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Saint Aardvark writes "A big MS Windows remote vulnerability has just hit BugTraq. It concerns a buffer overflow in MS' DCOM, and affects Win2k through Server 2003; here's the security advisory from Microsoft. This is in addition to an earlier vulnerability concerning conversion from HTML to RTF - there's a separate security advisory from Microsoft for this one, and it affects Win98 and NT 4.0 through Server 2003. Patch early, patch often." There's also a CNET News story with a little more explanation on the newest vulnerability.
Proof of concept? >:)
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) -- Authorities dug under a backyard pool in a residential neighborhood Wednesday in search of clues to the disappearance of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa but came up empty after a six-hour search.
Nearly 28 years after Hoffa disappeared from the Detroit area, law enforcement officials were combing the site where an informant said a briefcase that purportedly contained information related to the case was buried.
Authorities planned to continue searching the area using metal detectors, said Jeffrey Werner, chief of the Bloomfield Township Police, the lead investigative agency in the case.
But he said chances of finding the briefcase appeared slim.
Hoffa, 62, vanished the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in Oakland County, about 25 miles north of Detroit. Hampton Township is a few miles northeast of Bay City, about 100 miles away.
Authorities said the informant, an inmate named Richard Powell who is imprisoned for killing his landlady in 1982, led a team to the spot. He lived in the home in the 1970s.
Bay County Undersheriff Joel Luethjohann said Powell told investigators in March that he buried the body of a missing Bay City man in the crawl space beneath the same home.
Acting on that information, state police investigators found the body of Robert A. Woods, who had been missing for nearly 30 years.
Powell had long claimed a role in the Hoffa case, but authorities had not taken him seriously.
He told The Bay City Times in a 1984 prison interview that in the 1970s he was involved with gangsters in an auto theft ring and was assigned to drive a motor home containing a body to northern Michigan. He said someone else supposedly came to dispose of the body, which was wrapped in a rug.
Powell changed the story earlier this year, telling officers that Hoffa's body was buried at his former home, where the aboveground pool now sits. Authorities decided to follow up on the lead in part because Powell's claim about Woods' body had proven true.
At the time he vanished, Hoffa was on his way to a meeting with Anthony Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain.
Investigators believe Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the union presidency after he served time in federal prison for jury tampering.
Hoffa took charge of the Teamsters in 1957. He earned the loyalty of his members with contracts that improved their standard of living dramatically. It was under Hoffa that the Teamsters won their first national trucking contract.
He also earned the enmity of Robert F. Kennedy, who accused him of corruption and mob connections, first as counsel to a congressional committee investigating the unions, then as attorney general in his brother's Cabinet.
In 1967, Hoffa went to jail, sentenced to 13 years for jury tampering and fraud, but he refused to give up the Teamsters presidency. After he quit the job in 1971, then-President Nixon pardoned him, and he began agitating to get his job back.
Last August, Gorcyca had said no state criminal charges would be filed and only a deathbed confession or cooperation of a witness would solve the mystery.
Hoffa's son James Jr. is now the Teamsters president. Messages left with him and his sister, Barbara Crancer, of suburban St. Louis, were not immediately returned.
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) -- Authorities dug under a backyard pool in a residential neighborhood Wednesday in search of clues to the disappearance of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa but came up empty after a six hour search.
Nearly 28 years after Hoffa disappeared from the Detroit area, law enforcement officials were combing the site where an informant said a briefcase that purportedly contained information related to the case was buried.
Authorities planned to continue searching the area using metal detectors, said Jeffrey Werner, chief of the Bloomfield Township Police, the lead investigative agency in the case.
But he said chances of finding the briefcase appeared slim.
Hoffa, 62, vanished the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in Oakland County, about 25 miles north of Detroit. Hampton Township is a few miles northeast of Bay City, about 100 miles away.
Authorities said the informant, an inmate named Richard Powell who is imprisoned for killing his landlady in 1982, led a team to the spot. He lived in the home in the 1970s.
Bay County Undersheriff Joel Luethjohann said Powell told investigators in March that he buried the body of a missing Bay City man in the crawl space beneath the same home.
Acting on that information, state police investigators found the body of Robert A. Woods, who had been missing for nearly 30 years.
