Monthly Archives: March 2005

BarbieOS

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“If Barbie were a career-focused woman working in the IT industry in 2003, she would support open standards,” he says. “She would be seeking out free and open-source alternatives to current proprietary solutions, saving her company tens of thousands of dollars on management headaches associated with tracking software licenses and preparing for BSA audits. She would be looking at deploying Linux clients on the desktop and Linux servers in the back office. She wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice power for features, and she would demand a system that is stable, secure, and easily configurable.”

“Barbie would also be tired of Microsoft’s licensing bullshit,” he added.

http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/barbieOS.htm

What The Hack

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What The Hack finally has information on the webpage.


What The Hack is an outdoor hacker conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005.

I’m there, you’re there, anyone not there is just t3h suxx0r.

Spectacular bankruptcy

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I wonder if all the people who voted for Dubya are still going to like him when they’re back to tilling the soil in 2010..


THE NUMBERS are staggering — a US$43-trillion hole in America’s public finances that’s getting worse every day. And the stakes are almost inconceivable for a generation of politicians and voters raised in relative prosperity, who’ve never known severe economic hardship

Full story:
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/article.jsp?content=20050307_101541_101541

See you all in superland…

Windows 2003 and XP vulnerable to LAND DoS attack

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LAND attack:
Sending TCP packet with SYN flag set, source and destination IP address and source and destination port as of destination machine, results in 15-30 seconds DoS condition.

Which is funny. The last time the LAND attack was seen was about 8 years ago. It’s a trivial remote DoS and you’d think that even basic QA would check for something like this.

Securityfocus has the Bugtraq posting:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/392354/2005-03-02/2005-03-08/0

No patch out yet, joy!

Cell architecture explained

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Sony, Toshiba and IBM have been quietly developing a new vector-based processing architecture which promises to trash anything Intel and AMD have up their sleeves. This guy has read the patent applications and makes some predictions on what we’re going to be seeing in the PS3.
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html

If this is too hard, then Penny Arcade might do a better job at explaining it for you.