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Re:It's somewhat expected. by Graff · 2010-06-23 02:56 · Score: 1 · on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge

Apple should learn from Microsoft's mistake of trying to have two rather diverse platforms (Windows and Windows mobile).

The article is mostly nonsense. The two operating systems are already pretty much the same and run on nearly the same codebase. There are just a few differences where it makes sense for there to be a difference between a desktop-oriented operating system and an appliance-oriented operating system.

Now, would it be cool if there was an option to run the appliance interface on a "regular" computer? Maybe, and maybe Apple will give developers a way to bundle an app so one package can run on both iOS and Mac OS. Until then it's trivial to develop an app that easily compiles into both an iOS version and a Mac OS version.

I see that they complain about not having regular expression support in Cocoa, well they must not realize that they are on a POSIX-compliant operating system which includes regex. There are also easily-found frameworks out there which provide an Objective-C regex API.

Anyways, it seems that the article is just a teaser for Ars's paid, premium service. This is probably why they made it so sensationalistic, so they could draw people in to pay $5 a month for their site:

(If you'd like to read what these developers had to say about recommended resources for Mac OS X developers, thoughts on Macs for scientific computing, benefits of RAD languages and tools, adopting new developer tools in Snow Leopard and iOS 4, and more, the full transcript of the live chat--jokes and all--is still available to all Ars Premier subscribers.)

As a Linux user by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-23 02:03 · Score: 2, Informative · on Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins

As a Linux user I can sum up my choice of browser in the following way:

Opera: Excellent browser. Has the best set of features of any browser out-of-the-box, almost no rendering issues and it's fast. Unfortunately it can't be patched, updated and packaged as easily as other free software browsers. It's closed nature also makes it non-portable, limiting me to whatever platforms Opera Software decides to support. It was my browser of choice for a long time but when I started to migrate to pure64 Linux Opera's releases didn't keep up. Ruled out.

Chromium: Also excellent. Unfortunately Google's development model for the browser makes it painful to package and distribute. The bootstrap tarball is a whopping 700MB in size, and after the tarball has been downloaded you have to update it with svn. AFAIK there are no regular release tarballs and shipping a 700MB non-current tarball in the source tree with a strange build system and code that has to be updated before building is out of the question. It would be my browser of choice on Linux if it didn't complicate things so much. I think most Linux distributors agree with a number of these points, which is why we don't see more of them package Chrome(ium). Distributions like Slackware would never, ever carry source code that big (at best you get the pre-built binaries from Google.. again, this affects portability and from what I know it's heavily optimized for x86, probably won't even work on PPC/ARM). Ruled out.

Konqueror: Great browser for the most part, but uncomfortable to use. Has rendering issues (and "flickering" when it draws and loads webpages, forms are sometimes broken etc.) which makes it annoying, plugins don't always work (like flash). And the way bookmarks is implemented isn't as polished as one would hope. KHTML is a good engine but not as good as WebKit, and QT's internal WebKit engine apparently needs work (based on my experience with Rekonq which needs a LOT of polish). Ruled out.

Epiphany: Haven't used the new WebKit-based version because I don't use Gnome (and it's heavily tied to it). Probably what I would recommend and use myself if I didn't prefer KDE as my desktop. Ruled out.

Firefox: The browser I prefer. It isn't the fastest browser but it's fast enough. It's easy to build and the functionality it lacks can be added with extensions. I use it because it's well supported and just works. Fact is, while there are plenty of browsers that can compete with Firefox in terms of features and polish (even exceed it) those aren't the reasons I actually USE firefox. It's might be based on Gtk but isn't tied into Gnome so it's well suited for using on desktops other than Gnome (like Xfce and KDE).

I don't fit the profile of your average Linux user so my reasons for choosing a particular browser is different from the norm, but the fact is that Firefox is good anough and it fits the free software development and distribution platform very well making it easy to support.

Re:what the fuck is wrong with slashdot comments? by dotancohen · 2010-06-22 19:35 · Score: 1 · on Cheap ADSL Holds Up 802.11n Router Design

File a bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=4421&atid=104421

The link is right there on _every_ /. page. Use your browser's on-page Search function for the word "bug".

