Another limitation is that you have to be root to use chroot (and why is this?).
Apparently you also need to be root to run fdisk and mkfs. I can't imagine why this is. Only a malicious person could do any damage with those commands and I don't give user accounts to malicious people.
I don't think so -- the ports shouldn't show at all. But I don't have any TTL comparisons. This was the result of a SYN stealth scan, not a TCP connect scan, FWIW. It shouldn't show any ports at all if the box is hung or booted into single user mount.
Without going into a treatise on the reliability of Nmap results, let me point out one thing. As well as getting a closed result for HTTP, you're also getting the same result for NTP, FTP and at least one HTTP proxy service. If you're assuming that the "closed" result for Port 80 means that it's running a web server but that the port is being blocked, then you also have to assume that it's running as an NTP server. An NTP server isn't something you enable by accident and I doubt the Demonoid server is connected to an atomic clock and providing time services to the rest of the network. So that and the other unexpected ports indicate a strong possibility that your results are inconsistent and useless.
So while it's not confirmed, it's pretty obvious to anyone knowledgeable in network admin that the ISP firewalled off all the ports at someone's behest.
I would say that someone who assumes a certain explanation is correct based only on running Nmap against a host in a different country is probably not quite as knowledgeable in the field of network administration as they may think.
-1 for moderation? This is the ONLY post I've made in this thread that I actually DID moderate. Can someone make me a better slashdotter and point out why my post lacks moderation?
You seem a little confused about how Slashdot works. You didn't moderate your post - someone else did.
As for the reasons why they moderated your post, I can only guess at their motives but I would advance the following theories :
a) They noticed that you had posted 22 comments to this story alone and decided you needed to shut the fuck up. b) No seriously, shut the fuck up.
And to answer your second question, you can become a better Slashdotter by shutting the fuck up.
Apparently the phone won't be disabled immediately. It will first make a call to the nearest AT&T NSA approved logging center, where the phone number will be recorded and your address details passed on to Apple.
Then the phone will disable itself.
Shortly after, you will meet with a mysterious accident.
Apple users that we interviewed were of the opinion that while this was a good first step, it didn't really go quite far enough. "Ideally I'd like to see the offender's family murdered in the streets as well. It's really the only way to teach the proper respect for Apple's products and business strategy.", said one person who was soon copied by all the others in an attempt to show their individuality.
An Apple spokesman who we contacted offered the following statement, "LOL, Windows, LOL!".
Only if we could all pull information from wikipedia and call it our own. At least give credit to where you got your information from.
Yes, that's right. Nobody here would have known why 65,535 was an important number without looking it up on Wikipedia.
Please mod parent back up so that everyone can witness what must be one of the biggest own goals in Slashdot history. As a general rule, if you're going to call someone out in public, it's best to check and make sure you're not retarded first.
You make me sick with your intelligent, well reasoned and above all, technically correct arguments. You should know by now that we don't tolerate that kind on thing on Slashdot.
But I also wonder what percentage of the people being so vocal about the CK affair are just ricers who build everything with CFLAGs set to "-O9 -fomit-instructions" just in case it give them an extra.1 FPS in glxgears. Or are actually running Linux at all for that matter.
I'd feel happy if it wasn't that my book writing (hobby) wasn't abandoned because I noticed selling D20 PDFs online is pointless with the mass piracy of PDFs through sites like this.
Based on the amount of effort it took me to make sense of that train wreck of a sentence, I have to say that I am very happy your writing career was abandoned. Not only does it contain obvious errors, the style is fucking horrible. I don't claim any talents in that area either, but I am not expecting to make money from my writing.
Sorry that you failed to make money from your niche hobby which doesn't even guarantee profits for those with experience and strong track records. I'm sure it was due to piracy and not a simple case of reality failing to conform to your rather optimistic expectations.
Please note that I am not defending piracy. I am attacking you and your dubious sense of entitlement.
