There is a great story in Vanity Fair recently about a famous arch's two towers in NYC. Joy bought a two floor duplex. This building is plauged with problems. The list of who lives in them is a who's who of current celebritydom. (martha, calvin etc al) and then there's this geek, Bill Joy:) It made me laugh.
Wasn't this chip mentioned recently as having in its hardware a protection mechanism to prevent code from being exec'd in the data segments (i.e. stack!)
Supposedly they were waiting on windows to enable the feature.
No pressure to hurry up that feature enable I guess:)
As I have said before, a server with a morphable ISA can be really valuable. This new infection only works on i64. Now imagine a writable control store i32 where you can change the decoder/isa cracker. A linux disti with toolchain built from a random #. The random # permutes the ISA and updates the WCS. A new binutils is built and kernel built from that. It will only run on that #'d ISA. Any worm arriving on the wire will die since its i32 decodings have no meaning in this context.
Imagine a Transmeta style firm that can on the fly create microcode for the CPU. You select a random# on microcode creation. Your GNU toolchain then retargets gas to the coding on the ISA. (lets say its x86 permuted in a random way). Now since gas (and binutils) now know the codings a kernel can be built. The kernel, the webserver, RPC statd, whatever are all built using the custom toolchain. Now inject a Linux x86 worm and voila General Protection Fault.
I love shuffle songs. I use it on a 20GB iPod with a 95GB music collection.
What I would like though is a button that lets me stay in the album that the random choice came from, when I am done with that album, then, one button to resume the shuffle.
For example, Breathe comes on from Pink Floyd DSM, you might want to stay in the moment and continue the album, but instead, it pops over to Jay-Z.
I have come to the same conclusion. Remember, Tivo is taking stats these days that indicate that people skip ads. In the limit consumers are going to bypass commercial advertisement or timeshift ads as to make the impression not useful (i.e. weekend sale ads).
The future to me is a micropayment pay as you go type deal with web selection of content. The providers will send the material to me on demand and I can keep a copy locally (maybe even I will schedule a week/month based of content). Tivo esque suggestions would always be free from the providers. (sounds like a star trek episode).
The advertising revenue would basically go away and would be surplanted by deals formed with the studios themselves and content providers. Some traditional avenues would still be there (product placement etc) I feel the 30second spot though is gone as we know it.
And what are the prices like? I would expect the prices are similar for electronics. A 20$ BOM wireless router from China can realistically only be had for ~40$ retail (boxed, tested, CD manuals etc).
Software prices though might be interesting. Ranging from the 1$ copy on up I would expect.
I run 2 PPro 200 boxen. They are up 24/7/365. I find that linux keeps it lean and the incentive to keep up with the Prescott's just isn't there for me. For a home server I would say keep it simple and reliable. If you want a work engine that will be used for large EDA jobs etc, then the cpu may get you somewhere (coupled with a good system mobo etc). For EDA jobs though we are starting to look at the future wrt 64bit Synopsis builds for the Opteron family.
I am curious if home server users need all this power...
Wearing goggles at coding accross a room with a powerful flashlamp based Alexandrite laser at eye level accoss the room from me. With the thick rubber goggles on, trying to read the Masscomp's display in a monochromatic green haze. Removing the goggles and taking a reflected beam could yield instant blindness. Walking around the table to get to the loo with the boss saying, "don't look at the table, I've got reflections"
Not to mention the mind numbing 10hz banging of the HV dumping its juice into the flashlamps.
IPO backers hate this kind of cloud just before the offereing. I am sure SCO wants to use this factor to get a payment quickly.
Any of these companies that publicly boasted about how many Linux servers probably are dialing down that kind of announcement now. I remember a video showing the nVidia data centre, many 1000's of linux servers. This is chum in the water for SCO's insatiable quest for lucre.
Google should just shine them on, make all the noises like they are going to play ball and then stiff them after the IPO.
