Safecast2 is even more Draconian. You can't even use VMware with it. It indicates you are running the software with a debugger. How they find that VMware is a debugger I have yet to undestand. There are some special ports that VMware uses to ID itself, they could use this but more likely there is something obscure wrt some ring0/ring3 instruction behaviour.
Does TTax use the original Safecast or.... Safecast2?
Hedley
PS: c_dilla was a small UK security company that got swallowed up by Macrovision.
When someone would send you mail, it would send back a link to a small image, in the image was a 'click here' dot, only a human (or some software that no spammer would take the time to write) can get their email into your mailbox.
Kind of offensive though, a lot of people took offence to clicking a link to send me email.
MsgTo.Com dissappeared some time ago during the.com "troubles".
They already have this done. A friend of mine brought one over one evening. Uses a touch screen lcd with an 11b interface to a brick with a PIII in it. He said police buy them, put the brick in the trunk and the touch screen display on the dash with suitable software. The brick is ruggedized for auto use. It's a Toughbook model 07.
Screen seemed a only a little bit slow, I would not recommend it for a LAN party but for a routine traffic stop or food order it looks OK to me. Win2K was the OS.
Actually thinking about it, one way for Yahoo to increase revenue is to disable the Bulk folder for the free accounts. Only enable it for the pay ones. The worst case for them is just lots of 6mb mailboxes full of spam. If they market it well they could lure people over to the "Spam Free" pay service. I am sure many users would be happy to get away from spam and be willing to pay for it especially if they use the Yahoo account as a primary email location.
Hedley
Change the venue to China or Taiwan
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If it were relocated there, I am sure the show could thrive:
1) Costs would be considerably lower. Salaries accross the board there are less, which would make the operating overhead lower. 2) Most PC hardware these days are made in China. It may be designed in Taiwan or less often now, Europe and the US but it is manufactured in Asia. 3) The US's PC industry has become more of a marketing arm. The large US firms spec the machines here and Contract Manufacturers in the far east complete the hard engineering tasks.
All these factors point to the case for letting the leader in PC manufacturing put on the show.
Don't worry the IEEE is voting on 2 competing methods for WLAN encryption: OCB (offset code book) and CCM (I don't remember the acronym break down). CCM will most likely win since OCB wants ~100K$ per company implementing it in firmware. Both approaches use AES with 128bit key and 128bit block data. This is a big change since WEP (wired "equivalency" protocol) uses a stream cipher, RC4. There is no IV any longer that is sent with a monotonically increasing #, instead the "nonce" as it is called is AES encrypted.
Each of these methods rely on the fact that you won't be able to reverse a known packet back to its plaintext. (relying on the fact that AES is not easily reversable).
That article was complete marketing speak too. "11mbs!" the effective rate of a WLAN these days is maximally in the high 6's or 7's if you all use short preamble. With long preamble, the effective rate is in the 5's to 6's.
I totally agree! I don't want someone beaming hi-power out-of-spec 2.4Ghz radiation. The point of WLAN is that you get a local area ~100ft around the AP. If these guys are successful it will increase the SN ratio on any channel they are on. When the baseband in your client tries to get the medium it will be filled with crap far away from you away. Thus your local performance will suffer.
No more than 18db-20db output power, these guys better have that output power or we will all have a problem. Kinda like the old adage: The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Our local Fry's is selling these things under the brand QuickNote. We bought two of them for customer visits to our co. and we may get a few more. It has an AMD desktop 1Ghz cpu in it with a massive heatpipe -> a copper radiator like structure. Amazing looking. It has NO battery. Don't let the A/C cord fall out! It has WindowsXP home prebundled. Uses DDR PC2100 memory (128Meg of which windows only see's 96, must be the AGP screen buffer eats the other 32Mb). Think about that price for a moment... XP alone is like $100 to an OEM (or is it?...)
Also the unit has a warning on it that the feet must be in the down position, tilting the case off the flat so that airflow can move to the radiator.
I had heard when the P4 came out, Taiwan Inc figured out how to duct the heat out of a desktop cpu based notebook so they could be the first to offer a P4 notebook.
On the original Mac, I went through 3 supplies. Each of the ones before the final one had fires. I would come into the room seing smoke pouring out of the left vent looking at the unit. Supply was made by a company called Astec.
There was a lot of good info in that article. When you are putting together a linux server to be on 24/7 this is good into. Last thing you want is
1) unreliability (you want clean voltages under load) 2) Your house burning down when your not there after the sleeve-fan seizes. 3) Noisy. If you sleep near the machine noise is an issue. I can hear mine in the other room.
The ones I like are the people that say, "my fans making a horrible noise" and then they are all happy when the noise *stops*!
