Now I am not a lawyer, but what it seems to me like they are saying is this;
"We don't care that you don't log IP addresses. You can log them because they are in RAM. We want you to record the IP address of people requesting.torrent files, along with the date and time. While we understand that you didn't log them before, you can log them, so log them."
They're not asking for an entire memory dump every time that memory changes. They aren't asking for the physical memory. The article makes me believe they actually have a good comprehension of what is going on.
We're trying to offer WIFI at two motels, a campus, and a 3 mile run to a farm using wireless bridging on non 802 technology.
My god, support's a pain. Wifi router drops. Some moron opens up bit torrent and kills the pipe. Some idiot decides to run his own Wireless bridge and run on the same channels we use, but he's packet capturing the data.
The utilities decide to unplug our fiber. The AP quits handing out DHCP. The ISP goes down. Why can't I get Wifi in this one room? The news crew bounces microwave into our wifi bringing it down. The WIFI gets hit by lightening. The UPS battery needs replaced. The WIFI gets hit by construction workers, causing the directional Yagi to be aimed just wrong enough.
I can't imagine trying to support the entire Chicago area with Wifi.
>>Well, perhaps I will buy the game.. After I see this activation thing being disabled...
I did not buy GTA 3+ because of this reason. I didn't buy the Sims 2 because of this. A legal copy of Jedi Knight wouldn't play due to copy protection. A legal copy of various other games either such as GTA 2 and a few other's a forget...
Anyway, I just play MMO's now. I installed a demo of the Singles and it installed starforce which royally screwed up my PC until I spent hours figuring out what happened and uninstalled it. That was like a virus.
Eve online has no copy protection. Neither did WoW nor several other MMO's. So they get my $$
>>At the end of the day, if you actually accept the message for delivery and later reject it, you should do so silently
That works real well when the incoming e-mail is a complaint to sexual harassment anonymous hot line and the sender thinks the e-mail went through, but we silently dropped it due to a mistake on the spelling.
I hate sending and e-mail and having no idea if it ever went through or not.
So I setup all my outgoing e-mail to have delivery and read receipts to try and discover lost e-mail. But those often are blocked.
It's like were trying to run our current highway system over the legacy dirt roads of the 1900's because that's just always been there.
It's time to build the next version of SMTP. SMTP in it's current form is just too old and doesn't handle todays issues well.
>>How long of a warranty will these have? Doesn't flash memory break down after a good number of rewrites?
But it's better than having to park my hard drive heads every time before I shut down. Sometimes I forget, and then that data is corrupt. Maybe one day Hard Drives will park themselves at shutdown.
>>There must be some effect here. I know plenty of people who don't buy any music at all, but >>certainly would if they couldn't download it for nothing. Obviously the 1 to 1 correspondence >>between downloading and lost sales isn't useful, but does anybody know of any reasonable estimates >>of what the loss actually is? Or even how you'd calculate it?
I'm not sure that is possible. I have purchased hundreds and hundreds of music CD's over the years. I have quit. After hearing what the RIAA was doing, I could no longer support such a company. How can you quantify that affect? I do admit that I've purchased some un-signed (indy?) artists CD's. I have a co-worker that in un-signed and I have his. I have one from a group in NYC and another from a signed but non RIAA member. In the last 3 years..
But I've quit buying music like I previously did. And no, I don't download it from P2P networks either. What I've done is switched to XM Radio. I have two subscriptions. I now understand the RIAA gets a cut of my subscription. I don't like that as I mostly listen to Fox News, XM Comedy, and other stations like that..02
My old car just had a plain old key. No chip, nothing. When I bought it, all I got was one valet key and one original. I went into a locksmith store and asked for a copy of the original.
I assumed he'd just take the original and copy it, like most box stores. Not this guy. He said no thanks, went out to my car, and without my keys he made a working key in about 5 minutes.
I wouldn't have believe it possible unless I saw it with my own eyes. He filed a blank key until it worked, feeling the lock. I think he was showing off.
Anyway, point is, someone this good can fabricate the old keys in 5 minutes. 1 hour to copy a key & you must have physical access to the key is better than the old way.
I'm a n00b, or a non-quantum guy. So this may be stupid.
