's rejection of Rambus is due in no small part to Tom's influence, but at the time of his initial comments, he had little to back up his claims.
Tom is in a position to influence a lot of people with his opinion, but I believe he needs to exercise a bit of journalistic integrity when posting unsubstntiated comments that will be read by such a large audience. Based on the article that was posted today, and the lack of evidence to back up Tom's claims that something is amiss, it wouldn't surprise me if NVIDIA filed a libel suit against Tom.
I'm starting to get a bit tired of Tom's preachiness. Throughout his review he menions that the recent release of the Detonator 4 drivers shows a lack of "sportsmanship" on the part of NVidia, and that the timing of the release was inteded to hurt ATI's release of the new chipset.
You know what, Tom? That's business.
NVIDIA is out to make money, and just happens to produce a goddamn good product while doing it. NVIDIA released (or is about to release, anyway,) a fully featured upgrade to their product to *gasp* beat out the competition? What horror! What an attrocity! The thing works, it's better, get over it. In the words of Coolio, "If you can't take the heat, get your ass outs the kitchen."
On the other hand, if Nvidia has been keeping this driver away from the public for an extended period of time for no other reason than to "drop the bomb" on ATI, well... that's quite dispicable, and could be considered harmful to us, the faithful consumers. And by a substantial period of time, I mean a month or more. A few weeks difference is strategy, a few months is downright rude. ;P
I'm interested in buying the best product for my money, not the little games that ATI and Nvidia play with each other. So I don't want to hear about Tom's personal conspiracy theories and rants. "Here are two cards. This one costs this much, the other one costs this much. This one is better and here's why." Anything else is irrelevant.
It's a joke, son.
My favorite part about code red is that the fault lies with a single person. This one person wrote code for a small, single aspect of IIS, and all of this is his fault. I wonder what he's doing today? Is he the type of person that's wracked with guilt over shutting down large portions of the internet, or is he the type of person that will realize that he single handedly impacted the entire virtual world, and be proud of it? I wonder what code red's author is doing today, too... rolling on the floor laughing his ass off, I imagine. We should try to get those two people together and see what they can come up with over a few beers.