Seeing how I've logged web traffic from an AOL user recently, AOL STILL does this today. Try browsing in AOL's browser inside the AOL program and you will see the person's IP change across class A subnets between web requests, but if you browse using a browser that is loaded outside of the AOL program, the IP stays the same across web requests. The person I was replying to was suggesting that they lock the IP's that the tracker allows to an account that people logged in to via the tracker's web site, which I said wouldn't work if people's web browser connections are proxied like AOL does in its in-AOL browser. The tracker would end up seeing an IP that doesn't match any IP that it allowed when that user then loads up their bittorrent client and tries to start that torrent and never get it to start downloading at all.
To me, anything is decent if it takes less than six minutes to check for new mail.
For some people, anything that takes that long to do basic tasks in are welcomed since that means that less time would be wasted doing actual work at work.
It also helps to verify that the backups you made actually work. Some people tend to make backups and don't test if it works, until they need them, and end up finding out that their backups weren't any good.
Even verifying CDs after burning isn't enough. I've had one batch of CDs that I burned stuff onto and verified that the sha1sums of the files I had burned on them matched. ONE week later the CDs became unreadable (I got a whole lot of I/O errors trying to even read the CDs). These CDs weren't even in the sun or hot car or anything. And these CDs weren't scratched and didn't have a spec of dust on them that I could see. They were in a cool desk drawer and untouched for that week and lost their data in a single week.
Plug and play sometimes fails to work if you boot a system without turning on the monitor first. Some people power up their computers, forgetting the monitor was not on, and end up in 60hz, even when the monitor supports > 75hz.
It would be nice if they could make software that does the same thing (output secureID-like tokens) that could run on people's cellphones. Imagine not having to carry a separate device at all.
What happens if there are no CD readers in existence by 2055 and "modern" media is something that can't read older media? Think of what would happen if BluRay catches on and manufacturers no longer feel the need to include a red laser in their BluRay burners.
Well, if the app stored everything in memory in plain text without ever overwriting sensitive info in memory with garbage after it is done using it and that memory got swapped out at some point with that sensitive info in it, I could just run "strings/path/to/swap" in linux on the swap file and pull out all the plain text in one's swap file.
Another question would be how secure would it be to even consider using swap space on someone else's hard drive? Think about it...your entire program's memory could be swapped out, without notice, including any sensitive information stored in there such as passwords and encryption keys and such.
Are you using special mount options or kernel settings or something?
What you are describing sounds almost like what the "laptop-mode" program in Ubuntu does. When "laptop-mode" is started (I think it runs when a laptop is switched from AC to battery power), disk writes are deferred for up to the configured time period (defaults to 10 minutes, I think) so that the hard drive in a laptop can spin down to conserve battery power.
Why do so many people say that they have to eat something when watching a 2 to 3 hour movie? Is it really that hard to see a movie without eating, or to eat a proper meal, elsewhere, before the movie so you wouldn't be hungry during the movie?
Even ASCII had interchange issues with the nasty end of line differences between platforms. Luckily, most text editors, except for the windows notepad, have no problem with that today.
What if you remember only part of the phrase when it comes time to type out the password or if a synonym of a word you used pops up when you think of the phrase? "Hmm. Did I use 'SlashDot Keeps Posting The Same Thing Over And Over' (sdkptstoao) or '/. Keeps RePosting The Same Thing Over And Over' (/.krptstoao) or 'SlashDot Keeps Duping Articles Over And Over'(sdkdaoao)"?
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Seeing how I've logged web traffic from an AOL user recently, AOL STILL does this today. Try browsing in AOL's browser inside the AOL program and you will see the person's IP change across class A subnets between web requests, but if you browse using a browser that is loaded outside of the AOL program, the IP stays the same across web requests. The person I was replying to was suggesting that they lock the IP's that the tracker allows to an account that people logged in to via the tracker's web site, which I said wouldn't work if people's web browser connections are proxied like AOL does in its in-AOL browser. The tracker would end up seeing an IP that doesn't match any IP that it allowed when that user then loads up their bittorrent client and tries to start that torrent and never get it to start downloading at all.
That still won't work for people behind transparent web proxies on ISPs such as AOL. Behind those proxies, one's IP would change between page loads.
How would it take considerably less time to check if a linux system is clean if the users of it didn't make hashes of their entire system?
For some people, anything that takes that long to do basic tasks in are welcomed since that means that less time would be wasted doing actual work at work.
Didn't that realtime feature cause a lot of overhead? Imagine 40 bytes of overhead per character entered.
It also helps to verify that the backups you made actually work. Some people tend to make backups and don't test if it works, until they need them, and end up finding out that their backups weren't any good.
Even verifying CDs after burning isn't enough. I've had one batch of CDs that I burned stuff onto and verified that the sha1sums of the files I had burned on them matched. ONE week later the CDs became unreadable (I got a whole lot of I/O errors trying to even read the CDs). These CDs weren't even in the sun or hot car or anything. And these CDs weren't scratched and didn't have a spec of dust on them that I could see. They were in a cool desk drawer and untouched for that week and lost their data in a single week.
Without going up hill both ways to get to the solid rock first?
Wasn't there a RAM stick out there that had LEDs that could display stuff on it?
Isn't that caused by the lookup order setting in /etc/host.conf ?
Plug and play sometimes fails to work if you boot a system without turning on the monitor first. Some people power up their computers, forgetting the monitor was not on, and end up in 60hz, even when the monitor supports > 75hz.
Or maybe they have a lot of machines with bad memory sticks.
Also, have you tested your memory with memtest86?
It would be nice if they could make software that does the same thing (output secureID-like tokens) that could run on people's cellphones. Imagine not having to carry a separate device at all.
Why would it have to be filtered out when it could easily be escaped?
And don't forget to ask if they have a "restocking" fee.
What happens if there are no CD readers in existence by 2055 and "modern" media is something that can't read older media? Think of what would happen if BluRay catches on and manufacturers no longer feel the need to include a red laser in their BluRay burners.
Well, if the app stored everything in memory in plain text without ever overwriting sensitive info in memory with garbage after it is done using it and that memory got swapped out at some point with that sensitive info in it, I could just run "strings /path/to/swap" in linux on the swap file and pull out all the plain text in one's swap file.
Another question would be how secure would it be to even consider using swap space on someone else's hard drive? Think about it...your entire program's memory could be swapped out, without notice, including any sensitive information stored in there such as passwords and encryption keys and such.
What you are describing sounds almost like what the "laptop-mode" program in Ubuntu does. When "laptop-mode" is started (I think it runs when a laptop is switched from AC to battery power), disk writes are deferred for up to the configured time period (defaults to 10 minutes, I think) so that the hard drive in a laptop can spin down to conserve battery power.
Why do so many people say that they have to eat something when watching a 2 to 3 hour movie? Is it really that hard to see a movie without eating, or to eat a proper meal, elsewhere, before the movie so you wouldn't be hungry during the movie?
Even ASCII had interchange issues with the nasty end of line differences between platforms. Luckily, most text editors, except for the windows notepad, have no problem with that today.
What if you remember only part of the phrase when it comes time to type out the password or if a synonym of a word you used pops up when you think of the phrase? "Hmm. Did I use 'SlashDot Keeps Posting The Same Thing Over And Over' (sdkptstoao) or '/. Keeps RePosting The Same Thing Over And Over' (/.krptstoao) or 'SlashDot Keeps Duping Articles Over And Over'(sdkdaoao)"?
Do you know of any decent, GUI-based, fax programs for linux?
So, its license is not considered "open source"?