Re:You did not RTFA either by Zarel · 2010-06-19 15:22 · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome

because TFA doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Heck, even the google blog announcement doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Guess what, it turns out google did not write it themselves, they're using libpdf.so which is libpdf

I was referring to the Google blog post, which is linked from the Slashdot summary and thus counts as "TFA".

It says "Currently, we do not support 100% of the advanced PDF features found in Adobe Reader, such as certain types of embedded media" and "We would also like to work with the Adobe Reader team to bring the full PDF feature set to Chrome using the same next generation browser plug-in API", which I took to mean that:

1. it clearly isn't being written by Adobe, and
2. even if Google didn't write it, they are maintaining and improving it, so they "wrote it" in the same sense that Apple "wrote" WebKit.

As for the "libpdf.so", part, I assume you're looking at the part of the code that says

#if defined(OS_WIN) cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("pdf.dll")); #elif defined(OS_MACOSX) cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("PDF.plugin")); #else // Linux and Chrome OS cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("libpdf.so")); #endif

Which means that they're using a file called libpdf.so on Linux. As another one of your replies points out, this is doubtful to be the 9-year-old unmaintained incomplete C library you link to, and judging from the Windows and Mac filenames, this is nearly definitely a library written (or at least maintained) by Google.

You did not RTFA either by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-19 12:30 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome

because TFA doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Heck, even the google blog announcement doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Guess what, it turns out google did not write it themselves, they're using libpdf.so which is libpdf

ENF Collector in java nfiENFcollector by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-18 21:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Flight of the Desktops

ENF Collector in java (for end zicks)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfienfcollector

Electrical Network Frequency Analysis (ENF) by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-17 21:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Thailand Shuts Down 43,000 More Websites

Met lab claims 'biggest breakthrough since Watergate'

"Police scientists have hailed a new technique that recently played a pivotal role in securing a murder conviction as the most significant development in audio forensics since Watergate. The capability, called "electrical network frequency analysis" (ENF), is now attracting interest from the FBI and is considered the exciting new ..."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/enf_met_police/

Article's Comments:
page 1 - http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/06/01/enf_met_police/
page 2 - http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2010/06/01/enf_met_police/
page 3 - http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/3/2010/06/01/enf_met_police/

Program Referenced Within Comments Sections Above:

NFI enf collector
"This is an ENF collector in java for collecting the variation in frequency in the electric network via the audio card with a AC adapter with the correct voltage. It can assist in forensic research for determining the time of the recording."
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfienfcollector/

Re:No more Fireflock. What next? by staalmannen · 2010-06-17 17:21 · Score: 1 · on Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta

In fact, the whole patent issue around H.264 is only an issue in a FEW countries (US included). A dutch developer is currently making a Firefox-spin (WildFox, http://wildfox.sourceforge.net/) for the rest of the world. Why should the rest of the world suffer because a few (dominant) countries have a retarded stance on software/specification patents? I also believe that WebM is a Good Thing... but lets face it - there will be lots of disputes whether a certain way of solving things in video encoding/decoding are "too similar" to what is given in specifications for patent-encumbered technologies. This is the whole issue with the patents - they are (intentionally) extremely vague and describe "processes". Copyright is a whole other issue - where it is easy to prove that something is original work.

Re:No HP For Me by lucifer_666 · 2010-06-16 15:31 · Score: 1 · on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer

I have my Kodak ESP 5250 working very well on Fedora with the CUPS driver on Sourceforge. Just unpacked the file and then installed the printer (as a network printer over wifi) using the standard Printers icon in the control panel (I think it was called CUPS Printer Configuration Utility.) Worked first time.

Re:Parameterized SQL by abiggerhammer · 2010-06-16 03:15 · Score: 1 · on Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote

No, no, no, no, NO. DO NOT use regular expressions to validate context-free languages. The only way to validate SQL using regular expressions is to use Perl-style regular expressions with backreferences, and those are actually pushdown automata. They're also next to impossible to read.

I'll toot my own horn and point out that context-free validation can be done sanely ... though it would be easier for everyone else if I actually had the time to keep up with releases. Dan's asked me to port that project to MySQL, which I'm actually working on right now along with cleaning up some of the dumber design decisions I made five years ago.

