hold on pal, The Bat! is made by RITlabs, it is a Moldovan company. Moldova is NOT Russia.
Anyway, I know what I'm saying, because the company I work at, has a lot of common projects with RITlabs (their office is nextdoor). I can see the building from my balcony.
I admit that WinRAR is the a great archiver, and Acronis TrueImage does kick Ghost\DriveImage\etc... but The Bat! is a 100% moldovan product.
uhhm... here's their contact info: http://ritlabs.com/en/about/contacts.php
What if all the distributed computing projects are actually working on cracking passwords?
Take SETI for example. Is there a way we can make sure that the numbers we see on the screen are related to signals and waves and frequencies.... rather than ciphers?
Perhaps the graphs they draw are just randomly generated?
It is also possible that SETI does what it says, but maybe a small part of the calculations are still dedicated to passwords.
They plan to extend their network to 10000 machines. But hey, that doesn't match the power of the internet... Do you think they would miss the opportunity to use us all?
Most flash drives have a small switch that can set them to read-only mode.
Previously I posted a link to Dekart Private Disk. When creating your image using this app, you can set the read-only parameter and live a happy life afterwards.
The only advantage of the cd is that it is read-only by default. But hey, its not that convenient, it does get scratched... and you are more likely to forget a cd in a drive rather than a usb flashdisk in a usb port - that's a fact.
A company that plays a fair game is very likely to be beaten by its competitors - who feel no remorse when doing this stupid optimization crap.
I am a helpdesk agent at a software company, one of my duties is to write howto's and guides about our applications. After each tutorial is complete, my manager sort of forces me to use the keywords more frequently, and apply these shitty techniques... It breaks my heart, because I do my best to write a nice tutorial, and in the end it becomes another stupid doc with a lot of popular keywords in it.
The point is that you either do that, or eat dust:-|
The good news is that I still write about what my company *really* does, and the tutorials are quite informative. But when I do a search and see that the competitors that have a buggy product with less features have a higher rank - how can I remain calm??
I too noticed that the quality of the results provided by google is degrading. I just have a list of sites I frequently visit, like slashdot for example, and in places like these i find new material and read new stuff. In fact, I don't use search engines that often anymore.
I hope they come up with a new method, which will give a better chance to those who try to play fair.
I live in Chishinau, the capital of Moldova, a little state between Romania and Ukraine (Moldova is the poorest country on the continent).
I could say that mobile phones are very common here. Usually, one has a landline and a mobile; from all the persons I know, only one let the landline go... And that's because he works for a mobile operator, and has unlimited free calls;-)
Pupils and students make the majority of mobile-phone owners.
An interesting trend - _short_ calls are more popular than SMS'es. Short - because the operator charges you for each used second; and by default, you get -16 seconds from your account, even if you talk less. So people came to the conclusion that 16 seconds are more efficient than 160 characters an SMS can hold (and in practice, this seems to be right).
I myself prefer SMS'es for several reasons:
My battery always dies if the conversation is longer than a minute or two//old phone...
Usually I am in class, or in some other place where I dont want to 'break the silence'
Most of the messages i send are tech-related.
I guess it is a lot easier to write PC-HUB-> WO-O-WG-Bl-WBl-G-WBr-Br than explain it orally:-)
Other interesting facts:
The country's population is of about 4.4 million, of which at least 700.000 work abroad. [This number should be a lot greater... because the latest census stated that there are 3.3 million in the country]
It is a lot cheaper for a person abroad to call to a mobile than it is to call a fixed phone. Why don't they use email? That beats me... But in the beginning of the mobile-boom, the relatives of those who work in foreign states were the first ones to get mobiles.
And another thing we have (and probably nobody else) is the ping-system. I was surprised to find out that they don't have a reliable caller-ID system in the states, but here we do (and even my landline caller-ID can identify those calling from mobiles, or from different countries). So, what are the pings all about? When you call someone, wait for one ring then hang up. The person who received the call knows that its either "i'm home, call my landline" or "yes" or "i'm in front of your house, come out", etc. The point is that the 'ping' is not taxed... And people figured out how to take advantage of that. In fact, some of my friends can live for a whole month with only 30 seconds in their account:-))) unbelievable!