If you have a light which is traveling faster than the speed of light, then isn't there a simple test that can be done to determine if this is actually happening or not? Arrange the light source and a viewer at a distance apart where the speed of light can be empirically measured. Maybe 2 light second apart, so 599584916m apart. Have the viewer remotely start the light source with something such as a laser. If the viewer can see the light turn on in less than 2 seconds, then the light is traveling faster than 299792458m/s. Otherwise, it will take 1 second for the remote signal to reach the light source, a few ns to turn on, and 1 second for the light to get back to the viewer.
If this was legit, it'd be a great experiment for NASA as they could decrease the lag on their games...er..space ships.
We are a billion dollar a year company. We looked at Star Office and Open Office. We are not going to switch to this to save $100,000 because it doesn't open the Excel spreadsheets our customers make us fill out to get their business.
We are definitely not going to switch to any other competitor if this problem remains. We will spend $100,000 to upgrade from Office 2003 to 2007 just because one decent sized customer has switched and we can't open their documents.
It all comes down to the bottom line.
That being said, I use Open Office personally on several of my own computers and don't use Word/Excel/PowerPoint. With the license we have of Office, I am granted the right to install it at home also. For me, the security vulnerabilities don't make it worth it. Open Office patches are much fewer.
Google search chattering NIC. You want to emulate this? Take a NIC and hard code it to 100/full and set your switch to auto or 100/half. Now start transfering a ton a data to the server. Watch what happens to the other network devices on that switch. A chattering NIC is similar. Sometimes worse.
If all they are doing is making some optional features mandatory, then wouldn't that mean that some existing cards that are DX10 are already 10.1? Don't high end cards already have these features?
They are getting sneakier. We have a very tightly locked down set of public user machines. We use Microsoft's software to do this. It's worked well for years. But what we are seeing is that these applications will install into the %temp% directory or the desktop. They will use HKCU if they need to store things in the registry. They are installing into area's that users typically have full control over.
We've locked down the users HKCU and personal directories on these machines, as well as limit access to processes iexplorer.exe and a few others. But the fact is they are getting more creative.
So my home computer is a laptop that turns off power to the USB after idle for so long. Charging from my laptop's not working well. Why can't I charge the Zen from my AC adapters? I have like 4 of them. All my other devices work. Why not the Zen?
If it's DRM free and it is initially $ free, then what is to stop someone from downloading the completely free MP3 and then sharing it with a million others for free?
Or was there an * associated to free? As in I want my free cell phone... What? I have to pay for my free phone? Huh?
I own Avaya & Lucent stock. I bought it knowing that they acquired a ton of IP from their split. My purchase was prior to all of the splits occurring, but after many of them. So I have stock in many splits of these companies. This was IP that Bell had created. I purchased knowing that the plan for the company was to try and begin acquiring payment for the use of their IP, which Bell did not keep close watch on.
The overturn is not good for those of us who own this stock.
It seems that it is a given that the host name must stay the same for this to work and that TTL must be very low, per TFA.
So if I modify my DNS cache server to ignor low TTL's and force a minimum TTL of 60 minutes, then I've defeated this issue. Of course, I've also broke external site's ability to do quick fail overs. But that can wait until a browser fix is out.
A browser fix could defeat this by maintaining DNS entries for a period of time. If the DNS changes to RFC1918 from non RFC1918, then prompt the user with a warning about the security issue involved and advise them to not allow the change.
This would not protect against this same attack going out against other sites on the web, though. A hacker could change the DNS to that of eBay and submit a bid through your computer, for example. Since DNS changing often with low TTL is normal, this seems like a complex issue to fully solve.
We were spying on Iraq and listening to conversations between Saddam Hussein and his generals. We overheard Hussein mentioning that he had WMDs to his generals. This is the *intelligence* we had that led us to believe he had WMDs.
In all likelihood, they were playing one of the various war MMOs or online games and training. So when when we were listening, the context was lost.
The lessen learned is that playing online games can lead to off line wars.
I have a Creative Zen. It will not charge from any of the 4 USB chargers I have. These chargers all charge any of my other USB devices such as an IPOD, cell phone, bluetooth devices, etc.
I wonder if the reason I have to use the $30 Zen charger, or the included USB cable, is because they have this technology built into their chargers.
So how many of us use Cell Phones, flash drives, portable hard drives, etc all with sensitive information unencrypted in them?
I have PGP, TrueCrpyt, and other similar products installed. It's just too hard. I have a 160GB hard drive that fits in my pocket. I have a ton of data on it.
