For some bizarre reason I can't figure out, I am still being directed to earthlink's DNS servers and getting their trash loaded when a page can't be found.
If you can't figure out why you are still using your previous provider's DNS servers then you are the target market for this Sitefinder bullshit.
At the end of the day, aside from its own ulterior motives, Apple is just forcing people to be original.
I just knew they were doing this out of the goodness of their hearts for the benefit of the public.
The way some people in this thread have been talking you would almost think that Apple is just another faceless corporation abusing the law for no good reason.
Next you'll be telling me that they are more interested in making profits than they are in producing pretty products to make people happy.
PS. Because a lot of Apple zealots will be reading this story, I feel the need to point out that the above is sarcasm. The fact that it coincides 100% with your view of Apple is just a reflection on your lack of realism.
Installed dual core patches (both MS and AMD), installed processor optimiser and latest drivers, bought a new capture card (osprey 100), tweaked until Id run out of ideas.
I don't suppose it occurred to you that the software might suck donkey dick? I know it's difficult to imagine such a proposition when it's a piece of free MS software we're talking about, but stranger things have happened.
Anyway, can't write any more. I need to get back to editing my new High Def Hollywood blockbuster in Windows Movie Maker.
The thing I wonder about is that I need to upgrade my GeForce4 Ti 4600 because it doesn't have some hardware features (ie pixel shaders 2.0) and not necessarily because its not fast enough.
Yes, but generally the unsupported features can be emulated in software (e.g. Direct3D can do it). Of course that's really slow. So in summary, you don't need to replace your card because it doesn't support PS2.0, you need to replace it because it's too slow (which just happens to be because it doesn't support PS2.0).
Sorry, that doesn't really help a great deal does it?
When exploits require administrator/root access in the first place in order to function, interest level drops to 0.
But then this wasn't about exploiting user privilege levels and elevating yourself to admin was it? The point was that Vista doesn't allow you to load unsigned drivers. It doesn't even allow you to do it as admin. This exploit allows you to load unsigned drivers as admin. So this exploit gets round the code signing and attestation systems. That's really quite significant if you actually understand what it means.
So are you saying that's boring and insignificant? Or are you saying that what you thought was happening here was boring and insignificant? Don't be embarassed if you were led astray by the Slashdot summary - many other people have uncritical minds too.
Yeah, that's positively ancient. But it works. Without frying your brain cells...:-)
I really do love the fact that all the people who are so concerned about the effects of mobile phone radiation are quite happy to sit in front of televisions. You see, they'll happily freak out about the unproven health effects of microwave radiation on their children but exposing them to hard X-Rays from a CRT doesn't bother them at all.
Next time you meet one, explain how powerful and dangerous X-Rays are compared to lower energy radiation like microwaves. Obviously you won't change their minds with silly things like scientific facts, but at least you get to increase their paranoia levels another notch.
People often forget there is a considerable difference in the reliability of ATA drives versus SCSI. If you are going to use some sort of ATA based SAN be prepared for disk failures much sooner than if they were SCSI.
I would just like to say something to the people who modded this "Interesting". You are killing Slashdot with your stupidity.
Now crawl back under your rocks, you fucking imbeciles. That is all.
PS. To the original poster - if you don't understand something, don't comment on it. Is that really too much to fucking ask?
PPS. You still don't fucking get it do you? Well, this will blow your mind - you can run ATAoE with SCSI discs. And vice versa.
I tried it on a cluster with 22 nodes. After 2 years I threw it out. One node had one weak bit and it was impossible to find with OpenMosix, as the errors would just seemingly happen on all nodes.
I would say that if you're not smart enough to do either of the following :
a) Run Memtest.
b) Remove one node at a time and test.
Then you don't need a cluster anyway. So it sounds like it turned out alright in the end.
Is your best friend when it comes to downloading things through BitTorrent.
As long as they are only monitoring from IPs on the PeerGuardian list. Of course, that's a pretty safe bet because it requires either vast sums of money or dark voodoo techno magic to get a new IP address. Idiot.
PS. Wouldn't it be in their interests to convince people that PeerGuardian does offer protection when it obviously doesn't? Maybe they could acheive that by hiring people to make posts on popular online forums.
And I hope more users get over the whole macho thing and give up using an OS where every trivial little task becomes some monumental quest where you have to prove yourself worthy by constructing scripts,.rc files and kernel configurations, and switch from BSD and Linux to MacOSX. But that's just my opinion.