If I was the billboard designer, I would expect a doppler on the receive signal or I won't display the ad. Then you would need at least a moving 5$ Target radio to change the ad. Even rush hour traffic ususally crawls at walking speed so there should be a small doppler component, that would be the signal you collect.
ATM's have long been such a target. Whne my bank back in NYC (Citibank) installed the old drum ATM's (try the code 1 1 2 3 5:)), these rooms were vulnerable to people coming in right after you were done and hadn't signed out. Also the drum was weak, it would lose money around it's circumference and wasted your time for the end of day count to get your money back.
Of course the usual robberies occured in the rooms themselves, forcing individuals to "dip" and enter their pins. Or getting pin jacked.
Face it, we need these machines until the fabled cashless society kicks in. In the meanwhile, use your banks ATM (also avoids service charges). Avoid all other ATMs.
Thinking about it, in the context of those "virtual credit card numbers", imagine a special PIN that is good for one transaction. If you are uncertain of a particular ATM or get pin jacked, give over the one time PIN#. Later, visit their website to activate/deactivate that magic pin.
Have you been enjoying subsonic travel lately? The latest generation of these craft utilize thousands of microprocessors and associated firmeware from FADEC's to laser ring gyro's to seat back entertainment systems. Even the lavatory flush is controlled by a microprocessor. Of course, your fear would be amplified if there was not some form of reliability in these systems and some redundancy. When you enjoy that flight on a 777, you are getting there thanks to all of those systems working nominally. When things go wrong, a microprocessor is most likely helping the crew diagnose whats going wrong. Perhaps the processor has already made a correction and has alerted the crew after the fact the problem has been controlled. Smaller crews, specialized processors to control crew workload. I am sure this aircraft will be evolutionary in that regard, an extension of where we are today wrt the glass cockpit.
This is a problem for our chosen skill set. A Dr or lawyer practises close to home and can command a decent wage that cannot be reasonably outsourced. I mention these professions because of the length of training is close to a computer professional. There is one area of our profession of course that cannot reasonably be outsourced and that is defense. Beyond that, most other work in our field can and is being done overseas. This trend is going to continue. I do see long term problems with science education here. In the limit the country that trains the most students will take the lions share of this business. Here in the US where I live, a profitable career in computers probably is a thing of the past. Even at subsistance level, there is no economic incentive for a company to hire here. Minimum wage here is ~6$/hr giving ~12k$ per year. That salary is 2k$ above what a very good salary for a computer professional is in China. (or Bangalore for that matter). With perfect business conduits, work could be farmed out smoothly and easily leaving the work here in the US mainly work that has locality. Dr, lawyer, undertaker etc.
I know there are arguments that the quality of these outsourcing units is not great but I seem to remember that is what people said about Japanese cars when they first hit the scene. Do people say that now?
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No need, its end-to-end encrypted today.
So let me see...
I am Joe Bad Guy, I can *pay* Vonage/8x8/ whoever
with a traceable payment method and then be subject to CALEA wiretap provisions... OR...
I can download the FREE program Skype and make encrypted calls over the same nets that pay calls scrutinized by CALEA go over....
Yeah Joe Bad Guy will logically pay the fee and get tapped.
I knew that recent "downtime" wasn't just for "upgrades". It's an imposter! It's a Phisher site! Its of the body! One of the pod people! :)
Dec had a large program back when to move Vax binaries over to the Alpha. The VEST software.
VEST
Is there really an "end of the road" when the binary keeps on living in sort of a Matryoshka
doll fashion?
Hedley
There is a great story in Vanity Fair recently about a famous arch's two towers in NYC. Joy bought a two floor duplex. This building is plauged with problems. The list of who lives in them is a who's who of current celebritydom. (martha, calvin etc al) and then there's this geek, Bill Joy :) It made me laugh.
Must be nice.
Hedley
Wasn't this chip mentioned recently as having in its hardware a protection mechanism to prevent code from being exec'd in the data segments (i.e. stack!)