On other platforms, I use Eclipse extensivey: I don't write Java apps, but there's lots that Eclipse can do, and on Windows it's easily the best all-round IDE. On the Mac, it just feels ugly and klunky-I end up sticking with Xcode for managing the projects and TextMate for editing.
So you use Eclipse on other platforms with no issue? And Eclipse itself looks the same on the Mac as it does on other platforms?
But you can't use it on the Mac because it clashes with the rest of OSX and looks ugly. Have you considered giving up the development work and moving to a more suitable career such as Interior Design?
So why not make a handheld that can do real-time raytracing?
Because rendering a scene of a set level of complexity using ray tracing is vastly more compute intensive than the alternatives and nobody wants to buy a handheld that weighs 30Kg and requires a portable diesel generator.
Would you like spectacularly obvious answers to any other questions while I'm here?
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Wow. I get moded troll for an opinion that's commonly displayed in the Ubuntu forums. It's well known KDE crashes far more than GNOME, people have expressed this as such. What fucked up community are you a part of who can't take a little criticism?
I may be biased since I've been using KDE for years and have never known it to crash, but I have to ask - what proportion of Ubuntu users would you trust to correctly differentiate between a KDE crash, an X Server crash or a kernel panic/Oops? Also, if you're putting forward Ubuntu as the gold standard of stable packaging and quality control then your opinions may not be treated with the respect you may think they deserve.
If you can find similar opinions amongst users of Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Suse or any of the BSDs, do come back and let us know.
So much BS that Linus has decided to swap out the old O(1) scheduler for the CFS. Go figure.
So, how involved are you in Linux kernel development? The fact that you have posted so many comments on this issue and hold so many strident opinions which you think we need to hear about, makes me think that you must have an intimate knowledge of algorithms in general and schedulers in particular.
On the other hand, the fact that you have steered clear of mentioning any real technical details and focus mainly on personality issues, to the extent that you seem to see the LKML as some kind of soap opera, makes me think that you're just another mouthy ricer that happens to have read a couple of articles on Kerneltrap.
Why not write a patch to implement the changes required to take Linux in the direction you want? If you think they would be rejected for political reasons by Linus and his shadowy elite cabal of kernel developers, then start your own OS. If you can't even begin to imagine doing either of those things, then why do you think your opinion counts? You are allowed to switch to another OS if it better meets your needs. Linux will probably struggle on without you.
He's also right; 30 checks per second is terrifically insignificant.
Well, that rather depends what you're doing 30 times a second doesn't it?
We may be talking only a couple of hundred instructions each time. Or maybe a lot more is being done. The point is that you don't know and you will probably never know because apart from the built-in difficulty of working this stuff out with a debugger, you can bet that MS have already done everything in their power to stop you from finding out.
Apple did not change the firmware to lock out open source users, they added a simple SHA1 hash to better avoid corruption if a sync is interrupted. The hash was cracked in one day. Furthermore the labels forced Apple to put DRM in its products.
At the risk of sounding slightly inflammatory, I do feel obliged to point out that you're a lying little fuck. Also, I pray that the Slashdot community won't consider it flamebait if I share with you my fervent hope that you will one day choke to death on Steve Job's cock.
As much as I might dislike the methods this company was allegedly going to employ against a bunch of people who are breaking the law, I don't think that a smaller, hard-core subset of that group of lawbreakers further breaking the law, by cracking their way into the corporation's emails and violating their privacy, is something to cheer about.
Or errors can corrupt both the data and the checksum so they match each other.
This is about as likely as simultaneously winning every current national and regional lottery on the planet. And then doing it again next week.
And if we're talking about a 512 bit hash then it's possible that a new planet full of lotteries will spontaneously emerge from the quantum vacuum. And you'll win all those too.
Having that extra bandwidth means that those lovely PCI Bus Mastering devices (such as my SCSI 3 controller, and quad firewire card) aren't fighting with the CPU for memory access.
With a SCSI 3 card and 4 port Firewire you'd be looking at about 360MB/s of bandwidth assuming that they reach their max theoretical speed (and of course PC hardware always reaches its maximum theoretical speed). Unless they're both on the PCI bus in which case 133MB/s max for both. Which is fairly minor compared to the 6GB/sec of memory bandwidth that I get with shitty DDR2 on a shitty motherboard.