Yes, don't do it the hard way - you might learn something. Then you would be disqualified from ever owning a Mac. It's also completely un-American and will get you put on a number of watch lists.
And forget about the sense of personal achievement you might get from doing something hard. Buying a product from Apple is a major achievement that instantly makes you better than 97% of the population.
Clear Singh has no proper engineering background, can't understand schematics, nor even read a data sheet. Just goes to show that any moron can publish a book. I for one won't waste my money on erroneous bullshit.
Despite that fact that I hate Apple fans with every ounce of my black little heart, I feel the need to defend Singh by pointing out the following issues :
a) You could not possibly be more wrong.
b) Your whining about the whole "over 65K" thing is the weakest bit of pedantry I've ever seen.
c) You are both an arrogant prick and a whiney little bitch, which is a rare and impressive combination.
Basically his kernelthread site is very well respected in the Apple community and therefore your post seems to be a serious violation of groupthink. Somehow I don't think you're going to be staying at "+2 Informative" for very long once they realise.
I like 3D accel, but I'd be quite happy with an unaccelerated frame-buffer - just as long as is stable.
Go into your xorg.conf and change the "Driver" line to "vga" or "vesa".
You now have an unaccelerated frame-buffer display that will be as stable as the day is long. It will also suck donkey cock, but it is exactly what you just asked for.
But I can't place all the blame on ATI or NVidia for the state of drivers. Some blame lies with the Kernel Developers.
Windows has a stable binary interface. Why the fuck aren't you using it? You clearly don't have an ideological reason to use Linux or you wouldn't be spouting this shit.
I believe BSD has a stable binary interface also. That's why BSD has perfect proprietary drivers for every single piece of commercial hardware, you stupid fucking cock.
Is it just me, or this "blog" look suspiciously like an astroturf op?
Yes, it's just you I'm afraid. You don't know what you're talking about and that lead you to say something ridiculous in a public forum. Better luck next time.
Also as a person used Xeon systems, Xeon is not a top of the line game/ordinary application performer. It is optimised for corparate/server usage from the start.
Yes, I hear that Intel removed the x86 instructions responsible for accelerating games and ordinary applications from the Xeon.
That's what I like about Apple's move to x86 - all of the Mac owners who were previously confined to being ignorant about the PPC architecture on public forums can now be ignorant about x86 as well. It's truly a brave new world.
Obviously, the hackers would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement with MS before being allowed a quick glance at Vista's innards.
MS aren't going to show them any "innards" or source code. It will be just be a Powerpoint about Vista's shiny new security features presented in front of the people most likely to be annoyed by this approach.
Unless the MS guy forgets to disable wireless on his laptop, in which case there may be some less controlled disclosure of information. And probably some Goatse.
Yeah, because overwriting core OS files would be so much harder if the OS allowed it.
The point the parent was making is that it is very hard to delete malware on a live Windows system because you cannot delete a file that is in use. That is why you often have to boot to safe mode to get rid of spyware etc.. This is not the same as Windows File Protection which he didn't mention at all.
So in the context of the above, I am finding it rather difficult to ascertain exactly what fucking point you were trying to make with that meaningless one line comment. Was the parent talking about the difficulty of overwriting core OS files? No, he was not. Why are you? Please start you own thread if you want to discuss a different subject, then we can all ignore it more easily.
Also try and quote what you are replying to. It makes it easier to quickly dismiss posts as wrong and confused.
I remember having a fight on a CentOS 4 box because the directories I was trying to copy from one drive to another were too long, and causing the command input buffer to not receive the entire command.
Are you absolutely sure that it wasn't a case of the directory containing too many files for the command to deal with? That seems much more likely from your description.
It's easy to solve, but since you think the problem is something different I won't bother telling you how. Hope this helps.
Slashdot Mirror
For some bizarre reason I can't figure out, I am still being directed to earthlink's DNS servers and getting their trash loaded when a page can't be found.
If you can't figure out why you are still using your previous provider's DNS servers then you are the target market for this Sitefinder bullshit.
yes, I use mac os x
As above.
...if I make a joke about Apple trademarking "i" next, can I also get modded +2 Funny like the other 100 unoriginal shitstains in this thread?
What about if I throw in a Duke Nukem Forever joke? That's got to be worth another +2 at least.
At the end of the day, aside from its own ulterior motives, Apple is just forcing people to be original.
I just knew they were doing this out of the goodness of their hearts for the benefit of the public.
The way some people in this thread have been talking you would almost think that Apple is just another faceless corporation abusing the law for no good reason.
