NOD32 is the best imo. If you haven't tried it before, give the demo a shot. Be aware that by default some advanced heuristics are turned off, while leaving normal heuristics on. If you turn some of those advanced heuristics on in realtime, you will see performance issues. Bare in mind these are heuristic checks not typically done by most AV and are there for the truly paranoid.
I have both Camino and Firefox on my Mac. Camino gives me a more Aqua like feel, whereas Firefox 3 has more recent versions of the engine and some menu options not found in Camino.
You are mapping an IP/MAC address to a user. No matter where the user goes, that traffic is tied to him.
So he hits an anonymous proxy or VPN service. So what? Those IP's are not the University's so RIAA requests will not come to the University.
He puts on SSL Explorer on his home PC and P2P's through that. Now it's his home ISP's problem.
How could it be exploited? Anonymous Proxy such as TOR on another users PC. Thing is, if you know you are going to be responsible for what others download from your proxy, would you still run TOR?
>>... the student withdraws from the university and looks for a campus that is less draconian. Oops, the Uni is out of business.
That would mean leaving the country. My scenario only works if it's legislated federally.
I'm not in favor of my idea. It's just that if we want this solution solved, here is how.
But lets not forget the law of unintended consequences. In this case, it's Ad Hoc/Mesh networks. A second Internet which might be disconnected/disparate from global connectivity.
Imagine on a campus that I setup my PC onto a Mesh network, and so do 500 other people. But we don't connect this to the University or to the Internet. No more RIAA/MPAA worries. Plus, what about people who just swap out 1TB USB drives over sneakernet?
The money involved to police this could be considerable.
This is actually cool from the aspect that if they implement it well, they can bypass the entire poking holes in firewall's issue. Are you behind a really restrictive motel firewall? Doesn't matter.
Basically they can bypass the firewall's restrictions on incoming connections by fooling the firewall into thinking it's already established a UDP connection to a computer for which it really hasn't.
This works because of the way firewall's handle UDP. Switching P2P to UDP would be excellent for those of us who don't like teared Internet speeds.
So you assign RSA tokens to the University children, errr, students. When they hook up to the University Network they are given access to a locked down VLAN with a host specific subnet and access only to the RSA login page. This prevents the users from setting a bypass proxy on an multihomed PC.
The student has to enter their userid, password, pin, and RSA Token. Once this is done then the MAC address is given a short lease on the real student network. The software updates the Cisco CAM tables so that my MAC address is only allowed on the port I am plugged into (OR AP) and the ACL's are adjusted so that my IP address is similarly restricted.
Now you have an associate of a MAC address, IP address, and Student information. You have automatic tracking. I can't simply change my IP address or MAC address because the Cisco switch has this locked down.
Every so many hours I have to re-authenticate, as appropriate per University.
This is NAC. It is doable today. All the RIAA/MPAA needs to do is to bribe *their* representatives in congress to make a law requiring this. Of course, they'll to do this under the guise of protecting the children from terrorist via a 3rd party. Everyone want's to protect the kids.
My sister has an Acer laptop which is Vista Capable - it came with Vista Basic installed. It's the lowest end Acer laptop you can purchase (not sure of model.)
I used the thing the day she got it, before she had a chance to bloat it with stuff. The thing is gawd awefully slow. I'm remembering back in the 386 days when I got Windows 95 to run on an old PC. You click on START and within 30-120 seconds, the start menu appears. You click on the submenu, and within about 30 seconds it appears. You click on an icon, and between 30-200 seconds the application will actually load.
It works. It runs Vista. Is this a usable computer, in your opinion? You should see how slow it is now that she has software installed on it.
I agree. If this law is focused on universities then what you do is transfer ownership of the P2P abusers Internet access to a 3rd party. Be it the local city (MUNI WIFI), DSL, or Cable Modems. Someone this law is not applicable to.
Make a deal so every dorm get's Internet access, but it is not provided by the University. I'm sure some hole in the law exists which enables removing this burden.
Block Internet Access on the student/residential VLAN, providing only local networking. Then prohibit P2P on the (now) Staff side of the VLAN which still has Internet Access.
IMO, University staff shouldn't be forced into becoming members of the political police. I'm not university, but I'm already being forced into a similar role in a corporate setting. I don't like it one bit.
