Simple solution. Totally black list any riaa sites from the rest of the net. Enter their ips on the major backbone routers, and blackhole their traffic. Think about it, you dos someone, and we blackhole 100% of your traffic. No email, no vpn's, no nothing for you riaa pigs. A dos attack is an abuse of the net. And if the fascists want to abuse the net, then they simply dont need it. And i think its likely that the riaa WOULD get their net nuts cut off if they started this crap, simply because a dos is against any kind of TOS (terms of service) in existance. If your uunet, exodus, etc, would you tolerate that kind of crap on your network? i sure as hell wouldnt.
For parts, go to newegg.com and axiontech.com I've ordered at least $20k in parts from both places in the past 2-3 years, and both are honest reliable places with decent rma policies. I hear mwave.com is decent too, though i've never dealt with them.
More importantly, you need some technical resources. www.pcguide.com covers a LOT of good overall system information. Spend a few hours there at least.
Also very important, and often overlooked by do it yourselfers......is bios setup. www.rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Guid e_Index.htm is a must read for optimizing your bios. This can make the difference between a stable box and a box that crashes every 10 minutes.
Last thing, i want to go to//rant mode=on People who say dell, gateway, etc, are cheaper are ordering their parts from the wrong places. If you order all your stuff from axion or newegg, your gonna spend a lot less then a equalivent box from dell. Dont get me wrong, dell has great support (which is why i often point business or home users i dont want to support to dell). But if you feel you can take care of yourself, by all means do it yourself. //rant mode=off
The day the government touches ANY of my boxes, is the day they pry the keyboard out of my cold dead hands (or on a more practical basis, have moved overseas to a far more enlightened country). The facism being proposed in the American government is sickening, and i fear the day the majority of it is passed into law. Big brother, meet Uncle George and Cousin Ashcroft.
i thought the same too. Even if it was a movia adaption, i wouldnt get excited. Tom Clancy movies have a BAD habbit of being utterly massacred and turned into crappola compared to the books (The one exception being the Hunt for Red October, which i felt to be pretty decent). Now i know its hard to impossible to make a movie that follows a book perfectly. But after the foul taste of "clear and present danger", which was so far different from the book as to barely deserve the same title as the book, I dont have much hope for future clancy movies. I havent seen sum of all fears yet, I am gonna wait for it to hit rental status first.
Windows 2k professional makes for a pretty good WORKSTATION os. IT doesnt crash very often, has a good IP stack, and a lot of apps availible for it. Windows 2000 Server is a bloated, buggy, mediocre hack of 2k professional. It tacks on a pile of services and builds them deeply inside the OS instead of treating them like daemons/normal programs that linux/unix does. And thats why Windows sucks so badly as a server. In unix/linux, if your dns/samba/whatever daemon bombs, it just bombs, it doesnt usually take out the kernel, the ip stack, other services, etc. With win2k server and active directory, if one thing goes, the whole taco goes boom.
One thing though regarding the low disk space = server crash problem. Did you enable user qouta's? Did you separate the OS partition from the share's partition? No matter what OS your running for a server, you should always separate your OS from your data.
In tom's review, clonecd was not able to handle the safedisk 2.51 (the disk2 cd) copy protection. If you check the clone cd compatibility page ( http://elby.ch/english/products/clone_cd/writers/ L.html ), you'll notice a "correct efm encoding" heading. Any burner that has two stars (well actually sheep) under this heading can handle safedisk 2.51 with no problems WITHOUT the use of clonecd's amplify weak sector feature, as the burner itself handles this at a hardware level. I have personally tested this on my computer, backing up Medal of Honor, using a liteon 163-dvd drive as the source drive and a liteon 24102b as the writer. I used Clone Cd 4.013. Tom's also used a liteon 24102b and was unable to copy safedisk 2.51 . I am not sure what they did wrong, but i suspect the source drive might of been the problem.