Next you'll be telling me that they are more interested in making profits than they are in producing pretty products to make people happy.
PS. Because a lot of Apple zealots will be reading this story, I feel the need to point out that the above is sarcasm. The fact that it coincides 100% with your view of Apple is just a reflection on your lack of realism.
Nope - wish there was something else wrong.
Installed dual core patches (both MS and AMD), installed processor optimiser and latest drivers, bought a new capture card (osprey 100), tweaked until Id run out of ideas.
I don't suppose it occurred to you that the software might suck donkey dick? I know it's difficult to imagine such a proposition when it's a piece of free MS software we're talking about, but stranger things have happened.
Anyway, can't write any more. I need to get back to editing my new High Def Hollywood blockbuster in Windows Movie Maker.
The comments in this thread show that, when MS does something good, Slashdot (with the exception of a few idiots) heaps on the praise.
The "idiots" have actually read the terms, conditions, fees and restrictions which will apply.
Whereas the non-idiots have just believed the MS press release.
In summary, you are using a definition of the word "idiot" of which I was not previously aware.
The thing I wonder about is that I need to upgrade my GeForce4 Ti 4600 because it doesn't have some hardware features (ie pixel shaders 2.0) and not necessarily because its not fast enough.
Yes, but generally the unsupported features can be emulated in software (e.g. Direct3D can do it). Of course that's really slow. So in summary, you don't need to replace your card because it doesn't support PS2.0, you need to replace it because it's too slow (which just happens to be because it doesn't support PS2.0).
Sorry, that doesn't really help a great deal does it?
A sony employee said the words "Playstation 4"! That means they are already designing it! ZOMG! [/sarcasm]
Apparently it's going to have photo-realistic graphics. The games will look just like Toy Story.
Start saving your pocket money now, you gullible little bitches.
When exploits require administrator/root access in the first place in order to function, interest level drops to 0.
But then this wasn't about exploiting user privilege levels and elevating yourself to admin was it? The point was that Vista doesn't allow you to load unsigned drivers. It doesn't even allow you to do it as admin. This exploit allows you to load unsigned drivers as admin. So this exploit gets round the code signing and attestation systems. That's really quite significant if you actually understand what it means.
So are you saying that's boring and insignificant? Or are you saying that what you thought was happening here was boring and insignificant? Don't be embarassed if you were led astray by the Slashdot summary - many other people have uncritical minds too.
Yeah, that's positively ancient. But it works. Without frying your brain cells... :-)
I really do love the fact that all the people who are so concerned about the effects of mobile phone radiation are quite happy to sit in front of televisions. You see, they'll happily freak out about the unproven health effects of microwave radiation on their children but exposing them to hard X-Rays from a CRT doesn't bother them at all.
Next time you meet one, explain how powerful and dangerous X-Rays are compared to lower energy radiation like microwaves. Obviously you won't change their minds with silly things like scientific facts, but at least you get to increase their paranoia levels another notch.
People often forget there is a considerable difference in the reliability of ATA drives versus SCSI. If you are going to use some sort of ATA based SAN be prepared for disk failures much sooner than if they were SCSI.
I would just like to say something to the people who modded this "Interesting". You are killing Slashdot with your stupidity.
Now crawl back under your rocks, you fucking imbeciles. That is all.
PS. To the original poster - if you don't understand something, don't comment on it. Is that really too much to fucking ask?
PPS. You still don't fucking get it do you? Well, this will blow your mind - you can run ATAoE with SCSI discs. And vice versa.
I tried it on a cluster with 22 nodes. After 2 years I threw it out. One node had one weak bit and it was impossible to find with OpenMosix, as the errors would just seemingly happen on all nodes.
I would say that if you're not smart enough to do either of the following :
a) Run Memtest.
b) Remove one node at a time and test.
Then you don't need a cluster anyway. So it sounds like it turned out alright in the end.
Is your best friend when it comes to downloading things through BitTorrent.
As long as they are only monitoring from IPs on the PeerGuardian list. Of course, that's a pretty safe bet because it requires either vast sums of money or dark voodoo techno magic to get a new IP address. Idiot.
PS. Wouldn't it be in their interests to convince people that PeerGuardian does offer protection when it obviously doesn't? Maybe they could acheive that by hiring people to make posts on popular online forums.
And I hope more users get over the whole macho thing and give up using an OS where every trivial little task becomes some monumental quest where you have to prove yourself worthy by constructing scripts, .rc files and kernel configurations, and switch from BSD and Linux to MacOSX. But that's just my opinion.