3 DDR slots? I know there are loading issues with lots of that ram but this chip needs RAM it has a 40bit address bus coming out of it. At least 12GB physical ram, then it will be a serious challenge to high end cad machines. It they aim at just replacing your desktop, it will not do very well in my opinion.
They have as much chance of doing that as I do of eliminating bindweed and moss from my garden. It will not happen. Linux's Achilles heel is ennui, in the limit, it may just be unfashionable to spend ones time tinkering with it, but as long as EE/CS continues to be taught in school a good crop of young developers will always be plugging away inplementing what is new. Not to mention country adoption such as Germany, Peru, China etc
Wishful thinking by Mr Balmer. There is no RoundUp formula that Microsoft has or can buy that can be used to Stomp linux.
China, Europe etc all have issues with Radar interference in the 5Ghz band. Only when the military people in each of the various markets sign on will there be widespread 802.11a penetration. The technology is there, no question about it, it's the regulatory issue that is the holdup. Lobby your govt in the respective countries to get it approved. Until then, volume manufacturing will always favor 802.11b/g for now.
Remember, Robbie can make diamonds, emeralds and with some difficulty, Star Sapphires. Now, just find Robbie and you will get: a mover, a bodyguard, a cook, a stil, a gem maker, astrogator etc.
I used to work at a laser lab and we had a suitcase laser. Looked like a photographers case, brushed aluminum, plug it in, and out from the corner came a beam of Alexandrite produced photons (Alexandrite is a vibronic and can be tuned to lase at many different frequencies). This suitcase was shopped around the military quite a bit, that same lab used to buy meat from the grocery store and cut it with the lasers to test surgical properties. Most dangerous place I ever worked, coding with green goggles on, possible instant blindness, 20kv shocks whilst standing in water from leaking cooling pumps! I even got my belt burned like a high school ticker tape experiment, an ND (neutral density) filter exploded because the energy from the beam was so powerful, my boss knocked the hamamatsu(sp?) energy meter out of the way, and I was behind it at belt level, two burns close together in the leather belt and one further away as I tried to escape:)
Someone doing a portscan at a linux box with ipchains/ipfw does nothing more that add a text line to a logfile. This in my mind is not an attack. Firstly the attacker is using a master key that is 99% windows oriented, how many SubSeven attacks (27374) actually give back an "i'm listening" response when the target is linux? Does that scan qualify as an attack? I suppose the storage for that 90char log is my burden in the attack. With HD's in the 1$/GB region I can handle a few "attacks". I keep thinking of the Pink Panther and Cato attacking Clouseau. A bumbling fiasco each time it happened. I think there are thousands of Cato's out there waiting to "attack" my machine but I see and expect the same slapstick style attack that yields absolutely no fruit whist they move on to unpatched IIS 3.0 machines where there really is something for them to attack.
It's like someone in a dingy shooting an air rifle at a battleship. Does nothing but amuse/annoy the crew of the ship.
I know for a fact (via a customer that has a 20 man office in Nanjing) that 100K == 10 engineers over there. So for one well paid US worker you can get 10 softies over there. Now I did ask about the skillset and he indicated that they need some specific training for what you need but after that the group is somewhat self sufficient and very able to get the job done.
Practice your Mandarin. The writing gives me the most difficuly but at least from a software standpoint, English is ok, just speaking would need to be in Mandarin to manage a team...
If you use emacs, the ESC and CTL keys should be in the correct place. That correct place is, ESC next to the 1, CTL where most PC kbds place the capslock key. How can this be resolved?
1) Sun's have the correct layout 2) Happy Hacking Kbd works well but is a tad too small for me (although I own one). 3) The Maxiswitch MaxiPro2 kbd. This was a great kbd, I have 2, one at work one at home. What is great about this keyboard is any pair of keys can be swapped, i.e. ESC and ~, CTL and CAPSLOCK. (the capslock on the maxiswitch is a non spring locked key). The only thing is that CTL has CAPSLOCK written on it. Confuses people that come to use my kbd.
Poor guy. Here's a guy who really helped invent the internet and look at the house around him. I never really understood that whole Generation d business, ad's were of people racing around on scooters, struck me then that they were due for a reality check.
Well I certainly don't need to see Vint's resume:)
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"Far more women than men are 'super-tasters', as the 25% of people who are especially sensitive to bitterness are formally known."
So that's the excuse now eh? "Sorry honey, I can't because I am a Super Taster"
Think about this: If you require the populace to get the patch from you then you can monitor key propagation and identify copies.
Now imagine a further twist, prepare the code so that it has "flaws"
Now imagine an even more cynical view: Fund a security watchdog group who have some "amazing" guys that find these problems and publish them.
Hedley
Not with Safecast2 you won't be. It detects VMware as a debugger.
