Here in Australia, most ISPs do provide a fairly large mirror of stuff (although they don't put enough effort into keeping them up to date). You pay for a certain number of GB downloaded per month, and traffic to the ISP's servers is not counted towards this limit.
Why operate on this structure? Well, bandwidth outside the country is mostly controlled by the gang of four. And the prices for it are nothing short of extorionate. $1/GB is considered good. Bandwidth to the ISP's own servers is virtually free, however, so they don't charge their customers for it.
Because of this, ISPs tend to encourage anything that uses their networks. If i'm downloading 100Gb/month then my ISP loves me for it, because i'm paying them upwards of $120/month for the privelage.
Sure the terrorism experts say that an attack like this is possible...but what about the chemistry experts? What is the real feasability of mixing a bomb in the bathroom from checmicals brought onto the plane?
or you could just encrypt the hash as well (with the same key). If the decrypted data matches the decrypted hash, key was correct. otherwise, it probably wasn't. Obviously you'd want to apply some variations of this to speed things up (eg: only has the first 128KB or so, and include the hash at the start. That way you can determine if the key was correct and only have to decrypt 128KB + a hash - not the whole file)
ever heard of debian "testing" and "unstable"? i'd only advise running the "stable" version on a system that has to be rock-solid. In my experience, testing is perfectly stable (and i think that the stuff in debian testing is typically tested MORE than most distros test there "stable" stuff). ANd YES testing it includes PHP5.
Is it just me or is something broken around here? This story has been up for hours, and still only 2 comments, none of which are above the default viewing threshold? huh?
i don't think its been used here, but in theory, if you use wineLib to port an application to linux, it should compile on other architectures. YMMV. I can't find the page on winehq.org that has the details.
If i wasn't incredibly tired, I'd go hunting for a rant I once saw from an AbiWord developer, who said that the specifications that microsoft makes available for the.DOC format are incomplete and inaccurate, and that the format was designed with one intention in mind: to make it as hard as possible for competitors to implement.
It exists. If I remember tomorrow I might go searching for it
I have a friend who will remain anonyous (oh, but he reads slashdot) who tried to put together his own omputer one time.
I told him to wait till I got there, but no, he had to "get started" on it
When I got there, I found the motherboard screwed to the side of the case. As in, he hadn't screwed down the little "riser" things you put in first. When I pointed out to him that his whole computer would exploode in a glorius display of sparks the second he applied power, he stated incredulously, "i wondered what those were for"
I expect that telling everyday people they can build their own computer will get a lot of idiots who just want to save a few bucks trying it, and making all kinds of mistakes which, to the uninformed seem perfectly logical.
Of course we don't...but it is NOT hard to use good crypto
Had he used AES rather than his shitty substitution cypher, he would still be at large (assuming the encryption key was secure). AES isn't the simplest algorithm, but you do not need a fast computer to encrypt data to it.
On windows, check out 7-zip ( http://www.7zip.org/ ) for good, simple crypto. Us Mac OS X users have it built into the OS in the form of encrypted disk images and filevault. Not to mention encrypted virtual memory (for the turly paranoid)
I am going to examine each of these points one at a time. Some of them just make me cringe.
Disclaimer: I was a PC user up until a couple of months ago, when I got a powerbook. I've barely used another computer since.
10. Apple II Forever: The 1984 introduction of the compact Apple IIc, at a boisterous celebration in San Francisco's Moscone Center, is interrupted by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake. The party, called "Apple II Forever," doesn't miss a beat because loyal Apple II users are already shaken up by their belief the company is focusing too much on the Macintosh, even though the Apple II is generating the bulk of sales and profit.
Unfortunately, nothing is forever, not even the Apple II -- although it comes close. On Nov. 15, 1993, more than 16 years after it was introduced, and with over 5 million units shipped, Apple quietly drops the last of the line, the Apple IIe. As a gesture to the faithful, Apple continues offering Apple II technology through an expansion card for some early Mac LC and Performa models.
What type of computer sells well for 8 YEARS?
I mean, seriously, am I the only one that thinks that's one hell of a long time for them to be selling what's essentially the same computer? It most likely got too expensive for them to keep selling it, and they dropped it.
9. Portable predictions: Apple chief Steve Jobs is lauded for his forward thinking, but he misses the boat on notebook computers. "(Smaller portables) are OK if you're a reporter and trying to take notes on the run," he tells Playboy magazine in February 1985. "But for the average person, they're really not that useful, and there's not all that much software for them, either."