C64 BASIC emulator-Not a magazine, but still... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-16 00:32 · Score: 0 · on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine?

If you still have any of the older Commodore 64 magazines, you might want to try to re-use the code in this Commodore BASIC interpreter to see if it still holds up.

There are some web sites dedicated to just source code: http://www.codeproject.com/ is a great place to find useful small applications with an explanation. http://sourceforge.net/ has excellent code. http://apache.org/ has very good projects. These sites don't require you to retype anything. While the programs in codeproject are small, some of the projects in source forge and apache are huge -- but many have very good small tutorials to get you up and running. For little hardware projects look at http://www.instructables.com/. Even the commercial products now have incredible online resources that in many ways surpass what we got in Byte, if you're not familiar with http://msdn.microsft.com/ check it out. Another approach is to install Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, or any distribution comes with a package manager that allows you to browse applications by the thousands. I set one up in my house and my daughter had Tux Racer installed before I got home from work the next day. Computer magazines didn't go away, they were eclipsed. Oh did I mention http://eclipse.org/ its a full IDE, open source and a development environment as well.

Get code from the net, build, run and learn by bhlowe · 2010-06-15 08:11 · Score: 1 · on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine?

Online: http://www.google.com/codesearch and http://sourceforge.net/

Re:I'd rather hear about a next gen console by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-14 07:50 · Score: 0 · on Project Natal Renamed 'Kinect'

Funny how you drooling console fanboys always seem to miss the large number of PC game releases by only focusing on mainstream crap and games that have television commercials.

You'll find hundreds of PC only games at the following sites.

TIGSource
IndieGames
SourceForge

Re:Gqview by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-13 21:56 · Score: 0 · on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell

I completely agree. Here are the links for the lazy:

http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/

Re:Gqview by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-13 21:56 · Score: 0 · on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell

I completely agree. Here are the links for the lazy:

http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/

vvvP by fu-ku-jitsu · 2010-06-13 19:49 · Score: 1 · on A File-Centric Photo Manager?

This is a young program designed to catalog photographs: http://vvvp.sourceforge.net/ Linux, OS X and Windows. It stores everything in a single file so it is easy to backup. It does not store tags in the image itself, but this will be added in future versions.

Try Mapivi by Demosthenex · 2010-06-13 11:21 · Score: 4, Informative · on A File-Centric Photo Manager?

I've been searching for the same feature set, a file centric image manager whose metadata is stored exclusively in the file.

One of the best ones I have found is Mapivi:

http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml

I still often use Digikam, but its metadata support is inconsistent at best. On the other hand the front end is more useable than Mapivi.

You should also look at ExifTool, because you can manipulate and query metadata with it on the command line.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

If you find a solution, please share!

Re:Put another way by jvin248 · 2010-06-13 11:13 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Chrome OS To Support "Legacy" PC Apps Through Remote Access

This is really a diversion from the real application: Chrome OS with an advanced integrated Wine implementation.

All the goodness of Linux with a measure of "backwards compatibility" - because that is what general users want.
General users like the idea of Linux, but fear they will have to learn something new (OpenOffice is _so_ much different than MSOffice of course...).

I still remember fondly the Slax "Kill Bill Edition" back from 2005 - it had some wine integration.
The new target for Linux though is OS X, especially for Ubuntu.(see purple theme 10.04).

So what does it take to have a Mac-Wine equivalent? To run all those Mac and Hackintoshed programs?
quick search turned up these possibilitites: (http://www.puredarwin.org/, http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/, http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/)

fototagger by epedersen · 2010-06-13 11:10 · Score: 5, Informative · on A File-Centric Photo Manager?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fototagger/

Next3 File System by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 23:56 · Score: 0 · on Volume Shadow Copy For Linux?

New article here on _Next3: Ext3 with snapshots_ http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Next3-Ext3-with-snapshots-1020107.html on adding snapshots to EXT3 file systems.

More is here too: http://lwn.net/Articles/387231/

Perhaps the best article is on sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/next3/index.php?title=FAQ#Is_Next3_related_to_Ext3cow.3F

Re:Back to Basics by burnin1965 · 2010-06-11 11:21 · Score: 1 · on Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet
How many times do we need to say the same thing before people start listening?