Unless you can provide evidence to the contrary, I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that the performance increases you are expecting do not actually exist. Unless your primary workloads involve running memory benchmarks and Prime95 in which case I would point out that you accidentally posted to Slashdot instead of the Xtremesystems forums.
The check is simple, it checks the network to see if someone else with the same serial is already running the software, if so then it just doesn't load, that's it.
Oh yes? And how exactly does it check the network for other copies with the same serial?
Does each copy send broadcast packets containing the serial? Does it portscan your entire fucking network looking for other copies?
If it works like you're describing then it's almost certainly one of those two options, and neither are remotely attractive. On my network that shit would be blocked very quickly, not to enable piracy but to disable mental retardation.
so if someone wanted to start digging into BSD, which one would you recommend?
Well, you've already been told how friendly and non-elitist all the BSDs are, so it won't matter that much. However, I think you'll find that OpenBSD is the best of the lot.
Simply send an e-mail to the development list asking where you can download the install CD and for some help installing it (the OpenBSD developers are so friendly and willing to help newbies that they don't bother writing any documentation). Make sure you CC: Theo on the e-mail, as he likes to keep track of new users and personally welcome them.
Under OpenBSD I've gotten much more stable timekeeping by recompiling the generic kernel with only one simple change. I set the processor type to 586 or 686 as the case may be. Specifically in the/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC file I removed "option I486_CPU" and "option I686_CPU" so that it would be correctly configured for my pentium 166 cpu. I think the pentium has some time keeping functions the 386 and 486 didn't have. Although I haven't found the parts of the kernel code where this change does its magic.
Well, I think the Pentium introduced the RTDSC instruction which can be used as a high resolution timer. But it's also possible that "option I586_CPU" turns on support for more modern motherboard based timers, like the HPET.
...all those who haven't grasped the revolution inherent in ZFS yet. Let's hope this doesn't chill Solaris 10 and ZFS adoption, because there's nothing else quite like it out there.
I hope it does chill ZFS adoption, simply because you lot are getting really fucking annoying. You just described a few thousand lines of code, whose only purpose is to determine the layout of data on disk, and which you probably haven't even used as "inherently revolutionary". Do you not feel even slightly embarrassed about that?
Even worse, these packets count towards your cap...
Causing you to get TOSed earlier.
Yes, this is a real problem. RST packets are several hundred megabytes in size, so a few blocked connections and you will go right over your monthly transfer limit. You are absolutely right to be concerned about this particular aspect of the issue, you fucking idiot.
I think i read on here one time, probably in another voyager thread that the furthest human made object is actually the cap on a bunker that a nuke was tested in. Factoring in the power of the blast they calculated that the cap was blown off with such velocity that it is already quite a bit further out that voyager. Anybody else remember reading something about this, my google-fu is weak on the matter.
This is pure unadulterated bullshit.
There was an underground nuclear test that launched a concrete cap at high speed, and there was some initial speculation that it might have achieved escape velocity. But then they did some calculations and realised that it couldn't possibly have done so.
Nobody ever speculated that it had made it as far as deep space. That would be fucking retarded.
I realise that this would be something of a first for Slashdot, but is it possible that you have taken your own anomalous experience with a single piece of software or hardware and extrapolated it to cover Linux in general? Next thing you know, people will be trying to use anecdotal evidence to win arguments.
Real player is hte only one that displays videos that are not too dark or oversaturated if your on linux.
If that's true, then either the problem is with the other media players you use and not Linux in general, or RealPlayer makes videos lighter and less saturated by just the right amount to compensate for the issues in Linux. I find the idea of RealPlayer fixing an issue with an OS instead of causing one rather difficult to swallow.
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Who got their man unit fried exactly?
Another limitation is that you have to be root to use chroot (and why is this?).
