[H] Spontaneous Reboots because of my graphics card?
Folks, I've got an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb in an Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe, everything is almost working fine except that when I go to play a game Brothers In Arms, EE2 within a couple of minutes my machine will just power off, like pull the power cord off, not a gracefull shutdown, no warning, no blue screen, nothing. This is a recent starting event, I've cycled through no ati driver, catalyst, and omega's - no difference. Running WinXP SP2 on hardware that hasn't changed for a while, I've run multiple benchmark stuff, Prime95 for 24 hours and the machine doesn't hiccup. Any Ideas? The Radeon is still within ATI's 3 year warranty if just barely so I might just try and RMA it. TIA -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml%3Bjsessionid%3DKAJMC5WZJL0XQQSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=177100970
[H] HDTV antennas
What are you all using for HDTV OTA antennas? I just moved and need a new one. I was using the boomerang shaped Terk one that sits on your TV. It worked fine in the old place, but the new place is behind a huge hill that blocks the OTA signal. -- Brian
RE: [H] HDTV antennas
Terk is overpriced shit. Rat shack will have what you are looking for. Your best bet is a multi-element outdoor UHF antenna. From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] HDTV antennas Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:37:20 -0700 What are you all using for HDTV OTA antennas? I just moved and need a new one. I was using the boomerang shaped Terk one that sits on your TV. It worked fine in the old place, but the new place is behind a huge hill that blocks the OTA signal. -- Brian
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
Listen to episode 22: http://grc.com/securitynow.htm This was on Digg last week. Every person that I have heard saying Gibson is a moron over this has not had their facts straight. Listen to the podcast, look at his reports, hell look at his source code. His arguement that you need 2 or 3 very specific things to happen to trigger the WMF vulnerability, things that prevent the WMF files from working as intended. Which in my mind is the exact definition of a backdoor. Of course M$ will deny it. The only other option is to say yes, one of two things are true: 1. We have a rogue programmer who put their own backdoor in all version of our software since win2k 2. We deliberately put in a backdoor so we can access and patch every copy of windows in an emergency, even if they have firewalls and autoupdate disabled. -- Brian
RE: [H] HDTV antennas
At 10:40 AM 1/20/2006, Hayes Elkins typed: Terk is overpriced shit. Rat shack will have what you are looking for. Your best bet is a multi-element outdoor UHF antenna. Better yet go to http://www.antennaweb.org/ for a discussion of HDTV antennae links of where to get them cheaper than RS. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] HDTV antennas
Yep, just went there. Totally forgo about that site since I was there the first time 2 years ago :) Currently looking at this http://www.antennasdirect.com/SR15_hdtv_antenna.html I live in Colorado Springs so snow and high winds are an issue. AntennaWeb says I need a red antenna - medium gain directional. All my channels are coming from the same exact location - its just behind a big hill :( The only hitch is that I have 3 HD OTA UHF channels but one (CBS) that broadcasts in the high VHF. Supposedly a good UHF antenna will be able to pick it up but we will see. On 1/20/06, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:40 AM 1/20/2006, Hayes Elkins typed: Terk is overpriced shit. Rat shack will have what you are looking for. Your best bet is a multi-element outdoor UHF antenna. Better yet go to http://www.antennaweb.org/ for a discussion of HDTV antennae links of where to get them cheaper than RS. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- Brian
Re: [H] HDTV antennas
http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?main_cat=03CAT=PROD=ANC4228 Have this mounted in my attic. Ungodly good ;) CW -Original message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:38:17 -0600 To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] HDTV antennas What are you all using for HDTV OTA antennas? I just moved and need a new one. I was using the boomerang shaped Terk one that sits on your TV. It worked fine in the old place, but the new place is behind a huge hill that blocks the OTA signal. -- Brian
Re: [H] HDTV antennas
At 11:03 AM 1/20/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Yep, just went there. Totally forgo about that site since I was there the first time 2 years ago :) Currently looking at this http://www.antennasdirect.com/SR15_hdtv_antenna.html I live in Colorado Springs so snow and high winds are an issue. AntennaWeb says I need a red antenna - medium gain directional. All my channels are coming from the same exact location - its just behind a big hill :( The only hitch is that I have 3 HD OTA UHF channels but one (CBS) that broadcasts in the high VHF. Supposedly a good UHF antenna will be able to pick it up but we will see. I'm looking at http://www.antennasdirect.com/91XG_HDTV_Antenna.html as I have RS's best VHS antenna now it doesn't pull in CBS from Cleveland as well as it does the Fox station which is right around the corner so they just aren't putting out the power I'm hoping a better antenna will do the trick. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Spontaneous Reboots because of my graphics card?
