if i remember right they got rid of that a few weeks ago after a lady sued them for telling her to walk down the middle of a highway while following the walk line on her crackberry and was hit by a car.
i run a VPN server for several friends of mine - the whole use is to get around what ever they run into - be it China (rare but they do go there) or some lame ass university's filter..
one of the more often used services for really locked down places is a good old SOCKS server running on 443..
i'm just stating that if you divide a remaining distance or value or length by 2 you will approach zero but never arrive at zero no mater how fast you do it..
i'm not discounting that you will get so arbitrarily close that you will essentially and most functionally at zero but you won't actually be at zero.
i can remember replacing caps on Abit boards.. same time frame - was a bad problem in the industry.
although it isn't gone.. i have had several rather new video cards go via bad caps.. i think the big boys learned their lesson - and now the other area's are going to learn theirs.. either way it keeps me employed:)
if that pisses you off - i have a D420 with the 945 chip set - it has limitation of 2GB.. it will correctly identify more just fine but limits it to 2GB to the OS.. kinda annoying..
although the really annoying thing about the D420 is their stupid ass decision to use a 1.8in ZIF PATA drive.. AND some dumb ass though it was a good idea to mount it directly under the touch pad..
other than that - its a great light weight good life laptop with enough power to do what i need.
failure rate was over 90%... virtually guaranteed to fail in weeks or months.
refrase that - it was 97% failure rate inside of 3 years..
not weeks or months (yes some but not most)
Look at the number of computers sold with 1 year warranties - that 1 year is all you are paying them to ensure that it will function over that time. and for the people who did buy a 3 year they got serviced when it failed.
I'm not saying its a good biz practice but there is nothing worthy of a lawsuit about it.
the cover up on the other hand - the misleading customers on the reliability and problems - that is worthy.
Dell shipped PC's with components with a shorter than normal but longer than warranty life span.
Every computer shipped with moving components has a life span - be it fans dieing and causing over heating or the HDD wearing out(and/or SSD wearing out, yes not moving)
People where not familiar with having cap's go bad - but if you buy the machine and pay for only 1 year warranty and not 3 or 5 then why in 3 or 5 years when something dies should you expect them to replace it?
This argument certainty doesn't work with cars -.1 miles over and they don't give a shit what breaks or why.. unless you can show that it was intentionally malicious in nature then i don't see how they can be held responsible for failure of machines that died past their expected life/service span.
When you buy something you expect it to last X but they will only ensure Y so if it's Y Death X then you where not lucky.. This is why enterprises buy maintenance contracts and vendors EOL products - it isn't just a force people to by new platforms but also as equipment ages the cost to maintain it goes up.
What they screwed up on was trying to cover it up and mislead their customers on the problems.
This whole bad caps problem hit everyone and hit hard - almost like the bad batteries made by Sony that worked their way into all their competitors laptops.
I fully agree with that - If you can avoid it you will - but when you move to large ships (talking tanker size or platform's) avoiding the storm isn't always an option - and ships that large can weather a storm quite well.
For oil rigs.. they cap the well and disconnect the umbilical and move away from the well to weather out the storm - most of them are quite large and handle well but they don't want to be static during a storm.
as for Wind farms - the high waves would be more worrying.. during high winds the blades turn into the wend and then adjust so that they don't catch the wind. as for taking the impact of the high waves that is an engineering question - as it has to take that impact no way of avoiding it.
Over all hurricanes would just disrupt power generation during the time the storm was passing though - same as it disrupts oil & gas production.
taking a strong storm out at sea is a lot easier than taking it near the coast.. you don't have the flying debris and you have plenty of room to move, It is normal practice when a storm is to make landfall for larger ships to go out to sea to weather the storm - it's been like that for just about for ever..
I'm just waiting to see it happen again else where soon - and then another and several times over before a anti voting machine, hacker/university club starts taking credit for it.
It would be really interesting if - when they do start taking credit for it, if they also released evidence of fraud not by then on prior elections, which the public cried out about and where silenced by big money.
one of my wife's friends has a 18 month old - her FAVORITE toy is a fake hot pink cell phone - she likes to follow her mom around the house pretending to talk on it - while her mother walks around talking on her's..
