My G5 1600 (Mac) came with nvidia 5200, I still resist to change it and recently after OS X 10.4.3 update, freaking thing managed to pass OpenGL 2 test. RealTech VR test which is cross platform:
Now I have another reason to resist buying a new card:) Damn you Apple OpenGL coders!:)
The biggest advantage of 5200 series on Mac is, previous iMac G5 generation came with them. Sadly, as people pay $400 to a gfx card without question, future games can have problem.
I am kind of lazy to check archive.org but these prices makes me amazed. $400 for a graphics card. In return, I'd expect something like hardware h264 decoding (not accelerator,real thing) or upgradable memory or full OpenGL 2.0 spec compliance.
Game manufacturers are spoiled already. I am sure they don't code optimised as before as these gfx cards handle every stupid code with their massive processing power.
Result: Games suggesting 128mb gfx card.
BTW, "I was about to ask what happened to AGP texture memory on computer RAM?" but I figured AGP isn't even mentioned anymore:)
Really if anyone needs such 3d power, they are on wrong platform. Nothing can beat a gaming console which you can buy even less price as everything in it is designed for games.
Yahoo Toolbar invented all that toolbar business and I remember adding bookmarks dynamically to my Yahoo bookmarks in Netscape 4.78 (yes it's that old!)
Yahoo toolbar does _not_ interfere with the sites you visit (e.g. not "spyware") too.
I wonder after Opera decision to make browser free with support of making Google default search engine... Google pays to media to make every single re-invention of them news? Such conspiracy theories started to come my mind since I am kind of sick about every single browser of mine comes with Google search by default. I even asked a commercial browser vendor if they get paid for it, they said "no". Kinda strange after Opera decision.
It is indeed in Amazon netblock but registering it through godaddy.com with a hotmail address... Gee, I wish I could show like 40 phishing mails I received with the same pattern.
Sadly there are many victims of phishing sites, and they get slashdotted because the database software can't handle that many requests.
I have never seen such a unserious whois from a big company like amazon. There are many registrars REJECTING hotmail.com contact addresses even!
Highly suspectful site. Do NOT give any detail
on
Amazon's Mechanical Turk
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Guys, let me tell.
It's registered through Godaddy.com, one of the companies spammers/phishers love to use.
It has hotmail contact addresses in whois. Impossible for a company like Amazon
So if it looks like,acts like,runs like (amazon gigantic server farm slashdotted?) a regular phishing site, it is. Even if it made to Slashdot. I'd say pull the story until Amazon comes up with an explanation. Before any harm done.
It could be even a more "elite" hack including subdomain/DNS hacking. I am a spamcop mail customer and I see amazing things everyday.
In risk of looking very funny if it is not anything above, happily posting it.
99% of desktop computer users who just want to listen to CD they just purchased will give their admin name and password to "CD Player" "to play smoothly". There goes the awesome "do not run as admin" tip:)
OS X got excellent way/scheme of asking user password when something critical happens. Who really think before giving it especially if they downloaded from a legit looking company?
No, you don't have to turn off autorun. You just don't buy products from a company which installed ROOTKIT! to unsuspecting people who only made the fault to stay away from piracy.
I saw words "Sony" "DRM" on Slashdot and thought "Oh, DRM, geeks." and moved to another page.
When I read the name "Mark Russinovich" on Yahoo news, I stopped to ignore and find out, damn thing is actual, elite rootkit which needs Russinovich and F-Prot boss himself to figure whats going on?
For non windows people. Russinovich is like "low level God" on windows platform and various others. What if he didn't spot it?
E.g. Frisk looks like they were completely confused about the reports they get about a "virus" installed by AudioCD. I bet they thought its just a false alert coming from newbie computer users.
I had no option to buy my music online here in Istanbul. Time to STOP buying CDs for me really. (speaking to myself!)
I am afraid of Java 2 recently. While browsing on mac with my licensed Omniweb, I had couple of Java 2 installation/trust requests. I was extremely busy and I couldn't investigate what the heck was that.
I remember "searchbar" and/or "search technologies" signed by thawte.
As a guy interested in Java 2 applications, not stinky applets, I know Java can do a LOT if trusted.
Remember what they could do with JVM 1.1 from Microsoft, TopMoxie spyware. Now, imagine Java 5 and the stuff it offers.