Apparently you also need to be root to run fdisk and mkfs. I can't imagine why this is. Only a malicious person could do any damage with those commands and I don't give user accounts to malicious people.
I don't think so -- the ports shouldn't show at all. But I don't have any TTL comparisons. This was the result of a SYN stealth scan, not a TCP connect scan, FWIW. It shouldn't show any ports at all if the box is hung or booted into single user mount.
Without going into a treatise on the reliability of Nmap results, let me point out one thing. As well as getting a closed result for HTTP, you're also getting the same result for NTP, FTP and at least one HTTP proxy service. If you're assuming that the "closed" result for Port 80 means that it's running a web server but that the port is being blocked, then you also have to assume that it's running as an NTP server. An NTP server isn't something you enable by accident and I doubt the Demonoid server is connected to an atomic clock and providing time services to the rest of the network. So that and the other unexpected ports indicate a strong possibility that your results are inconsistent and useless.
So while it's not confirmed, it's pretty obvious to anyone knowledgeable in network admin that the ISP firewalled off all the ports at someone's behest.
I would say that someone who assumes a certain explanation is correct based only on running Nmap against a host in a different country is probably not quite as knowledgeable in the field of network administration as they may think.
-1 for moderation? This is the ONLY post I've made in this thread that I actually DID moderate. Can someone make me a better slashdotter and point out why my post lacks moderation?
You seem a little confused about how Slashdot works. You didn't moderate your post - someone else did.
As for the reasons why they moderated your post, I can only guess at their motives but I would advance the following theories :
a) They noticed that you had posted 22 comments to this story alone and decided you needed to shut the fuck up.
b) No seriously, shut the fuck up.
And to answer your second question, you can become a better Slashdotter by shutting the fuck up.
Apparently the phone won't be disabled immediately. It will first make a call to the nearest AT&T NSA approved logging center, where the phone number will be recorded and your address details passed on to Apple.
Then the phone will disable itself.
Shortly after, you will meet with a mysterious accident.
Apple users that we interviewed were of the opinion that while this was a good first step, it didn't really go quite far enough. "Ideally I'd like to see the offender's family murdered in the streets as well. It's really the only way to teach the proper respect for Apple's products and business strategy.", said one person who was soon copied by all the others in an attempt to show their individuality.
An Apple spokesman who we contacted offered the following statement, "LOL, Windows, LOL!".
Only if we could all pull information from wikipedia and call it our own. At least give credit to where you got your information from.
Yes, that's right. Nobody here would have known why 65,535 was an important number without looking it up on Wikipedia.
Please mod parent back up so that everyone can witness what must be one of the biggest own goals in Slashdot history. As a general rule, if you're going to call someone out in public, it's best to check and make sure you're not retarded first.
You make me sick with your intelligent, well reasoned and above all, technically correct arguments. You should know by now that we don't tolerate that kind on thing on Slashdot.
.1 FPS in glxgears. Or are actually running Linux at all for that matter.
But I also wonder what percentage of the people being so vocal about the CK affair are just ricers who build everything with CFLAGs set to "-O9 -fomit-instructions" just in case it give them an extra
I'd feel happy if it wasn't that my book writing (hobby) wasn't abandoned because I noticed selling D20 PDFs online is pointless with the mass piracy of PDFs through sites like this.
Based on the amount of effort it took me to make sense of that train wreck of a sentence, I have to say that I am very happy your writing career was abandoned. Not only does it contain obvious errors, the style is fucking horrible. I don't claim any talents in that area either, but I am not expecting to make money from my writing.
Sorry that you failed to make money from your niche hobby which doesn't even guarantee profits for those with experience and strong track records. I'm sure it was due to piracy and not a simple case of reality failing to conform to your rather optimistic expectations.
Please note that I am not defending piracy. I am attacking you and your dubious sense of entitlement.
On other platforms, I use Eclipse extensivey: I don't write Java apps, but there's lots that Eclipse can do, and on Windows it's easily the best all-round IDE. On the Mac, it just feels ugly and klunky-I end up sticking with Xcode for managing the projects and TextMate for editing.
