The only trojan horse software infection I ever got was vectored through Adobe Acrobat Reader JavaScript. It was a form of the Vundo trojan horse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vundo. It came in through Adobe Acrobar Reader 8, attached itself to winlogon.exe, and is impossible to remove unless you boot the computer off a book disc like BartPE and remotely manipulate the system's registry to remove it, Heisenberg-style.
I'm distraught about PHP and its efficiency. Unless you do some kind of guru magic, every click on your server is interpreting not only the screen you're visiting but all the libraries it requires to load itself. The computers spend nearly all of their time interpreting the same code over and over for each click. The analysis is sound and points out the fallacy of using interpretive languages in ways they aren't intended to be used. On the bright side, at least they aren't using Perl under CGI.
This element stood out for me: "Moonlight includes the Microsoft Media Pack, which is a set of proprietary codecs that Microsoft has licensed from their own patent holders and makes available to Moonlight users, free of charge."
Red Hat is not only honest and open, but they are willing to take risks. They took alot of flak when forcing the non-yet-done glibc and the not-really-working threading library on us, but in retrospect, I recognize it was an honest bet to make the community get those vitally important and neglected technologies finally working in Linux.
I will attest to the cost of running the Canon Pixma series of printers. It is simply the cheapest of all, and also happens to produce the best-looking, plain-paper printouts I've ever seen.
I believe that Forward-error correction is an even better model. Already used for error-free transmission of data over error-prone links in radio, and USENET using the PAR format, what better way to preserve data than with FEC? Save your really precious files as Parchive files (PAR and PAR2). You can spread them over several discs or just one disc with several of the files on it.
It's one thing to detect errors, but it's a wholly different universe when you can also correct them.
The order also allows for 500 units if 2,200 units cannot be procured. This is for new/old stock only. If the 2,200 unit request is filled it's going to be a collection of refurbs, eBay units, and new/old stock at best.
The most chilling automated early warning before the human chatter really gets going:
2001-09-11 08:48:46 Arch [0162912] A ALPHA PAGE FROM lifeline: alert 8933585 ETS appl nbetpsd27.fi.gs.com ETS RTCE: - Market data inconsistent...Cantor API problem Trading system offline on nbetpsd27.fi.gs.com, run by etsuser on nbetpsd27, pid = 24
Human chatter: 2001-09-11 08:50:25 Arch [0901509] B ALPHA A plane crashed thru the twin towers. Real bad..BR
Repeated automated chatter: 2001-09-11 08:50:31 Skytel [003260422] B ALPHA An Aloha call is starting . This is for a fire at 2WT. Please call into TeleMeeting conference center at -877-913-7943 . If Morgan Stanley has not initiated the call you will hear music until they initiate the call. Dallas Data
Did we read the proposal linked from the article? It specifies PlayStation 3 model CECHP01 which does, indeed, run Linux. I wondered, though, how successful they are going to be at finding 2,200 units. Distributors are running out of new/old stock of this model, as many compute cluster builders are trying to get them before they're all gone.
In those days most pager networks were separate and distinct from the mobile phone networks (and were on different frequencies, too). My two-way Motorola Skytel pager worked everywhere. Even today I cannot find a comparable mobile phone service with the coverage and reliability of the pagers that I cannot carry anymore.
The Microsoft build labs has been described in many books but one thing that stood out to me was the alleged fact that most builds, like Windows, take well over 24 hours to finish. Given how tied into the operating system that MSIE is, I suppose that a build of MSIE would require a significant build of Windows as well.
Bing is definitely not a "rebrand." I was in on one of the early rounds of interviews for the then-new search project at Microsoft and not only is it not Live Search it is also not Google nor did they want a better Altavista. It's a huge new approach.
Honestly I used to listen to the Glen Beck Program when it was on our local station but it went off the air for a couple of years. Now that it's back, I'm puzzled about this show, which was then full of dick jokes and fake radio bits and phony phone calls has now become some sort of tongue-in-cheek conservative firebrand with two inconvenient books, tours, and an odd political movement. Where did all the dick jokes go?
The jingle used to be the "Fusion of entertainment and enlightenment" in the dick-joke period.
Ah, thanks for picking those nits. Either way I don't see your home security system having an analog NTSC modulator on it. Mine certainly does NOT. By the way, I have two of these so-called "dual-tuner TiVos" and on FiOS they aren't.
Not even. A Series 2 TiVo is only dual-tuner when one tuner is recording digital cable and the other is recording analog channels, and only when your cable TV system is a hybrid digital/analog. Not FiOS and soon not Comcast, either, and definitely not two analog sources.
It's amazing how many of these problems, especially with regard to multi-threading issues and multiple cores, have already been solve and implemented in Sun Solaris. In 1994. Fifteen years ago.
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The only trojan horse software infection I ever got was vectored through Adobe Acrobat Reader JavaScript.
It was a form of the Vundo trojan horse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vundo.
It came in through Adobe Acrobar Reader 8, attached itself to winlogon.exe, and is impossible to remove unless you boot the computer off a book disc like BartPE and remotely manipulate the system's registry to remove it, Heisenberg-style.