IRC got excellent features fighting against lamers too. Kick, Ban... If it doesn't work, I bet some operators hanging on such a old channel, g-line will happen.
Opera still identifies as MS IE to webservers. While it was commercial, people using it were changing their id string to Opera manually as they are fan of browser (paid users) and advanced desktop users.
I assume after it went free, flood of newbie user got the browser and they didn't change ID String yet. I can't blame anyone, you can still live problems with identifying as Opera to some sites. While I was using Windows, I was identifying as Mozilla browser.
Its kind of stupid to identify browser features with their names in fact. What they (big sites) need is to check capabilities of the browser, not its name.
I am a regular on Mac channels (IRC) and community sites.
From what I understand those "mysterious scratching" also happened because nano is so small so people put them in their pockets WITH KEYS.
There is a way to make them scratching resistant while I suspect about if it really helps in such situation... Ceramic or Sapphire hi tech glass (!). Well, Nano will be a really expensive device that way:)
BTW- can we sue cell phone companies? All my phone screens are scratched!
They brag about Telecom Egypt using their software/platform, they have rather interesting banner "bragging" about "Certified for China's national networks".
I would switch my cell phone, ISP immediately if they are using any of this companies products.
(censoring company www site, http://www.narus.com/about/investors.html ) ___ The Intel Communications Fund is a $500M equity investment fund that invests in technology companies developing innovative networking and communications solutions. The fund supports development of technologies for Intel® Internet Exchange(TM) Architecture, telephony applications based on CT Media(TM) and wireless and cellular solutions built around the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture and the Intel® Xscale(TM) Microarchitecture. In addition, the fund is expected to invest in applications and systems companies supporting other Intel voice and data communications initiatives. ___
I think they misunderstood companies business while giving them $500M for voice communications;)
Thanks for link, I noticed a far more interesting thing that whole company could be fake or Korea is having sort of secret contracts with major spammers.
"Huh?" you would say... It says:
"Mountain View, Calif., September 26, 2005 -- Narus, Inc., along with its channel partner Datacraft Korea, today announced that KT has expanded its network's security with use of NarusSecure. As part of Datacraft's TAPS system, NarusSecure now enables security coverage across the majority of KT's nationwide network." http://www.narus.com/press/2005/0926b.html
Look to my mail address. I am a paid spamcop mail system customer. I also have a yahoo address. Yahoo currently gets 200 spams/week from Korea. While I was naive enough to report those spams, they were all open proxies.
I get 5 spams/day from morons spamming a spamcop.net e mail, guess who they are? Koreans.. Again.
Its not like some big, evil, spam mafia guy in Florida hacking those machines. They are pure Korean language spams coming from "open proxies".
So either Narus ripped those telcos big time or Korean government supports spamming. No other choice. They can detect such advanced P2P encrypted telephony but can't stop lame open proxies and damned port 135?
BTW Spamcop and some other ISP's use a special blocking list acting like RBL to block whole Korea netspace.
So, while selling their browser (now free), Opera should not pay Trolltech for QT which makes them possible to run on many platforms (especially mobile!) with legendary low CPU and memory usage?
I am not developer but I remember lots of flame wars about GPL license of QT. They moved to GPL for opensource/free projects and they still get flamed.
Slashdot Mirror
My G5 1600 (Mac) came with nvidia 5200, I still resist to change it and recently after OS X 10.4.3 update, freaking thing managed to pass OpenGL 2 test. RealTech VR test which is cross platform:
:) Damn you Apple OpenGL coders! :)
http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/
Now I have another reason to resist buying a new card
The biggest advantage of 5200 series on Mac is, previous iMac G5 generation came with them. Sadly, as people pay $400 to a gfx card without question, future games can have problem.
Sorry it is $199, I guess my 64mb Nvidia 5200 needs a change. :)
http://ostg.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/ma sterid=394941/search=playstation+2
Yes, Playstation 2 is $99, All games run very fast and it plays DVD too. With Progressive Scan and hardware decoding.
I am kind of lazy to check archive.org but these prices makes me amazed. $400 for a graphics card. In return, I'd expect something like hardware h264 decoding (not accelerator,real thing) or upgradable memory or full OpenGL 2.0 spec compliance.
:)
Game manufacturers are spoiled already. I am sure they don't code optimised as before as these gfx cards handle every stupid code with their massive processing power.
