See my above post about the SiS 735, although I don't use the onboard sound or ethernet, I did turn them on long enough to see if they worked in linux, they worked great without any messing around.. I've had no problems with the board beyond having to change the 4X default AGP mode
to 2X (my AGP card only supports 2X), for $89 I got the fastest chipset, a choice between DDR SDRAM/SDRAM, and spare ethernet/sound, I'm very happy with my decision and I hope SiS keeps on this track (I don't care much for their previous boards =)
I was wondering about this as well, I've been a long time avoider of SiS motherboards but the M830LR board from pcchips uses the SiS6735, it's the *only* board that I've seen that gives you a choice between SDRAM and DDR SDRAM (one or the other, but not both at the same time). I've seen nothing but great reviews on the board from all of the sites that bothered to review it, most of them showing that it came out on top (including tomshardware who only had a 'reference board' to test, and it still won)
I've got to say that the board is awesome, after I fixed the AGP mode (changed 4X -> 2X) to that of what my Voodoo3 supports, I've had no problems whatsoever and it's fast as hell =)
Athlon 1.3Ghz "c" core,
256M DDR RAM,
2 IBM DTLA 46.1G ATA/100 drives on a PCI Promise
ATA/100 controller
1 20.4G drive on the onboard ATA/100 interface
AHA2940 SCSI Controller
Compaq NC3131 Quad Ethernet card
SB Live!
16X Creative Labs DVD-ROM
12/4/32 SCSI CD-RW (Smart & Friendly)
Err, you're one of those people who go around
spewing out buzzwords. Most dial-up terminal systems have a pool of IP addresses that are assaigned to the unit itself, when someone dials
in their username/password is checked against a radius server, if it is correct the same packet
contains information about their IP address, static or dynamic, if it is dynamic then the terminal server will look at its pool, pick one, send an ARP request to the network to make sure another unit/machine/etc is not using it, then give it to the client and reply to any ARP requests for it on the lan side. None of this involves DHCP.
FYI, I know the previous to be true on Ascend and Livingston equipment, others are unknown, but likely the same or similar.
Actually, it's more comparable to 802.11 (3mbps, real throughput of ~2mbps) which does work well up to 80mph (yes, i tried it..) and allows up to 64 access points per airspace, easily supporting around 64 clients per access point (4096 total per airspace) yes, the bandwidth is shared, but that's due to physics, the FCC, and big companies.
Unless these phones come with ethernet jacks for my laptop, or a connection for my HandSpring Visor, I'll be sticking with my Nokia 6120 that has been faithful for 3 years now.
Well, if you'd read them yourself you would see that you can also meta moderate, and give yourself the chance to show your disagreement by metamoderating and perhaps disqualifying whoever did this from moderating for a long while. But then, you're an anonymous coward, so it doesn't matter.
Why the heck has this SPAM been posted to slashdot? Who's approving these lame posts? I'm starting to feel like the trolls are in the right here. Geez.
Unfortunately, my bank ( I won't say which, but the credit card is a Visa ) allows *anyone* to call in with either a CC#, or a Cheque, and "verify funds available", you get dumped to a computer, punch in an amount (50000# for $500.00)
and it says "Funds available" or "Insufficient Funds at this time". *sigh*.
Yep. it's required for the new E911 system, where
the phone companies are required to be able to
tell where you are so they can send EBS (emergency broadcast system) messages to your phone if you're in a certain area. (tornado, toxic gas leak, meltdowns, nuclear war...)
although, in my opinion it's more for tracking by the government since it would be easy to send those messages on a per-tower basis, considering the range of the towers arent -that- far.
re: cell phone, probably used credit cards to pay the bill, and most likely a tracphone, which only requires a credit card for use, pretty much anonymous.. used by a lot of criminals, especially drug dealers.
Um...ok...I don't follow that NetZero is untraceable because it is free. And if he knows it's untraceable, why use anonymizer? Or try to hide his number from logging systems by using *67 (which won't work, btw)? And he talks as though subpoenas are hard to get...fact is, getting a subpoena for a phone number is a piece of cake.