Nice cheat sheet but I was a bit surprised to see "* Also Enforce: Least Privilege" listed under "Additional Defenses". Perhaps it is just my opinion but it seems least privilege should be very high on the list as has the potential to negate many application code and query instances where a developer may make a mistake or is simply lax in their methods.

When I had a PHPBB website hit by an SQL Injection attack I not only stopped using PHPBB but I started an open source project with the idea of creating components to be used in the design of a database backed web application that could rely on the least privilege principle at the database engine rather than having absolute faith in the web application code itself to enforce security.

It is not a perfect solution but it has the potential to stop many SQL injection attacks even in cases where the web application has some bad code.

Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger by HuguesT · 2010-06-11 10:48 · Score: 3, Informative · on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks

They probably mean the file server will use AFP, which few clients support. However there exist a client FUSE module, so linux & BSD should work OK. Now there are other server bits that Apple provides, such as calendar servers, it could get hairy.

Re:rsnapshot is what you're looking for by Tolaris · 2010-06-11 09:47 · Score: 1 · on Volume Shadow Copy For Linux?

Take rsnapshot one step further, and you have BackupPC. Which is what my company uses (mid-level enterprise), and it's awesome.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

In other words, you violated LOGIC period by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 04:00 · Score: 0 · on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows

"You've also refused to (or are unable to) make this fine distinction: My use of "dick" was a description of your behavior, not your character." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

Who are you trying to b.s. here? The "dick" comment is only 1 of MANY AD HOMINEM ATTACKS YOU USED, such as this one in addition to that which you cited above on your part also:

"Now you're just a moron." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Tuesday June 01, @08:51PM (#32426264)

As I said before?

You YOURSELF often go and violate logic by using that fallacy in your ad hominem attack based name tossing and all your doubletalk in the world doesn't change the fact you are obviously NOT much of a logician when you violate the rules of logical debate in your use of logical fallacies here.

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"Tu quoque is a subset of ad-hominem, meaning, again, it applies when one is using this instead of attacking the argument." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

Uhm, lol, I know... I cited it here & from an actual EDUCATIONAL INSTITUION mind you (vs. your "wikipedia U" citings, lol):

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1670694&cid=32468178

(Additionally, I have taken & passed (did well in fact) LOGIC during my CSC degree work... do you have such a degree to your name/credit, establishing you as an authority on the topic here (CSC related) or even in LOGIC (off topic though it is & you tried to "drag it there" much to your own dismay because I can show where and when with your own words how you violate its tenets for logical debate constantly when it's "convenient" for you)

Yes... you thought I didn't KNOW anything about LOGIC I suspect, is why, which is the oldest troll trick in the world, but "surprise, surprise" I do & have been formally educated in its usage (along with CSC/CIS/MIS related work, the actual topic here and you have no such material to your name/credit either on ANY account here that establishes you as a valid authority figure either).

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"In other words, you're overly sensitive when constructive criticism is presented with vulgarity." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

No, I merely showed you use logical fallacies like mad, and yet you try to play "logician" with me while violating the rules of logic? LOL, please... and I am only successfully defending myself vs. your illogic and lack of anything showing you are an authority here on any of the subjects @ hand (especially those on topic, you have had to try to go "off topic" into logic and you only failed there as well in ad hominem attacks on myself repeatedly here no less... yea, some logician YOU are (not!)

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"Contrast to your use of "open sores", which is neither constructive nor actually criticism, but merely abuse -- exactly what am I meant to take away from that?" - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

Yea, but I actually HELP the "Open SORES" crowd, per my helping those like the UltraDefrag 64 projects numerous times now in code, icons work, & also how to look at data when code opitimizations help you (and each time, the dev there said I was "correct" or "right", mind you). See here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3369133 OR here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3690136 as just some examples thereof ontop of my own work in freeware/shareware also, I also helped other devs of THAT nature as well many times over this decade no less also.