Result: Games suggesting 128mb gfx card.
BTW, "I was about to ask what happened to AGP texture memory on computer RAM?" but I figured AGP isn't even mentioned anymore
Really if anyone needs such 3d power, they are on wrong platform. Nothing can beat a gaming console which you can buy even less price as everything in it is designed for games.
They also released 1.0 beta 1 (first 1.0!) hours ago and I am testing it, it really deserves 1.0 version number.
http://www.caminobrowser.org/
Congratulations Camino team!
Yahoo Toolbar invented all that toolbar business and I remember adding bookmarks dynamically to my Yahoo bookmarks in Netscape 4.78 (yes it's that old!)
m aps.yahoo.com/
Yahoo toolbar does _not_ interfere with the sites you visit (e.g. not "spyware") too.
I wonder after Opera decision to make browser free with support of making Google default search engine... Google pays to media to make every single re-invention of them news? Such conspiracy theories started to come my mind since I am kind of sick about every single browser of mine comes with Google search by default. I even asked a commercial browser vendor if they get paid for it, they said "no". Kinda strange after Opera decision.
Yahoo maps, 1998
http://web.archive.org/web/19980505210829/http://
OK, I hurried a bit but I felt as I had to.
/ /mturk.com
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
It is indeed in Amazon netblock but registering it through godaddy.com with a hotmail address... Gee, I wish I could show like 40 phishing mails I received with the same pattern.
Sadly there are many victims of phishing sites, and they get slashdotted because the database software can't handle that many requests.
I have never seen such a unserious whois from a big company like amazon. There are many registrars REJECTING hotmail.com contact addresses even!
Guys, let me tell.
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It's registered through Godaddy.com, one of the companies spammers/phishers love to use.
It has hotmail contact addresses in whois. Impossible for a company like Amazon
No clue of such thing on official Amazon press room
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=17606
So if it looks like,acts like,runs like (amazon gigantic server farm slashdotted?) a regular phishing site, it is. Even if it made to Slashdot. I'd say pull the story until Amazon comes up with an explanation. Before any harm done.
It could be even a more "elite" hack including subdomain/DNS hacking. I am a spamcop mail customer and I see amazing things everyday.
In risk of looking very funny if it is not anything above, happily posting it.
Godaddy registered site with hotmail contact address=phishing.
Slashdot got phished?
99% of desktop computer users who just want to listen to CD they just purchased will give their admin name and password to "CD Player" "to play smoothly". There goes the awesome "do not run as admin" tip :)
OS X got excellent way/scheme of asking user password when something critical happens. Who really think before giving it especially if they downloaded from a legit looking company?
Believe me they don't think.
No, you don't have to turn off autorun. You just don't buy products from a company which installed ROOTKIT! to unsuspecting people who only made the fault to stay away from piracy.
I saw words "Sony" "DRM" on Slashdot and thought "Oh, DRM, geeks." and moved to another page.
When I read the name "Mark Russinovich" on Yahoo news, I stopped to ignore and find out, damn thing is actual, elite rootkit which needs Russinovich and F-Prot boss himself to figure whats going on?
For non windows people. Russinovich is like "low level God" on windows platform and various others. What if he didn't spot it?
E.g. Frisk looks like they were completely confused about the reports they get about a "virus" installed by AudioCD. I bet they thought its just a false alert coming from newbie computer users.
I had no option to buy my music online here in Istanbul. Time to STOP buying CDs for me really. (speaking to myself!)
I guess he was joking. You should remind the evil g5 firmware update which didn't break anything since machine didn't boot at all :)
:)
Only way to boot was removing 3rd party (!) RAM.
I don't even mention OS X 10.4 broke my own Apple installed internal modem functionality (yes,no hacks,apple) and I had to buy an actual fax device
I am afraid of Java 2 recently. While browsing on mac with my licensed Omniweb, I had couple of Java 2 installation/trust requests. I was extremely busy and I couldn't investigate what the heck was that.
I remember "searchbar" and/or "search technologies" signed by thawte.
As a guy interested in Java 2 applications, not stinky applets, I know Java can do a LOT if trusted.
Remember what they could do with JVM 1.1 from Microsoft, TopMoxie spyware. Now, imagine Java 5 and the stuff it offers.
