Oh and lets not forget if it was not for the US Military, you would not be posting here, because the Internet would not of existed. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created the Information Processing Technology Office to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time, which in turn lead to the development of the Internet. History shows the Military/NASA spending and research spurs technology development time and time again.
Talk about biased, unfair, and illogical liberal statement!!! Geeez!!!
PS added you as a Foe. WHY IMHO and to put it simply! "your an idiot!" MOD me as a troll on this one if you want it will not effect my karma, but I had to get that off my chest.
And if it was not for the US Military, you would not be posting here, because the Internet would not of existed. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created the Information Processing Technology Office to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time, which in turn lead to the development of the Internet. History shows the Military spending and research spurs technology development time and time again.
And the comment at the end of the article "I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?"
Talk about biased, unfair, and illogical liberal statement. Geeez
You totally missed the point. He said TMP was solely based on piracy, which of course it is not and I refuted that it's not and TMP also includes security concerns as well. But if you want to open that can of worms "again", Am I by using Decss to watch a DVD on my Linux box considered misusing my software/computer?
Well Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security Business Unit whos job was created when Microsoft formed the Security Business Unit as part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative -- the company-wide effort that aims to provide safe, private and reliable computing experiences for everyone.
Intresting Schemes = Microsoft's Trusted Computing, how trusting do you feel towards Microsoft now?
Now excuse me while I take off my tin foil hat and place my head in the microwave set on high for 10 mins, so I can understand the Corp. BS thats going to come flying through the fan from MS's PR dept.
There is more traffic on a network that could cause problems other than icmp. If something is taking all bandwidth on a LAN then ping would be useless because everything you try to ping would be slow.
Also using ping to check servers if they are up and down is a bad idea as well, a mission critical service could go down, but the server would still return a ping, and you would be the first one to know via one of your users, for instance. Using a tool such as nagios to check all services on a server including icmp requests would be the way to go. And to get a general view of all traffic on the network NTOP, then to look at one item on your network I would use tcpdump.
Then NTOP http://www.ntop.org/ is your best bet, this breaks down all traffic on your network and should allow you to see who's being naughty and who's being nice.
I love gaming in general but prefer gaming against other people rather than NPCs, which leads into my question.
What does this mean for cheaters who use DX hooks in online gaming? Will this move make it harder to hook into a game engine to allow cheats or hide them from anti cheat programs or will this make it harder? (hopefully harder)
Just more FUD slinging like we are all too familiar with.
The title:
"Microsoft claims firms 'hitting a wall' with Linux"
Should read:
"Microsoft claims firms 'hitting a wall' with SUSE Enterprise Linux"
Typical FUD PR BS generalization of linux
"The study compared two teams of experienced IT administrators running Windows Server 2000 and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 8, then monitored their progress as they upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 9."
I like to see the same study upgrading from NT to Server 2003 with more than one doamin vs Gentoo for instance. Geeee wonder what the outcome would look like then?
"Only time i ever even boot windows is to play games. I sure as hell don't browse the web with it. That would be like having sex with a million 2-dollar whores with no protection. You're bound to catch something."
As you said it takes years to master something. Let me point out; to learn something to get the basic idea/rules is different than mastering something. For example: I for one learned how to play chess in a couple hours. Does that mean I mastered playing chess in a couple of hours? NO of course not, but I do have the basic rules down to allow me to play chess.
Your sentence should read more like this: "And in fact that's the truth - you CAN learn that something in few days. Programming? UNIX administration? sailing? playing chess? Man... BUT that takes years to master."
I have had Excellent Karma on slashdot for years now and don't really care about it, but I oddly find it frightenly/ironic that a windows IE only webpage fixes it, considering you have to turn on ActiveX by default now.
I studied the driver's initialization function, confirmed that it patches several functions via the system call table and saw that its cloaking code hides any file, directory, Registry key or process whose name begins with "$sys$". To verify that I made a copy of Notepad.exe named $sys$notepad.exe and it disappeared from view.
The reason the "link to Blizzard" is because the guys over at www.wowsharp.net thought to use the rootkit first, and it is so easy to use that anyone who can rename a file can use it. And WOW is very popular in the first place (4 million users now), so this impacts a bunch of people.
Another cheat program http://www.wowglider.com/ is also getting around WOW's Warden technology by running WOW in a normal user profile in xp, removing access to said user in the wowglider folder, then running wowglider as an admin account. But more than likely you could just install Sony's rootkit, rename your wowglider folder and do the above step for double protection against Warden detecting wowglider.