Maybe someone at score:1 has already posted this (i browse at +2), but setup a win2k server (samba might be able to do this as well) and setup the user accounts to map the user directories and profile to the server, and NOT the workstations. Then install the backup device of your choice to the server and backup the data as needed / desired. To prevent the users from screwing with their profiles, make the profiles mandatory by renaming the ntuser.dat to ntuser.man in the user profile (which if i recall, is in the active directory users and computer tool on win2k server).
crappy nytimes login - aka show me the KARMA
on
The Almighty Buck
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· Score: 4, Informative
The following remarks ONLY apply to the government of South Africa, and not necessarily its people. The government of SA is one of the most clueless and inept I've seen of a decent sized country. The president of SA firmly believes that the HIV virus DOES NOT cause aids. Now I dont know about you, but if thats not a grade A as in Aol case of ignorance and stupidity, I dont know what is. And while icann may be bunch of smucks, a government that thinks yanking direct control of their TLD is somehow going to spread Internet access is pathetically stupid to say the least.
I am a long time system designer/upgrader / hardware IT geek. I've been working on Amd/Intel boxes since the 386 days. One reason why I cheer for Amd is that in the past few years, Intel seems bent on dragging all of us back into the 286 days of hardware being propeirty. Slot 1, Rdram memory interfaces, etc. Amd seems to have more of a commitment to sticking to industry standards, like (at the time) socket 7, sdram, ddr, etc.
Another reason why i tend to prefer Amd is the cynical marketing processor known as the P-4. The vast majority of benchmarks show that unless your running software thats heavily SSE-2 optimized, the Athlon's spank the P-4. Yet the P-4's are much more $$$$ due to all those wonderful Intel commercials with dancing morons in bunny suits, or some smucks painted up like a martian with a bad head cold. Instend of wasting all that money marketing, use it to improve your designs! Amd spends virtually nothing on marketing, and yet whenever they have a good design, their products sell extremely well. And dont get me started on intel's late ddr support, or the earily 845 chipsets that were sdram only, which had PATHETIC performace.
I guess the point of my whole rant is......I use Intel or Amd, or whoever, as long as they give me a good value for my (or my customer's) dollar. Give me a nice industry standard design. Dont foist some new marketing propierty design on me. If its gotta be propierty, it better be for one of two reasons: Considerably cheaper, or considerably faster. Intel in the past few years has NOT focused on giving the customer value. Amd has. Give me a 1000 dollars, and I can build either an Intel box, or an Amd box thats 20% faster then the Intel box, and just as stable. (I dont buy the Amd isnt stable arguement, it all comes down to knowing your hardware and how to configure it properly for stable operation.)
When Intel returns to delivering a product that is worth the price Intel charges for it, I'll use Intel again. Until then, I'll continue to laugh at ridiculous marketing schemes and do my research on which product is the fastest for the least money.
I know 802.11 was designed as a wireless drop in replacement/supplimant for traditional ethernet lan's. My question is, what happens if every house and business in America(world) throws up a WAP and a big dish on their roof forming one huge wan across the country. Can 802.11b scale this far (or big enough to handle a good size man - thats metropolitan area network for you non networking types) ? Is there enough bandwidth / frequency allocation in the 802.11 specs? What about packet collisions? Does the spread spectrum nature of 802.11 take care of this if the network was really huge?
As you go higher and higher in frequency, each photon generated takes more energy to generate. thus, for a given amount of energy, the higher the frequency you go, the less generated photons, and in general, the less range you have. Also higher energy photons can have nasty effects on biological material (aka humans). You know what your microwave does to that day old pizza right ?:)
Often when big corps/ organizations license a pile of Uncle Bill ware (aka MS products), they voluntarily sign a volume licensing agreeement that gives them a major discount, but also signs away any constitional rights they may have to the Corporate Fascists er ^H^H^H^H^H Innovators in Redmond, Wa.