I want to use encryption. I have TrueCrypt on it and have several virtual hard drives. But when I go to dismount the virtual drive, Windows has it locked and it won't unlock. If I dismount it anyway, the volume becomes corrupt. So to use this, I have to log off the PC any time I want to dismount the physical & thus virtual drives. I don't mind typing in a 20 character pwd each time, but the corruption is a bad thing.
I use PGP, but I have to install PGP onto any Windows PC I want to unencrypt these files with. I also have to keep a copy of my keys with me so I can edit and save these files. That's a bummer.
I still have things like my backups encrypted. No way I want someone getting all the info in my registry that's stored in plain text such as Nortel Network's software which stores your network passwords that way. One day I will loose one of these drives.
The phone's got a PIN lock on it that locks after 1 min & at power up. Defeats the lay thief, but anyone can grab the memory and view it on a card reader. No options on the phone to encrypt it.
I agree, we should all be using encryption. But the options I've tried leave much to be desired.
While my 17" HP1740 specs say 40-60W, the transformer says the draw is ~100W.
I guess since now I have three 17" monitors versus two 19" monitors, I'm still not drawing as much power.
I think we could benefit more if we had everyone turn on power management on the systems. While I am against "power off hard drive" due to the crashes I've seen, I favor turning off the monitor after a set idle period. I've pushed a script to do just this on 500 machines. I also turn the AMD's into cool & quiet mode (sans the quiet qFan option) to save power that way.
The batch file to do this is below. You can run this on XP. Switching to "Minimal Power Management" mode is what prompts AMD & some INTEL processors to use the power savings mode on the CPU. If you turn on hibernate, you can save even more power. But that doesn't work well for those of use that are 24/7.
powercfg/setactive "Minimal Power Management" powercfg/hibernate off powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/standby-timeout-ac 0 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/standby-timeout-dc 0 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/disk-timeout-ac 0 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/disk-timeout-dc 0 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/hibernate-timeout-dc 0 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/hibernate-timeout-ac 0 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/monitor-timeout-dc 5 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/monitor-timeout-ac 60 powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/processor-throttle-ac adaptive powercfg/change "Minimal Power Management"/processor-throttle-dc degrade
Users must have rights to do this. If you run it in a AD login script, they should have elevated rights to do this. If not, then put the following into an.ini file and use regini to load it using the system account (SOON, AT, SMS, Zen, et al);
\Registry\Machine
software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Controls Folder
PowerCfg [1 7 17 21]
The difference was very noticeable last winter. I came in on a weekend and went into a department that is not 24/7 to do work. It was much cooler than previously. This department still had CRTs at the time. I turned them all on to warm up the department while I was there. 30 CRT's pumping 250W generates some heat.
We have an AS/400. It runs hundreds of programs and has many systems running at the same time. OS/400 can keep the various programs from walking on each other. We have about 500 users running programs at the same time. It also does e-mail, web serving, EDI, AS2, XML, Frame, serial, and TCP/IP communications, printing as a print server and can emulate windows print spooling. Has an SMB server (like Samba) as well as NFS. Acts as a SBM client with AD integration and SSO. The list goes on. It could run *NIX in an LPAR, and within that it can run X.
All that runs on one AS/400, with a second hot standby in a remote location.
We have over 50 Windows servers, each running ~1-2 applications.
Currently, you can't play video games in a VM. At least not real ones like BF2, WoW, or anything modern. The graphics card really isn't virtualized, it's emulated. And they emulate a poor one. Be it VMware, Microsoft, or anyone else I've come across.
With NT, they removed DOS. DOS became a VM inside NT. But there were still limits at boot time. No hard drive > 7.8Gb (depending on geometry) for the boot drive, otherwise if the system files get defragged past 7.8Gb then BSOD. Vista now doesn't even have VM DOS, last I looked.
Windows needs to escape the legacy hold ups of the x86 processor and the DOS days. They've made attempts, but the market rejects them. x64 Itanium for example, NT on Alpha, etc.
What we really need to see if Windows completely abstract the hardware. I should never have any software that needs to insert itself into RING 0. No software drivers should ever interface directly with the hardware. That is the OS's job. They are working towards that goal. Once they do that, and get it stable, upgrades will be much easier. My device drivers, services, and programs will all interface into the Windows API's. The API's should be designed with room for future enhancements so that the next release is backwards compatible.