FYI, as a systems admin at an ISP, your dial up terminals (ascend, portmaster, etc) will not get callerid for calls that are A) out of area B) *67 or C) caller id blocked permanently (an option usually reserved for government) even with PRI's, the telco simply does not send the information.
(Not to say his telco wouldn't be able to keep dialing logs)
As for using anonymizer, after netzero, i'd say it would be an extra layer of protection.
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True, but not every country needs one, you can simply run it over their power grid via an interconnect somewhere, it's a *lot* of power, and you can only store so much of it, you might as well do something with the rest of it.
At the company I work for, we recently fired a guy who knew *nothing*, he was originally hired to be the ISP Admin, and to do some perl programming, it turned out that he knew nothing about administrating an ISP (which is why they hired me) so then they thought they could just toss him into full time perl programming, and it turned out he didn't know much about perl either.
He was ripping off the company pretty much, they were paying him to learn perl, and to call Cisco on the phone to baby him through configuring a single PtP link. It only took them 9 months to figure this out..
More yummy hot hardware to play with at work under linux, it's really nice to see that no longer is linux fully supporting current and old hardware, but also *future* hardware, how much better can it get? =)
Perhaps it's far fetched, but maybe NASA could figure out a way to scrap the hardware for the space station, I mean, it takes quite a bit of money and fuel to raise those satellites, they're packed with communications equipment, high quality solar panels, and other miscellaneous parts that are valuable, why not make an effort to use them?
It is a good thing, even if it's a PR stunt, look at XFree86, while it's awesome, it still isnt as 'sleak' or clean looking as Windows, what draws people to XF86 is the fact that it's *powerful* what draws people to Windows is that it's *pretty* if nothing else, we can maybe get some code out of this for ideas on how to clean up XF86 a bit, I know I would like to be able to use the same key sequences for different programs in XF86, instead of having every program define its own:o(
I have to admit, when I have to use windows, it's very nice to be able to rely on alt+f working for the file menu, or alt+whatever for that menu. Sorry if this appears to be offensive to die hard MS haters, I do not like microsoft myself, but they obviously are doing something right. perhaps we can learn from it.
Domain squatting is really getting annoying, I've registered a few just to put up a web page on them that says 'if you have a legitimate use for this domain, contact me and i'll *give* it to you' because I was afraid a squatter would take them over. bleh.
Yes, it's true, the CVS server (coder-com.undernet.org) runs Linux, the 'head coder' runs linux on his machines *.wolfspirit.org, the *old* head coder, Run, ran linux on all of his PPro machines, and yes, sadly at one point we ported ircu to WinNT just to see if it would work.. it didnt very well =P
In my book AMD has proved themselves worthy many times over, sure, some of their first chips were a bit sketchy, but even their 486 Dx4 120 chips were pretty nice, and I used linux on them because they were a cheap way to upgrade, I've built many production machines with AMD chips and the only problem I had was when a whole batch of chips (we bought them in quantities of 50) was bad, but this turned out to be because the person we bought them from was out -trying- to screw people over with a collection of bad chips (they werent all from the same batch out of AMD, ie, they were mixed)
Either way, AMD has just as much respect from me as Intel does, maybe more =)
The morons at the FBI actually thought I was one of the leaders in this group, that I hadn't ever heard of before, because some complete MORON at Internet America (www.iadfw.net) in the abuse dept. has a personal grudge against me, they took my computers and said they needed them for evidence, now, 6 months later, I haven't heard anything from the FBI or anyone else about my computers. This goes back to the story the other day about the FBI keeping peoples computers...
I just wish the FBI had more of a clue, or would understand that they're taking on way more than they can handle, it's like someone said the other day, the 'war on hax0rs' is like the 'war on drugs' they can't win simply because of the number of people hacking/cracking/being script kiddies, and they spend so much time harassing the people who didn't do anything that they don't even notice the people who are.