2 years ago I ran a networking lab at Devry in southern california (yes, I hear you laughing in the background). Devry has a volume license with Uncle Bill. One of the east coast Devry's got nailed for 1/4 mil in unlicenesed bill ware and big Bill and co were threatening to audit all the other Devry's as well. My bosses asked how much unlicensed bill ware I had in the lab (a fair amount, as IT never bought me jack for licenses). They then asked "what will you do if we get audited." My response: "I'll fire up the ghost multicast and dump the red hat 6.2 image on the boxes so fast that by the time the lawyers climb the stairs, all the machines will be showing nothing but a login: prompt and MOTD that spells what that GPL means". After that, my bosses never bossed me about auditing questions again:)
sometimes i wonder if they flip a coin when accepting or rejecting stories....i sent this in a few hours ago....
2002-05-06 03:09:47 matrix sequals sneak peak (articles,movies) (rejected)
I was born and raised in San Diego, and I used to live less then 5 miles from the AMC 20 Mission Valley theatre. When I lived there, that was the only place i went to see movies, as they have GREAT screens, nice sound systems, and kick ass recliner style type seats. Now I live in bum fuck Colorado, and the local theatres arent open during the afternoon usually:( . Double suckage, I am flying to La in 4 hours for a contract job, and I will miss the opening of AOTC by about 3 days. Damnit, i would of gladly driven to Irvine or San Diego to catch a digitial showing, oh well:(
Mod this as -1: Excess whining:)
in the USA, only cd-r's that are branded as "music" cd-r pay that royality, your standard cd-r blanks pay no such royality. Now in Canada and some other countries, I believe that all cd-r media carries a riaa royality in such countries.
solaris for x86 is good for those who are teaching themselves solaris and dont want to spend god knows how much for an overpriced sun box. Kinda nice to throw it on your test box, teach yourself solaris, and be able to get an admin job that way.
you can reclaim irq 3, 4, 7, and 12. Simply disable the device using them in the bios, and the irq becomes free. You can do this on any motherboard made in the last 5 years
simple, run your own smtp server and give the Fascist Bureau of Investigation (FBI) the middle finger. Short of a warrant, they cant touch your personal boxes.
come on, what kind of geek are you ? : ) there's always a technical solution to a social problem : ) what you need to do is go to www.smartin-designs.com/hosts_info.htm , grab a hosts file, modify it as needed, and wave bye bye to all the ads.......this works great for me, and kills a lot of spyware too.
Slashdot Mirror
Simple solution. Totally black list any riaa sites from the rest of the net. Enter their ips on the major backbone routers, and blackhole their traffic. Think about it, you dos someone, and we blackhole 100% of your traffic. No email, no vpn's, no nothing for you riaa pigs. A dos attack is an abuse of the net. And if the fascists want to abuse the net, then they simply dont need it. And i think its likely that the riaa WOULD get their net nuts cut off if they started this crap, simply because a dos is against any kind of TOS (terms of service) in existance. If your uunet, exodus, etc, would you tolerate that kind of crap on your network? i sure as hell wouldnt.
i'll keep this short and sweet.
d e_Index.htm is a must read for optimizing your bios. This can make the difference between a stable box and a box that crashes every 10 minutes.
//rant mode=on
:)
For parts, go to newegg.com and axiontech.com
I've ordered at least $20k in parts from both places in the past 2-3 years, and both are honest reliable places with decent rma policies. I hear mwave.com is decent too, though i've never dealt with them.
More importantly, you need some technical resources. www.pcguide.com covers a LOT of good overall system information. Spend a few hours there at least.
Also very important, and often overlooked by do it yourselfers......is bios setup. www.rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Gui
Last thing, i want to go to
People who say dell, gateway, etc, are cheaper are ordering their parts from the wrong places. If you order all your stuff from axion or newegg, your gonna spend a lot less then a equalivent box from dell. Dont get me wrong, dell has great support (which is why i often point business or home users i dont want to support to dell). But if you feel you can take care of yourself, by all means do it yourself.
