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  1. Re:ULA? by itzly · · Score: 1 · on SpaceX To Try a First Stage Recovery Again On April 13

    No, they're talking about an Uncommitted Logic Array. http://www.auditmypc.com/ula.a...

  2. Re:Not happening to me by EvilBudMan · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic

    Funny,

    Here are the results from a static IP:

    --Knoxville.hfc.comcastbusiness.net --

    --UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) appears to pass through a firewall or proxy.
    The applet was unable to transmit an arbitrary request on this UDP port, but was able to transmit a legitimate DNS request, suggesting that a proxy or firewall intercepted and blocked the deliberately invalid request.
    The applet was unable to directly request a large DNS response. This suggests that a proxy or firewall is unable to handle large extended DNS requests or fragmented UDP traffic.--

    There might be some other issues here:
    http://www.auditmypc.com/port/udp-port-53.asp

  3. Main point was this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare?

    Your main statement was this:

    "Holy cow, how does this stuff get under the radar, especially on Slashdot?" - by TheNetAvenger (624455) on Tuesday April 28, @12:15AM (#27741331)

    And it clearly did not "get under the radar": As my post which corrected for YOURS, mind you, & predated that quoted statement of yours, here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1213751&cid=27741251

    PLUS - My reply was more accurate than yours, in my noting the POSIX subsystem there, specifically... Whereas you called it specifically bsd, and you are incorrect there)

    However - there, or later to one of the other posters? In defense of your statement, I did state you were BASICALLY correct: In that you probably could take an unaltered tty binary from say, HP/UX & run it beneath an NT-based OS via the POSIX subsystem, though I've never tried it myself, it's supposedly doable for BOTH *NIX &/or Os/2 tty-charactermode apps, on NT-based OS'...

    (Care to dispute that?)

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    "again this is really wrong, as the display driver model has nothing to do with GDI." - by TheNetAvenger (624455) on Wednesday April 29, @05:28PM (#27764639)

    Untrue - GDI stands for "Graphics Device Interface", see here -> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/GDI.html

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    "Short for Graphical Device Interface, a Windows standard for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices, such as monitors and printers."

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    & it does have to do with display functions...

    Also:

    User32 = "The user32.dll library is required by windows and contains the program components for a large number of GUI and user functions" from http://www.auditmypc.com/process/user32.asp

    Also you said this:

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    "GDI is just a set of APIs, like Display Poscript/PDF on OSX is just a set of APIs to draw things on the screen and what video driver model sits underneath this has nothing to do with it." - by TheNetAvenger (624455) on Wednesday April 29, @05:28PM (#27764639)

    First of all: When you come RIGHT down to it?

    EVERYTHING in Windows is an "API" (i.e.-> Calleable functions from libraries), & I work with them everyday coding... just like everything you perform I/O to, is a file that you Open/Read-Write/Close...

    Secondly: User32.dll does do display related functions (though it does more) such as "FlashWindow" as one of its calleable functions, & User32 + GDI do interact w/ the underlying HAL & videocard driver via the HAL, see the defintion for that, above.

    (Care to dispute that also...?)

    APK

    P.S.=> On User32 & GDI (older NT-based OS method prior to VISTA) being "faster"? I stated that, because it does seem to paint/repaint & respond faster than VISTA does (less heavy/less overheads perhaps, but it does seem 'snappier', but that may have to do with quite a bit more than just the graphics subsystem)... apk

  4. Re:suggestion for a safe Windows Expirience by rs232 · · Score: 1 · on Botnet Business Model Comes to Life
    "make sure Windows firewall is turned on prior to connecting. Period. Do not muck things up with such well-intentioned but poorly-executed crap such as what is on the "personal firewall" market today.

    What extra functionality does the Windows firewall provide that the others don't. A software firewall is no protection at all as once you've opened the attachment or clicked on a URL you get infected and the first thing the virus does is disable the 'firewall'

    "Why not simply a hardware router/firewall for a lousy 20 bucks? - Jedi Alec

    Because everything I've seen for that price is *not* a firewall, but an NAT router. NAT routers are not firewalls ..


    In other words don't get a hardware firewall because it mightn't be configured correctly. That fails the logic test. The last adsl modem+router I tested was by default NATed and did not allow incoming connections apart from web and email. This web site claims to scan for open ports.
  5. Re:Shibboleth by sckeener · · Score: 1 · on WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall?

    MAC is not capitalized unless you're talking about http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/MAC.asp

    It's just Mac, same capitalization as Perl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth#Modern_usa ge

    Good to know, but since I still get dinged on PC via spell checker, I think it is a character fault in myself to capitalize them.

  6. Shibboleth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall?

    MAC is not capitalized unless you're talking about http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/MAC.asp

    It's just Mac, same capitalization as Perl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth#Modern_usa ge

  7. This Program is a Hoax! by jgallagher · · Score: 3, Informative · on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox

    This "foxie" installs iun6002.exe (desktop surveillance personal spyware) on your computer. I just ran Ad-Aware SE with the latest difinitions. Before I had installed this program I didn't have this nasty spyware installed. I could be worng but I don't think I am. Following links: http://www.lavasoftnews.com/ms/display_main.php?ta c=Favoriteman http://www.auditmypc.com/process/iun6002.asp http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/microsoft.publ ic.inetserver.iis.security/2004-06/0260.html

  8. Re:The monkey man screeches by timeOday · · Score: 1 · on Ballmer on Innovation
    Intestment in technology fell off a cliff in 2001. That's what happens.
    There are still trillions of dollars spent on information systems worldwide every year - far more than, for instance, biotech. The difference is that relatively little of the infosystems money is going to development and even less to research, because there doesn't seem to be much of interest on the horizon. That's what bothers me.

    I agree OSX is nice, but to me it's just asymtotically arriving at what the original Macintosh aimed for 20 years ago - WIMP nirvana. Virtual reality grabbed everybody's imagination, then fizzled and died.

  9. Abel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Adobe Unveils Open Source Library

    ABEL is a microprocessor programming language, you insensitive clod!

  10. Re:What's next? = I'm worried by Laebshade · · Score: 1 · on What's Next For Mozilla?
    Ok, I have to pick something out here. MobyDisk said:
    I don't want a better popup blocker (AFAIK - It is absolutely perfect as is!)
    There are some popups that Firefox doesn't block. See here, here, here, here, and of course here if you want to find some others.
  11. Re:Security Through Obscurity by voixderaison · · Score: 1 · on Combining Port Knocking With OS Fingerprinting
    my understanding of UDP is that there is no indication to the sending computer that anything happened on the receiving end.
    UDP port scanning is possible since most TPC stacks send an ICMP port unreachable message in response to a UDP packet sent to a port that's not listening. Ports that don't respond have a listener. Of course, packets might get dropped and so forth but the determined can rescan the list of listeners they accumulate to refine the accuracy of the scan.

    Some TCP/IP stacks (for example Lexmark network printers) don't send an ICMP port unreachable and may appear as though every unused port is an open UDP port.

    You might be interested in this brief introduction to various port scanning techniques.