Safecast2 is a product from our perennial
Hedley
Safecast2 is even more Draconian. You can't even use VMware with it. It indicates you are running the software with a debugger. How they find that VMware is a debugger I have yet to undestand. There are some special ports that VMware uses to ID itself, they could use this but more likely there is something obscure wrt some ring0/ring3 instruction behaviour.
Does TTax use the original Safecast or.... Safecast2?
Hedley
PS: c_dilla was a small UK security company that got swallowed up by Macrovision.
When someone would send you mail, it would send back a link to a small image, in the image was a 'click here' dot, only a human (or some software that no spammer would take the time to write) can get their email into your mailbox.
.com "troubles".
Kind of offensive though, a lot of people took offence to clicking a link to send me email.
MsgTo.Com dissappeared some time ago during the
Hedley
They already have this done. A friend of mine brought one over one evening. Uses a touch screen lcd with an 11b interface to a brick with a PIII in it. He said police buy them, put the brick in the trunk and the touch screen display on the dash with suitable software. The brick is ruggedized for auto use. It's a Toughbook model 07.
Toughbook 07
Screen seemed a only a little bit slow, I would not recommend it for a LAN party but for a routine traffic stop or food order it looks OK to me. Win2K was the OS.
Hedley
Actually thinking about it, one way for Yahoo to increase revenue is to disable the Bulk folder for the free accounts. Only enable it for the pay ones. The worst case for them is just lots of 6mb mailboxes full of spam. If they market it well they could lure people over to the "Spam Free" pay service. I am sure many users would be happy to get away from spam and be willing to pay for it especially if they use the Yahoo account as a primary email location.
Hedley
If it were relocated there, I am sure the show could thrive:
1) Costs would be considerably lower. Salaries accross the board there are less, which would make the operating overhead lower.
2) Most PC hardware these days are made in China. It may be designed in Taiwan or less often now, Europe and the US but it is manufactured in Asia.
3) The US's PC industry has become more of a marketing arm. The large US firms spec the machines here and Contract Manufacturers in the far east complete the hard engineering tasks.
All these factors point to the case for letting the leader in PC manufacturing put on the show.
Hedley
Don't worry the IEEE is voting on 2 competing methods for WLAN encryption: OCB (offset code book) and CCM (I don't remember the acronym break down). CCM will most likely win since OCB wants ~100K$ per company implementing it in firmware. Both approaches use AES with 128bit key and 128bit block data. This is a big change since WEP (wired "equivalency" protocol) uses a stream cipher, RC4. There is no IV any longer that is sent with a monotonically increasing #, instead the "nonce" as it is called is AES encrypted.
Each of these methods rely on the fact that you won't be able to reverse a known packet back to its plaintext. (relying on the fact that AES is not easily reversable).
That article was complete marketing speak too. "11mbs!" the effective rate of a WLAN these days is maximally in the high 6's or 7's if you all use short preamble. With long preamble, the effective rate is in the 5's to 6's.
Hedley
I totally agree! I don't want someone beaming hi-power out-of-spec 2.4Ghz radiation. The point of WLAN is that you get a local area ~100ft around the AP. If these guys are successful it will increase the SN ratio on any channel they are on. When the baseband in your client tries to get the medium it will be filled with crap far away from you away. Thus your local performance will suffer.
No more than 18db-20db output power, these guys better have that output power or we will all have a problem. Kinda like the old adage: The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Hedley
Our local Fry's is selling these things under the brand QuickNote. We bought two of them for customer visits to our co. and we may get a few more. It has an AMD desktop 1Ghz cpu in it with a massive heatpipe -> a copper radiator like structure. Amazing looking. It has NO battery. Don't let the A/C cord fall out! It has WindowsXP home prebundled. Uses DDR PC2100 memory (128Meg of which windows only see's 96, must be the AGP screen buffer eats the other 32Mb). Think about that price for a moment... XP alone is like $100 to an OEM (or is it?...)
Also the unit has a warning on it that the feet must be in the down position, tilting the case off the flat so that airflow can move to the radiator.
I had heard when the P4 came out, Taiwan Inc figured out how to duct the heat out of a desktop cpu based notebook so they could be the first to offer a P4 notebook.
Hedley
On the original Mac, I went through 3 supplies. Each of the ones before the final one had fires. I would come into the room seing smoke pouring out of the left vent looking at the unit. Supply was made by a company called Astec.
There was a lot of good info in that article. When you are putting together a linux server to be on 24/7 this is good into. Last thing you want is
1) unreliability (you want clean voltages under load)
2) Your house burning down when your not there after the sleeve-fan seizes.
3) Noisy. If you sleep near the machine noise is an issue. I can hear mine in the other room.
The ones I like are the people that say, "my fans making a horrible noise" and then they are all happy when the noise *stops*!
Hedley
At a DN300's boot prompt I typed:
:)
> ?
