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Offline Hammer

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Re: Genesi selects IBM PowerPC for Performance-intensive Peg
« Reply #29 from previous page: December 06, 2003, 10:55:39 PM »
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Assuming that it is this Chris Shephard that you mean, and after having read the three articles I can't really see that there is that much to it. Offcourse there are improvements over plain x86, but nothing that will stop a competent attacker. So IMHO using PowerPC over x86 is just security through obscurity, and nothing more.

PPC was not a guarantee to shield from Samba buffer overflow issue i.e. refer to
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8533/
MacOS X was also hit by Samba's buffer overflows.

Related References

Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures
http://www.home.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6701

gcc bounds checking patch
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/Haj.Ten.Brugge/

Stackshield
http://www.angelfire.com/sk/stackshield/index.html

StackGuard
http://www.immunix.org/stackguard.html
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Re: Genesi selects IBM PowerPC for Performance-intensive Peg
« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2003, 02:22:25 PM »
@wayne
as usual your "facts" are a little on the cream cheese side of hard.I can state unequivocably that there has actually been fewer than 200 sold.Does not make it true does it.
Where I *might* believe 1000 pegasos I and pegasos II machinrs have been produced combined, I doubt that figure is too close to how many have actually been sold.Yet that is neither here nor there.
The fact remains, this board has been available for order for little over a month.(The Pegasos II board) and bu the time you get those boards to customers, then they put it together and THEN  "trial and test" the thing, it leave a bit to be desired for anything approaching acceptable "rigorous testing" you could barely make a premliminary power consumtion test in that time. THEN you have to assume every customer that has recieved one of these boards has "tested and trialled' them. By this I mean a formal test and trial procedures with results recorded and so on.
Sorry has not happened.
Community support? I never mentioned anything about community support.Also please define what you consider is "This community"
I agree, you guys have spent alot of time and effort in this community, "there is no Mai with out April" "Gary Hare as CEO" and a courtcase I believe. Thats real constructive stuff, and just the tip of it.

FInally, I never said impled or inferred that a hobbyist is not a developer, if you really wanna get pedantic you could say that everyone that uses a computer is a "developer" as everyone that uses a computer is developing something.

Now finally, I never said anything about community support and my entire comment is simply that the press statement in question was, and still is at best exageration, and at worst a further attempt to mislead the public with misinformation in the same way it so often has done in the past.This boils down to its just more lies and I dont understand why the community puts up with them.

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Re: Genesi selects IBM PowerPC for Performance-intensive Peg
« Reply #31 on: December 07, 2003, 06:13:42 PM »
That's ok.  I for some reason thought that you were not an idiot.  Shows what I know.
 

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Re: Genesi selects IBM PowerPC for Performance-intensive Peg
« Reply #32 on: December 08, 2003, 11:22:26 PM »
Well, you are doing a great job for Genesi!
Shows once again the integrity of Genesi that it's employees and even the guy (according to his previous signature) responsible for web presence, has to go around insulting and name calling people.

Great job, I am sure this is just the image your employers want.

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