Actually a beefy *nix server with extremely high bandwidth, multiple CPUs, and multiple gigs of ram is the juiciest target to be a member of a botnet. It's also a lot more difficult to compromise. Windows PCs are not the juiciest targets. They are the low-hanging fruit that can be harvested in large numbers with automated tools, making it not worthwhile for the botnet owners to spend too much effort taking over any one target no matter how tempting it is.
I'd tend to disagree with that comment - look what bot nets are used for?? very rarely are they used for mass processing power or for anything more than a spamming and dos'ing..
- A personal computer on a basic always on connection which tend to keep a dynamic ip for several days then move (some providers it is longer) VS a server that doesn't..
- a Home computer with a user none the wiser that doesn't even bother to see what is running VS a server that would have an Admin responsible for it and regulatory checking up on thing
- a home computer on a dynamic ip block owned by a large telcom who doesn't give a shit about crap on that part of the network that won't cut it off or relay infection details or won't respond to your calls VS a server on a company owned block that will checkup on reports and will respond.
In my experience when we are getting spam or bot attacks - if the source is coming from a private company's network or anyones owned IP block (not blocks for residential service) they always respond to inquiry and normally say thank you. I've NEVER had one blow me off - Now when it's coming from some dynamic block I've been blown off so many times that i don't even bother calling them.
Take it how you will but i think you are confusing what you personally would want to have with what is sufficient and functional for bot nets.
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if i remember right they got rid of that a few weeks ago after a lady sued them for telling her to walk down the middle of a highway while following the walk line on her crackberry and was hit by a car.
that can be a logistical nightmare
i run a VPN server for several friends of mine - the whole use is to get around what ever they run into - be it China (rare but they do go there) or some lame ass university's filter..
one of the more often used services for really locked down places is a good old SOCKS server running on 443..
It's on par or cheaper than the nicer Harley's
i'm just stating that if you divide a remaining distance or value or length by 2 you will approach zero but never arrive at zero no mater how fast you do it..
i'm not discounting that you will get so arbitrarily close that you will essentially and most functionally at zero but you won't actually be at zero.
He will Tavel 1m/s as he approches 0 but he will never arive at 0, so no he will not reach the end of the bridge
hum the time wouldn't matter - as long as your doing 1/2 you will never make it to the end - doesn't matter how fast or slow you are doing it
1->.5->.25->.125->.0625->.03125->..... will never make it to 0.
cool is fine.. but it should have had a very durable clear coat on it - something to insulate it from outside contact.
i can remember replacing caps on Abit boards.. same time frame - was a bad problem in the industry.
although it isn't gone.. i have had several rather new video cards go via bad caps.. i think the big boys learned their lesson - and now the other area's are going to learn theirs.. either way it keeps me employed :)
if that pisses you off - i have a D420 with the 945 chip set - it has limitation of 2GB.. it will correctly identify more just fine but limits it to 2GB to the OS.. kinda annoying..
although the really annoying thing about the D420 is their stupid ass decision to use a 1.8in ZIF PATA drive .. AND some dumb ass though it was a good idea to mount it directly under the touch pad..
other than that - its a great light weight good life laptop with enough power to do what i need.
failure rate was over 90%... virtually guaranteed to fail in weeks or months.
refrase that - it was 97% failure rate inside of 3 years..
not weeks or months (yes some but not most)
Look at the number of computers sold with 1 year warranties - that 1 year is all you are paying them to ensure that it will function over that time. and for the people who did buy a 3 year they got serviced when it failed.
I'm not saying its a good biz practice but there is nothing worthy of a lawsuit about it.
the cover up on the other hand - the misleading customers on the reliability and problems - that is worthy.
Dell shipped PC's with components with a shorter than normal but longer than warranty life span.
Every computer shipped with moving components has a life span - be it fans dieing and causing over heating or the HDD wearing out(and/or SSD wearing out, yes not moving)
People where not familiar with having cap's go bad - but if you buy the machine and pay for only 1 year warranty and not 3 or 5 then why in 3 or 5 years when something dies should you expect them to replace it?