Is the fan on the AIW, and or CPU working OK? If so I would suspect PS before the AIW. At 06:55 AM 1/20/2006, you wrote: Folks, I've got an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb in an Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe, everything is almost working fine except that when I go to play a game Brothers In Arms, EE2 within a couple of minutes my machine will just power off, like pull the power cord off, not a gracefull shutdown, no warning, no blue screen, nothing. This is a recent starting event, I've cycled through no ati driver, catalyst, and omega's - no difference. Running WinXP SP2 on hardware that hasn't changed for a while, I've run multiple benchmark stuff, Prime95 for 24 hours and the machine doesn't hiccup. Any Ideas? The Radeon is still within ATI's 3 year warranty if just barely so I might just try and RMA it. TIA -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 11:41 AM 20/01/2006, Brian Weeden wrote: His arguement that you need 2 or 3 very specific things to happen to trigger the WMF vulnerability, things that prevent the WMF files from working as intended. Which in my mind is the exact definition of a backdoor. He backpeddled on this wildly this week, of course. T
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 01:09 PM 1/20/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: He backpeddled on this wildly this week, of course. That wouldn't be because of legal pressure from MSFT's atty now would it? ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
If your going to put a backdoor you would want to put it in something that is remotely exploitable like a network service or something. You don't want to have to socially engineer the user of the computer to either download your attachment or visit a website. That's too much work especially if its supposedly a conspiracy to be able to access any computer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 7:41 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft Listen to episode 22: http://grc.com/securitynow.htm This was on Digg last week. Every person that I have heard saying Gibson is a moron over this has not had their facts straight. Listen to the podcast, look at his reports, hell look at his source code. His arguement that you need 2 or 3 very specific things to happen to trigger the WMF vulnerability, things that prevent the WMF files from working as intended. Which in my mind is the exact definition of a backdoor. Of course M$ will deny it. The only other option is to say yes, one of two things are true: 1. We have a rogue programmer who put their own backdoor in all version of our software since win2k 2. We deliberately put in a backdoor so we can access and patch every copy of windows in an emergency, even if they have firewalls and autoupdate disabled. -- Brian
Re: [H] Best Windows PDA phone
I have a TMobile MDAIII imported from the UK. It's a WM2003 based PDA phone. I like it, although I am not a heavy PDA user. Regarding Exchange -- there are two ways of doing what you want. 1. Exchange 2003 has Exchange ActiveSync which will let a WM2003 and Treo 650 (PalmOS based) sync with Exchange over a GRPS HTTP connection. It's pull, not push, so you would need to schedule it to sync every X number of minutes. The nice thing is that it's free. The cool thing is that it doesn't rely on your desktop to sync at all. 2. You could use Blackberry Enterprise Server and see if you can get a copy of Blackberry Connect for your phone. That's a push type of system, so when you get new mail it gets pushed to your phone as well. There is also Goodlink (http://www.good.com) which claims to do the same thing. We're investigating these options for Exchange users at my company, although it looks like we may stick with Exchange Activesync.
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. Mesdaq, Ali wrote: If your going to put a backdoor you would want to put it in something that is remotely exploitable like a network service or something. You don't want to have to socially engineer the user of the computer to either download your attachment or visit a website. That's too much work especially if its supposedly a conspiracy to be able to access any computer.