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In other words, you violated LOGIC period by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 04:00 · Score: 0 · on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows

"You've also refused to (or are unable to) make this fine distinction: My use of "dick" was a description of your behavior, not your character." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

Who are you trying to b.s. here? The "dick" comment is only 1 of MANY AD HOMINEM ATTACKS YOU USED, such as this one in addition to that which you cited above on your part also:

"Now you're just a moron." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Tuesday June 01, @08:51PM (#32426264)

As I said before?

You YOURSELF often go and violate logic by using that fallacy in your ad hominem attack based name tossing and all your doubletalk in the world doesn't change the fact you are obviously NOT much of a logician when you violate the rules of logical debate in your use of logical fallacies here.

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"Tu quoque is a subset of ad-hominem, meaning, again, it applies when one is using this instead of attacking the argument." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

Uhm, lol, I know... I cited it here & from an actual EDUCATIONAL INSTITUION mind you (vs. your "wikipedia U" citings, lol):

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1670694&cid=32468178

(Additionally, I have taken & passed (did well in fact) LOGIC during my CSC degree work... do you have such a degree to your name/credit, establishing you as an authority on the topic here (CSC related) or even in LOGIC (off topic though it is & you tried to "drag it there" much to your own dismay because I can show where and when with your own words how you violate its tenets for logical debate constantly when it's "convenient" for you)

Yes... you thought I didn't KNOW anything about LOGIC I suspect, is why, which is the oldest troll trick in the world, but "surprise, surprise" I do & have been formally educated in its usage (along with CSC/CIS/MIS related work, the actual topic here and you have no such material to your name/credit either on ANY account here that establishes you as a valid authority figure either).

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"In other words, you're overly sensitive when constructive criticism is presented with vulgarity." - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

No, I merely showed you use logical fallacies like mad, and yet you try to play "logician" with me while violating the rules of logic? LOL, please... and I am only successfully defending myself vs. your illogic and lack of anything showing you are an authority here on any of the subjects @ hand (especially those on topic, you have had to try to go "off topic" into logic and you only failed there as well in ad hominem attacks on myself repeatedly here no less... yea, some logician YOU are (not!)

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"Contrast to your use of "open sores", which is neither constructive nor actually criticism, but merely abuse -- exactly what am I meant to take away from that?" - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) on Friday June 11, @08:58AM (#32534128)

Yea, but I actually HELP the "Open SORES" crowd, per my helping those like the UltraDefrag 64 projects numerous times now in code, icons work, & also how to look at data when code opitimizations help you (and each time, the dev there said I was "correct" or "right", mind you). See here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3369133 OR here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3690136 as just some examples thereof ontop of my own work in freeware/shareware also, I also helped other devs of THAT nature as well many times over this decade no less also.

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I made that SAME point here on "Open Sores" by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 01:36 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War

"If the source is available it is for the good and the bad guys. It the source isnt available and is protected by licenses, patents and so on, debugging, analyzing, reverse engineering,getting in black market portions and so on is not available for the good guys... but still is for the bad ones. That could make the problem far worse... could be a lot of exploits to vulnerabilities that could not be announced nor reported as doing so would put in legal troubles." - by gmuslera (3436) on Thursday June 10, @05:48PM (#32528792) Homepage

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1681772&cid=32531912

See there, and you'll see that you see "Open Sores" as I do (even though I help projects of that nature, as I did others in the "freeware/shareware" circuit before that, such as UltraDefrag 64 here lately, here with ideas/approaches -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3369133 and here with code before that -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3690136 & more there (when I have FREE time that is, usually I don't or at least as much as I'd like perhaps)).

APK

P.S.=>

"And the desktop is a big trouble. I think it was desktop what was used in Google intrusion, same for this bank intrusion. The biggest vulnerabilty of any system is the people that works on it." - by gmuslera (3436) on Thursday June 10, @05:48PM (#32528792) Homepage

Right, & iirc, GOOGLE also suspected it was an "inside job", @ least in PART, also... and there's NO BIGGER "inside job" imo as a developer, than having open sores code, in actual code, because it's FAR EASIER to exploit (e.g.-> it's much easier & faster to look for things like, say, the sscanf instruction in C code (known to be buffer overflowable) using an editor like notepad.exe even, so you can exploit it, than it is going after closed source code using debuggers/disassemblers OR fuzzers to do the same thing (look for exploits to take advantage of))... apk