I'm distraught about PHP and its efficiency. Unless you do some kind of guru magic, every click on your server is interpreting not only the screen you're visiting but all the libraries it requires to load itself. The computers spend nearly all of their time interpreting the same code over and over for each click. The analysis is sound and points out the fallacy of using interpretive languages in ways they aren't intended to be used. On the bright side, at least they aren't using Perl under CGI.
If there's no Twitpic, it didn't happen.
While ffmpeg may be truly free, the fact that the use of it violates some patents makes it troublesome for anyone to use it, Novell most of all.
This element stood out for me:
"Moonlight includes the Microsoft Media Pack, which is a set of proprietary codecs that Microsoft has licensed from their own patent holders and makes available to Moonlight users, free of charge."
Threats are threats.
Yup, sounds about right.
Next topic, please!
God as my witness, I didn't know they were free.
It really is that long-lasting.
Salon thought they were the Wall Street Journal.
Red Hat is not only honest and open, but they are willing to take risks. They took alot of flak when forcing the non-yet-done glibc and the not-really-working threading library on us, but in retrospect, I recognize it was an honest bet to make the community get those vitally important and neglected technologies finally working in Linux.
I completely believe this to be true of those printers whose cartdiges have the print head as part of the cartridge (looks at Hewlett-Packard).
I will attest to the cost of running the Canon Pixma series of printers. It is simply the cheapest of all, and also happens to produce the best-looking, plain-paper printouts I've ever seen.
I believe that Forward-error correction is an even better model. Already used for error-free transmission of data over error-prone links in radio, and USENET using the PAR format, what better way to preserve data than with FEC?
Save your really precious files as Parchive files (PAR and PAR2). You can spread them over several discs or just one disc with several of the files on it.
It's one thing to detect errors, but it's a wholly different universe when you can also correct them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Well, he did sacrifice not one, but two Linksys routers to do it. I was wondering why it is so long.
Oh, it's this old gag again.
The order also allows for 500 units if 2,200 units cannot be procured. This is for new/old stock only. If the 2,200 unit request is filled it's going to be a collection of refurbs, eBay units, and new/old stock at best.
The most chilling automated early warning before the human chatter really gets going:
2001-09-11 08:48:46 Arch [0162912] A ALPHA PAGE FROM lifeline: alert 8933585 ETS appl nbetpsd27.fi.gs.com ETS RTCE: - Market data inconsistent...Cantor API problem Trading system offline on nbetpsd27.fi.gs.com, run by etsuser on nbetpsd27, pid = 24
Human chatter:
2001-09-11 08:50:25 Arch [0901509] B ALPHA A plane crashed thru the twin towers. Real bad..BR
Repeated automated chatter:
2001-09-11 08:50:31 Skytel [003260422] B ALPHA An Aloha call is starting . This is for a fire at 2WT. Please call into TeleMeeting conference center at -877-913-7943 . If Morgan Stanley has not initiated the call you will hear music until they initiate the call. Dallas Data
Did we read the proposal linked from the article? It specifies PlayStation 3 model CECHP01 which does, indeed, run Linux. I wondered, though, how successful they are going to be at finding 2,200 units. Distributors are running out of new/old stock of this model, as many compute cluster builders are trying to get them before they're all gone.
Here is the proposal for those who didn't actually bother to RFA:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=bac60f8808fa1e221597573901a7cd6b&tab=core&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&ck=
In those days most pager networks were separate and distinct from the mobile phone networks (and were on different frequencies, too). My two-way Motorola Skytel pager worked everywhere. Even today I cannot find a comparable mobile phone service with the coverage and reliability of the pagers that I cannot carry anymore.
The Microsoft build labs has been described in many books but one thing that stood out to me was the alleged fact that most builds, like Windows, take well over 24 hours to finish. Given how tied into the operating system that MSIE is, I suppose that a build of MSIE would require a significant build of Windows as well.
Bing is definitely not a "rebrand." I was in on one of the early rounds of interviews for the then-new search project at Microsoft and not only is it not Live Search it is also not Google nor did they want a better Altavista. It's a huge new approach.
Great link!! But I'm talking late 1990s, early 2000s.
That's a great video.
Yeah, and I have to buy a new TiVo and rent cable cards, but now we're way off-topic.
Honestly I used to listen to the Glen Beck Program when it was on our local station but it went off the air for a couple of years. Now that it's back, I'm puzzled about this show, which was then full of dick jokes and fake radio bits and phony phone calls has now become some sort of tongue-in-cheek conservative firebrand with two inconvenient books, tours, and an odd political movement. Where did all the dick jokes go?
The jingle used to be the "Fusion of entertainment and enlightenment" in the dick-joke period.
Is Beck actually playing a joke on everyone?
Ah, thanks for picking those nits. Either way I don't see your home security system having an analog NTSC modulator on it. Mine certainly does NOT.
By the way, I have two of these so-called "dual-tuner TiVos" and on FiOS they aren't.
Not even. A Series 2 TiVo is only dual-tuner when one tuner is recording digital cable and the other is recording analog channels, and only when your cable TV system is a hybrid digital/analog. Not FiOS and soon not Comcast, either, and definitely not two analog sources.
It's amazing how many of these problems, especially with regard to multi-threading issues and multiple cores, have already been solve and implemented in Sun Solaris. In 1994. Fifteen years ago.