So you use Eclipse on other platforms with no issue? And Eclipse itself looks the same on the Mac as it does on other platforms?
But you can't use it on the Mac because it clashes with the rest of OSX and looks ugly. Have you considered giving up the development work and moving to a more suitable career such as Interior Design?
So why not make a handheld that can do real-time raytracing?
Because rendering a scene of a set level of complexity using ray tracing is vastly more compute intensive than the alternatives and nobody wants to buy a handheld that weighs 30Kg and requires a portable diesel generator.
Would you like spectacularly obvious answers to any other questions while I'm here?
Wow. I get moded troll for an opinion that's commonly displayed in the Ubuntu forums. It's well known KDE crashes far more than GNOME, people have expressed this as such. What fucked up community are you a part of who can't take a little criticism?
I may be biased since I've been using KDE for years and have never known it to crash, but I have to ask - what proportion of Ubuntu users would you trust to correctly differentiate between a KDE crash, an X Server crash or a kernel panic/Oops? Also, if you're putting forward Ubuntu as the gold standard of stable packaging and quality control then your opinions may not be treated with the respect you may think they deserve.
If you can find similar opinions amongst users of Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Suse or any of the BSDs, do come back and let us know.
So much BS that Linus has decided to swap out the old O(1) scheduler for the CFS. Go figure.
So, how involved are you in Linux kernel development? The fact that you have posted so many comments on this issue and hold so many strident opinions which you think we need to hear about, makes me think that you must have an intimate knowledge of algorithms in general and schedulers in particular.
On the other hand, the fact that you have steered clear of mentioning any real technical details and focus mainly on personality issues, to the extent that you seem to see the LKML as some kind of soap opera, makes me think that you're just another mouthy ricer that happens to have read a couple of articles on Kerneltrap.
Why not write a patch to implement the changes required to take Linux in the direction you want? If you think they would be rejected for political reasons by Linus and his shadowy elite cabal of kernel developers, then start your own OS. If you can't even begin to imagine doing either of those things, then why do you think your opinion counts? You are allowed to switch to another OS if it better meets your needs. Linux will probably struggle on without you.
He's also right; 30 checks per second is terrifically insignificant.
Well, that rather depends what you're doing 30 times a second doesn't it?
We may be talking only a couple of hundred instructions each time. Or maybe a lot more is being done. The point is that you don't know and you will probably never know because apart from the built-in difficulty of working this stuff out with a debugger, you can bet that MS have already done everything in their power to stop you from finding out.
Apple did not change the firmware to lock out open source users, they added a simple SHA1 hash to better avoid corruption if a sync is interrupted. The hash was cracked in one day. Furthermore the labels forced Apple to put DRM in its products.
At the risk of sounding slightly inflammatory, I do feel obliged to point out that you're a lying little fuck. Also, I pray that the Slashdot community won't consider it flamebait if I share with you my fervent hope that you will one day choke to death on Steve Job's cock.
This is basically saying to me that antivirus packages and software systems have finally gotten to the point where they're being effective.
I'm trying to come up with an intelligent response to your post, but every time I re-read that sentence I start cracking up again.
As much as I might dislike the methods this company was allegedly going to employ against a bunch of people who are breaking the law, I don't think that a smaller, hard-core subset of that group of lawbreakers further breaking the law, by cracking their way into the corporation's emails and violating their privacy, is something to cheer about.
Shows how wrong you can be, doesn't it?
Or errors can corrupt both the data and the checksum so they match each other.
This is about as likely as simultaneously winning every current national and regional lottery on the planet. And then doing it again next week.
And if we're talking about a 512 bit hash then it's possible that a new planet full of lotteries will spontaneously emerge from the quantum vacuum. And you'll win all those too.
Having that extra bandwidth means that those lovely PCI Bus Mastering devices (such as my SCSI 3 controller, and quad firewire card) aren't fighting with the CPU for memory access.