With XP, my external DVD burner that is dieing can cause the entire system to BSOD. The OS should protect me from that. If the device is malfunctioning, it should recognize the invalid bit stream and deactivate the device. And notify me of that. Not crash.
BTW -- there is 64Bit Windows also. So Windows 7 legacy 32 bit, legacy 64 bit, non-legacy 32 bit, non-legacy 64 bit. Wow. Too much.
The problem isn't that we don't need/want 64bit, it's that with Microsoft it is so damned hard to get to 64bit. My AS/400's been running 64 bit for something line 8 years now. The conversion was transparent.
With Microsoft, I can no longer use my 32Bit antivirus. I can no longer use my 32bit device drivers and many don't offer 64 bit versions. WTF? Who thought that was a good idea? It doesn't have to be that way. But that's the hold up. I want 64bit so I can run more than 4GB of RAM. But I don't want to replace all my hardware to get there. My system's upgradeable for a few more years now. Once it's time to build a new system, then I'll go 64 bit.
BTW - at work, we have VMWare running with 8GB of RAM. I believe this ESX server is 64 bit. We portion it out to serve up 32bit Windows hosts. Yea.
If it's open, then it must be less secure. I mean, it's like an open door versus a closed door. Of course closed is more secure.
I mean, it's not like you can take closed source, say on Windows, and start/run debug (enter) and type u (enter) and see the code at it's machine language to reverse engineer it. Or use a hex editor to see stored hardcoded passwords in an executable. Closed source prevents all that.
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Here is the order; http://www.techfirm.com/logorder.pdf
.torrent files, along with the date and time. While we understand that you didn't log them before, you can log them, so log them."
Now I am not a lawyer, but what it seems to me like they are saying is this;
"We don't care that you don't log IP addresses. You can log them because they are in RAM. We want you to record the IP address of people requesting
They're not asking for an entire memory dump every time that memory changes. They aren't asking for the physical memory. The article makes me believe they actually have a good comprehension of what is going on.
At least, that's what I read when I RTFA.
We're trying to offer WIFI at two motels, a campus, and a 3 mile run to a farm using wireless bridging on non 802 technology.
My god, support's a pain. Wifi router drops. Some moron opens up bit torrent and kills the pipe. Some idiot decides to run his own Wireless bridge and run on the same channels we use, but he's packet capturing the data.
The utilities decide to unplug our fiber. The AP quits handing out DHCP. The ISP goes down. Why can't I get Wifi in this one room? The news crew bounces microwave into our wifi bringing it down. The WIFI gets hit by lightening. The UPS battery needs replaced. The WIFI gets hit by construction workers, causing the directional Yagi to be aimed just wrong enough.
I can't imagine trying to support the entire Chicago area with Wifi.
>>Well, perhaps I will buy the game.. After I see this activation thing being disabled...
I did not buy GTA 3+ because of this reason. I didn't buy the Sims 2 because of this. A legal copy of Jedi Knight wouldn't play due to copy protection. A legal copy of various other games either such as GTA 2 and a few other's a forget...
Anyway, I just play MMO's now. I installed a demo of the Singles and it installed starforce which royally screwed up my PC until I spent hours figuring out what happened and uninstalled it. That was like a virus.
Eve online has no copy protection. Neither did WoW nor several other MMO's. So they get my $$
>>At the end of the day, if you actually accept the message for delivery and later reject it, you should do so silently
That works real well when the incoming e-mail is a complaint to sexual harassment anonymous hot line and the sender thinks the e-mail went through, but we silently dropped it due to a mistake on the spelling.
I hate sending and e-mail and having no idea if it ever went through or not.
So I setup all my outgoing e-mail to have delivery and read receipts to try and discover lost e-mail. But those often are blocked.
It's like were trying to run our current highway system over the legacy dirt roads of the 1900's because that's just always been there.
It's time to build the next version of SMTP. SMTP in it's current form is just too old and doesn't handle todays issues well.
>>How long of a warranty will these have? Doesn't flash memory break down after a good number of rewrites?
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But it's better than having to park my hard drive heads every time before I shut down. Sometimes I forget, and then that data is corrupt. Maybe one day Hard Drives will park themselves at shutdown.