You must be from Prime. Use 'h' for help.
Prime was Apollo's competitor at the time.
Hedley
3 DDR slots? I know there are loading issues with lots of that ram but this chip needs RAM it has a 40bit address bus coming out of it. At least 12GB physical ram, then it will be a serious challenge to high end cad machines. It they aim at just replacing your desktop, it will not do very well in my opinion.
Hedley
Some key books to read:
"How to master video games" T Hirschfeld 1981
ISBN 0-553-20164-6
"Zap the rise and fall of Atari" S Cohen 1984
ISBN 0-738-86883-3
Hedley
Just like in Forbidden Planet. We can try out our subconcious minds controlling these robots!
They have as much chance of doing that as I do of eliminating bindweed and moss from my garden. It will not happen. Linux's Achilles heel is ennui, in the limit, it may just be unfashionable to spend ones time tinkering with it, but as long as EE/CS continues to be taught in school a good crop of young developers will always be plugging away inplementing what is new. Not to mention country adoption such as Germany, Peru, China etc
Wishful thinking by Mr Balmer. There is no RoundUp formula that Microsoft has or can buy that can be used to Stomp linux.
Hedley
China, Europe etc all have issues with Radar interference in the 5Ghz band. Only when the military people in each of the various markets sign on will there be widespread 802.11a penetration. The technology is there, no question about it, it's the regulatory issue that is the holdup. Lobby your govt in the respective countries to get it approved. Until then, volume manufacturing will always favor 802.11b/g for now.
We need another eye popping decontamination scene like last year!
Remember, Robbie can make diamonds, emeralds and with some difficulty, Star Sapphires.
Now, just find Robbie and you will get: a mover, a bodyguard, a cook, a stil, a gem maker, astrogator etc.
Hedley
I used to work at a laser lab and we had a suitcase laser. Looked like a photographers case, brushed aluminum, plug it in, and out from the corner came a beam of Alexandrite produced photons (Alexandrite is a vibronic and can be tuned to lase at many different frequencies). This suitcase was shopped around the military quite a bit, that same lab used to buy meat from the grocery store and cut it with the lasers to test surgical properties. Most dangerous place I ever worked, coding with green goggles on, possible instant blindness, 20kv shocks whilst standing in water from leaking cooling pumps! I even got my belt burned like a high school ticker tape experiment, an ND (neutral density) filter exploded because the energy from the beam was so powerful, my boss knocked the hamamatsu(sp?) energy meter out of the way, and I was behind it at belt level, two burns close together in the leather belt and one further away as I tried to escape :)
Hedley
Someone doing a portscan at a linux box with ipchains/ipfw does nothing more that add a text line to a logfile. This in my mind is not an attack. Firstly the attacker is using a master key that is 99% windows oriented, how many SubSeven attacks (27374) actually give back an "i'm listening" response when the target is linux? Does that scan qualify as an attack? I suppose the storage for that 90char log is my burden in the attack. With HD's in the 1$/GB region I can handle a few "attacks". I keep thinking of the Pink Panther and Cato attacking Clouseau. A bumbling fiasco each time it happened. I think there are thousands of Cato's out there waiting to "attack" my machine but I see and expect the same slapstick style attack that yields absolutely no fruit whist they move on to unpatched IIS 3.0 machines where there really is something for them to attack.
It's like someone in a dingy shooting an air rifle at a battleship. Does nothing but amuse/annoy the crew of the ship.
I know for a fact (via a customer that has a 20 man office in Nanjing) that 100K == 10 engineers over there.
So for one well paid US worker you can get 10 softies over there.
Now I did ask about the skillset and he indicated that they need some specific training for
what you need but after that the group is somewhat self sufficient and very able to get
the job done.
Practice your Mandarin. The writing gives me the most difficuly but at
least from a software standpoint, English is ok, just speaking would need to be in Mandarin
to manage a team...
If you use emacs, the ESC and CTL keys should be in the correct place. That correct place is, ESC next to the 1, CTL where most PC kbds place the capslock key. How can this be resolved?
1) Sun's have the correct layout
2) Happy Hacking Kbd works well but is a tad too small for me (although I own one).
3) The Maxiswitch MaxiPro2 kbd. This was a great kbd, I have 2, one at work one at home. What is great about this keyboard is any pair of keys can be swapped, i.e. ESC and ~, CTL and CAPSLOCK. (the capslock on the maxiswitch is a non spring locked key). The only thing is that CTL has CAPSLOCK written on it. Confuses people that come to use my kbd.
Hedley
Poor guy. Here's a guy who really helped invent the internet and look at the house around him. I never really understood that whole Generation d business, ad's were of people racing around on scooters, struck me then that they were due for a reality check.
:)
Well I certainly don't need to see Vint's resume