Another fact you might be interested in, is that we have 3 operators for the 3.3 million. Two here, and another one in a part of the country which is sort of problematic (they claim independence, bla bla)
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hold on pal, The Bat! is made by RITlabs, it is a Moldovan company. Moldova is NOT Russia.
Anyway, I know what I'm saying, because the company I work at, has a lot of common projects with RITlabs (their office is nextdoor). I can see the building from my balcony.
I admit that WinRAR is the a great archiver, and Acronis TrueImage does kick Ghost\DriveImage\etc... but The Bat! is a 100% moldovan product.
uhhm... here's their contact info: http://ritlabs.com/en/about/contacts.php
What if all the distributed computing projects are actually working on cracking passwords?
Take SETI for example. Is there a way we can make sure that the numbers we see on the screen are related to signals and waves and frequencies.... rather than ciphers?
Perhaps the graphs they draw are just randomly generated?
It is also possible that SETI does what it says, but maybe a small part of the calculations are still dedicated to passwords.
They plan to extend their network to 10000 machines. But hey, that doesn't match the power of the internet... Do you think they would miss the opportunity to use us all?
Most flash drives have a small switch that can set them to read-only mode.
Previously I posted a link to Dekart Private Disk. When creating your image using this app, you can set the read-only parameter and live a happy life afterwards.
The only advantage of the cd is that it is read-only by default. But hey, its not that convenient, it does get scratched... and you are more likely to forget a cd in a drive rather than a usb flashdisk in a usb port - that's a fact.
Well, use Dekart Private Disk Or the Light version And read this guide
A company that plays a fair game is very likely to be beaten by its competitors - who feel no remorse when doing this stupid optimization crap.
:-|
I am a helpdesk agent at a software company, one of my duties is to write howto's and guides about our applications. After each tutorial is complete, my manager sort of forces me to use the keywords more frequently, and apply these shitty techniques... It breaks my heart, because I do my best to write a nice tutorial, and in the end it becomes another stupid doc with a lot of popular keywords in it.
The point is that you either do that, or eat dust
The good news is that I still write about what my company *really* does, and the tutorials are quite informative. But when I do a search and see that the competitors that have a buggy product with less features have a higher rank - how can I remain calm??
I too noticed that the quality of the results provided by google is degrading. I just have a list of sites I frequently visit, like slashdot for example, and in places like these i find new material and read new stuff. In fact, I don't use search engines that often anymore.
I hope they come up with a new method, which will give a better chance to those who try to play fair.
My battery always dies if the conversation is longer than a minute or two //old phone...
Usually I am in class, or in some other place where I dont want to 'break the silence'
Most of the messages i send are tech-related. I guess it is a lot easier to write PC-HUB-> WO-O-WG-Bl-WBl-G-WBr-Br than explain it orally :-)
Other interesting facts:
The country's population is of about 4.4 million, of which at least 700.000 work abroad. [This number should be a lot greater... because the latest census stated that there are 3.3 million in the country]
It is a lot cheaper for a person abroad to call to a mobile than it is to call a fixed phone. Why don't they use email? That beats me... But in the beginning of the mobile-boom, the relatives of those who work in foreign states were the first ones to get mobiles.
And another thing we have (and probably nobody else) is the ping-system. I was surprised to find out that they don't have a reliable caller-ID system in the states, but here we do (and even my landline caller-ID can identify those calling from mobiles, or from different countries). So, what are the pings all about? When you call someone, wait for one ring then hang up. The person who received the call knows that its either "i'm home, call my landline" or "yes" or "i'm in front of your house, come out", etc. The point is that the 'ping' is not taxed... And people figured out how to take advantage of that. In fact, some of my friends can live for a whole month with only 30 seconds in their account :-))) unbelievable!
Another fact you might be interested in, is that we have 3 operators for the 3.3 million. Two here, and another one in a part of the country which is sort of problematic (they claim independence, bla bla)