Novell got into this market with SNAP. It sounded like a good idea. From what I recall, the problem was that you had to have repeaters all over the place to get around line filters, transformers, and other such items. You add all these costs together and it's hard to make a profit.
The high speed data looks like line noise to most filters, which are all over the place. The power get reconditioned when the power flows through transformers you see all over the place as well as many other pieces of the electrical puzzle.
Where I live, we have a power loop. I don't know the technical term. There is a lot of construction here. There have been times that they have disconnected power flowing one way down the highway and it starts flowing from the other way because of this equipment. There is a momentary power outage. Your data traffic will have to be able to handle this too.
If you just look at power lines as a single big wire, it sounds good. But to make it actually work in a way that your Eve-Online players aren't going to bitch about drops and lag you have to invest a lot, bringing the price to cosumers up.
Metro WIFI sounds like a good idea too. Just drop a lot of AP's everywhere and free internet. It's just not that simple.
I agree. This is a problem for me too. One which I've yet to get resolved in the way I want it.
Right now I have a Skype number. If I don't answer it after so many minutes, it rings to my Cellphone, work number, and possibly some other number I'm at for the day. One number to hand out. No longer do I hand out my cellphone #, though many have it still.
My cell phone does not go to voice mail. It's not setup. My work phone does, I have no choice in that.
I was on vacation yesterday. "The Internet was down", and I got called while I was in with my Dr. Ends up the problem was with a B2B site, not us, but it's the only site a large group of users utilize. My backup did not do any research before calling. I asked for additional information and a call back. 5 minutes later, "Problem on their end" text message. The last time I was at my Dr. I got called over and over and ignored it until I was out. That didn't fly too well with my supervisors. We apparently lost tens of thousands of dollars in business because someone changed an IP address on a server without telling me, and no-one else wants to try and add it to the firewall.
I miss the old days where Cell phones and pagers did not exist. I get called while on vacation or at night because it's free (I'm wage, not hourly) and it's easy. In the old days, systems which were important after hours had staff on hand which could support them. Sure, they couldn't make system or design changes. But they could get into the systems to find the problem and fix them. Now we don't have that, we have lazy staff that play iPhone games at night.
My current method of getting rid of these calls is getting products with some resiliency so problems such as a cut T1 can auto fail over, thus no phone calls. Hardware RAID and backup PSU's in everything important. Redundant core networking. It costs more, but I think everyone benefits. But that can't solve all issues that come up at night.
I use this often. Check out GURU.com. I have a guy in India that does work for me through Guru. He is superb at what he does and inexpensive. It's not Cocoa, but I'm sure if you post your project you'll have many bids within a day to two.
When cars first came out, they were very slow. Today my four door econ car can do 0 to 60 in about 9 seconds and can go about 3 times as fast as my states law allows on most roads.
Computers are there too. My Mac is a core 2 duo with an 8600M GT DDR3. I can dual boot it into OS X or XP. It sits at 0% resource usage 99% of the time.
It's not about how fast you are, it's about what you get done.
With my Mac OS X side I can get a lot more done than my Windows boot side. XP requires me to think more about C:\ http:/// and internal workings of the computer. The OS X side lets me forget about that and just do my work. On XP I know my pictures are in c:\documents and settings\username\..... I have no idea on the Mac. They are in iPhoto for all I care.
If I want to put an image from a web page into a document or into an MP3, I just click on the image (for example, on Google images) and drag it onto the document or MP3 I want it added to. Do that in XP and I get the URL, not the image. So in XP I have to right click to save the image to My Documents, then figure out which of Microsofts Insert options to use to insert a saved JPG. Insert picture? Clip art? Smart Art? If I want to move it around do I need to insert it into a table so it will go where I want it?
I struggle to make XP do what I want. OS X, it just works.
I learned BASIC on an Apple and then moved to the C16 then to a C128 with C64 embedded. I really enjoyed BASIC on the Commodore platform. I loved POKE and PEEK. The with my Super Snapshot card I could get into a pretty good machine language decompiler. From there I could create programs in the $c000 range, store them to a floppy, and sys them. I loved monitoring the raster ($d018 or somewhere close) and changing it's color when it's at various positions to create screenshots better than what the C64 normally allowed.
I never have got as deep with the x86 platform.