He eventually changes his tune but Apple's first stab at a laptop, a 15.8-pound behemoth dubbed the Macintosh Portable, isn't much to write home about. Apple finally gets it right in 1991 when it introduces the truly portable PowerBook. Despite the PowerBook's popularity, a dozen years pass before Jobs declares 2003 "the year of the notebook" for Apple. "Many users are going to wonder why they even need a desktop computer anymore," he says then.
I'm not that old, and I can't really remember 1985, so I can't say for certain. But I gather from his quote that all the "portables" in that day resembled somewhat different hardware and software configurations to their desktop equivalants. I doubt that the macintosh in that form could be minaturized to a "portable" in 1985, either.
By the 1990s, there were companies selling laptops with 68k processors, that, with the addition of a ROM chip ripped from a mac, could run Mac OS. This arrangement was, obviously, very expensive for anyone who wanted an apple laptop, yet these clones were still selling. Did apple really have a choice about it?
8. Consumers cool to Cube: Never one to shy away from hyperbole, Jobs pronounces the G4 Cube as "simply the coolest computer ever" at Macworld New York in 2000. Apple gushes over its latest creation: "An entirely new class of computer, it marries the Pentium-crushing performance of the Power Mac G4 with the miniaturization, silent operation and elegant desktop design of the iMac. It is an amazing engineering and design feat, and we're thrilled to finally unveil it to our customers."
It doesn't turn out to be all that cool. Although praised for Jonathan Ive's innovative industrial design, the Cube fails to catch on with creative professionals because it's too expensive ($1,800), not powerful enough (450 MHz) and hard to upgrade. The Cube is put on ice in July 2001.
The cube was cool. Admit it. It had problems. I can admit that. It wasn't selling, so it was cancelled.
I will take a break at this point to point out that two of these three are nothing other than apple discontinuing products because they weren't selling. Yeah, shocking, isn't it.
What's next? Oooh, a real one.
7. Death to CRTs: Introducing the flat-panel iMac at Macworld San Francisc
I too would prefer working software late to broken software early anyday. But why can't they do both? Heaps of other companies manage it.
No, the problem, as multiple other posters have said, is that MS is spreading their resources too thin. Call me cynical, but i don't expect vista or office 2007 to be any less broken or flimsy than any other microsoft product on launch. Then again, i gave up expecting much at all from microsoft a long time ago.
or just put a filter into the disk driver, so when the email send app tries to read it, all it can see are 0s. The type of thing sony did with its rookitm, you know....
They could also hook the windows api and block any system calls trying to open the file.
Oh, and i suspect that TFA saying "emailing" files to friends is just using a description that will be understood more easily. How many of the computer using masses would know what i meant if i said "stick the file on a private ftp server and give access to my friends". I'd loose them at FP.
How long has your PC been on for? I used to leave mine on 24/7, with itunes running in the background all the time. Afer 5 days, the thing was completely unusable.
When i ran itunes on my windows box (on 24/7) as my main media player, it seemed to do a perfectly good job of this (Eating over 300MB of my 512MB of ram)
no, apple could have made it easy. EFI includes something called the CSM. This is a system designed to allow legacy operating systems to boot. An EFI with this should be able to boot windows no problem.
Except Apple's version of EFI doesn't support CSM. I get what you're saying about them not wanting legacy hardware, but how hard would it be for them to include a CSM? If they thought that allowing windows to run on intel macs would have been beneficial, they would have.
Good luck finding a p133 with 128MB of memory. If it uses SDRAM you might get lucky and grab a bargain on ebay, whereas if your box requires SIMMs you'd be better off buying a whole new box than finding that much worth of SIMMs.
On the other hand, I ran a p200 as my main web server for a good 6 months. A P200 with a 1GB hard disk and 32MB of ram. Yes, 32MB. Running apache, php, and mysql on debian linux.
It wouldn't win any speed competitions, but it worked, more than fast enough.
Slashdot Mirror
Here in Australia, most ISPs do provide a fairly large mirror of stuff (although they don't put enough effort into keeping them up to date). You pay for a certain number of GB downloaded per month, and traffic to the ISP's servers is not counted towards this limit.
Why operate on this structure? Well, bandwidth outside the country is mostly controlled by the gang of four. And the prices for it are nothing short of extorionate. $1/GB is considered good. Bandwidth to the ISP's own servers is virtually free, however, so they don't charge their customers for it.
Because of this, ISPs tend to encourage anything that uses their networks. If i'm downloading 100Gb/month then my ISP loves me for it, because i'm paying them upwards of $120/month for the privelage.