I made that SAME point here on "Open Sores" by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 01:36 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War

"If the source is available it is for the good and the bad guys. It the source isnt available and is protected by licenses, patents and so on, debugging, analyzing, reverse engineering,getting in black market portions and so on is not available for the good guys... but still is for the bad ones. That could make the problem far worse... could be a lot of exploits to vulnerabilities that could not be announced nor reported as doing so would put in legal troubles." - by gmuslera (3436) on Thursday June 10, @05:48PM (#32528792) Homepage

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1681772&cid=32531912

See there, and you'll see that you see "Open Sores" as I do (even though I help projects of that nature, as I did others in the "freeware/shareware" circuit before that, such as UltraDefrag 64 here lately, here with ideas/approaches -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3369133 and here with code before that -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3690136 & more there (when I have FREE time that is, usually I don't or at least as much as I'd like perhaps)).

APK

P.S.=>

"And the desktop is a big trouble. I think it was desktop what was used in Google intrusion, same for this bank intrusion. The biggest vulnerabilty of any system is the people that works on it." - by gmuslera (3436) on Thursday June 10, @05:48PM (#32528792) Homepage

Right, & iirc, GOOGLE also suspected it was an "inside job", @ least in PART, also... and there's NO BIGGER "inside job" imo as a developer, than having open sores code, in actual code, because it's FAR EASIER to exploit (e.g.-> it's much easier & faster to look for things like, say, the sscanf instruction in C code (known to be buffer overflowable) using an editor like notepad.exe even, so you can exploit it, than it is going after closed source code using debuggers/disassemblers OR fuzzers to do the same thing (look for exploits to take advantage of))... apk

Re:about time by v1 · 2010-06-08 09:43 · Score: 1 · on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years

You need to check out rEFIt. Works awesome on the mac, allows you to TRIPLE BOOT, linux, mac os, and windows. very nice interface even.

EFI is a much more customizable system than BIOS ever was.

Apple uses EFI in all intel based machines by theolein · 2010-06-08 08:27 · Score: 4, Interesting · on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years

Apple has been using EFI in its intel based Macs since 2006. The EFI firmware allows the use of emulation modules so that, as an example, Mac EFI has a BIOS emulator allowing Macs to boot into Windows. On Macs the BIOS emulator is not perfect as there is no way you can actually edit or modify it without running the risk of bricking your machine after damaging the firmware, but there is an open source EFI interface for Macs called rEFIt that allows you to boot to a boot menu from where you can boot into Mac, Windows or Linux for example.

Amit Singh has written a book on prgramming the EFI interface on Macs which, for anyone considering getting into EFI programming is a good point to start with. Armed with a second hand Intel Mac Mini from ebay, you could get a head start by the time MSI release their motherboards.

Re:about time by jd · 2010-06-08 06:42 · Score: 2, Insightful · on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years

Well, MIPS-based machines like the Broadcom BCM91250E use a BIOS called the Common Firmware Environment (CFE). Sun machines use a BIOS called OpenBOOT. The OpenBIOS pages are a little... old, but still informative about non-PC BIOSes as well as the platform-independent standards and their own open-source replacement.

Let's see. Claim 1 of the GP: The BIOS is where manufacturers lock up the hardware. Well, use OpenBIOS, Coreboot, Intel's Open Source TianoCore or any other replacement for that defective closed-source product you're using. Don't blame BIOSes, blame the implementation. Just because one BIOS developer was high on substances of questionable legality does not make all BIOSes equal.

Implicit Claim of the GP: All BIOSes are One BIOS. There Can Be Only One! Muahahahahaha!

Reality: There's so many fully or partially Open Source BIOSes out there it's not funny. There are plenty of alternative Closed Source BIOSes you can use as drop-in replacements as well. If you don't like the BIOS, don't blame the concept, blame yourself for not replacing it with something you DO like.

(Me? Suffer fools gladly? There may be suffering involved, yes. I'd make a great Grand Inquisitor.)