The thing I've found with most emulators is that this trickery just doesn't work right. A lot of it depended on the set Mhz rate of the hardware.
I find it odd as many fanboys of the C64 as there are, why not embed one onto a USB dongle. The other end with a RS232C cord?
Something like this http://www.vesalia.de/e_c64dtv%5B5732%5D.htm?slc=us ported for us programmer types.
If I see two products next to each other and one has obviously difficult packaging, and the other does not, my decision will have bias towards the packaging that I won't have to fight to open.
I hate how difficult it is to open up a CD/DVD after purchase. And the fact that opening the packaging often breaks the cheap jewel case.
>>Is how many orders of "herbal viagra" do you need to sell to pull in $185,000 to register.v1agra (or other such clever alternate spelling) to run your spamming operation with no registrar oversight ever again?
That would be awesome. I'd setup my local BIND servers to think they are the TLD for.v1agra and point it all to 127.0.0.1. I would then block any e-mail coming form @*.v1agra.
But the majority of spammers wouldn't do this because of how easy it is to block.
What I can see is a security nightmare. In todays mind set, I will register.c0m Or.C0M with a zero..0rg aka.0RG.
Mindset of a few years down the road. Now common are domains like http://checking.uowbank/ So as a hacker I register U0WBANK replacing the o with a zero. Will your font let you tell the difference in my phishing e-mail?
I'm not against the idea of more TLDs, but I can see how it will complicate security. Of course, if you allow any TLD then why not drop the entire TLD idea alltogether?
Let one register not EBAY.COM but EBAY. So it's HTTP://eBay You could basically do that with these opened up TLDs, but only those with $185k to burn will have something so nice. So we will end up with http://microsoft/ and http://apple/ but poor guys like me will still have.com at the end.
I've noticed downloads in eMule files containing.torrent files and wondered why. I combined my shared directories between all my sharing programs into one directory. Then it dawned on me. When I downloaded something in a torrent where the download contained the.torrent file, eMule would share that.torrent file. So someone searching in eMule (or Limewire) could come along and fine my shared.torrent file as a source to the shared file. By the same token, I can search in eMule for a.Torrent, download it, and attempt to use Limewire to torrent download the file. MD5's are your friend here:)
It only makes sense that the.torrents themselves have no central server. Now what would be really nice it being able to combine sources for Knoppix that are eMule, KAD, torrents, and Limewire and use all of them at one time to get Knoppix downloaded.
>>Anytime you put a mobile next to speakers you get that noise.
My T-Mobile phone was GSM and it didn't do this. It was rare. My AT&T phones did this all the time. T-Mobile typically uses a higher frequency than AT&T (like GSM850/900 ? on AT&T and GSM1800/1900 ? on T-Mobile.) My T-Mobile would sometimes roam onto AT&T towers then it would do this.
Anyway, my TV which is 15 feet away from my phone picks up the AT&T signals. My alarm clock, 10 feet away from the phone, picks up these signals. You don't have to put them right next to it.
If you get really annoyed by this, you need to Google RF shield or RF shield pouch. This search will show you items and material you can place around your alarm clock or radio to block a lot of RF radiation. As I understand it, some of these are really frequency specific so you could block out the GSM signals while still allowing the FM signals. Many of these items are made to drop your phone into, however placing your alarm clock into such material should decrease these irritating noises.
BTW -- In the US, most electrical items state right in the manual that they MUST receive all interference. I always have wondered why this is.
I have a prepaid cell phone. I pay about $15 incl taxes a month for my phone. That's a lot cheaper than my previous plans with T Mobile and AT&T.
I could see the prepaid cards for online games as a great incentive for kids. If they don't get their grades good, or don't do their chores then they miss out on the card until they remedy the situation. That could mean a week or more of no online chatting with their MMO friends.
That, balanced with a time limit and responsible monitoring could be a good thing.
Of course, I still don't understand why I have to pay $50 for the game which comes with zero months included. If I pay $50 and have to pay monthly, I should get at least two months of playtime included. My $60 prepaid phone came with two months of service.
Get a WII with the Fitness games and accessories. Put it in your departments fitness room. Put an AXIS camera in the room with network recording - for the reason of monitoring for theft.
That would be the closest to a PC solution I can think of. Though if I even mined in Eve online our chatted in Second life on MY laptop on public WIFI while at work, I'd risk getting canned.