Sure the terrorism experts say that an attack like this is possible...but what about the chemistry experts? What is the real feasability of mixing a bomb in the bathroom from checmicals brought onto the plane?
i let_terror_labs/ and tell me that you are actually worried about an attack like this.
Read this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_to
or you could just encrypt the hash as well (with the same key). If the decrypted data matches the decrypted hash, key was correct. otherwise, it probably wasn't. Obviously you'd want to apply some variations of this to speed things up (eg: only has the first 128KB or so, and include the hash at the start. That way you can determine if the key was correct and only have to decrypt 128KB + a hash - not the whole file)
DUDE, what are you doing? are you naive enough to think they don't read slashdot? Don't give them ideas.
does the hosts file actually let you specify wildcards?
And also, if the users have admin access, they can edit the hosts file
Or you could set this up on whatever's doing the NAT
ever heard of debian "testing" and "unstable"? i'd only advise running the "stable" version on a system that has to be rock-solid. In my experience, testing is perfectly stable (and i think that the stuff in debian testing is typically tested MORE than most distros test there "stable" stuff). ANd YES testing it includes PHP5.
VMWare server has been available for free for quite some time (as has Microsoft's virtual server). I've been rnning VMWare server for 2 months now.
Is it just me or is something broken around here? This story has been up for hours, and still only 2 comments, none of which are above the default viewing threshold? huh?
I don't know wheter to mod you insightful or funny. So i'll reply instead and it won't be my problem.
i don't think its been used here, but in theory, if you use wineLib to port an application to linux, it should compile on other architectures. YMMV. I can't find the page on winehq.org that has the details.
If i wasn't incredibly tired, I'd go hunting for a rant I once saw from an AbiWord developer, who said that the specifications that microsoft makes available for the .DOC format are incomplete and inaccurate, and that the format was designed with one intention in mind: to make it as hard as possible for competitors to implement.
It exists. If I remember tomorrow I might go searching for it
The original xbox could push 1080i (although very few games used it because the power just wasn't there). However there are plenty of 720p games.
The Wii should be at least twice as fast as the original xbox, I see no reason why games shouldn't be able to push 720p.
Just because Nintendo's not getting into the HD wars, doesn't mean their console won't be HD capable.
I have a friend who will remain anonyous (oh, but he reads slashdot) who tried to put together his own omputer one time.
I told him to wait till I got there, but no, he had to "get started" on it
When I got there, I found the motherboard screwed to the side of the case. As in, he hadn't screwed down the little "riser" things you put in first. When I pointed out to him that his whole computer would exploode in a glorius display of sparks the second he applied power, he stated incredulously, "i wondered what those were for"
I expect that telling everyday people they can build their own computer will get a lot of idiots who just want to save a few bucks trying it, and making all kinds of mistakes which, to the uninformed seem perfectly logical.
so why can't the virtual host just be sent along with the HTP data in the encrypted SSL stream?
Of course we don't...but it is NOT hard to use good crypto
Had he used AES rather than his shitty substitution cypher, he would still be at large (assuming the encryption key was secure). AES isn't the simplest algorithm, but you do not need a fast computer to encrypt data to it.
On windows, check out 7-zip ( http://www.7zip.org/ ) for good, simple crypto. Us Mac OS X users have it built into the OS in the form of encrypted disk images and filevault. Not to mention encrypted virtual memory (for the turly paranoid)
or if you use something like CDDB when ripping - most of my CDs were ripped using CDex in windows, which queried freedb before ripping.
I am going to examine each of these points one at a time. Some of them just make me cringe.
Disclaimer: I was a PC user up until a couple of months ago, when I got a powerbook. I've barely used another computer since.
10. Apple II Forever: The 1984 introduction of the compact Apple IIc, at a boisterous celebration in San Francisco's Moscone Center, is interrupted by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake. The party, called "Apple II Forever," doesn't miss a beat because loyal Apple II users are already shaken up by their belief the company is focusing too much on the Macintosh, even though the Apple II is generating the bulk of sales and profit.
Unfortunately, nothing is forever, not even the Apple II -- although it comes close. On Nov. 15, 1993, more than 16 years after it was introduced, and with over 5 million units shipped, Apple quietly drops the last of the line, the Apple IIe. As a gesture to the faithful, Apple continues offering Apple II technology through an expansion card for some early Mac LC and Performa models.
What type of computer
sells well
for 8 YEARS?
I mean, seriously, am I the only one that thinks that's one hell of a long time for them to be selling what's essentially the same computer? It most likely got too expensive for them to keep selling it, and they dropped it.