//rant mode=off
Good luck
The day the government touches ANY of my boxes, is the day they pry the keyboard out of my cold dead hands (or on a more practical basis, have moved overseas to a far more enlightened country). The facism being proposed in the American government is sickening, and i fear the day the majority of it is passed into law. Big brother, meet Uncle George and Cousin Ashcroft.
i thought the same too. Even if it was a movia adaption, i wouldnt get excited. Tom Clancy movies have a BAD habbit of being utterly massacred and turned into crappola compared to the books (The one exception being the Hunt for Red October, which i felt to be pretty decent). Now i know its hard to impossible to make a movie that follows a book perfectly. But after the foul taste of "clear and present danger", which was so far different from the book as to barely deserve the same title as the book, I dont have much hope for future clancy movies. I havent seen sum of all fears yet, I am gonna wait for it to hit rental status first.
Windows 2k professional makes for a pretty good WORKSTATION os. IT doesnt crash very often, has a good IP stack, and a lot of apps availible for it. Windows 2000 Server is a bloated, buggy, mediocre hack of 2k professional. It tacks on a pile of services and builds them deeply inside the OS instead of treating them like daemons /normal programs that linux/unix does. And thats why Windows sucks so badly as a server. In unix/linux, if your dns/samba/whatever daemon bombs, it just bombs, it doesnt usually take out the kernel, the ip stack, other services, etc. With win2k server and active directory, if one thing goes, the whole taco goes boom.
One thing though regarding the low disk space = server crash problem. Did you enable user qouta's? Did you separate the OS partition from the share's partition? No matter what OS your running for a server, you should always separate your OS from your data.
In tom's review, clonecd was not able to handle the safedisk 2.51 (the disk2 cd) copy protection. If you check the clone cd compatibility page ( http://elby.ch/english/products/clone_cd/writers/ L.html ), you'll notice a "correct efm encoding" heading. Any burner that has two stars (well actually sheep) under this heading can handle safedisk 2.51 with no problems WITHOUT the use of clonecd's amplify weak sector feature, as the burner itself handles this at a hardware level. I have personally tested this on my computer, backing up Medal of Honor, using a liteon 163-dvd drive as the source drive and a liteon 24102b as the writer. I used Clone Cd 4.013. Tom's also used a liteon 24102b and was unable to copy safedisk 2.51 . I am not sure what they did wrong, but i suspect the source drive might of been the problem.
Maybe someone at score:1 has already posted this (i browse at +2), but setup a win2k server (samba might be able to do this as well) and setup the user accounts to map the user directories and profile to the server, and NOT the workstations. Then install the backup device of your choice to the server and backup the data as needed / desired. To prevent the users from screwing with their profiles, make the profiles mandatory by renaming the ntuser.dat to ntuser.man in the user profile (which if i recall, is in the active directory users and computer tool on win2k server).
username: slashdoted
password: slashdot
Rinse, lather, repeat if needed.
The following remarks ONLY apply to the government of South Africa, and not necessarily its people. The government of SA is one of the most clueless and inept I've seen of a decent sized country. The president of SA firmly believes that the HIV virus DOES NOT cause aids. Now I dont know about you, but if thats not a grade A as in Aol case of ignorance and stupidity, I dont know what is. And while icann may be bunch of smucks, a government that thinks yanking direct control of their TLD is somehow going to spread Internet access is pathetically stupid to say the least.
I am a long time system designer
Another reason why i tend to prefer Amd is the cynical marketing processor known as the P-4. The vast majority of benchmarks show that unless your running software thats heavily SSE-2 optimized, the Athlon's spank the P-4. Yet the P-4's are much more $$$$ due to all those wonderful Intel commercials with dancing morons in bunny suits, or some smucks painted up like a martian with a bad head cold. Instend of wasting all that money marketing, use it to improve your designs! Amd spends virtually nothing on marketing, and yet whenever they have a good design, their products sell extremely well. And dont get me started on intel's late ddr support, or the earily 845 chipsets that were sdram only, which had PATHETIC performace.
I guess the point of my whole rant is......I use Intel or Amd, or whoever, as long as they give me a good value for my (or my customer's) dollar. Give me a nice industry standard design. Dont foist some new marketing propierty design on me. If its gotta be propierty, it better be for one of two reasons: Considerably cheaper, or considerably faster. Intel in the past few years has NOT focused on giving the customer value. Amd has. Give me a 1000 dollars, and I can build either an Intel box, or an Amd box thats 20% faster then the Intel box, and just as stable. (I dont buy the Amd isnt stable arguement, it all comes down to knowing your hardware and how to configure it properly for stable operation.)