While the NVS 140M may not be a gaming card, it can still run some older games. Just get them WoW accounts and let them play WoW together..
Been there. Your good vendors will set you up with RAID drives from different batches / run dates. In fact, if it's a drive that is expected to be RAID, a good drive manufacture will mix up a batch of drives to a vendor. I've seen WD do that. You still might loose two drives at the same time, but you're odds are a little better that there will be enough time between failures to rebuild the failed drive.
The last problem I had was a bad RAID controller. What happens when the controller itself goes bad? So I need two controllers? A RAID 5 on each, RAID 1 between them?
But what if it doesn't fail gracefully? What if the controller just dumps bad data to one set of drives without catching it? My HP DL360 did that. The IO bus on the card got full and Windows ran out of queuing room, loosing data, killing the PC.
And then what happens if you have a fire, and your backup server is in the same computer room? You run your full backup on Friday. Tapes stay in until Monday. Fire on Sat. So now you have to go back 1 week and apply every incremental?
So many contingencies so little time.
ZFS was mentioned. In Windows I have some critical data backed up to a remote location via DFS. The replication is one way, to a location about a thousand miles away. The remote replica is a copy only, it is not enabled for DFS redirection/reading.
That gets me automatic offsite syncing of Windows server files. Packeteer makes it run low priority. DFS doesn't work well enough to make that a live partition for fail over. DFS will redirect clients that are 1Gb/s to the LAN DFS across the 1.5Mb/s link too often even with sites and networks setup correctly. But I could manually fail over to it or recover from it in a major DR situation.
Issue number one) How many of you actually use NNTP (usenet,newsgroups) or P2P in a legal way? If you do, you probably have noticed that the file you think you are downloading often is something else. I have downloaded what I thought was certain legal content only to find out that it was something completely different from what it was labeled.
So what happens when I think I'm downloading an armature photograph of rock climbing only to find out the bad guys have took over that group/keyword and that picture DSC001203.jpg is actually not John on Lake Paris, but is one on this hash list? Am I guilty?
Issue number two) I can embed in thousands of web sites using various affiliate and banner sites and force millions of people to download this bad hash file without them ever actually seeing it. Cause and effect - that's the effect of this cause.
What's the next step?
'get the desktop DC: hDC = CreateDCAsNull("DISPLAY", ByVal 0&, ByVal 0&, ByVal 0&) ' Copy the contents of the desktop to the object: BitBlt objTo.hDC, 0, 0, (tR.Right - tR.Left), (tR.Bottom - tR.Top), hDC, 0, 0, SRCCOPY
Put that in a loop dumping to a series of PNGs or AVI and you got a VCR of my Windows screens. Just make that mandatory and dump it live to their servers. Now they can watch everything you do... Just wait, that's coming somewhere..
My ASUS PC I built has instant on ability to play CD's without booting into an OS.
Various laptops let you do this and more.
I'd love an instant on ability to play DVD's using my laptop, without the overhead of the OS. Wouldn't the battery life be much longer if the only thing running was a properly written DVD player?
Give me the options of a basic web browser, DVD/CD player, and perhaps TV w/out OS. At least that way when my wife's XP laptop BSODs due to some crappy software again, she can still use it for what she primarily uses it for until I have time to do a manual system restore.
If a hybrid has a gasoline motor which charges a set of batteries, one must be able to ascertain at which voltage and amperage the batteries are being charged at through the use of a volt ohm meter.
Why, then, can't one simply use a matched battery charger to charge the hybrid's batteries over night, or while in an adequate parking garage? Perhaps mounting this charger in the trunk?
Am I missing something? Seems to me it would be rather easy to convert a hybrid into a hybrid with plug in.
So how do I get my server into the cloud anyway? Do I need an airplane, or a balloon? How can I find a long enough power cord? Is that a blue screen, or just a reflection of the sky?
And most importantly, can I cluster a Microsoft cloud with an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud?
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NOD32 is the best imo. If you haven't tried it before, give the demo a shot. Be aware that by default some advanced heuristics are turned off, while leaving normal heuristics on. If you turn some of those advanced heuristics on in realtime, you will see performance issues. Bare in mind these are heuristic checks not typically done by most AV and are there for the truly paranoid.
