I have a friend that is a xbox developer in San Jose. I once joked to him that if he needs a play tester to call me asap:) He laughed and said, thats a job for my worst enemy. Apparently playing the same game, over and over and over at the same point (bug hunting, reproducing the error, etc) gets extremely boring;(
the scsi burners that exist arent as good for the most part as the ide burners. Liteon makes EXCELLENT burners for very low prices. You can get 48x24x48x liteon's for 50-60$. A scsi version of the liteon's would be very nice if the price wasnt horrific.
A nerf gatling gun that shoots flaming nerf balls? Would be even cooler if the gatling gun had a little piezo speaker built-in that belched out sound effects (" I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" or a cheesy electronic version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries) as you sprayed your friends with glowing fireballs of death.
SSE2 is used by so few apps that its not very useful for 99% of the stuff people are doing. As far as agp support only being 2x, thats the motherboard's (well northbridge's) responsilibility, not cpu. And besides, agp is a joke, anything more then 2x gives you ZERO performance increase.
My mail server uses the spews dns blacklist. Once i get a spam attempt from some lamer on the spews list, i add the entire class C to my firewall and drop all their packets. My attitude is let the dweebs waste time bouncing off my firewall. As a side bonus, it keeps the smtp logs MUCH cleaner : )
Before you mod me down, I am a network admin that works with both windows 2000 and linux on a daily basis. I am also a certified MCSA (though we all know what we think of certs:) ). Anyways, my #1 reason why i think windows security SUCKS, is that the damn OS has no real firewall built into it! I mean, come on, with win2k you gotta either buy a hardware firewall (cisco pix, etc), or throw a unix box in front of it. And yes, i know XP does have a basic firewall built in, but do any of you want to run a server on XP ? People always bitch at MS for bundling software into their OS, but there's no excuse to not include reasonable packet filter ability in the OS. Thats why I believe the only time you EVER put a MS box on the net is if its behind a NAT or something else that totally hides the box from outsiders.
what your suggesting was proposed by a French scientist a few hundred years ago by the name of Laplace. It is usually referred to as Scientific Determinism. However, modern quantum mechanics theory and the uncertanitity pricipal have shown that it is not possible to predict everything in the universe to the degree of precision that Laplace had hoped for.
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our company www.mobilepenguins.com uses all 3 of the reserved ranges. We handle the network for an accounting company next door, and have two seperate lans internally. We decided to use all 3 ranges so its super easy to tell where a computer is when checking logs ("oh, its a 10.x.x.x. box, must be a bean counter").
IANAC (I am not a Cryptographer) every time you increase the bit length by 1, it doubles the brute processing time it takes to crack it. A 219 bit key is 109 bits longer then a 109 bit key, therefore it would take 2^109 = 6.4903710731685345356631204115251e+32 times as long to crack it. If I recall correctly, the reason why you sometimes see huge keys that are 1024 or 2048 bits long is the possibility that a weakness is found in the encryption technique that makes it a lot faster to brute force the key.
A computer will always ticket you, arrest you, etc. A human can make (for better or for worse) judgement calls. Lets say your racing to hospital with your wife in labor, or your parent having a heart attack. Robocop pulls you over and arrests you on the spot for reckless driving. A human would more then likely give you a lights and siren escort.
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configuration is a big issue regarding performance too. Do you have a billion programs running on the old box? Is the old box infested with a pile of spyware? Is the hard drive in the old box some old pokey 5400 rpm job, while your new box has a 15000 rpm scsi drive?
when it comes to running everyday type apps, processor speed (once you go over 500 mhz or so) just isnt a factor, its everything else that counts.
My brother works for the Greeley, Co police department. The machines in their cars (you know, the ones they use for doing license plates lookups and what not) run 95 and 98. Apparently the pd IT department has to ghost the car machines every few weeks or so as 95 and 98 tend to eat itself or blue screen, or otherwise do goofy crap.
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I have a friend that is a xbox developer in San Jose. I once joked to him that if he needs a play tester to call me asap :) He laughed and said, thats a job for my worst enemy. Apparently playing the same game, over and over and over at the same point (bug hunting, reproducing the error, etc) gets extremely boring ;(
the scsi burners that exist arent as good for the most part as the ide burners. Liteon makes EXCELLENT burners for very low prices. You can get 48x24x48x liteon's for 50-60$. A scsi version of the liteon's would be very nice if the price wasnt horrific.
most of the noble prizes that go to US universities are OFTEN to foreign scientists.
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http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/index.htm
A nerf gatling gun that shoots flaming nerf balls? Would be even cooler if the gatling gun had a little piezo speaker built-in that belched out sound effects (" I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" or a cheesy electronic version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries) as you sprayed your friends with glowing fireballs of death.