My point being Sony and First4Internet are saying that the rootkit does not compromise a system's security, when in fact it can and does. And the Cheaters are proving it now, next will be the virus writers.
Conclusions Let's start by talking about the Athlon 64 X2 4200+. This CPU generally offers better performance than its direct competitor from Intel, the Pentium D 840. Most notably, the X2 4200+ doesn't share the Pentium D's relatively weak performance in single-threaded tasks like our 3D gaming benchmarks. The Athlon 64 X2 4200+ also consumes less power, at the system level, than the Pentium D 840--just a little bit at idle (even without Cool'n'Quiet) but over 100W under load. That's a very potent combo, all told.
In fact, the X2 4200+ frequently outperforms the Pentium Extreme Edition 840, which costs nearly twice as much. Thanks to its dual-core config, the X2 4200+ also embarrasses some expensive single-core processors, like the Athlon 64 FX-55 and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz. Personally, I don't think there's any reason to pay any more for a CPU than the $531 that AMD will be asking for the Athlon 64 X2 4200+.
If you must pay more for some reason, the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ will give you the best all-around performance we've ever seen from a "single" CPU. The X2 4800+ beats out the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 virtually across the board, even in tests that use four threads to take best advantage of the Extreme Edition 840's Hyper-Threading capabilities. The difference becomes even more pronounced in single-threaded applications, including games, where the Pentium XE 840 is near the bottom of the pack and the X2 4800+ is constantly near the top. The X2 4800+ also consumes considerably less power, both at idle and under load.
The X2 4800+ gives up 200MHz to its fastest single-core competitor, the Athlon 64 FX-55, but gains most of the performance back in single-threaded apps thanks to AMD's latest round of core enhancements, included in the X2 chips. The X2 4800+ also matches the Opteron 152 in many cases thanks to Socket 939's faster memory subsystem. Remarkably, our test system consumes the same amount of power under load with an X2 4800+ in its socket as it does with an Athlon 64 FX-55, even though the X2 is running two rendering threads and doing nearly twice the work. Amazing.
There's not much to complain about here, but that won't stop me from trying. I would like to see AMD extend the X2 line down two more notches by offering a couple of Athlon 64 X2 variants at 2GHz clock speeds and lower prices. I realize that by asking for this, I may sound like a bit of a freeloader or something, but hey--Intel's doing it. No, the performance picture for Intel's dual-core chips isn't quite so rosy, but the lower-end Pentium D models will make the sometimes-substantial benefits of dual-core CPU technology more widely accessible. If AMD doesn't follow suit, lots of folks will be forced to choose between one fast AMD core or two relatively slower Intel cores. I'm not so sure I won't end up recommending the latter more often than the former.
Beyond that, the giant question looming over the Athlon 64 X2 is about availability, as in, "When can I get one?" Let's hope the answer is sooner rather than later, because these things are sweet.
According to http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200511010 0443634 the Docs are under seal, and as PJ puts it "there is absolutely no reason not to show it without seal, because if it's literal, it's out there in the public already." and "SCO may be afraid the Linux community will pull the rug out from under them before they can get to trial, if they tell us publicly what they think they have. Every time they tell us what they think is infringing, somebody proves they are mistaken. At best."
IMHO SCO is just blowing smoke again, and trying to pump up the stock.
India GDP per capita $480 Unemployment rate 8.8% Labor force 406 million Population below the poverty line 25% Typical salary for a programmer $8,000 year = $4.16 an hour
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I think you meant "a necessary security measure?"
/. ya know.
Could not help myself this is
You will not have to wait too long AACS is Flawed big time, and soon we will be able to get these baby's http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/21/the-clicker-hdc ps-shiny-red-button/ from Canada or another country that sees through MPAA's BS and not effected by US laws.
Bottom line? DMCA or not I will do what I want with MY CONTENT on MY HARDWARE that I PURCHASED with MY HARD EARNED MONEY period.
Better be quick about it! T-Shirt Hell already has a shirt out;
c tid=586
http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?produ
Text on the shirt
"THERE'S A PICTURE OF
THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
ON THE BACK OF MY SHIRT...
JUST KIDDING, PRAISE ALLAH!
(PLEASE DON'T KILL ME)"
Oh and lets not forget if it was not for the US Military, you would not be posting here, because the Internet would not of existed. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created the Information Processing Technology Office to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time, which in turn lead to the development of the Internet. History shows the Military/NASA spending and research spurs technology development time and time again.