:)
Supposedly they were waiting on windows to enable the feature.
No pressure to hurry up that feature enable I guess
Hedley
As I have said before, a server with a morphable ISA can be really valuable. This new infection only works on i64. Now imagine a writable control store i32 where you can change the decoder/isa cracker. A linux disti with toolchain built from a random #. The random # permutes the ISA and updates the WCS. A new binutils is built and kernel built from that. It will only run on that #'d ISA. Any worm arriving on the wire will die since its i32 decodings have no meaning in this context.
Hedley
Imagine a Transmeta style firm that can on the fly create microcode for the CPU. You select a random# on microcode creation. Your GNU toolchain then retargets gas to the coding on the ISA. (lets say its x86 permuted in a random way). Now since gas (and binutils) now know the codings a kernel can be built. The kernel, the webserver, RPC statd, whatever are all built using the custom toolchain. Now inject a Linux x86 worm and voila General Protection Fault.
Good luck creating a worm for a "custom" arch.
Hedley
I love shuffle songs. I use it on a 20GB iPod with a 95GB music collection.
What I would like though is a button that lets me stay in the album that the random choice came from, when I am done with that album, then, one button to resume the shuffle.
For example, Breathe comes on from Pink Floyd DSM, you might want to stay in the moment and continue the album, but instead, it pops over to Jay-Z.
Hedley
Step 1a Remove sizable cocain stash
Step 1b Profit!
Step 2....
I have come to the same conclusion. Remember, Tivo is taking stats these days that indicate that people skip ads. In the limit consumers are going to bypass commercial advertisement or timeshift ads as to make the impression not useful (i.e. weekend sale ads).
The future to me is a micropayment pay as you go type deal with web selection of content. The providers will send the material to me on demand and I can keep a copy locally (maybe even I will schedule a week/month based of content). Tivo esque suggestions would always be free from the providers. (sounds like a star trek episode).
The advertising revenue would basically go away and would be surplanted by deals formed with the studios themselves and content providers. Some traditional avenues would still be there (product placement etc) I feel the 30second spot though is gone as we know it.
Hedley
And what are the prices like? I would expect the prices are similar for electronics. A 20$ BOM wireless router from China can realistically only be had for ~40$ retail (boxed, tested, CD manuals etc).
Software prices though might be interesting. Ranging from the 1$ copy on up I would expect.
Hedley
What about geek retail places. Is there an equivalent Fry's electronics/Comp USA/Best Buy etc in Bangalore?
Hedley
I run 2 PPro 200 boxen. They are up 24/7/365. I find that linux keeps it lean and the incentive to keep up with the Prescott's just isn't there for me. For a home server I would say keep it simple and reliable. If you want a work engine that will be used for large EDA jobs etc, then the cpu may get you somewhere (coupled with a good system mobo etc). For EDA jobs though we are starting to look at the future wrt 64bit Synopsis builds for the Opteron family.
I am curious if home server users need all this power...
Hedley
Wearing goggles at coding accross a room with a powerful flashlamp based Alexandrite laser at eye level accoss the room from me. With the thick rubber goggles on, trying to read the Masscomp's display in a monochromatic green haze. Removing the goggles and taking a reflected beam could yield instant blindness. Walking around the table to get to the loo with the boss saying, "don't look at the table, I've got reflections"
Not to mention the mind numbing 10hz banging of the HV dumping its juice into the flashlamps.
Hedley
PS: But it was a fun place to work!
Use Pine, be happy. A good *text* based MTA is the right way to enjoy active content.
Hedley
PS: Of course I am sure no
IPO backers hate this kind of cloud just before the offereing. I am sure SCO wants to use this factor to get a payment quickly.
Any of these companies that publicly boasted about how many Linux servers probably are dialing down that kind of announcement now. I remember a video showing the nVidia data centre, many 1000's of linux servers. This is chum in the water for SCO's insatiable quest for lucre.