Just because they use the same engine doesn't mean they are the same. That's like saying why compare a Corvette to a GTO since they have the same engine;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200280846198
I have both Camino and Firefox on my Mac. Camino gives me a more Aqua like feel, whereas Firefox 3 has more recent versions of the engine and some menu options not found in Camino.
You are mapping an IP/MAC address to a user. No matter where the user goes, that traffic is tied to him.
So he hits an anonymous proxy or VPN service. So what? Those IP's are not the University's so RIAA requests will not come to the University.
He puts on SSL Explorer on his home PC and P2P's through that. Now it's his home ISP's problem.
How could it be exploited? Anonymous Proxy such as TOR on another users PC. Thing is, if you know you are going to be responsible for what others download from your proxy, would you still run TOR?
>>... the student withdraws from the university and looks for a campus that is less draconian. Oops, the Uni is out of business.
That would mean leaving the country. My scenario only works if it's legislated federally.
I'm not in favor of my idea. It's just that if we want this solution solved, here is how.
But lets not forget the law of unintended consequences. In this case, it's Ad Hoc/Mesh networks. A second Internet which might be disconnected/disparate from global connectivity.
Imagine on a campus that I setup my PC onto a Mesh network, and so do 500 other people. But we don't connect this to the University or to the Internet. No more RIAA/MPAA worries. Plus, what about people who just swap out 1TB USB drives over sneakernet?
The money involved to police this could be considerable.
This is actually cool from the aspect that if they implement it well, they can bypass the entire poking holes in firewall's issue. Are you behind a really restrictive motel firewall? Doesn't matter.
Take a look at how Skype does it;
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/How-Skype-Co-get-round-firewalls--/features/82481
Basically they can bypass the firewall's restrictions on incoming connections by fooling the firewall into thinking it's already established a UDP connection to a computer for which it really hasn't.
This works because of the way firewall's handle UDP. Switching P2P to UDP would be excellent for those of us who don't like teared Internet speeds.
So you assign RSA tokens to the University children, errr, students. When they hook up to the University Network they are given access to a locked down VLAN with a host specific subnet and access only to the RSA login page. This prevents the users from setting a bypass proxy on an multihomed PC.
The student has to enter their userid, password, pin, and RSA Token. Once this is done then the MAC address is given a short lease on the real student network. The software updates the Cisco CAM tables so that my MAC address is only allowed on the port I am plugged into (OR AP) and the ACL's are adjusted so that my IP address is similarly restricted.
Now you have an associate of a MAC address, IP address, and Student information. You have automatic tracking. I can't simply change my IP address or MAC address because the Cisco switch has this locked down.
Every so many hours I have to re-authenticate, as appropriate per University.
This is NAC. It is doable today. All the RIAA/MPAA needs to do is to bribe *their* representatives in congress to make a law requiring this. Of course, they'll to do this under the guise of protecting the children from terrorist via a 3rd party. Everyone want's to protect the kids.
(Cynicism, if not apparent.)
My sister has an Acer laptop which is Vista Capable - it came with Vista Basic installed. It's the lowest end Acer laptop you can purchase (not sure of model.)
I used the thing the day she got it, before she had a chance to bloat it with stuff. The thing is gawd awefully slow. I'm remembering back in the 386 days when I got Windows 95 to run on an old PC. You click on START and within 30-120 seconds, the start menu appears. You click on the submenu, and within about 30 seconds it appears. You click on an icon, and between 30-200 seconds the application will actually load.
It works. It runs Vista. Is this a usable computer, in your opinion? You should see how slow it is now that she has software installed on it.
I agree. If this law is focused on universities then what you do is transfer ownership of the P2P abusers Internet access to a 3rd party. Be it the local city (MUNI WIFI), DSL, or Cable Modems. Someone this law is not applicable to.
Make a deal so every dorm get's Internet access, but it is not provided by the University. I'm sure some hole in the law exists which enables removing this burden.
Block Internet Access on the student/residential VLAN, providing only local networking. Then prohibit P2P on the (now) Staff side of the VLAN which still has Internet Access.
IMO, University staff shouldn't be forced into becoming members of the political police. I'm not university, but I'm already being forced into a similar role in a corporate setting. I don't like it one bit.