When Intel returns to delivering a product that is worth the price Intel charges for it, I'll use Intel again. Until then, I'll continue to laugh at ridiculous marketing schemes and do my research on which product is the fastest for the least money.
two good links on Microsoft's financial fraud.
u le maker000217.htm
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/r
http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html
which school was this ?
I know 802.11 was designed as a wireless drop in replacement /supplimant for traditional ethernet lan's. My question is, what happens if every house and business in America(world) throws up a WAP and a big dish on their roof forming one huge wan across the country. Can 802.11b scale this far (or big enough to handle a good size man - thats metropolitan area network for you non networking types) ? Is there enough bandwidth / frequency allocation in the 802.11 specs? What about packet collisions? Does the spread spectrum nature of 802.11 take care of this if the network was really huge?
two words: quantum mechanics
:)
As you go higher and higher in frequency, each photon generated takes more energy to generate. thus, for a given amount of energy, the higher the frequency you go, the less generated photons, and in general, the less range you have. Also higher energy photons can have nasty effects on biological material (aka humans). You know what your microwave does to that day old pizza right ?
2 years ago I ran a networking lab at Devry in southern california (yes, I hear you laughing in the background). Devry has a volume license with Uncle Bill. One of the east coast Devry's got nailed for 1/4 mil in unlicenesed bill ware and big Bill and co were threatening to audit all the other Devry's as well. My bosses asked how much unlicensed bill ware I had in the lab (a fair amount, as IT never bought me jack for licenses). They then asked "what will you do if we get audited." My response: "I'll fire up the ghost multicast and dump the red hat 6.2 image on the boxes so fast that by the time the lawyers climb the stairs, all the machines will be showing nothing but a login: prompt and MOTD that spells what that GPL means". After that, my bosses never bossed me about auditing questions again
a geek and a hot looking redhead? Damn i envy her BF/hubby/SO.
sometimes i wonder if they flip a coin when accepting or rejecting stories....i sent this in a few hours ago.... 2002-05-06 03:09:47 matrix sequals sneak peak (articles,movies) (rejected)
I was born and raised in San Diego, and I used to live less then 5 miles from the AMC 20 Mission Valley theatre. When I lived there, that was the only place i went to see movies, as they have GREAT screens, nice sound systems, and kick ass recliner style type seats. Now I live in bum fuck Colorado, and the local theatres arent open during the afternoon usually :( . Double suckage, I am flying to La in 4 hours for a contract job, and I will miss the opening of AOTC by about 3 days. Damnit, i would of gladly driven to Irvine or San Diego to catch a digitial showing, oh well :(
Mod this as -1: Excess whining :)
in the USA, only cd-r's that are branded as "music" cd-r pay that royality, your standard cd-r blanks pay no such royality. Now in Canada and some other countries, I believe that all cd-r media carries a riaa royality in such countries.
solaris for x86 is good for those who are teaching themselves solaris and dont want to spend god knows how much for an overpriced sun box. Kinda nice to throw it on your test box, teach yourself solaris, and be able to get an admin job that way.
you can reclaim irq 3, 4, 7, and 12. Simply disable the device using them in the bios, and the irq becomes free. You can do this on any motherboard made in the last 5 years
uh oh, you bad boy Unisys, your using viral software!!!!!
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/gpl.html
Time for your master billy to give you a spanking : )
simple, run your own smtp server and give the Fascist Bureau of Investigation (FBI) the middle finger. Short of a warrant, they cant touch your personal boxes.
come on, what kind of geek are you ? : ) there's always a technical solution to a social problem : ) what you need to do is go to www.smartin-designs.com/hosts_info.htm , grab a hosts file, modify it as needed, and wave bye bye to all the ads.......this works great for me, and kills a lot of spyware too.
well i wouldnt know, i've had doubleclick (or as i call em, doublefag) on my hosts file for years now, it maps to 127.0.0.1 ; ))))))