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I watch battlebots all the time, and it's a great show, but i wouldnt have expected them to sink this low, i guess you can't rely on anyone anymore =/
See my above post about the SiS 735, although I don't use the onboard sound or ethernet, I did turn them on long enough to see if they worked in linux, they worked great without any messing around.. I've had no problems with the board beyond having to change the 4X default AGP mode
to 2X (my AGP card only supports 2X), for $89 I got the fastest chipset, a choice between DDR SDRAM/SDRAM, and spare ethernet/sound, I'm very happy with my decision and I hope SiS keeps on this track (I don't care much for their previous boards =)
I was wondering about this as well, I've been a long time avoider of SiS motherboards but the M830LR board from pcchips uses the SiS6735, it's the *only* board that I've seen that gives you a choice between SDRAM and DDR SDRAM (one or the other, but not both at the same time). I've seen nothing but great reviews on the board from all of the sites that bothered to review it, most of them showing that it came out on top (including tomshardware who only had a 'reference board' to test, and it still won)
I've got to say that the board is awesome, after I fixed the AGP mode (changed 4X -> 2X) to that of what my Voodoo3 supports, I've had no problems whatsoever and it's fast as hell =)
Athlon 1.3Ghz "c" core,
256M DDR RAM,
2 IBM DTLA 46.1G ATA/100 drives on a PCI Promise
ATA/100 controller
1 20.4G drive on the onboard ATA/100 interface
AHA2940 SCSI Controller
Compaq NC3131 Quad Ethernet card
SB Live!
16X Creative Labs DVD-ROM
12/4/32 SCSI CD-RW (Smart & Friendly)
=)
Err, you're one of those people who go around
spewing out buzzwords. Most dial-up terminal systems have a pool of IP addresses that are assaigned to the unit itself, when someone dials
in their username/password is checked against a radius server, if it is correct the same packet
contains information about their IP address, static or dynamic, if it is dynamic then the terminal server will look at its pool, pick one, send an ARP request to the network to make sure another unit/machine/etc is not using it, then give it to the client and reply to any ARP requests for it on the lan side. None of this involves DHCP.
FYI, I know the previous to be true on Ascend and Livingston equipment, others are unknown, but likely the same or similar.
Actually, it's more comparable to 802.11 (3mbps, real throughput of ~2mbps) which does work well up to 80mph (yes, i tried it..) and allows up to 64 access points per airspace, easily supporting around 64 clients per access point (4096 total per airspace) yes, the bandwidth is shared, but that's due to physics, the FCC, and big companies.
Unless these phones come with ethernet jacks for my laptop, or a connection for my HandSpring Visor, I'll be sticking with my Nokia 6120 that has been faithful for 3 years now.
Well, if you'd read them yourself you would see that you can also meta moderate, and give yourself the chance to show your disagreement by metamoderating and perhaps disqualifying whoever did this from moderating for a long while. But then, you're an anonymous coward, so it doesn't matter.
Why the heck has this SPAM been posted to slashdot? Who's approving these lame posts? I'm starting to feel like the trolls are in the right here. Geez.
Unfortunately, my bank ( I won't say which, but the credit card is a Visa ) allows *anyone* to call in with either a CC#, or a Cheque, and "verify funds available", you get dumped to a computer, punch in an amount (50000# for $500.00)
and it says "Funds available" or "Insufficient Funds at this time". *sigh*.
Yep. it's required for the new E911 system, where
the phone companies are required to be able to
tell where you are so they can send EBS (emergency broadcast system) messages to your phone if you're in a certain area. (tornado, toxic gas leak, meltdowns, nuclear war...)
although, in my opinion it's more for tracking by the government since it would be easy to send those messages on a per-tower basis, considering the range of the towers arent -that- far.
re: cell phone, probably used credit cards to pay the bill, and most likely a tracphone, which only requires a credit card for use, pretty much anonymous.. used by a lot of criminals, especially drug dealers.
Um...ok...I don't follow that NetZero is untraceable because it is free. And if he knows it's untraceable, why use anonymizer? Or try to hide his number from logging systems by using *67 (which won't work, btw)? And he talks as though subpoenas are hard to get...fact is, getting a subpoena for a phone number is a piece of cake. FYI, as a systems admin at an ISP, your dial up terminals (ascend, portmaster, etc) will not get callerid for calls that are A) out of area B) *67 or C) caller id blocked permanently (an option usually reserved for government) even with PRI's, the telco simply does not send the information. (Not to say his telco wouldn't be able to keep dialing logs) As for using anonymizer, after netzero, i'd say it would be an extra layer of protection.