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Novell got into this market with SNAP. It sounded like a good idea. From what I recall, the problem was that you had to have repeaters all over the place to get around line filters, transformers, and other such items. You add all these costs together and it's hard to make a profit.
The high speed data looks like line noise to most filters, which are all over the place. The power get reconditioned when the power flows through transformers you see all over the place as well as many other pieces of the electrical puzzle.
Where I live, we have a power loop. I don't know the technical term. There is a lot of construction here. There have been times that they have disconnected power flowing one way down the highway and it starts flowing from the other way because of this equipment. There is a momentary power outage. Your data traffic will have to be able to handle this too.
If you just look at power lines as a single big wire, it sounds good. But to make it actually work in a way that your Eve-Online players aren't going to bitch about drops and lag you have to invest a lot, bringing the price to cosumers up.
Metro WIFI sounds like a good idea too. Just drop a lot of AP's everywhere and free internet. It's just not that simple.
I agree. This is a problem for me too. One which I've yet to get resolved in the way I want it.
Right now I have a Skype number. If I don't answer it after so many minutes, it rings to my Cellphone, work number, and possibly some other number I'm at for the day. One number to hand out. No longer do I hand out my cellphone #, though many have it still.
My cell phone does not go to voice mail. It's not setup. My work phone does, I have no choice in that.
I was on vacation yesterday. "The Internet was down", and I got called while I was in with my Dr. Ends up the problem was with a B2B site, not us, but it's the only site a large group of users utilize. My backup did not do any research before calling. I asked for additional information and a call back. 5 minutes later, "Problem on their end" text message. The last time I was at my Dr. I got called over and over and ignored it until I was out. That didn't fly too well with my supervisors. We apparently lost tens of thousands of dollars in business because someone changed an IP address on a server without telling me, and no-one else wants to try and add it to the firewall.
I miss the old days where Cell phones and pagers did not exist. I get called while on vacation or at night because it's free (I'm wage, not hourly) and it's easy. In the old days, systems which were important after hours had staff on hand which could support them. Sure, they couldn't make system or design changes. But they could get into the systems to find the problem and fix them. Now we don't have that, we have lazy staff that play iPhone games at night.
My current method of getting rid of these calls is getting products with some resiliency so problems such as a cut T1 can auto fail over, thus no phone calls. Hardware RAID and backup PSU's in everything important. Redundant core networking. It costs more, but I think everyone benefits. But that can't solve all issues that come up at night.
I use this often. Check out GURU.com. I have a guy in India that does work for me through Guru. He is superb at what he does and inexpensive. It's not Cocoa, but I'm sure if you post your project you'll have many bids within a day to two.
When cars first came out, they were very slow. Today my four door econ car can do 0 to 60 in about 9 seconds and can go about 3 times as fast as my states law allows on most roads.
Computers are there too. My Mac is a core 2 duo with an 8600M GT DDR3. I can dual boot it into OS X or XP. It sits at 0% resource usage 99% of the time.
It's not about how fast you are, it's about what you get done.
With my Mac OS X side I can get a lot more done than my Windows boot side. XP requires me to think more about C:\ http:/// and internal workings of the computer. The OS X side lets me forget about that and just do my work. On XP I know my pictures are in c:\documents and settings\username\..... I have no idea on the Mac. They are in iPhoto for all I care.
If I want to put an image from a web page into a document or into an MP3, I just click on the image (for example, on Google images) and drag it onto the document or MP3 I want it added to. Do that in XP and I get the URL, not the image. So in XP I have to right click to save the image to My Documents, then figure out which of Microsofts Insert options to use to insert a saved JPG. Insert picture? Clip art? Smart Art? If I want to move it around do I need to insert it into a table so it will go where I want it?
I struggle to make XP do what I want. OS X, it just works.
I learned BASIC on an Apple and then moved to the C16 then to a C128 with C64 embedded. I really enjoyed BASIC on the Commodore platform. I loved POKE and PEEK. The with my Super Snapshot card I could get into a pretty good machine language decompiler. From there I could create programs in the $c000 range, store them to a floppy, and sys them. I loved monitoring the raster ($d018 or somewhere close) and changing it's color when it's at various positions to create screenshots better than what the C64 normally allowed.
I never have got as deep with the x86 platform.