Powell had long claimed a role in the Hoffa case, but authorities had not taken him seriously.
He told The Bay City Times in a 1984 prison interview that in the 1970s he was involved with gangsters in an auto theft ring and was assigned to drive a motor home containing a body to northern Michigan. He said someone else supposedly came to dispose of the body, which was wrapped in a rug.
Powell changed the story earlier this year, telling officers that Hoffa's body was buried at his former home, where the aboveground pool now sits. Authorities decided to follow up on the lead in part because Powell's claim about Woods' body had proven true.
At the time he vanished, Hoffa was on his way to a meeting with Anthony Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain.
Investigators believe Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the union presidency after he served time in federal prison for jury tampering.
Hoffa took charge of the Teamsters in 1957. He earned the loyalty of his members with contracts that improved their standard of living dramatically. It was under Hoffa that the Teamsters won their first national trucking contract.
He also earned the enmity of Robert F. Kennedy, who accused him of corruption and mob connections, first as counsel to a congressional committee investigating the unions, then as attorney general in his brother's Cabinet.
In 1967, Hoffa went to jail, sentenced to 13 years for jury tampering and fraud, but he refused to give up the Teamsters presidency. After he quit the job in 1971, then-President Nixon pardoned him, and he began agitating to get his job back.
Last August, Gorcyca had said no state criminal charges would be filed and only a deathbed confession or cooperation of a witness would solve the mystery.
Hoffa's son James Jr. is now the Teamsters president. Messages left with him and his sister, Barbara Crancer, of suburban St. Louis, were not immediately returned.
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) -- Authorities dug under a backyard pool in a residential neighborhood Wednesday in search of clues to the disappearance of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa but came up empty after a six-hour search.
Nearly 280 years after Hoffa disappeared from the Detroit area, law enforcement officials were combing the site where an informant said a briefcase that purportedly contained information related to the case was buried.
Authorities planned to continue searching the area using metal detectors, said Jeffrey Werner, chief of the Bloomfield Township Police, the lead investigative agency in the case.
But he said chances of finding the briefcase appeared slim.
Hoffa, 62, vanished the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in Oakland County, about 25 miles north of Detroit. Hampton Township is a few miles northeast of Bay City, about 100 miles away.
Authorities said the informant, an inmate named Richard Powell who is imprisoned for killing his landlady in 1982, led a team to the spot. He lived in the home in the 1970s.
Bay County Undersheriff Joel Luethjohann said Powell told investigators in March that he buried the body of a missing Bay City man in the crawl space beneath the same home.
Acting on that information, state police investigators found the body of Robert A. Woods, who had been missing for nearly 30 years.
Powell had long claimed a role in the Hoffa case, but authorities had not taken him seriously.
He told The Bay City Times in a 1984 prison interview that in the 1970s he was involved with gangsters in an auto theft ring and was assigned to drive a motor home containing a body to northern Michigan. He said someone else supposedly came to dispose of the body, which was wrapped in a rug.
Powell changed the story earlier this year, telling officers that Hoffa's body was buried at his former home, where the aboveground pool now sits. Authorities decided to follow up on the lead in part because Powell's claim about Woods' body had proven true.
At the time he vanished, Hoffa was on his way to a meeting with Anthony Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain.
Investigators believe Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the union presidency after he served time in federal prison for jury tampering.
Hoffa took charge of the Teamsters in 1957. He earned the loyalty of his members with contracts that improved their standard of living dramatically. It was under Hoffa that the Teamsters won their first national trucking contract.
He also earned the enmity of Robert F. Kennedy, who accused him of corruption and mob connections, first as counsel to a congressional committee investigating the unions, then as attorney general in his brother's Cabinet.
In 1967, Hoffa went to jail, sentenced to 13 years for jury tampering and fraud, but he refused to give up the Teamsters presidency. After he quit the job in 1971, then-President Nixon pardoned him, and he began agitating to get his job back.
Last August, Gorcyca had said no state criminal charges would be filed and only a deathbed confession or cooperation of a witness would solve the mystery.
Hoffa's son James Jr. is now the Teamsters president. Messages left with him and his sister, Barbara Crancer, of suburban St. Louis, were not immediately returned.