True, but not every country needs one, you can simply run it over their power grid via an interconnect somewhere, it's a *lot* of power, and you can only store so much of it, you might as well do something with the rest of it.
At the company I work for, we recently fired a guy who knew *nothing*, he was originally hired to be the ISP Admin, and to do some perl programming, it turned out that he knew nothing about administrating an ISP (which is why they hired me) so then they thought they could just toss him into full time perl programming, and it turned out he didn't know much about perl either.
He was ripping off the company pretty much, they were paying him to learn perl, and to call Cisco on the phone to baby him through configuring a single PtP link. It only took them 9 months to figure this out..
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More yummy hot hardware to play with at work under linux, it's really nice to see that no longer is linux fully supporting current and old hardware, but also *future* hardware, how much better can it get? =)
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Perhaps it's far fetched, but maybe NASA could figure out a way to scrap the hardware for the space station, I mean, it takes quite a bit of money and fuel to raise those satellites, they're packed with communications equipment, high quality solar panels, and other miscellaneous parts that are valuable, why not make an effort to use them?
It is a good thing, even if it's a PR stunt, look at XFree86, while it's awesome, it still isnt as 'sleak' or clean looking as Windows, what draws people to XF86 is the fact that it's *powerful* what draws people to Windows is that it's *pretty* if nothing else, we can maybe get some code out of this for ideas on how to clean up XF86 a bit, I know I would like to be able to use the same key sequences for different programs in XF86, instead of having every program define its own :o(
I have to admit, when I have to use windows, it's very nice to be able to rely on alt+f working for the file menu, or alt+whatever for that menu. Sorry if this appears to be offensive to die hard MS haters, I do not like microsoft myself, but they obviously are doing something right. perhaps we can learn from it.
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Domain squatting is really getting annoying, I've registered a few just to put up a web page on them that says 'if you have a legitimate use for this domain, contact me and i'll *give* it to you' because I was afraid a squatter would take them over. bleh.
Go anarchy ! =P
Yes, it's true, the CVS server (coder-com.undernet.org) runs Linux, the 'head coder' runs linux on his machines *.wolfspirit.org, the *old* head coder, Run, ran linux on all of his PPro machines, and yes, sadly at one point we ported ircu to WinNT just to see if it would work.. it didnt very well =P
Dvorak can go blow a goat for all I care =P
In my book AMD has proved themselves worthy many times over, sure, some of their first chips were a bit sketchy, but even their 486 Dx4 120 chips were pretty nice, and I used linux on them because they were a cheap way to upgrade, I've built many production machines with AMD chips and the only problem I had was when a whole batch of chips (we bought them in quantities of 50) was bad, but this turned out to be because the person we bought them from was out -trying- to screw people over with a collection of bad chips (they werent all from the same batch out of AMD, ie, they were mixed)
Either way, AMD has just as much respect from me as Intel does, maybe more =)
Erm, how hard is it to firewall all but port 80 (www) on these machines? that limits you to only exploits in apache, which are few and far between.
I've secured many machines for private organizations, and I admin a shell provider, it's NOT hard.
The morons at the FBI actually thought I was one
of the leaders in this group, that I hadn't ever
heard of before, because some complete MORON at
Internet America (www.iadfw.net) in the abuse
dept. has a personal grudge against me, they took
my computers and said they needed them for
evidence, now, 6 months later, I haven't heard
anything from the FBI or anyone else about my
computers. This goes back to the story the other
day about the FBI keeping peoples computers...
I just wish the FBI had more of a clue, or would
understand that they're taking on way more than
they can handle, it's like someone said the other
day, the 'war on hax0rs' is like the 'war on drugs'
they can't win simply because of the number of people
hacking/cracking/being script kiddies, and they spend
so much time harassing the people who didn't do
anything that they don't even notice the people who
are.
Well, maybe amiga -is- dead =P
BEOWULF get it right already =P
They also take power trips, speakers, monitors, phone cables (standard voice telephone cable, 6 feet long, single pair), pressed CD's (turbotax, paint shop pro, Kings Quest, Battle Chess, etc)
keyboards, mice, spare computer components (ram, cpu, motherboard, case, etc).
the general idea is to slow down your re-aquisition of access to the internet as much as possible.