Talk about biased, unfair, and illogical liberal statement!!! Geeez!!!
PS added you as a Foe. WHY IMHO and to put it simply! "your an idiot!" MOD me as a troll on this one if you want it will not effect my karma, but I had to get that off my chest.
And if it was not for the US Military, you would not be posting here, because the Internet would not of existed. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created the Information Processing Technology Office to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time, which in turn lead to the development of the Internet. History shows the Military spending and research spurs technology development time and time again.
And the comment at the end of the article "I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?"
Talk about biased, unfair, and illogical liberal statement. Geeez
You totally missed the point. He said TMP was solely based on piracy, which of course it is not and I refuted that it's not and TMP also includes security concerns as well. But if you want to open that can of worms "again", Am I by using Decss to watch a DVD on my Linux box considered misusing my software/computer?
Well Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security Business Unit whos job was created when Microsoft formed the Security Business Unit as part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative -- the company-wide effort that aims to provide safe, private and reliable computing experiences for everyone.
a pr03/04-14rsanash.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/
Also a couple of other people think it's more than piracy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
might want to expand your opinion on "Trusted Computing" a bit.
Cheers,
interesting schemes into my mind
Intresting Schemes = Microsoft's Trusted Computing, how trusting do you feel towards Microsoft now?
Now excuse me while I take off my tin foil hat and place my head in the microwave set on high for 10 mins, so I can understand the Corp. BS thats going to come flying through the fan from MS's PR dept.
1. What are you trying to hide?
2. Tell me where Osama Bin Laden is
.
There is more traffic on a network that could cause problems other than icmp. If something is taking all bandwidth on a LAN then ping would be useless because everything you try to ping would be slow.
Also using ping to check servers if they are up and down is a bad idea as well, a mission critical service could go down, but the server would still return a ping, and you would be the first one to know via one of your users, for instance. Using a tool such as nagios to check all services on a server including icmp requests would be the way to go. And to get a general view of all traffic on the network NTOP, then to look at one item on your network I would use tcpdump.
Then NTOP http://www.ntop.org/ is your best bet, this breaks down all traffic on your network and should allow you to see who's being naughty and who's being nice.
I love gaming in general but prefer gaming against other people rather than NPCs, which leads into my question.
What does this mean for cheaters who use DX hooks in online gaming? Will this move make it harder to hook into a game engine to allow cheats or hide them from anti cheat programs or will this make it harder? (hopefully harder)
Just more FUD slinging like we are all too familiar with.
The title:
"Microsoft claims firms 'hitting a wall' with Linux"
Should read:
"Microsoft claims firms 'hitting a wall' with SUSE Enterprise Linux"
Typical FUD PR BS generalization of linux
"The study compared two teams of experienced IT administrators running Windows Server 2000 and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 8, then monitored their progress as they upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 9."
I like to see the same study upgrading from NT to Server 2003 with more than one doamin vs Gentoo for instance. Geeee wonder what the outcome would look like then?
"Only time i ever even boot windows is to play games. I sure as hell don't browse the web with it. That would be like having sex with a million 2-dollar whores with no protection. You're bound to catch something."
LOL Amen
And what are your thoughts on "Evil Empire's" ActiveX now? http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/1 1/sony_uninstall_.html
As you said it takes years to master something. Let me point out; to learn something to get the basic idea/rules is different than mastering something. For example: I for one learned how to play chess in a couple hours. Does that mean I mastered playing chess in a couple of hours? NO of course not, but I do have the basic rules down to allow me to play chess.
Your sentence should read more like this: "And in fact that's the truth - you CAN learn that something in few days. Programming? UNIX administration? sailing? playing chess? Man... BUT that takes years to master."
I hate to say it, well no I take that back ...I love to say it. " I TOLD YOU SO " =)
Sorry could not resist...
Cheers,
Here is the iSpots (MIT's WiFi mapping and tracking) home page @ MIT with great pictures and more information
http://ispots.mit.edu/
Enjoy!
I have had Excellent Karma on slashdot for years now and don't really care about it, but I oddly find it frightenly/ironic that a windows IE only webpage fixes it, considering you have to turn on ActiveX by default now.
Wrong! How can you say Sony and First4Internet are no way responsible???
Taken from the original article from Mark's blog over at Sysinternals And here is the URL again in case you want to read the whole thing again. http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-root kits-and-digital-rights.html
I studied the driver's initialization function, confirmed that it patches several functions via the system call table and saw that its cloaking code hides any file, directory, Registry key or process whose name begins with "$sys$". To verify that I made a copy of Notepad.exe named $sys$notepad.exe and it disappeared from view.
