It appears to affect any non-bus mastering card that is transferring a large amount of data across the PCI bus... According to the ZDNN talkback comments, Intel has represented this as a second-video card problem soley, because video cards happen to transfer a LOT of data. However, Sound cards under high quality playback (i.e. DVD Dolby Digital output) would also be affected, and I bet non-bus master PCI network cards under heavy load (/. ing perhaps).
It might not occur to most/. readers, but the armored notebooks aren't for reading/., or playing Quake XIXIV, or loading up X11, or fanatics that are worried about damage. They're for running on the well test rig. Or entering data on the seismic line. In other words, for real world applications where you don't need a PIII-999 to get it to work.
The site that is linked here (review site) misses this point completely. If you have one of these, you're probably not exactly running an app. that stresses the CPU out.
Six years ago, when I was in high school, in the computer room, there was an ancient (like 1987) poster on the wall for the Amiga -- some women wearing tight clothing and clutching a joystick figured prominently...I assume by now the poster's gone.. even then it was pushing the limits of p.c.
And back then, we didn't have to give the government our encryption keys and access codes and passwords. And we didn't have to watch the 2 minute hate every day or salute big brother when in public. And we could turn the TV OFF!
On a RedHat 7.0 style system (also 6.2 IIRC), set the DHCP_HOSTNAME variable in the/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-INTERFACE file to the desired hostname. In Windows you set the computers name to the desired hostname, also you may want to enable DNS and set the correct hostname and domain as well. For example, hostname "c780677-a", domain "[cityname]1.[2letterstateabbrev].home.com". Also set the workgroup to "@HOME".
Is that DHCP_HOSTNAME a documented setting? I never could find that myself and added it manually to/sbin/ifup.
On Debian (which I use now for my cable router), it's in/etc/network/interfaces, FYI for anyone interested.
Well, I don't live in the US, but I do have cable. I live in Austria, and there are other cable services in the UK (I believe), Sweden, etc. So you're over-generalizing a bit, it's not *just* the US...
The thing is, is that peacefire.org was being blocked at the routers of abovenet at one time (i.e. it wasn't just mail that has been blocked like everyone claims).
I was thinking of how household lighting might be implemented with white LED's---
I guess you'd need a lot more LED's (or banks of them) then bulbs. Since LED's are also DC beasts, you'd need to convert to DC with a rectifier circuit from the standard 110 VAC. I guess this would be best done once (instead of having a rectifier at each lighting location), and seperate 5 V (or 12 V or whatever) circuits for lighting only done throughout a house. This would be best applied to new houses only. Having a seperate rectifier at each light location (i.e. to replace traditional bulbs) would probably be wasteful and expensive.
And keep in mind that fruitflies live for what, 24 hours? And fruitflies are much smaller than us, and I doubt they have time to get fat in that 24 hour life, or is it 48?
Applying fruitfly research directly to humans is like the salad craze of the 70's after it was determined that rabbits live longer with more veggies and less meat -- well, rabbits are herbavores normally anyways, and unless you redigest (...) like rabbits do, you're unlikely to have the same results in that case. Same for fruitflies.
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i[If you use an ISP that has MAPS, it is your choice. Only ISP in the area? Then stay off the net if it offends you. They are running a private business and feel that the reduction in spam outweighs the complaints of some users who don't like MAPS]i
However, by Microsoft controlling the availablity of the text of their releases, it allows for historical revisionism once the product is no longer relavent (10 years from now they could write in Encarta that IIS 4.0 had 1/5 the bugs of apache, and almost no security problems, for example, if no one can prove that the bulletins existed).
Okay maybe I'm just paranoid, but IIRC, Encarta lists the release of NT 4.0 on a world timeline that also includes the dinosaurs, the moon landing, etc...
Okay, for example, try setting up your sound card in Debian. Find an easy way? It won't support my SB Live! (emu10k), and the driver for that's been out for a year. Try it in redhat -- run sndconfig and you're set.
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Nice comment. But it ignores some things:
1) Not everyone is ready to open source their cutting edge software in a cut-throat market.
2) It would really suck to have to reboot to play a game.
I'm not too surprised, with the 20 or so distributions of LINUX kicking around.
If a retail version of a game for LINUX is attempted again, it should be for one major distribution only (i.e. RedHat) which is a good distribution for a desktop gaming OS (i.e. not Debian), and that distribution only. And it should be mail order only.
Perhaps PGP should be modified. You should have two pub/private key pairs, one for sending and signing, and the other for sending stuff to you (i.e. you'd only read with it).
You could then sign your "reading" key's pub pair with your "signing and sending" key to show it's really you. Then, they could get a court order to only retrieve your read key.
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Ooops, thought it was the other way when I submitted the article.
It appears to affect any non-bus mastering card that is transferring a large amount of data across the PCI bus ... According to the ZDNN talkback comments, Intel has represented this as a second-video card problem soley, because video cards happen to transfer a LOT of data. However, Sound cards under high quality playback (i.e. DVD Dolby Digital output) would also be affected, and I bet non-bus master PCI network cards under heavy load (/. ing perhaps).