9. Portable predictions: Apple chief Steve Jobs is lauded for his forward thinking, but he misses the boat on notebook computers. "(Smaller portables) are OK if you're a reporter and trying to take notes on the run," he tells Playboy magazine in February 1985. "But for the average person, they're really not that useful, and there's not all that much software for them, either."
He eventually changes his tune but Apple's first stab at a laptop, a 15.8-pound behemoth dubbed the Macintosh Portable, isn't much to write home about. Apple finally gets it right in 1991 when it introduces the truly portable PowerBook. Despite the PowerBook's popularity, a dozen years pass before Jobs declares 2003 "the year of the notebook" for Apple. "Many users are going to wonder why they even need a desktop computer anymore," he says then.
I'm not that old, and I can't really remember 1985, so I can't say for certain. But I gather from his quote that all the "portables" in that day resembled somewhat different hardware and software configurations to their desktop equivalants. I doubt that the macintosh in that form could be minaturized to a "portable" in 1985, either.
By the 1990s, there were companies selling laptops with 68k processors, that, with the addition of a ROM chip ripped from a mac, could run Mac OS. This arrangement was, obviously, very expensive for anyone who wanted an apple laptop, yet these clones were still selling. Did apple really have a choice about it?
8. Consumers cool to Cube: Never one to shy away from hyperbole, Jobs pronounces the G4 Cube as "simply the coolest computer ever" at Macworld New York in 2000. Apple gushes over its latest creation: "An entirely new class of computer, it marries the Pentium-crushing performance of the Power Mac G4 with the miniaturization, silent operation and elegant desktop design of the iMac. It is an amazing engineering and design feat, and we're thrilled to finally unveil it to our customers."
It doesn't turn out to be all that cool. Although praised for Jonathan Ive's innovative industrial design, the Cube fails to catch on with creative professionals because it's too expensive ($1,800), not powerful enough (450 MHz) and hard to upgrade. The Cube is put on ice in July 2001.
The cube was cool. Admit it. It had problems. I can admit that. It wasn't selling, so it was cancelled.
I will take a break at this point to point out that two of these three are nothing other than apple discontinuing products because they weren't selling. Yeah, shocking, isn't it.
What's next? Oooh, a real one.
7. Death to CRTs: Introducing the flat-panel iMac at Macworld San Francisc
or just, um, double-click the icon on the desktop, and drag and drop, maybe? This won't cause itunes to open.
I too would prefer working software late to broken software early anyday. But why can't they do both? Heaps of other companies manage it.
No, the problem, as multiple other posters have said, is that MS is spreading their resources too thin. Call me cynical, but i don't expect vista or office 2007 to be any less broken or flimsy than any other microsoft product on launch. Then again, i gave up expecting much at all from microsoft a long time ago.
or just put a filter into the disk driver, so when the email send app tries to read it, all it can see are 0s. The type of thing sony did with its rookitm, you know....
They could also hook the windows api and block any system calls trying to open the file.
Oh, and i suspect that TFA saying "emailing" files to friends is just using a description that will be understood more easily. How many of the computer using masses would know what i meant if i said "stick the file on a private ftp server and give access to my friends". I'd loose them at FP.
How long has your PC been on for? I used to leave mine on 24/7, with itunes running in the background all the time. Afer 5 days, the thing was completely unusable.
When i ran itunes on my windows box (on 24/7) as my main media player, it seemed to do a perfectly good job of this (Eating over 300MB of my 512MB of ram)
I now have a mac. Itunes is consuming 37MB.
no, apple could have made it easy. EFI includes something called the CSM. This is a system designed to allow legacy operating systems to boot. An EFI with this should be able to boot windows no problem.
Except Apple's version of EFI doesn't support CSM. I get what you're saying about them not wanting legacy hardware, but how hard would it be for them to include a CSM? If they thought that allowing windows to run on intel macs would have been beneficial, they would have.
yeah, out of curiousity, which version of windows are you running that fits in 32MB of ram?
The apps i used on my p200 were all latest versions - apache 2, mysql 4.1, php5, etc
Good luck finding a p133 with 128MB of memory. If it uses SDRAM you might get lucky and grab a bargain on ebay, whereas if your box requires SIMMs you'd be better off buying a whole new box than finding that much worth of SIMMs.
On the other hand, I ran a p200 as my main web server for a good 6 months. A P200 with a 1GB hard disk and 32MB of ram. Yes, 32MB. Running apache, php, and mysql on debian linux.
It wouldn't win any speed competitions, but it worked, more than fast enough.