Sorry, but if you run into glibc problems then you have failed as an admin. You should know this is a problem much like Windows has problems, and you avoid them from the beginning.
Don't use binary RPMs without source, or simply wait for the new recompiled binary before upgrading glibc. The great thing with open source is source is constantly being updated with new and evolving source code, which gives advantage over propietary closed source environments ala Windows. By limiting yourself to binary RPMs you are now back to the level of Windows so if you encounter glibc problems, it is your fault, period.
"Given the time we needed to react to this, we didn't analyze it thoroughly. We wanted to do something fast and perhaps we didn't spend sufficient time on it," Genes said in an interview."
EXCUSE
He said the company received the Trojan sample from a customer in Japan and, during the initial research, the code definitely crashed the "explorer.exe" and EMF File Viewer in unpatched Windows systems.
EXCUSE
"We're still working with Microsoft to clarify what it is exactly and how it will be categorized in relation to MS05-053. But it's not exactly as we originally described it," he added.
ction? We're told Amazon will only use patents against those who use them against Amazon. So if you're starting out a company and have a great idea, it seems as if the best thing to do is not get a patent and avoid this mess.
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They own DBT Online which royally screwed up in Florida during the 2000 election.
The govt granted him and a few others regional monopolies to provide that last end of cable to customers. If anyone were allowed to do the same, the free market would dictate a mess of cables as far as the eye can see, ala Hong Kong or Taiwan. Given that, he better play nice because the govt, which, as we may recall, represents tax payers, can easily revoke that priviledge. Hell, what's to stop us from nationalizing that last mile? He should be a little more courteous.
They have no money but lots of time(CHEAP time) to learn and train themselves on open source. Also, since wages are lower, they can spend say 5 hours learning the ins and outs of open office at around $2/hr.. for a grand total of $10 investment. vs paying Microsoft $300 for their office suite.
Then there's the operating system, they can easily learn linux or pay someone $.05 to learn it + teach it.. vs buying a $100-$200 windows OS.
The question is, what kinda crack is the MS marketing team smoking?
-f doesn't do everything I listed, dtrace is a swiss army blade, strace is a hack that is OK but has its limits. Then there's finding in realtime the paging per process and correlating that with other figures. You didn't read the link I posted, strace doesn't come close to dtrace.
I'm no fanboi of sun, I've even submitted linux patches, but I'm just *gasp* open minded to things not in linux.
Hmm, so you do that, aggregate then sort manually the times, vs dtrace that does it in one command. But of course that's for one process vs dtrace that looks at the entire system.
And of course strace is modular so you can get this output, right?
# dexplorer Output dir will be the current dir (/export/home/root/DTrace/Dexplorer). Hit enter for yes, or type path: Starting dexplorer ver 0.70. Sample interval is 5 seconds. Total run is > 100 seconds.
5% Interrupt counts...
10% Dispatcher queue length by CPU...... File is de_jupiter_200506271803.tar.gz
And I'm sure it can report the top syscalls for the entire system:
Except it won't identify which file it is, dtrace will. And then you can run a bunch of servers, notice a slowdown, run dtrace then drill down to the culprit. Linux doesn't have anything like it, don't pretend. I love linux too, I'm using it as I type this, but I don't delude myself with fanaticism.
DTrace is primarily for kernel developers and sysadmins. The common user and app developer have little use for either DTrace or kprobes.
I disagree. If you ever have a bottleneck in your application then dtrace will probably pinpoint it for you(If it's in userspace then profiling will be the answer). Application developers could greatly benefit from using it to for example see which system calls are consuming most CPU... if a file is being read over and over. It tells you what you need to speed up and then some. If there's one thing we shouldn't be arrogant about it's solaris dev tools, they've always been better than anything else, starting with vsar.
That's the spirit. Ayn Rand would be proud. Only smart people in the 1800's knew how to get around an oil monopoly that controlled oil fields, oil transportation, railroads and oil pipelines. Everyone was stupid back then except for Rockefeller.
Yes, because only hippy Americans are for anti free market principles, real patriotic free market Americans prefer trusts and monopolies. I'm still sad about them being mean to Rockefeller, Standard Oil is no longer able to control oil production, oil transport and railroads. Hippies broke them up and made Exxon and Mobil.:(
That's why I donate to Exxon and Mobil every year, god bless them.
Exactly, that's the only surefire catch. As believable as "But someone logged into my computer, hacked into the bank then transferred funds into my account" but valid nonetheless.