The thing I've found with most emulators is that this trickery just doesn't work right. A lot of it depended on the set Mhz rate of the hardware.
I find it odd as many fanboys of the C64 as there are, why not embed one onto a USB dongle. The other end with a RS232C cord?
Something like this http://www.vesalia.de/e_c64dtv%5B5732%5D.htm?slc=us ported for us programmer types.
If I see two products next to each other and one has obviously difficult packaging, and the other does not, my decision will have bias towards the packaging that I won't have to fight to open.
I hate how difficult it is to open up a CD/DVD after purchase. And the fact that opening the packaging often breaks the cheap jewel case.
But then your ISP could not send out spoofed RST packets out to kill your P2P traffic. Or would they be allowed an exception?
edit: I want to point out that I uppercased my URIs and /. forced them to lowercase.
>>Is how many orders of "herbal viagra" do you need to sell to pull in $185,000 to register .v1agra (or other such clever alternate spelling) to run your spamming operation with no registrar oversight ever again?
That would be awesome. I'd setup my local BIND servers to think they are the TLD for .v1agra and point it all to 127.0.0.1. I would then block any e-mail coming form @*.v1agra.
But the majority of spammers wouldn't do this because of how easy it is to block.
What I can see is a security nightmare. In todays mind set, I will register .c0m Or .C0M with a zero. .0rg aka .0RG.
Now how hard is it going to be to spot the different between http://ebay.com/ and http://ebay.c0m/ for the average joe?
Mindset of a few years down the road. Now common are domains like http://checking.uowbank/ So as a hacker I register U0WBANK replacing the o with a zero. Will your font let you tell the difference in my phishing e-mail?
I'm not against the idea of more TLDs, but I can see how it will complicate security. Of course, if you allow any TLD then why not drop the entire TLD idea alltogether?
Let one register not EBAY.COM but EBAY. So it's HTTP://eBay You could basically do that with these opened up TLDs, but only those with $185k to burn will have something so nice. So we will end up with http://microsoft/ and http://apple/ but poor guys like me will still have .com at the end.
My $.0185
I've noticed downloads in eMule files containing .torrent files and wondered why. I combined my shared directories between all my sharing programs into one directory. Then it dawned on me. When I downloaded something in a torrent where the download contained the .torrent file, eMule would share that .torrent file. So someone searching in eMule (or Limewire) could come along and fine my shared .torrent file as a source to the shared file. By the same token, I can search in eMule for a .Torrent, download it, and attempt to use Limewire to torrent download the file. MD5's are your friend here :)
It only makes sense that the .torrents themselves have no central server. Now what would be really nice it being able to combine sources for Knoppix that are eMule, KAD, torrents, and Limewire and use all of them at one time to get Knoppix downloaded.
>>Anytime you put a mobile next to speakers you get that noise.
My T-Mobile phone was GSM and it didn't do this. It was rare. My AT&T phones did this all the time. T-Mobile typically uses a higher frequency than AT&T (like GSM850/900 ? on AT&T and GSM1800/1900 ? on T-Mobile.) My T-Mobile would sometimes roam onto AT&T towers then it would do this.
Anyway, my TV which is 15 feet away from my phone picks up the AT&T signals. My alarm clock, 10 feet away from the phone, picks up these signals. You don't have to put them right next to it.
If you get really annoyed by this, you need to Google RF shield or RF shield pouch. This search will show you items and material you can place around your alarm clock or radio to block a lot of RF radiation. As I understand it, some of these are really frequency specific so you could block out the GSM signals while still allowing the FM signals. Many of these items are made to drop your phone into, however placing your alarm clock into such material should decrease these irritating noises.
BTW -- In the US, most electrical items state right in the manual that they MUST receive all interference. I always have wondered why this is.
I have a prepaid cell phone. I pay about $15 incl taxes a month for my phone. That's a lot cheaper than my previous plans with T Mobile and AT&T.
I could see the prepaid cards for online games as a great incentive for kids. If they don't get their grades good, or don't do their chores then they miss out on the card until they remedy the situation. That could mean a week or more of no online chatting with their MMO friends.
That, balanced with a time limit and responsible monitoring could be a good thing.
Of course, I still don't understand why I have to pay $50 for the game which comes with zero months included. If I pay $50 and have to pay monthly, I should get at least two months of playtime included. My $60 prepaid phone came with two months of service.