With a SCSI 3 card and 4 port Firewire you'd be looking at about 360MB/s of bandwidth assuming that they reach their max theoretical speed (and of course PC hardware always reaches its maximum theoretical speed). Unless they're both on the PCI bus in which case 133MB/s max for both. Which is fairly minor compared to the 6GB/sec of memory bandwidth that I get with shitty DDR2 on a shitty motherboard.
Unless you can provide evidence to the contrary, I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that the performance increases you are expecting do not actually exist. Unless your primary workloads involve running memory benchmarks and Prime95 in which case I would point out that you accidentally posted to Slashdot instead of the Xtremesystems forums.
The check is simple, it checks the network to see if someone else with the same serial is already running the software, if so then it just doesn't load, that's it.
Oh yes? And how exactly does it check the network for other copies with the same serial?
Does each copy send broadcast packets containing the serial? Does it portscan your entire fucking network looking for other copies?
If it works like you're describing then it's almost certainly one of those two options, and neither are remotely attractive. On my network that shit would be blocked very quickly, not to enable piracy but to disable mental retardation.
so if someone wanted to start digging into BSD, which one would you recommend?
Well, you've already been told how friendly and non-elitist all the BSDs are, so it won't matter that much. However, I think you'll find that OpenBSD is the best of the lot.
Simply send an e-mail to the development list asking where you can download the install CD and for some help installing it (the OpenBSD developers are so friendly and willing to help newbies that they don't bother writing any documentation). Make sure you CC: Theo on the e-mail, as he likes to keep track of new users and personally welcome them.
Under OpenBSD I've gotten much more stable timekeeping by recompiling the generic kernel with only one simple change. I set the processor type to 586 or 686 as the case may be. Specifically in the /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC file I removed "option I486_CPU" and "option I686_CPU" so that it would be correctly configured for my pentium 166 cpu. I think the pentium has some time keeping functions the 386 and 486 didn't have. Although I haven't found the parts of the kernel code where this change does its magic.
Well, I think the Pentium introduced the RTDSC instruction which can be used as a high resolution timer. But it's also possible that "option I586_CPU" turns on support for more modern motherboard based timers, like the HPET.
...all those who haven't grasped the revolution inherent in ZFS yet.
Let's hope this doesn't chill Solaris 10 and ZFS adoption, because there's nothing else quite like it out there.
I hope it does chill ZFS adoption, simply because you lot are getting really fucking annoying. You just described a few thousand lines of code, whose only purpose is to determine the layout of data on disk, and which you probably haven't even used as "inherently revolutionary". Do you not feel even slightly embarrassed about that?
Even worse, these packets count towards your cap...
Causing you to get TOSed earlier.
Yes, this is a real problem. RST packets are several hundred megabytes in size, so a few blocked connections and you will go right over your monthly transfer limit. You are absolutely right to be concerned about this particular aspect of the issue, you fucking idiot.
I think i read on here one time, probably in another voyager thread that the furthest human made object is actually the cap on a bunker that a nuke was tested in. Factoring in the power of the blast they calculated that the cap was blown off with such velocity that it is already quite a bit further out that voyager. Anybody else remember reading something about this, my google-fu is weak on the matter.
This is pure unadulterated bullshit.
There was an underground nuclear test that launched a concrete cap at high speed, and there was some initial speculation that it might have achieved escape velocity. But then they did some calculations and realised that it couldn't possibly have done so.
Nobody ever speculated that it had made it as far as deep space. That would be fucking retarded.
On Linux color calibration is off.
It's fine here.
I realise that this would be something of a first for Slashdot, but is it possible that you have taken your own anomalous experience with a single piece of software or hardware and extrapolated it to cover Linux in general? Next thing you know, people will be trying to use anecdotal evidence to win arguments.
Real player is hte only one that displays videos that are not too dark or oversaturated if your on linux.
If that's true, then either the problem is with the other media players you use and not Linux in general, or RealPlayer makes videos lighter and less saturated by just the right amount to compensate for the issues in Linux. I find the idea of RealPlayer fixing an issue with an OS instead of causing one rather difficult to swallow.