Google should just shine them on, make all the noises like they are going to play ball and then stiff them after the IPO.
Hedley
If I was the billboard designer, I would expect a
doppler on the receive signal or I won't display the ad. Then you would need at least a moving 5$ Target radio to change the ad. Even rush hour traffic ususally crawls at walking speed so there should be a small doppler component, that would be the signal you collect.
Hedley
ATM's have long been such a target. Whne my bank back in NYC (Citibank) installed the old drum ATM's (try the code 1 1 2 3 5 :)), these rooms were vulnerable to people coming in right after you were done and hadn't signed out. Also the drum was weak, it would lose money around it's circumference and wasted your time for the end of day count to get your money back.
Of course the usual robberies occured in the rooms themselves, forcing individuals to "dip" and enter their pins. Or getting pin jacked.
Face it, we need these machines until the fabled cashless society kicks in. In the meanwhile, use your banks ATM (also avoids service charges). Avoid all other ATMs.
Thinking about it, in the context of those "virtual credit card numbers", imagine a special PIN that is good for one transaction. If you are uncertain of a particular ATM or get pin jacked, give over the one time PIN#. Later, visit their website to activate/deactivate that magic pin.
Hedley
Have you been enjoying subsonic travel lately? The latest generation of these craft utilize thousands of microprocessors and associated firmeware from FADEC's to laser ring gyro's to seat back entertainment systems. Even the lavatory flush is controlled by a microprocessor. Of course, your fear would be amplified if there was not some form of reliability in these systems and some redundancy. When you enjoy that flight on a 777, you are getting there thanks to all of those systems working nominally. When things go wrong, a microprocessor is most likely helping the crew diagnose whats going wrong. Perhaps the processor has already made a correction and has alerted the crew after the fact the problem has been controlled. Smaller crews, specialized processors to control crew workload. I am sure this aircraft will be evolutionary in that regard, an extension of where we are today wrt the glass cockpit.
Hedley
This is a problem for our chosen skill set. A Dr or lawyer practises close to home and can command a decent wage that cannot be reasonably outsourced. I mention these professions because of the length of training is close to a computer professional. There is one area of our profession of course that cannot reasonably be outsourced and that is defense. Beyond that, most other work in our field can and is being done overseas. This trend is going to continue. I do see long term problems with science education here. In the limit the country that trains the most students will take the lions share of this business. Here in the US where I live, a profitable career in computers probably is a thing of the past. Even at subsistance level, there is no economic incentive for a company to hire here. Minimum wage here is ~6$/hr giving ~12k$ per year. That salary is 2k$ above what a very good salary for a computer professional is in China. (or Bangalore for that matter).
With perfect business conduits, work could be farmed out smoothly and easily leaving the work here in the US mainly work that has locality. Dr, lawyer, undertaker etc.
I know there are arguments that the quality of these outsourcing units is not great but I seem to remember that is what people said about Japanese cars when they first hit the scene. Do people say that now?
Hedley
If you really want to hide (some who don't want
the hassle do). Then change the fingerprint on
the stack to show up as Win2k or equivalent.
When SCO does its IP addr sweep, you will be passed over.
No doubt in doing so violating some Mr Softie software patent and thus receiving a cease and desist.
Known to live in the effluent from a nuclear plant.
Blinky Fish
Hedley
All right meat bags, skin tubes, coffin stuffers, wait for when Ma takes over all of these new machines!
:)
Kill all humans! Kill all humans!.....
*beep*
Free Soda for all humans!
As long as they don't go on a "Human Hunt" I think we will be OK.
Hedley
Here is the actual data:
Slurm Queen: "You'll be submerged in Royal Slurm, which in a matter of minutes will transform you into a Slurm Queen like myself!"
Glurmo Half: "But your Highness, she's a commoner. Her Slurm will taste foul."
Slurm Queen: "Yes. Which is why we'll market it as New Slurm. Then, when everyone hates it, we'll bring back Slurm Classic and make billions!"