Get a WII with the Fitness games and accessories. Put it in your departments fitness room. Put an AXIS camera in the room with network recording - for the reason of monitoring for theft.
That would be the closest to a PC solution I can think of. Though if I even mined in Eve online our chatted in Second life on MY laptop on public WIFI while at work, I'd risk getting canned.
While the NVS 140M may not be a gaming card, it can still run some older games. Just get them WoW accounts and let them play WoW together..
Been there. Your good vendors will set you up with RAID drives from different batches / run dates. In fact, if it's a drive that is expected to be RAID, a good drive manufacture will mix up a batch of drives to a vendor. I've seen WD do that. You still might loose two drives at the same time, but you're odds are a little better that there will be enough time between failures to rebuild the failed drive.
The last problem I had was a bad RAID controller. What happens when the controller itself goes bad? So I need two controllers? A RAID 5 on each, RAID 1 between them?
But what if it doesn't fail gracefully? What if the controller just dumps bad data to one set of drives without catching it? My HP DL360 did that. The IO bus on the card got full and Windows ran out of queuing room, loosing data, killing the PC.
And then what happens if you have a fire, and your backup server is in the same computer room? You run your full backup on Friday. Tapes stay in until Monday. Fire on Sat. So now you have to go back 1 week and apply every incremental?
So many contingencies so little time.
ZFS was mentioned. In Windows I have some critical data backed up to a remote location via DFS. The replication is one way, to a location about a thousand miles away. The remote replica is a copy only, it is not enabled for DFS redirection /reading.
That gets me automatic offsite syncing of Windows server files. Packeteer makes it run low priority. DFS doesn't work well enough to make that a live partition for fail over. DFS will redirect clients that are 1Gb/s to the LAN DFS across the 1.5Mb/s link too often even with sites and networks setup correctly. But I could manually fail over to it or recover from it in a major DR situation.
Issue number one) How many of you actually use NNTP (usenet,newsgroups) or P2P in a legal way? If you do, you probably have noticed that the file you think you are downloading often is something else. I have downloaded what I thought was certain legal content only to find out that it was something completely different from what it was labeled.
So what happens when I think I'm downloading an armature photograph of rock climbing only to find out the bad guys have took over that group/keyword and that picture DSC001203.jpg is actually not John on Lake Paris, but is one on this hash list? Am I guilty?
Issue number two) I can embed in thousands of web sites using various affiliate and banner sites and force millions of people to download this bad hash file without them ever actually seeing it. Cause and effect - that's the effect of this cause.
What's the next step?
'get the desktop DC:
hDC = CreateDCAsNull("DISPLAY", ByVal 0&, ByVal 0&, ByVal 0&)
' Copy the contents of the desktop to the object:
BitBlt objTo.hDC, 0, 0, (tR.Right - tR.Left), (tR.Bottom - tR.Top), hDC, 0, 0, SRCCOPY
Put that in a loop dumping to a series of PNGs or AVI and you got a VCR of my Windows screens. Just make that mandatory and dump it live to their servers. Now they can watch everything you do... Just wait, that's coming somewhere..
My ASUS PC I built has instant on ability to play CD's without booting into an OS.
Various laptops let you do this and more.
I'd love an instant on ability to play DVD's using my laptop, without the overhead of the OS. Wouldn't the battery life be much longer if the only thing running was a properly written DVD player?
Give me the options of a basic web browser, DVD/CD player, and perhaps TV w/out OS. At least that way when my wife's XP laptop BSODs due to some crappy software again, she can still use it for what she primarily uses it for until I have time to do a manual system restore.
If a hybrid has a gasoline motor which charges a set of batteries, one must be able to ascertain at which voltage and amperage the batteries are being charged at through the use of a volt ohm meter.
Why, then, can't one simply use a matched battery charger to charge the hybrid's batteries over night, or while in an adequate parking garage? Perhaps mounting this charger in the trunk?
Am I missing something? Seems to me it would be rather easy to convert a hybrid into a hybrid with plug in.
So how do I get my server into the cloud anyway? Do I need an airplane, or a balloon? How can I find a long enough power cord? Is that a blue screen, or just a reflection of the sky?
And most importantly, can I cluster a Microsoft cloud with an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud?