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Not look at the title of the ram... Value Select really means Kick the crap out of every thing else...

thanks... need a change... more professional..

I agree exactly what you just said about the fact that companies release products that require patches and fixes all of the time... Look at some of the games.. there have been a lot of patches for those and no one complains about that... Now take the fact that just about every piece of software has to have atleast on fix in its life time.. and add the fact that Microsoft is fighting a lossing battle because there a jacksons out there that make it their job to exploit the system... Hmm.... Has there ever been a patch for Microsoft Filght simulator?? Maybe they should get that coding team in and have them write some os code...

Sorry about the double post... But here is the article that explains the flaw that has already been discovered.. It is from pcmag so it is in plain english...http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1639373,00.asp

That is awesome! hope you like it!! you should have far less problems that what you had with the satelite...

Microsoft rules the world.... So when something it broken or exploited they have to put a bandaid on it so that the Industy people dont bitch... That is why we have so many patches for the lovely windows xp os... Other than it is like a car... new models come out... but you dont want the consumer to have to buy $500 software evey year or so... I think that Microsoft is attempting to prolong the life of XP until Longhorn is out and running.. Then I can see 98 being dropped from the support list and 2000/xp becoming the base os for all systems... I hope that you dont have that 400mhz system still running...

zone alarm should work for you... try it out and if you like it upgrade to the pro-version...

Opinion: No, it's not a worm, but HP's Active Countermeasures uses wormlike techniques to find and secure vulnerable systems. Although we shouldn't be afraid, it needs to be used judiciously. Worms and other malware employ a variety of techniques to find new systems to attack. Many of them scan the network for systems containing specific, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. Some of the fastest and most successful worms, such as Slammer and Code Red, worked this way. HP thinks two can play at that game. The company has released its Active Countermeasures technology to a limited beta audience. It's an innovative network scanning tool that looks for systems on the network that "are unmapped or do not comply with security policy, and therefore represent vulnerable points in the network." When it finds these systems, it "automatically deploys policy-driven mitigation techniques." It appears that the scanner actually exploits the vulnerabilities in order to gain control and deploy the mitigation techniques. Taking the biological metaphor for all it's worth, HP says this is part of a "corporate immune system" that includes other innovative techniques such as a mail server that implements the company's "Virus Throttler," which sets rate-limiting on mail connections to limit the damage that mail worms can do. Joe Pato, a distinguished technologist at HP Labs, spoke about this technology at the RSA conference in San Francisco earlier this year, where he likened the technique to vaccination, in which the patient receives a less virulent form of the infection. So, it's a network vulnerability scanner with a difference. One might expect Active Countermeasures to be more effective against rogue systems on the network than a conventional scanner, but to what degree? If a system is not supposed to be there, do you really want to patch it and install your anti-virus client, or do you want to block it off the network somehow and alert the administrator? It's not hard to imagine many problems resulting from aggressive use of this technology, although not everyone would call all of them problems. For instance, the guest or consultant who connects to the network without going through all of the proper channels first

STANFORD, CALIF. -- A software glitch that paralyzed the Mars "Spirit" rover earlier this year was caused by an unanticipated characteristic of a DOS file system, a NASA scientist said Monday. The flaw, since fixed, was only discovered after days of agonizingly slow tests complicated by the limited "windows" of communication allowed by the rotation of Mars, said Robert Denise, a member of the Flight Software Development Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. On Jan. 21, the Spirit rover stopped communicating with the teams on Earth, beginning a cycle where the rover would reboot itself, over and over. After days of tests, the team finally discovered on Jan. 26 that the issue was tied to what was originally reported as corruption inside the rover's onboard flash memory. In a presentation at the Hot Chips conference here, Denise said that the real issue was an embedded DOS file system whose directory structure kept growing and growing. When the rover's embedded operating system then told the flash memory to mirror the data structure in RAM, the unexpectedly large file caused a fatal error and an almost continuous reboot cycle, he said. Aside from the flash memory error, the recent voyages of Spirit and Opportunity have gone far better than expected. The mission was originally funded to last 90 sols, the equivalent of 90 Mars days, and come to an end last April. (One sol equals 24.65 hours.) Since both rovers have managed to stay "alive" far longer than anticipated, Denise said, the current funding will run out on Sept. 13, the beginning of the "solar conjunction," when Mars disappears behind the Sun and out of radio range. The lifespan of both rovers is really not known, he said. On Sol 18, the mood among the JPL ground team was nothing short of "euphoric," Denise said. "Life was good," he said. "And then we missed a comms pass," a window in which the JPL team and the rover were supposed to exchange information. The team didn't worry, at least initially. The team rechecked that its instruments were calibrated, and awaited the next pass a few hours later. Over the next few days, however, nothing went right, Denise said. The team determined the rover was functional; it could emit a status "beep", proving it was online. Other passes, however, generated just pseudorandom noise, indicative that the rover was online, functioning, but that no data was passing through the antenna. The rover, meanwhile, was rebooting hundreds of times a day. The problem, Denise said, was in the file system the rover used. In DOS, a directory structure is actually stored as a file. As that directory tree grows, the directory file grows, as well. The Achilles' heel, Denise said, was that deleting files from the directory tree does not reduce the size of the directory file. Instead, deleted files are represented within the directory by special characters, which tell the OS that the files can be replaced with new data. By itself, the cancerous file might not have been an issue. Combined with a "feature" of a third-party piece of software used by the onboard Wind River embedded OS, however, the glitch proved nearly fatal. According to Denise, the Spirit rover contains 256 Mbytes of flash memory, a nonvolatile memory that can be written and rewritten thousands of times. The rover also contains 128 Mbytes of DRAM, 96 Mbytes of which are used for data, such as buffering image files in preparation for transmitting them to Earth. The other 32 Mbytes are used for code storage. An additional 11 Mbytes of EEPROM memory are used for additional program code storage. The undisclosed software vendor required that data stored in flash memory be mirrored in RAM. Since the rover's flash memory was twice the size of the system RAM, a crash was almost inevitable, Denise said. Moving an actuator, for example, generates a large number of tiny data files. After the rover rebooted, the OSes heap memory would be a hair's breadth away from a crash, as the system RAM would be nearly full, Denise said. Adding another data file would generate a memory allocation command to a nonexistent memory address, prompting a fatal error. Dynamic allocation of memory is considered a no-no in embedded systems, precisely because of the possibility of a system crash, attendees said. Denise acknowledged that JPL's tests only allowed for the addition of a small number of data files, and that the exception slipped by. "We made an exception and got bit by it," he admitted. The team finally got the rover up and running by essentially using the system RAM as simulated flash, discovered the error, and disabled the dynamic allocation feature, Denise said. The flash memory was erased, and the JPL engineers installed a utility that monitors the file system, and treats the memory heap as a consumable resources. Denise's keynote address to the Hot Chips audience lasted about an hour, twenty minutes or so dedicated to the flash-memory issue. At the end, he summed up the issue for the small percentage of the audience who weren't engineers: "The Spirit was the willing, but the flash was weak." Source:Extremetech

RUSSIAN computer security expert has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down by terrorists tomorrow. Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs was speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information Agency Novosti. The cyber terrorists main targets will be the US and Western Europe, he said. Gostev said that the information on the attack could be found on "specialist web sites" although at the time of going to press the INQ couldn

Yeah you could pay $75 for some dude to come over and set it up... However anyone can do it... Some of the problems cant be fixed by a tech at all... It is ISP server/node problems that can only be fixed on their end.... I can almost bet that no service tech is going to come in and tweak the registry so that you get more kbs... to much risk and they dont have the time... Their job is to come in and register the modem, plug it in, and then get you on the internet... Not to get your system a sweet connection... One other thing... On this site I would say that most of these people know/have built computer and played with tweaking their software... So unless this "tech" is going to be like god of the computer world he is really useless... we can pretty much trouble shoot most of this stuff from the internet as well as some one could at their house. With the exception of hardware failure or something like that...

The real question, if you can afford it, is will you use it? If you download like crazy or play onlines games then I can see it maybe.. I wouldnt jump on it... the thing that i am more interested in is upload speed... I would rather pay for more upload then download... after a while it all seems to be the same..

if you are in a business environment then you are going to need something a little bit beefer than zone alarm... I would recommend Nortan Internet Security... That seems to be the standard in the business world and does a good job... The only thing is that it does tend to be a memory hog and does slow the computer down slightly.... If you are designing stuff on CAD or something I would recommend not installing it on those machines... Of course you can get a red box which is a hardware firewall... you are looking between $1000-10,000 for one..

Yeah welcome!

My guess is that the are not into the cable area... Isnt roadrunner more dsl than cable internet

umm... try this... remove the smoothwall system from the network.. Connect to the router and the to the switches... If the speed doesnt improve then make sure that the router and switches are setup correctly... If you dont want to go through all of this try updating your drivers and make sure that you dont have something stupid like 10mbs instead of 100mbs enabled...

get rid of the smoothwall...

I could give more details but that would be of much help if you dont know the difference to begin with...

Comcast might upgrade once again... they dont like to be out proformed in certain areas.. just depends if COX is in Comcast areas..

Techies have tested SP2 and they are not adopting it yet... to many bugs and they have found a hole in the firewall..

What else do you want?

works for some doenst work for others.. u do know that you dont need SP2 if you do a good job maintaining your system..

no kidding... Firefox it really nice... I just started using firefox and love it! tab browsing is so much easier then using like 30 IE windows..

Have any of you tried to game on one of these connections?? I do realize that this is designed for the rural area where there is nothing... Great idea but needs improvement

yeah i do know what you mean! It is good to see a bunch of people getting faster!