Oh, I dunno. I guess I just like the fact that I can play something other than TUX RACER on a WinBox. All joking aside, I've used both Linux and Windows, and if there were more native applications and driver support for Linux, I'd switch to it. So, like, go hound developers and stuff.
"Do not hold strong opinions about things you do not understand."
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) -- Authorities dug under a backyard pool in a residential neighborhood Wednesday in search of clues to the disappearance of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa but came up empty after a six-hour search.
Nearly 128 years after Hoffa disappeared from the Detroit area, law enforcement officials were combing the site where an informant said a briefcase that purportedly contained information related to the case was buried.
Authorities planned to continue searching the area using metal detectors, said Jeffrey Werner, chief of the Bloomfield Township Police, the lead investigative agency in the case.
But he said chances of finding the briefcase appeared slim.
Hoffa, 62, vanished the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in Oakland County, about 25 miles north of Detroit. Hampton Township is a few miles northeast of Bay City, about 100 miles away.
Authorities said the informant, an inmate named Richard Powell who is imprisoned for killing his landlady in 1982, led a team to the spot. He lived in the home in the 1970s.
Bay County Undersheriff Joel Luethjohann said Powell told investigators in March that he buried the body of a missing Bay City man in the crawl space beneath the same home.
Acting on that information, state police investigators found the body of Robert A. Woods, who had been missing for nearly 30 years.
Powell had long claimed a role in the Hoffa case, but authorities had not taken him seriously.
He told The Bay City Times in a 1984 prison interview that in the 1970s he was involved with gangsters in an auto theft ring and was assigned to drive a motor home containing a body to northern Michigan. He said someone else supposedly came to dispose of the body, which was wrapped in a rug.
Powell changed the story earlier this year, telling officers that Hoffa's body was buried at his former home, where the aboveground pool now sits. Authorities decided to follow up on the lead in part because Powell's claim about Woods' body had proven true.
At the time he vanished, Hoffa was on his way to a meeting with Anthony Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain.
Investigators believe Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the union presidency after he served time in federal prison for jury tampering.
Hoffa took charge of the Teamsters in 1957. He earned the loyalty of his members with contracts that improved their standard of living dramatically. It was under Hoffa that the Teamsters won their first national trucking contract.
He also earned the enmity of Robert F. Kennedy, who accused him of corruption and mob connections, first as counsel to a congressional committee investigating the unions, then as attorney general in his brother's Cabinet.
In 1967, Hoffa went to jail, sentenced to 13 years for jury tampering and fraud, but he refused to give up the Teamsters presidency. After he quit the job in 1971, then-President Nixon pardoned him, and he began agitating to get his job back.
Last August, Gorcyca had said no state criminal charges would be filed and only a deathbed confession or cooperation of a witness would solve the mystery.
Hoffa's son James Jr. is now the Teamsters president. Messages left with him and his sister, Barbara Crancer, of suburban St. Louis, were not immediately returned.
I'd be tempted to mod this particular instance up since it actually has BBEdit changed to Notepad. Also the part about "developers, developers, developers" (chuckle). Don't know if this is the first time this has appeared, but it's the first I've seen it and I think it's funny.
This is slightly off-topic, I apologise. I have several Windows machines (specifically, Win2k and several XP machines). They are all set to download updates automatically and notify me when they are ready to be installed. However, despite me clicking to install the patches, none of them ever do.
And when I go to windowsupdate.com and try that way, I see the updates and tell the system to go ahead. The updates are downloaded (though some are obviously already in the cache) and the install starts. Part way through, it aborts and I'm told none of the installs were successful and to try again.
Now, this worked in the past. I currently have 'only' 5 critical vulnerabilities to patch. But it's not working now. I've tried removing the download cache area and that didn't help. Is it really time to reformat?
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Just "more", or anything in particular?
Agreed. Terry Bradshaw is a tool. And I've tried doing that before, and it was still broken.
Would you be so kind and write out words the way they are supposed to be written in the future? Poorly obfuscated profanities always give me such a nasty headache.
Hank! White!
Like, go hound developers? Are you a valley girl?
what about that "my head hurts" guy?