Re:Sounds good. by nj_peeps · 2010-06-07 06:57 · Score: 1 · on One Video Card, 12 Monitors

I could see this being useful in a NOC setup. the NOC for my job has 12 PC's that run 25 monitors. I helped them out with buy setting upSynergy to cut down on the number of keyboards and mice, but with two of these cards, we could could cut that down to one or two PC's. It would make life for the NOC admin's much easier, not to mention the cost savings on running 10 less PC's.

VDE by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-06 21:43 · Score: 0 · on Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking?

might be interesting for you as you can run a functioning virtual ethernet network, "plugging" things together etc. the rest of the virtualsquare project is also worth a look.

http://vde.sourceforge.net/

its not exactly colorful, but it really helps learning about network configurations that you don't have the resources to setup a testbed for.

Re:Official Workaround by nadaou · 2010-06-05 12:29 · Score: 1 · on Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks

GPL'd version: djvulibre

$ apt-cache show djvulibre-bin
...
Description: Utilities for the DjVu image format
Executables including utilities for conversion between DjVu and other
formats.

$ file /usr/bin/djvumake
/usr/bin/djvumake: ELF 32-bit LSB executable

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

Source TAR.GZ djvulibre-3.5.22.tar.gz
Binary Packages
Fedora/Redhat Available from Fedora.
Mandriva Available from Mandrake Club.
Suse Available from OpenSuse.
Debian Available from Debian (apt-get!)
Ubuntu Available from Ubuntu (apt-get!)
SGI Irix 6.5 (mips) djvulibre-3.5.5-irix6.5-mips.tar.gz
Solaris 6 (sparc) djvulibre-3.5.5-solaris6-sparc.tar.gz
Cygwin (x86) djvulibre-3.5.17-1.tar.bz2
OS/2 (x86) Available on Hobbes
Windows (x86) Available on Sourceforge
MacOS (x86,ppc) Available on Sourceforge

etc.

Re:Why not just use a Linux distribution? by sznupi · 2010-06-05 11:07 · Score: 1 · on MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs

There's always AROS if you really want all that (and it and MorphOS have enough apps "to be usable on a day to day basis")

But since MorphOS, among few other things, is doing relatively (very relatively, yeah...) fine even with AROS around, perhaps its community doesn't care about those factors all that much (plus...)

As for the speed, and most notably the percieved speed...I wouldn't be so certain. Grab AROS, it's reasonably comparable for our needs (more rough though); there are even some VMs of recent builds always available. And run it on as low amount of processing power as you can get your hands on.

Re:slashvertisement by sznupi · 2010-06-05 10:29 · Score: 1 · on MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs

http://morphosambient.sourceforge.net/

Re:slashvertisement by sznupi · 2010-06-05 10:24 · Score: 1 · on MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs

Apple products are more open source than morphos

Ehhh?
http://morphosambient.sourceforge.net/

And FFS, it's not "crippling suspected pirate copies", it's a trial; quite adequate (you can restart, you know...) to determine if you want to get the thing.

Re:Why not just use a Linux distribution? by larpon · 2010-06-05 10:11 · Score: 4, Informative · on MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs

you could consider AROS to be intel-based although it runs on other architectures :)

GNS3 & wireshark & NMAP and package genera by einar.petersen · 2010-06-04 22:41 · Score: 1 · on Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking?

As someone working as a Network Engineer I would recommend you look at GNS3 since you can install it via sources or via a deb package, you already have the address in other post in this thread. The nice thing about GNS is that if you build the network and installe the images (that is the trouble part) you need actual cisco images, you might be able to obtain them for educational purposes, and why not approach Cisco to ask. The worst thing you could get is a no on the other hand you might end up with a system that acts as the devices do in real life, an ideal playground in which to learn about networking, but to properly learn get hold of a package generator to stream your simulated environment. http://sourceforge.net/projects/packeth/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacgen/ http://bittwist.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/traffic/ http://gull.sourceforge.net/ http://mc-mint.sourceforge.net/ Are just some of the available package generators. Also someone else mentioned wireshark http://www.wireshark.org/ - That tool is a must for anyone serious about learning about networking and someone teaching about it. NMAP is another must as well http://nmap.org/ Good luck with your efforts