Reference;
http://groups.google.com/group/net.micro.pc/brows
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>>There must be some effect here. I know plenty of people who don't buy any music at all, but
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>>certainly would if they couldn't download it for nothing. Obviously the 1 to 1 correspondence
>>between downloading and lost sales isn't useful, but does anybody know of any reasonable estimates
>>of what the loss actually is? Or even how you'd calculate it?
I'm not sure that is possible. I have purchased hundreds and hundreds of music CD's over the years. I have quit. After hearing what the RIAA was doing, I could no longer support such a company. How can you quantify that affect? I do admit that I've purchased some un-signed (indy?) artists CD's. I have a co-worker that in un-signed and I have his. I have one from a group in NYC and another from a signed but non RIAA member. In the last 3 years..
But I've quit buying music like I previously did. And no, I don't download it from P2P networks either. What I've done is switched to XM Radio. I have two subscriptions. I now understand the RIAA gets a cut of my subscription. I don't like that as I mostly listen to Fox News, XM Comedy, and other stations like that.
My old car just had a plain old key. No chip, nothing. When I bought it, all I got was one valet key and one original. I went into a locksmith store and asked for a copy of the original.
I assumed he'd just take the original and copy it, like most box stores. Not this guy. He said no thanks, went out to my car, and without my keys he made a working key in about 5 minutes.
I wouldn't have believe it possible unless I saw it with my own eyes. He filed a blank key until it worked, feeling the lock. I think he was showing off.
Anyway, point is, someone this good can fabricate the old keys in 5 minutes. 1 hour to copy a key & you must have physical access to the key is better than the old way.
I'm a n00b, or a non-quantum guy. So this may be stupid.
If you have a light which is traveling faster than the speed of light, then isn't there a simple test that can be done to determine if this is actually happening or not? Arrange the light source and a viewer at a distance apart where the speed of light can be empirically measured. Maybe 2 light second apart, so 599584916m apart. Have the viewer remotely start the light source with something such as a laser. If the viewer can see the light turn on in less than 2 seconds, then the light is traveling faster than 299792458m/s. Otherwise, it will take 1 second for the remote signal to reach the light source, a few ns to turn on, and 1 second for the light to get back to the viewer.
If this was legit, it'd be a great experiment for NASA as they could decrease the lag on their games...er..space ships.
We are a billion dollar a year company. We looked at Star Office and Open Office. We are not going to switch to this to save $100,000 because it doesn't open the Excel spreadsheets our customers make us fill out to get their business.
We are definitely not going to switch to any other competitor if this problem remains. We will spend $100,000 to upgrade from Office 2003 to 2007 just because one decent sized customer has switched and we can't open their documents.
It all comes down to the bottom line.
That being said, I use Open Office personally on several of my own computers and don't use Word/Excel/PowerPoint. With the license we have of Office, I am granted the right to install it at home also. For me, the security vulnerabilities don't make it worth it. Open Office patches are much fewer.
Google search chattering NIC. You want to emulate this? Take a NIC and hard code it to 100/full and set your switch to auto or 100/half. Now start transfering a ton a data to the server. Watch what happens to the other network devices on that switch. A chattering NIC is similar. Sometimes worse.
Sometimes stuff just happens.
If all they are doing is making some optional features mandatory, then wouldn't that mean that some existing cards that are DX10 are already 10.1? Don't high end cards already have these features?
They are getting sneakier. We have a very tightly locked down set of public user machines. We use Microsoft's software to do this. It's worked well for years. But what we are seeing is that these applications will install into the %temp% directory or the desktop. They will use HKCU if they need to store things in the registry. They are installing into area's that users typically have full control over.
We've locked down the users HKCU and personal directories on these machines, as well as limit access to processes iexplorer.exe and a few others. But the fact is they are getting more creative.
So my home computer is a laptop that turns off power to the USB after idle for so long. Charging from my laptop's not working well. Why can't I charge the Zen from my AC adapters? I have like 4 of them. All my other devices work. Why not the Zen?
If it's DRM free and it is initially $ free, then what is to stop someone from downloading the completely free MP3 and then sharing it with a million others for free?
Or was there an * associated to free? As in I want my free cell phone... What? I have to pay for my free phone? Huh?