This argument certainty doesn't work with cars - .1 miles over and they don't give a shit what breaks or why.. unless you can show that it was intentionally malicious in nature then i don't see how they can be held responsible for failure of machines that died past their expected life/service span.
When you buy something you expect it to last X but they will only ensure Y so if it's Y Death X then you where not lucky.. This is why enterprises buy maintenance contracts and vendors EOL products - it isn't just a force people to by new platforms but also as equipment ages the cost to maintain it goes up.
What they screwed up on was trying to cover it up and mislead their customers on the problems.
This whole bad caps problem hit everyone and hit hard - almost like the bad batteries made by Sony that worked their way into all their competitors laptops.
I fully agree with that - If you can avoid it you will - but when you move to large ships (talking tanker size or platform's) avoiding the storm isn't always an option - and ships that large can weather a storm quite well.
For oil rigs.. they cap the well and disconnect the umbilical and move away from the well to weather out the storm - most of them are quite large and handle well but they don't want to be static during a storm.
as for Wind farms - the high waves would be more worrying.. during high winds the blades turn into the wend and then adjust so that they don't catch the wind. as for taking the impact of the high waves that is an engineering question - as it has to take that impact no way of avoiding it.
Over all hurricanes would just disrupt power generation during the time the storm was passing though - same as it disrupts oil & gas production.
taking a strong storm out at sea is a lot easier than taking it near the coast.. you don't have the flying debris and you have plenty of room to move, It is normal practice when a storm is to make landfall for larger ships to go out to sea to weather the storm - it's been like that for just about for ever..
Test Drive - taught me how to drive a manual - and the importance of gear ratios :)
I'm just waiting to see it happen again else where soon - and then another and several times over before a anti voting machine, hacker/university club starts taking credit for it.
It would be really interesting if - when they do start taking credit for it, if they also released evidence of fraud not by then on prior elections, which the public cried out about and where silenced by big money.
we can all hope can't we :)
Did you ever get a chance to play Braid?? very simplistic and exceptionally well done game..
if that falls under your cheap shovelware - then that is what i'd rather have than another rehash of a FPS with the same old same old and new models..
one of my wife's friends has a 18 month old - her FAVORITE toy is a fake hot pink cell phone - she likes to follow her mom around the house pretending to talk on it - while her mother walks around talking on her's..
It's so sad, yet funny to watch..
in windows using a dot matrix printer or even some older ink jets.
copy con lpt1
was like using a type writer again.. funny thing was on newer printers it would print one char per page instead - funny to watch
then I apologize for the misreading the intent of your original post
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10413951-83.html
they already have - seems like they did exactly what they did with other setups..
before someone points it out .. PPC for the 360 - the original XBox used x86
WinCE that is used for the XBox is PPC
tell that to SCO - they haven't made a dime in years and they still won't die..
Actually a beefy *nix server with extremely high bandwidth, multiple CPUs, and multiple gigs of ram is the juiciest target to be a member of a botnet. It's also a lot more difficult to compromise. Windows PCs are not the juiciest targets. They are the low-hanging fruit that can be harvested in large numbers with automated tools, making it not worthwhile for the botnet owners to spend too much effort taking over any one target no matter how tempting it is.
I'd tend to disagree with that comment - look what bot nets are used for?? very rarely are they used for mass processing power or for anything more than a spamming and dos'ing..
- A personal computer on a basic always on connection which tend to keep a dynamic ip for several days then move (some providers it is longer) VS a server that doesn't..
- a Home computer with a user none the wiser that doesn't even bother to see what is running VS a server that would have an Admin responsible for it and regulatory checking up on thing
- a home computer on a dynamic ip block owned by a large telcom who doesn't give a shit about crap on that part of the network that won't cut it off or relay infection details or won't respond to your calls VS a server on a company owned block that will checkup on reports and will respond.
In my experience when we are getting spam or bot attacks - if the source is coming from a private company's network or anyones owned IP block (not blocks for residential service) they always respond to inquiry and normally say thank you. I've NEVER had one blow me off - Now when it's coming from some dynamic block I've been blown off so many times that i don't even bother calling them.
Take it how you will but i think you are confusing what you personally would want to have with what is sufficient and functional for bot nets.