You bring up a good point. Not only is tensile stress important, but the "cable" would be under very high shear.
It might not occur to most /. readers, but the armored notebooks aren't for reading /., or playing Quake XIXIV, or loading up X11, or fanatics that are worried about damage. They're for running on the well test rig. Or entering data on the seismic line. In other words, for real world applications where you don't need a PIII-999 to get it to work.
The site that is linked here (review site) misses this point completely. If you have one of these, you're probably not exactly running an app. that stresses the CPU out.
US flag is cotton I think.
Canadian flag is nylon.
Which country do you live in?
Six years ago, when I was in high school, in the computer room, there was an ancient (like 1987) poster on the wall for the Amiga -- some women wearing tight clothing and clutching a joystick figured prominently...I assume by now the poster's gone .. even then it was pushing the limits of p.c.
And back then, we didn't have to give the government our encryption keys and access codes and passwords. And we didn't have to watch the 2 minute hate every day or salute big brother when in public. And we could turn the TV OFF!
On a RedHat 7.0 style system (also 6.2 IIRC), set the DHCP_HOSTNAME variable in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-INTERFACE file to the desired hostname. In Windows you set the computers name to the desired hostname, also you may want to enable DNS and set the correct hostname and domain as well. For example, hostname "c780677-a", domain "[cityname]1.[2letterstateabbrev].home.com". Also set the workgroup to "@HOME".
/sbin/ifup.
/etc/network/interfaces, FYI for anyone interested.
Is that DHCP_HOSTNAME a documented setting? I never could find that myself and added it manually to
On Debian (which I use now for my cable router), it's in
Well, I don't live in the US, but I do have cable. I live in Austria, and there are other cable services in the UK (I believe), Sweden, etc. So you're over-generalizing a bit, it's not *just* the US ...
UK, Sweden, Canada, Nederlands, Australia...
The thing is, is that peacefire.org was being blocked at the routers of abovenet at one time (i.e. it wasn't just mail that has been blocked like everyone claims).
that anon guy who copied my sig is not me.
I was thinking of how household lighting might be implemented with white LED's---
I guess you'd need a lot more LED's (or banks of them) then bulbs. Since LED's are also DC beasts, you'd need to convert to DC with a rectifier circuit from the standard 110 VAC. I guess this would be best done once (instead of having a rectifier at each lighting location), and seperate 5 V (or 12 V or whatever) circuits for lighting only done throughout a house. This would be best applied to new houses only. Having a seperate rectifier at each light location (i.e. to replace traditional bulbs) would probably be wasteful and expensive.
And keep in mind that fruitflies live for what, 24 hours? And fruitflies are much smaller than us, and I doubt they have time to get fat in that 24 hour life, or is it 48?
Applying fruitfly research directly to humans is like the salad craze of the 70's after it was determined that rabbits live longer with more veggies and less meat -- well, rabbits are herbavores normally anyways, and unless you redigest (...) like rabbits do, you're unlikely to have the same results in that case. Same for fruitflies.
Why don't you open the commitee of unMAPS activities now?
OMFG. MAPS can be fed into router tables, which is what Above.net was doing. Read the other 20 comments that have pointed this out.
Right, and I don't know of any tier 1 ISP that would be actually implement this. There is just too many ways that this could hurt the ISP.
Maybe, but a backbone provider does. ABOVE.NET Read the article.
b[If you don't want Cyberpatrol filtering your connection at the public library, stay off the internet!]b
In reply to:
i[If you use an ISP that has MAPS, it is your choice. Only ISP in the area? Then stay off the net if it offends you. They are running a private business and feel that the reduction in spam outweighs the complaints of some users who don't like MAPS]i
It could be creditcardz.com.
However, by Microsoft controlling the availablity of the text of their releases, it allows for historical revisionism once the product is no longer relavent (10 years from now they could write in Encarta that IIS 4.0 had 1/5 the bugs of apache, and almost no security problems, for example, if no one can prove that the bulletins existed).
Okay maybe I'm just paranoid, but IIRC, Encarta lists the release of NT 4.0 on a world timeline that also includes the dinosaurs, the moon landing, etc...
Okay, for example, try setting up your sound card in Debian. Find an easy way? It won't support my SB Live! (emu10k), and the driver for that's been out for a year. Try it in redhat -- run sndconfig and you're set.
Nice comment. But it ignores some things:
1) Not everyone is ready to open source their cutting edge software in a cut-throat market.
2) It would really suck to have to reboot to play a game.
I'm not too surprised, with the 20 or so distributions of LINUX kicking around.
If a retail version of a game for LINUX is attempted again, it should be for one major distribution only (i.e. RedHat) which is a good distribution for a desktop gaming OS (i.e. not Debian), and that distribution only. And it should be mail order only.
The US & Canada International country code is +1
Convienient, isn't it?
A keyboard cipher would be subject to attack by pattern matching...
Perhaps PGP should be modified. You should have two pub/private key pairs, one for sending and signing, and the other for sending stuff to you (i.e. you'd only read with it). You could then sign your "reading" key's pub pair with your "signing and sending" key to show it's really you. Then, they could get a court order to only retrieve your read key.