I suggest irssi, good on both gui and terminal. Very helpful community too
http://www.irssi.org/
There is a card for you but will not help if you aren't a scientist.
http://www.clearspeed.com/
Folding@home (Stanford) is internally testing it. That thing is damn fast. We are speaking about 25 GFlops (sustained) speed here.
IRC got excellent features fighting against lamers too. Kick, Ban... If it doesn't work, I bet some operators hanging on such a old channel, g-line will happen.
Its interesting it gets no mention in this new "google,ms" war.
There is a pure java office suite written in java 2 which is kind of free to try.
http://www.thinkfree.com/
It is java, multiplatform, unicode, exports PDF too.
Opera still identifies as MS IE to webservers. While it was commercial, people using it were changing their id string to Opera manually as they are fan of browser (paid users) and advanced desktop users.
j ectdetection.html
I assume after it went free, flood of newbie user got the browser and they didn't change ID String yet. I can't blame anyone, you can still live problems with identifying as Opera to some sites. While I was using Windows, I was identifying as Mozilla browser.
Its kind of stupid to identify browser features with their names in fact. What they (big sites) need is to check capabilities of the browser, not its name.
Apple got a very good article on that:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/javascript/ob
I am a regular on Mac channels (IRC) and community sites.
:)
From what I understand those "mysterious scratching" also happened because nano is so small so people put them in their pockets WITH KEYS.
There is a way to make them scratching resistant while I suspect about if it really helps in such situation... Ceramic or Sapphire hi tech glass (!). Well, Nano will be a really expensive device that way
BTW- can we sue cell phone companies? All my phone screens are scratched!
Check http://www.narus.com/press/index.html , don't buy any service from company who is their client.
Its much more than Skype, SIP blocking people. If a company is using their products, they are watching everything. Check their products page.
http://www.narus.com/solutions/IPanalysis.html
They brag about Telecom Egypt using their software/platform, they have rather interesting banner "bragging" about "Certified for China's national networks".
I would switch my cell phone, ISP immediately if they are using any of this companies products.
Its not Skype only.
(censoring company www site, http://www.narus.com/about/investors.html )
;)
___
The Intel Communications Fund is a $500M equity investment fund that invests in technology companies developing innovative networking and communications solutions. The fund supports development of technologies for Intel® Internet Exchange(TM) Architecture, telephony applications based on CT Media(TM) and wireless and cellular solutions built around the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture and the Intel® Xscale(TM) Microarchitecture. In addition, the fund is expected to invest in applications and systems companies supporting other Intel voice and data communications initiatives.
___
I think they misunderstood companies business while giving them $500M for voice communications
Thanks for link, I noticed a far more interesting thing that whole company could be fake or Korea is having sort of secret contracts with major spammers.
"Huh?" you would say... It says:
"Mountain View, Calif., September 26, 2005 -- Narus, Inc., along with its channel partner Datacraft Korea, today announced that KT has expanded its network's security with use of NarusSecure. As part of Datacraft's TAPS system, NarusSecure now enables security coverage across the majority of KT's nationwide network."
http://www.narus.com/press/2005/0926b.html
Look to my mail address. I am a paid spamcop mail system customer. I also have a yahoo address. Yahoo currently gets 200 spams/week from Korea. While I was naive enough to report those spams, they were all open proxies.
I get 5 spams/day from morons spamming a spamcop.net e mail, guess who they are? Koreans.. Again.
Its not like some big, evil, spam mafia guy in Florida hacking those machines. They are pure Korean language spams coming from "open proxies".
So either Narus ripped those telcos big time or Korean government supports spamming. No other choice. They can detect such advanced P2P encrypted telephony but can't stop lame open proxies and damned port 135?
BTW Spamcop and some other ISP's use a special blocking list acting like RBL to block whole Korea netspace.
Well creative professionals will buy these machines and will add like $20.000 software.
:)
They will earn more money as result of faster work cycle, higher quality animations, more layers etc. Machines pay their prices.
You would commit suicide if you hear the price list of AVID 4K line.
So, while selling their browser (now free), Opera should not pay Trolltech for QT which makes them possible to run on many platforms (especially mobile!) with legendary low CPU and memory usage?
Looks like Opera ASA has no problem with that, they are a technology partner:
http://partners.trolltech.com/partners/tech.html
I am not developer but I remember lots of flame wars about GPL license of QT. They moved to GPL for opensource/free projects and they still get flamed.
Interesting.