If that does not compromise security what does?
You forgot to mention that you have to use IE in order to do the uninstall because it uses ActiveX ;)
The reason the "link to Blizzard" is because the guys over at www.wowsharp.net thought to use the rootkit first, and it is so easy to use that anyone who can rename a file can use it. And WOW is very popular in the first place (4 million users now), so this impacts a bunch of people.
Another cheat program http://www.wowglider.com/ is also getting around WOW's Warden technology by running WOW in a normal user profile in xp, removing access to said user in the wowglider folder, then running wowglider as an admin account. But more than likely you could just install Sony's rootkit, rename your wowglider folder and do the above step for double protection against Warden detecting wowglider.
My point being Sony and First4Internet are saying that the rootkit does not compromise a system's security, when in fact it can and does. And the Cheaters are proving it now, next will be the virus writers.
Have to agree with AC on the cpu issue, taken from the http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/athlon64-x2/i ndex.x?pg=16
Conclusions
Let's start by talking about the Athlon 64 X2 4200+. This CPU generally offers better performance than its direct competitor from Intel, the Pentium D 840. Most notably, the X2 4200+ doesn't share the Pentium D's relatively weak performance in single-threaded tasks like our 3D gaming benchmarks. The Athlon 64 X2 4200+ also consumes less power, at the system level, than the Pentium D 840--just a little bit at idle (even without Cool'n'Quiet) but over 100W under load. That's a very potent combo, all told.
In fact, the X2 4200+ frequently outperforms the Pentium Extreme Edition 840, which costs nearly twice as much. Thanks to its dual-core config, the X2 4200+ also embarrasses some expensive single-core processors, like the Athlon 64 FX-55 and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz. Personally, I don't think there's any reason to pay any more for a CPU than the $531 that AMD will be asking for the Athlon 64 X2 4200+.
If you must pay more for some reason, the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ will give you the best all-around performance we've ever seen from a "single" CPU. The X2 4800+ beats out the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 virtually across the board, even in tests that use four threads to take best advantage of the Extreme Edition 840's Hyper-Threading capabilities. The difference becomes even more pronounced in single-threaded applications, including games, where the Pentium XE 840 is near the bottom of the pack and the X2 4800+ is constantly near the top. The X2 4800+ also consumes considerably less power, both at idle and under load.
The X2 4800+ gives up 200MHz to its fastest single-core competitor, the Athlon 64 FX-55, but gains most of the performance back in single-threaded apps thanks to AMD's latest round of core enhancements, included in the X2 chips. The X2 4800+ also matches the Opteron 152 in many cases thanks to Socket 939's faster memory subsystem. Remarkably, our test system consumes the same amount of power under load with an X2 4800+ in its socket as it does with an Athlon 64 FX-55, even though the X2 is running two rendering threads and doing nearly twice the work. Amazing.
There's not much to complain about here, but that won't stop me from trying. I would like to see AMD extend the X2 line down two more notches by offering a couple of Athlon 64 X2 variants at 2GHz clock speeds and lower prices. I realize that by asking for this, I may sound like a bit of a freeloader or something, but hey--Intel's doing it. No, the performance picture for Intel's dual-core chips isn't quite so rosy, but the lower-end Pentium D models will make the sometimes-substantial benefits of dual-core CPU technology more widely accessible. If AMD doesn't follow suit, lots of folks will be forced to choose between one fast AMD core or two relatively slower Intel cores. I'm not so sure I won't end up recommending the latter more often than the former.
Beyond that, the giant question looming over the Athlon 64 X2 is about availability, as in, "When can I get one?" Let's hope the answer is sooner rather than later, because these things are sweet.
According to http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200511010 0443634 the Docs are under seal, and as PJ puts it "there is absolutely no reason not to show it without seal, because if it's literal, it's out there in the public already." and "SCO may be afraid the Linux community will pull the rug out from under them before they can get to trial, if they tell us publicly what they think they have. Every time they tell us what they think is infringing, somebody proves they are mistaken. At best."
IMHO SCO is just blowing smoke again, and trying to pump up the stock.
Your assuming everyone is from the USA or EU no?
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India
GDP per capita $480
Unemployment rate 8.8%
Labor force 406 million
Population below the poverty line 25%
Typical salary for a programmer $8,000 year = $4.16 an hour
source http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/india_pr
If I lived and was a programmer in India Google would be a good choice considering only two months of work!!!!