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 02:13 PM 20/01/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 01:09 PM 1/20/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: He backpeddled on this wildly this week, of course. That wouldn't be because of legal pressure from MSFT's atty now would it? ;-) What? Pressure from MS? That's nuts! T
RE: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 02:21 PM 20/01/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: If your going to put a backdoor you would want to put it in something that is remotely exploitable like a network service or something. You don't want to have to socially engineer the user of the computer to either download your attachment or visit a website. That's too much work especially if its supposedly a conspiracy to be able to access any computer. His argument is it's a backdoor to allow MS to run code on your computer when you visit their webpage, even if the browser is completely locked down. I think it's a very reasonable argument, and seems to fit with MS's practices. Rather than fixing bugs and security problems, they spend time and money on poorly thought out copyprotection. T
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 02:49 PM 20/01/2006, Ben Ruset wrote: I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. It did. You missed it. :) T
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
Any day now... Ben Ruset wrote: I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 02:00 PM 1/20/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: What? Pressure from MS? That's nuts! You don't think Steve might have heard from some MSFT atty's after that scathing article? If one makes false claims without documentation or without stating that this is my opinion then he certainly might have heard from their atty's. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
On 1/20/06, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't think Steve might have heard from some MSFT atty's after that scathing article? If one makes false claims without documentation or without stating that this is my opinion then he certainly might have heard from their atty's. If anyone bothered to actually listen to the original podcast or read the transcript, he did say this was his opinion and he did say that he had no proof and no way to verify it. I still agree with his thoughts, although we will never know the truth. -- Brian
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 03:17 PM 1/20/2006, Brian Weeden typed: If anyone bothered to actually listen to the original podcast or read the transcript, he did say this was his opinion and he did say that he had no proof and no way to verify it. Sorry I did not read the transcript as long as he was just stating his opinion then he can say anything he wants. It's up to us to determine if we need Joe User's tin hat or not. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Best Windows PDA phone
Be prepared on Blackberry (RIM), they are taking a pounding in court, we'll see what happens. http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/38052-1.html As to the other end, you might look at the Cingular 2125. Genious, first phone Windows PDA on Version5 software. -- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:48 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Best Windows PDA phone I have a TMobile MDAIII imported from the UK. It's a WM2003 based PDA phone. I like it, although I am not a heavy PDA user. Regarding Exchange -- there are two ways of doing what you want. 1. Exchange 2003 has Exchange ActiveSync which will let a WM2003 and Treo 650 (PalmOS based) sync with Exchange over a GRPS HTTP connection. It's pull, not push, so you would need to schedule it to sync every X number of minutes. The nice thing is that it's free. The cool thing is that it doesn't rely on your desktop to sync at all. 2. You could use Blackberry Enterprise Server and see if you can get a copy of Blackberry Connect for your phone. That's a push type of system, so when you get new mail it gets pushed to your phone as well. There is also Goodlink (http://www.good.com) which claims to do the same thing. We're investigating these options for Exchange users at my company, although it looks like we may stick with Exchange Activesync.
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 13:49 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. Gibson warned about the inclusion of raw sockets in Win2k. Everyone laughed. Since then, Microsoft has quietly eliminated the raw sockets with patches. To his credit, Gibson never made a big deal about their elimination. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
Gibson needs the tin foil hat... www.grcsucks.com I think is the address Wayne Johnson wrote: Sorry I did not read the transcript as long as he was just stating his opinion then he can say anything he wants. It's up to us to determine if we need Joe User's tin hat or not. ;-) -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
Re: [H] Best Windows PDA phone
I flashed my MDAIII to Windows Mobile 2005 a few months ago. Aside from some cosmetic stuff that slowed my phone down, it's not much better than WM2003, which I re-flashed my phone to. Chris Reeves wrote: Be prepared on Blackberry (RIM), they are taking a pounding in court, we'll see what happens. http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/38052-1.html As to the other end, you might look at the Cingular 2125. Genious, first phone Windows PDA on Version5 software.