I just don't see this as being cracked so easily. How will it be cracked, seriously? Let's say we put random colors here and there to encode information, how will crackers know when it's cracked? They will not be able to tell is the answer, unless they had a huge pool of movies to work with. The cost could be so prohibitive that piracy won't be a problem.
And who cares if a few geeks share a few movies, the real problem is when people start putting it on bit torrent.
As for the CPU load? Where is that, we play movies that happen to have embedded colors that happen to be meaningful to movie execs, we don't run fourier transforms on them. As for CPU load the movie industry uses to figure out the checksums, I think that it will be significant but the amount of money we're talking about can more than pay for the hardware to do this.
If you have better ideas, let's hear them. Anything to get streaming movies over the internet.. and I don't expect them to want to give away movies for free, we all work for a living.
The problem with cracking it is, if it's done right, you have no realtime way of knowing if you've succesfully removed all the seemingly random embedded tags. The only real test is if the FBI hasn't shown up at your door to lock you up. So it could be very hard to crack. You could say that someone could access 100s of different movies to look for differences and crack it but few people will want to share their movies given the risks involved. And if it requires 1000 movies or 10,000 movies to crack.. good luck finding that many people to help you out.
There could be some odd checksum that is different per movie, making it so you don't know what to change to impersonate someone else.
Bare with me, I just thought of this so I appreciate any attempt at poo pooing of this.
You download the video with a credit car, it embeds a tag that will ID you. It will be sprinkled about in the movie so that if you put it on bit torrent they can track you down and lock you up. That sounds like it might work, eh? For kicks they can require that you give blood or something in order to positively ID you.
By caving into the Chinese dicatorship they give them legitimacy, if they let this stand, what if the Chinese govt wants google to censor content? At what point will google take a stand? The Chinese govt will basically use and abuse google until google is but a mouthpiece for the PRC. At some point, if we are to believe the 'do no evil' mantra, Google will draw the line even if it means sacrificing profits.
I'm betting though that the 'do no evil' thing is but a marketing gimick and nothing more.
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Sorry, but if you run into glibc problems then you have failed as an admin. You should know this is a problem much like Windows has problems, and you avoid them from the beginning.
Don't use binary RPMs without source, or simply wait for the new recompiled binary before upgrading glibc. The great thing with open source is source is constantly being updated with new and evolving source code, which gives advantage over propietary closed source environments ala Windows. By limiting yourself to binary RPMs you are now back to the level of Windows so if you encounter glibc problems, it is your fault, period.
they had paper trails for their last election.
"Given the time we needed to react to this, we didn't analyze it thoroughly. We wanted to do something fast and perhaps we didn't spend sufficient time on it," Genes said in an interview."
EXCUSE
He said the company received the Trojan sample from a customer in Japan and, during the initial research, the code definitely crashed the "explorer.exe" and EMF File Viewer in unpatched Windows systems.
EXCUSE
"We're still working with Microsoft to clarify what it is exactly and how it will be categorized in relation to MS05-053. But it's not exactly as we originally described it," he added.
Ahh hah.
ction? We're told Amazon will only use patents against those who use them against Amazon. So if you're starting out a company and have a great idea, it seems as if the best thing to do is not get a patent and avoid this mess.
They own DBT Online which royally screwed up in Florida during the 2000 election.
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Darn welfare leaches.
The govt granted him and a few others regional monopolies to provide that last end of cable to customers. If anyone were allowed to do the same, the free market would dictate a mess of cables as far as the eye can see, ala Hong Kong or Taiwan. Given that, he better play nice because the govt, which, as we may recall, represents tax payers, can easily revoke that priviledge. Hell, what's to stop us from nationalizing that last mile? He should be a little more courteous.
You think that's racist, eh? Well isn't this racist?
"the scammers have the belief that white men are stupid and greedy"
They have no money but lots of time(CHEAP time) to learn and train themselves on open source. Also, since wages are lower, they can spend say 5 hours learning the ins and outs of open office at around $2/hr.. for a grand total of $10 investment. vs paying Microsoft $300 for their office suite.
Then there's the operating system, they can easily learn linux or pay someone $.05 to learn it + teach it.. vs buying a $100-$200 windows OS.
The question is, what kinda crack is the MS marketing team smoking?
It is demonstrably that you weren't breast fed.
-f doesn't do everything I listed, dtrace is a swiss army blade, strace is a hack that is OK but has its limits. Then there's finding in realtime the paging per process and correlating that with other figures. You didn't read the link I posted, strace doesn't come close to dtrace.