I own Avaya & Lucent stock. I bought it knowing that they acquired a ton of IP from their split. My purchase was prior to all of the splits occurring, but after many of them. So I have stock in many splits of these companies. This was IP that Bell had created. I purchased knowing that the plan for the company was to try and begin acquiring payment for the use of their IP, which Bell did not keep close watch on.
The overturn is not good for those of us who own this stock.
It seems that it is a given that the host name must stay the same for this to work and that TTL must be very low, per TFA.
So if I modify my DNS cache server to ignor low TTL's and force a minimum TTL of 60 minutes, then I've defeated this issue. Of course, I've also broke external site's ability to do quick fail overs. But that can wait until a browser fix is out.
A browser fix could defeat this by maintaining DNS entries for a period of time. If the DNS changes to RFC1918 from non RFC1918, then prompt the user with a warning about the security issue involved and advise them to not allow the change.
This would not protect against this same attack going out against other sites on the web, though. A hacker could change the DNS to that of eBay and submit a bid through your computer, for example. Since DNS changing often with low TTL is normal, this seems like a complex issue to fully solve.
I have both a Logitech MX510 optical mouse ( http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Performance-Optical -Gaming-Mouse/dp/B0001YGIB0 ) as well as a Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman ( http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Cordless-Optical-Tr ackman-USB/dp/B00006B9CR/ref=sr_1_5/105-0528404-45 62867?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1185994358&sr=1-5 ) hooked up to my home PC. I use the mouse 10x more than the Trackball. It is really just a matter of personal preference. The Trackball makes my wrist more sore than the mouse. This is an atypical experience, though.
We were spying on Iraq and listening to conversations between Saddam Hussein and his generals. We overheard Hussein mentioning that he had WMDs to his generals. This is the *intelligence* we had that led us to believe he had WMDs.
In all likelihood, they were playing one of the various war MMOs or online games and training. So when when we were listening, the context was lost.
The lessen learned is that playing online games can lead to off line wars.
(Of course, I'm being a bit sarcastic here.)
I have a Creative Zen. It will not charge from any of the 4 USB chargers I have. These chargers all charge any of my other USB devices such as an IPOD, cell phone, bluetooth devices, etc.
I wonder if the reason I have to use the $30 Zen charger, or the included USB cable, is because they have this technology built into their chargers.
This smells as an entry towards DRM'ed chargers.
So how many of us use Cell Phones, flash drives, portable hard drives, etc all with sensitive information unencrypted in them?
I have PGP, TrueCrpyt, and other similar products installed. It's just too hard. I have a 160GB hard drive that fits in my pocket. I have a ton of data on it.
I want to use encryption. I have TrueCrypt on it and have several virtual hard drives. But when I go to dismount the virtual drive, Windows has it locked and it won't unlock. If I dismount it anyway, the volume becomes corrupt. So to use this, I have to log off the PC any time I want to dismount the physical & thus virtual drives. I don't mind typing in a 20 character pwd each time, but the corruption is a bad thing.
I use PGP, but I have to install PGP onto any Windows PC I want to unencrypt these files with. I also have to keep a copy of my keys with me so I can edit and save these files. That's a bummer.
I still have things like my backups encrypted. No way I want someone getting all the info in my registry that's stored in plain text such as Nortel Network's software which stores your network passwords that way. One day I will loose one of these drives.
The phone's got a PIN lock on it that locks after 1 min & at power up. Defeats the lay thief, but anyone can grab the memory and view it on a card reader. No options on the phone to encrypt it.
I agree, we should all be using encryption. But the options I've tried leave much to be desired.
While my 17" HP1740 specs say 40-60W, the transformer says the draw is ~100W.
/setactive "Minimal Power Management" /hibernate off /change "Minimal Power Management" /standby-timeout-ac 0 /change "Minimal Power Management" /standby-timeout-dc 0 /change "Minimal Power Management" /disk-timeout-ac 0 /change "Minimal Power Management" /disk-timeout-dc 0 /change "Minimal Power Management" /hibernate-timeout-dc 0 /change "Minimal Power Management" /hibernate-timeout-ac 0 /change "Minimal Power Management" /monitor-timeout-dc 5 /change "Minimal Power Management" /monitor-timeout-ac 60 /change "Minimal Power Management" /processor-throttle-ac adaptive /change "Minimal Power Management" /processor-throttle-dc degrade
.ini file and use regini to load it using the system account (SOON, AT, SMS, Zen, et al);
I guess since now I have three 17" monitors versus two 19" monitors, I'm still not drawing as much power.