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
Everyone laughed because raw sockets is not a real problem. *nix systems have had the ability to generate raw sockets for years. Things like clustering and VRRP depend on the ability to generate packets that appear to come from virtualized (or spoofed!) IP addresses. Bill Cohane wrote: At 13:49 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. Gibson warned about the inclusion of raw sockets in Win2k. Everyone laughed. Since then, Microsoft has quietly eliminated the raw sockets with patches. To his credit, Gibson never made a big deal about their elimination. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 20:06 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: Everyone laughed because raw sockets is not a real problem. *nix systems have had the ability to generate raw sockets for years. Things like clustering and VRRP depend on the ability to generate packets that appear to come from virtualized (or spoofed!) IP addresses. Raw sockets on Windows could have been a much bigger problem than those *nix systems because for every *nix system user, there were probably a thousand clueless people using Windows. Besides the fact that there aren't as many *nix users (as windows users), most of those *nix users are not so clueless. I don't see why people are so quick to attack Gibson. He puts out many free security utilities and spends a lot of effort educating windows users. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
Raw sockets itself is not a problem. For a given Unix system the majority of people who have the power to use raw sockets know how to do it properly. Gibson's beef was that you now have millions of copies of Windows 2000 with raw sockets on by default and every single copy could be infected by malware/viruses that abuse raw sockets. He argued that there was no good reason to include them in Windows 2000 because no average windows user knew enough to use them properly or needed them. And it left a huge hole that could be exploited. Which it was by every worm and virus that rampaged the net in the last few years. Doesn't anyone actually listen to what people say before they spout off? On 1/20/06, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone laughed because raw sockets is not a real problem. *nix systems have had the ability to generate raw sockets for years. Things like clustering and VRRP depend on the ability to generate packets that appear to come from virtualized (or spoofed!) IP addresses. Bill Cohane wrote: At 13:49 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. Gibson warned about the inclusion of raw sockets in Win2k. Everyone laughed. Since then, Microsoft has quietly eliminated the raw sockets with patches. To his credit, Gibson never made a big deal about their elimination. Regards, Bill -- Brian
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
Raw sockets support is not something that you turn on or turn off. It's part of the TCP/IP stack. I mean I guess they could have shipped a crippled TCP/IP stack with Windows 2000 Pro and left raw socket support in Win2k Server, but then you're talking about maintaining two codebases for a problem that just simply is not a big deal. I understand the argument that Gibson was trying to make. All I'm saying is that it's stupid to bash Windows for having a feature that's part of TCP/IP. I don't think that your average Linux user would know enough to use or need raw socket support either. Brian Weeden wrote: Raw sockets itself is not a problem. For a given Unix system the majority of people who have the power to use raw sockets know how to do it properly. Gibson's beef was that you now have millions of copies of Windows 2000 with raw sockets on by default and every single copy could be infected by malware/viruses that abuse raw sockets. He argued that there was no good reason to include them in Windows 2000 because no average windows user knew enough to use them properly or needed them. And it left a huge hole that could be exploited. Which it was by every worm and virus that rampaged the net in the last few years. Doesn't anyone actually listen to what people say before they spout off?
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
And a very well-written rebuttal (by someone a hell of a lot more reputable than Gibson): http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/01/inside-wmf-backdoor.html Or, would you like to tell him he doesn't have his facts straight, either? Is it possible Steve is right? Yeah, it is possible. Is it anywhere near likely? Reading Mark's rebuttal, I think the answer is a pretty definitive hell no. - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft Listen to episode 22: http://grc.com/securitynow.htm This was on Digg last week. Every person that I have heard saying Gibson is a moron over this has not had their facts straight. Listen to the podcast, look at his reports, hell look at his source code. His arguement that you need 2 or 3 very specific things to happen to trigger the WMF vulnerability, things that prevent the WMF files from working as intended. Which in my mind is the exact definition of a backdoor. Of course M$ will deny it. The only other option is to say yes, one of two things are true: 1. We have a rogue programmer who put their own backdoor in all version of our software since win2k 2. We deliberately put in a backdoor so we can access and patch every copy of windows in an emergency, even if they have firewalls and autoupdate disabled. -- Brian