Yes, don't do it the hard way - you might learn something. Then you would be disqualified from ever owning a Mac. It's also completely un-American and will get you put on a number of watch lists.
And forget about the sense of personal achievement you might get from doing something hard. Buying a product from Apple is a major achievement that instantly makes you better than 97% of the population.
"Nvidia 1.0 was building 3-D graphics. Creating the consumer 3-D market."
No, that was 3dfx again.
Oh really? I don't remember being able to buy a 3DFX card in 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1
Clear Singh has no proper engineering background, can't understand schematics, nor even read a data sheet. Just goes to show that any moron can publish a book. I for one won't waste my money on erroneous bullshit.
Despite that fact that I hate Apple fans with every ounce of my black little heart, I feel the need to defend Singh by pointing out the following issues :
a) You could not possibly be more wrong.
b) Your whining about the whole "over 65K" thing is the weakest bit of pedantry I've ever seen.
c) You are both an arrogant prick and a whiney little bitch, which is a rare and impressive combination.
Basically his kernelthread site is very well respected in the Apple community and therefore your post seems to be a serious violation of groupthink. Somehow I don't think you're going to be staying at "+2 Informative" for very long once they realise.
Disclosure - I just picked up 600 Intel shares at $17.50.
I don't think you're legally obliged to disclose that when posting in an anonymous online forum.
You may however feel obliged to do so if you're a dick.
I like 3D accel, but I'd be quite happy with an unaccelerated frame-buffer - just as long as is stable.
Go into your xorg.conf and change the "Driver" line to "vga" or "vesa".
You now have an unaccelerated frame-buffer display that will be as stable as the day is long. It will also suck donkey cock, but it is exactly what you just asked for.
But I can't place all the blame on ATI or NVidia for the state of drivers. Some blame lies with the Kernel Developers.
Windows has a stable binary interface. Why the fuck aren't you using it? You clearly don't have an ideological reason to use Linux or you wouldn't be spouting this shit.
I believe BSD has a stable binary interface also. That's why BSD has perfect proprietary drivers for every single piece of commercial hardware, you stupid fucking cock.
Is it just me, or this "blog" look suspiciously like an astroturf op?
Yes, it's just you I'm afraid. You don't know what you're talking about and that lead you to say something ridiculous in a public forum. Better luck next time.
Did anyone else read "Torchwood" instead of "Touchwood" at first glance?
Actually, yes I did. But unlike you I'm not a big enough geek to admit it on Slashdot.
I also drooled over my first 40 MB Hard Disk Drive, and I now send email larger than that.
As a SysAdmin, I have to ask - would you mind killing yourself? Thanks awfully.
Also as a person used Xeon systems, Xeon is not a top of the line game/ordinary application performer. It is optimised for corparate/server usage from the start.
Yes, I hear that Intel removed the x86 instructions responsible for accelerating games and ordinary applications from the Xeon.
That's what I like about Apple's move to x86 - all of the Mac owners who were previously confined to being ignorant about the PPC architecture on public forums can now be ignorant about x86 as well. It's truly a brave new world.
Obviously, the hackers would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement with MS before being allowed a quick glance at Vista's innards.
MS aren't going to show them any "innards" or source code. It will be just be a Powerpoint about Vista's shiny new security features presented in front of the people most likely to be annoyed by this approach.
Unless the MS guy forgets to disable wireless on his laptop, in which case there may be some less controlled disclosure of information. And probably some Goatse.
Yeah, because overwriting core OS files would be so much harder if the OS allowed it.
The point the parent was making is that it is very hard to delete malware on a live Windows system because you cannot delete a file that is in use. That is why you often have to boot to safe mode to get rid of spyware etc.. This is not the same as Windows File Protection which he didn't mention at all.
So in the context of the above, I am finding it rather difficult to ascertain exactly what fucking point you were trying to make with that meaningless one line comment. Was the parent talking about the difficulty of overwriting core OS files? No, he was not. Why are you? Please start you own thread if you want to discuss a different subject, then we can all ignore it more easily.
Also try and quote what you are replying to. It makes it easier to quickly dismiss posts as wrong and confused.
I remember having a fight on a CentOS 4 box because the directories I was trying to copy from one drive to another were too long, and causing the command input buffer to not receive the entire command.
Are you absolutely sure that it wasn't a case of the directory containing too many files for the command to deal with? That seems much more likely from your description.
It's easy to solve, but since you think the problem is something different I won't bother telling you how. Hope this helps.