I think we could benefit more if we had everyone turn on power management on the systems. While I am against "power off hard drive" due to the crashes I've seen, I favor turning off the monitor after a set idle period. I've pushed a script to do just this on 500 machines. I also turn the AMD's into cool & quiet mode (sans the quiet qFan option) to save power that way.
The batch file to do this is below. You can run this on XP. Switching to "Minimal Power Management" mode is what prompts AMD & some INTEL processors to use the power savings mode on the CPU. If you turn on hibernate, you can save even more power. But that doesn't work well for those of use that are 24/7.
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
powercfg
Users must have rights to do this. If you run it in a AD login script, they should have elevated rights to do this. If not, then put the following into an
\Registry\Machine
software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Controls Folder
PowerCfg [1 7 17 21]
The difference was very noticeable last winter. I came in on a weekend and went into a department that is not 24/7 to do work. It was much cooler than previously. This department still had CRTs at the time. I turned them all on to warm up the department while I was there. 30 CRT's pumping 250W generates some heat.
We have an AS/400. It runs hundreds of programs and has many systems running at the same time. OS/400 can keep the various programs from walking on each other. We have about 500 users running programs at the same time. It also does e-mail, web serving, EDI, AS2, XML, Frame, serial, and TCP/IP communications, printing as a print server and can emulate windows print spooling. Has an SMB server (like Samba) as well as NFS. Acts as a SBM client with AD integration and SSO. The list goes on. It could run *NIX in an LPAR, and within that it can run X.
All that runs on one AS/400, with a second hot standby in a remote location.
We have over 50 Windows servers, each running ~1-2 applications.
It's the OS. Windows just isn't as mature yet.
Currently, you can't play video games in a VM. At least not real ones like BF2, WoW, or anything modern. The graphics card really isn't virtualized, it's emulated. And they emulate a poor one. Be it VMware, Microsoft, or anyone else I've come across.
With NT, they removed DOS. DOS became a VM inside NT. But there were still limits at boot time. No hard drive > 7.8Gb (depending on geometry) for the boot drive, otherwise if the system files get defragged past 7.8Gb then BSOD. Vista now doesn't even have VM DOS, last I looked.
Windows needs to escape the legacy hold ups of the x86 processor and the DOS days. They've made attempts, but the market rejects them. x64 Itanium for example, NT on Alpha, etc.
What we really need to see if Windows completely abstract the hardware. I should never have any software that needs to insert itself into RING 0. No software drivers should ever interface directly with the hardware. That is the OS's job. They are working towards that goal. Once they do that, and get it stable, upgrades will be much easier. My device drivers, services, and programs will all interface into the Windows API's. The API's should be designed with room for future enhancements so that the next release is backwards compatible.
With XP, my external DVD burner that is dieing can cause the entire system to BSOD. The OS should protect me from that. If the device is malfunctioning, it should recognize the invalid bit stream and deactivate the device. And notify me of that. Not crash.
BTW -- there is 64Bit Windows also. So Windows 7 legacy 32 bit, legacy 64 bit, non-legacy 32 bit, non-legacy 64 bit. Wow. Too much.
The problem isn't that we don't need/want 64bit, it's that with Microsoft it is so damned hard to get to 64bit. My AS/400's been running 64 bit for something line 8 years now. The conversion was transparent. With Microsoft, I can no longer use my 32Bit antivirus. I can no longer use my 32bit device drivers and many don't offer 64 bit versions. WTF? Who thought that was a good idea? It doesn't have to be that way. But that's the hold up. I want 64bit so I can run more than 4GB of RAM. But I don't want to replace all my hardware to get there. My system's upgradeable for a few more years now. Once it's time to build a new system, then I'll go 64 bit. BTW - at work, we have VMWare running with 8GB of RAM. I believe this ESX server is 64 bit. We portion it out to serve up 32bit Windows hosts. Yea.
If it's open, then it must be less secure. I mean, it's like an open door versus a closed door. Of course closed is more secure.
I mean, it's not like you can take closed source, say on Windows, and start/run debug (enter) and type u (enter) and see the code at it's machine language to reverse engineer it. Or use a hex editor to see stored hardcoded passwords in an executable. Closed source prevents all that.