I'm no fanboi of sun, I've even submitted linux patches, but I'm just *gasp* open minded to things not in linux.
Imagine that.
And of course strace is modular so you can get this output, right?
http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/dtrace.html#DTra
And I'm sure it can report the top syscalls for the entire system:
Wow, which command is that for strace? What about the other dtrace-based tools at that link, what are those commands -dsfjkslfdsz?
I use strace every day but it doesn't do histograms / drill down on things like dtrace.. And dtrace can be mana from heaven if used right.
Except it won't identify which file it is, dtrace will. And then you can run a bunch of servers, notice a slowdown, run dtrace then drill down to the culprit. Linux doesn't have anything like it, don't pretend. I love linux too, I'm using it as I type this, but I don't delude myself with fanaticism.
DTrace is primarily for kernel developers and sysadmins. The common user and app developer have little use for either DTrace or kprobes.
I disagree. If you ever have a bottleneck in your application then dtrace will probably pinpoint it for you(If it's in userspace then profiling will be the answer). Application developers could greatly benefit from using it to for example see which system calls are consuming most CPU... if a file is being read over and over. It tells you what you need to speed up and then some. If there's one thing we shouldn't be arrogant about it's solaris dev tools, they've always been better than anything else, starting with vsar.
That's the spirit. Ayn Rand would be proud. Only smart people in the 1800's knew how to get around an oil monopoly that controlled oil fields, oil transportation, railroads and oil pipelines. Everyone was stupid back then except for Rockefeller.
I forgot that Exxon and Mobil merged.. Thank god, here's to hoping they can get big enough to reclaim the greatness of standard oil.
Yes, because only hippy Americans are for anti free market principles, real patriotic free market Americans prefer trusts and monopolies. I'm still sad about them being mean to Rockefeller, Standard Oil is no longer able to control oil production, oil transport and railroads. Hippies broke them up and made Exxon and Mobil. :(
That's why I donate to Exxon and Mobil every year, god bless them.
Everyone on the ship will have all you can eat seafood for weeks.
Bonus if you get some giant squid.
Exactly, that's the only surefire catch. As believable as "But someone logged into my computer, hacked into the bank then transferred funds into my account" but valid nonetheless.
I just don't see this as being cracked so easily. How will it be cracked, seriously? Let's say we put random colors here and there to encode information, how will crackers know when it's cracked? They will not be able to tell is the answer, unless they had a huge pool of movies to work with. The cost could be so prohibitive that piracy won't be a problem.
And who cares if a few geeks share a few movies, the real problem is when people start putting it on bit torrent.
As for the CPU load? Where is that, we play movies that happen to have embedded colors that happen to be meaningful to movie execs, we don't run fourier transforms on them. As for CPU load the movie industry uses to figure out the checksums, I think that it will be significant but the amount of money we're talking about can more than pay for the hardware to do this.
If you have better ideas, let's hear them. Anything to get streaming movies over the internet.. and I don't expect them to want to give away movies for free, we all work for a living.
The problem with cracking it is, if it's done right, you have no realtime way of knowing if you've succesfully removed all the seemingly random embedded tags. The only real test is if the FBI hasn't shown up at your door to lock you up. So it could be very hard to crack. You could say that someone could access 100s of different movies to look for differences and crack it but few people will want to share their movies given the risks involved. And if it requires 1000 movies or 10,000 movies to crack.. good luck finding that many people to help you out.
There could be some odd checksum that is different per movie, making it so you don't know what to change to impersonate someone else.
Bare with me, I just thought of this so I appreciate any attempt at poo pooing of this.
IT would be encoded such that even if you did that the markers would be sprinkled so well that it will be clear who you are.
Or you could just get a graining 320x200 16 color video of it but then again no one will want to watch that.
video.
You download the video with a credit car, it embeds a tag that will ID you. It will be sprinkled about in the movie so that if you put it on bit torrent they can track you down and lock you up. That sounds like it might work, eh? For kicks they can require that you give blood or something in order to positively ID you.
By caving into the Chinese dicatorship they give them legitimacy, if they let this stand, what if the Chinese govt wants google to censor content? At what point will google take a stand? The Chinese govt will basically use and abuse google until google is but a mouthpiece for the PRC. At some point, if we are to believe the 'do no evil' mantra, Google will draw the line even if it means sacrificing profits.
I'm betting though that the 'do no evil' thing is but a marketing gimick and nothing more.