Old HP - "Invent."
New HP - "Merge, layoff, go out of business."
"For every technology, there is equal and opposite hacker technology".
The funny thing is, the orginator of the qoute is a PS2 and Xbox game developer in San Jose.
if someone was listening to Rush, i think the ads would show the nearest outlet store that deals in Nazi SS uniforms.
SSE2 is used by so few apps that its not very useful for 99% of the stuff people are doing. As far as agp support only being 2x, thats the motherboard's (well northbridge's) responsilibility, not cpu. And besides, agp is a joke, anything more then 2x gives you ZERO performance increase.
My mail server uses the spews dns blacklist. Once i get a spam attempt from some lamer on the spews list, i add the entire class C to my firewall and drop all their packets. My attitude is let the dweebs waste time bouncing off my firewall. As a side bonus, it keeps the smtp logs MUCH cleaner : )
Before you mod me down, I am a network admin that works with both windows 2000 and linux on a daily basis. I am also a certified MCSA (though we all know what we think of certs :) ). Anyways, my #1 reason why i think windows security SUCKS, is that the damn OS has no real firewall built into it! I mean, come on, with win2k you gotta either buy a hardware firewall (cisco pix, etc), or throw a unix box in front of it. And yes, i know XP does have a basic firewall built in, but do any of you want to run a server on XP ? People always bitch at MS for bundling software into their OS, but there's no excuse to not include reasonable packet filter ability in the OS. Thats why I believe the only time you EVER put a MS box on the net is if its behind a NAT or something else that totally hides the box from outsiders.
LOL, you caught me with a low blood level of caffiene, my bad : )
Ouch, i just found the price list. This stuff is $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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The pc card's are $2500.
Wap's are $1000.
I think I'll stick to VPN over 802.11
Source of pricing is www.govcomm.harris.com/secure-comm/support/pricel
what your suggesting was proposed by a French scientist a few hundred years ago by the name of Laplace. It is usually referred to as Scientific Determinism. However, modern quantum mechanics theory and the uncertanitity pricipal have shown that it is not possible to predict everything in the universe to the degree of precision that Laplace had hoped for.
our company www.mobilepenguins.com uses all 3 of the reserved ranges. We handle the network for an accounting company next door, and have two seperate lans internally. We decided to use all 3 ranges so its super easy to tell where a computer is when checking logs ("oh, its a 10.x.x.x. box, must be a bean counter").
IANAC (I am not a Cryptographer)
every time you increase the bit length by 1, it doubles the brute processing time it takes to crack it. A 219 bit key is 109 bits longer then a 109 bit key, therefore it would take 2^109 = 6.4903710731685345356631204115251e+32 times as long to crack it. If I recall correctly, the reason why you sometimes see huge keys that are 1024 or 2048 bits long is the possibility that a weakness is found in the encryption technique that makes it a lot faster to brute force the key.
the amd 486dx4-120 (which ran at 40mhz *3 ) was a great overclocker, and a whole LOT of people overclocked em to 40mhz * 4 = 160mhz.
A computer will always ticket you, arrest you, etc. A human can make (for better or for worse) judgement calls. Lets say your racing to hospital with your wife in labor, or your parent having a heart attack. Robocop pulls you over and arrests you on the spot for reckless driving. A human would more then likely give you a lights and siren escort.
mod this guy up, great comment there.
RF transmissions suck up a lot of juice. A pda thats acting as a "router" is gonna eat through batteries in no time.
ftp uses tcp, which has a lot of overhead. In reality, a good rule is to divide by 10, and if your getting that, your doing damn good.
i know a lot of people building silent machines use the ide barricuda IV's. Apparently these are the quietest of the ide drives
" For every technology, there is equal and opposite Hacker technology. "
Eric's Theorem tells us that this is doomed to fail miserably, much as Safedisk, securom, etc, have failed.
We'll just end up using LAME for our encoder and decoder. Enforcing a patent retroactively is bullshit in my opinion.
configuration is a big issue regarding performance too. Do you have a billion programs running on the old box? Is the old box infested with a pile of spyware? Is the hard drive in the old box some old pokey 5400 rpm job, while your new box has a 15000 rpm scsi drive?
when it comes to running everyday type apps, processor speed (once you go over 500 mhz or so) just isnt a factor, its everything else that counts.
My brother works for the Greeley, Co police department. The machines in their cars (you know, the ones they use for doing license plates lookups and what not) run 95 and 98. Apparently the pd IT department has to ghost the car machines every few weeks or so as 95 and 98 tend to eat itself or blue screen, or otherwise do goofy crap.