Well, Steam has never killed one of my systems.
Also, Steam is a serious value add for me. I have repurchased games on Steam so I don't have the problem of either not being able to find the disc, or, more currently after a move, being able to find the discs, but not the CD key. Plus Steam adds the ability to find friends I might want to play with.
So, I consider it a fair swap. Some control over the digital rights on my software for a seriously value-added proposition.
Unfortunately, sometimes you don't have a choice. I have an old Sawtooth G4 which has been reliable as all hell and which I have upgraded somewhat with a bigger drive and extra RAM, but I will have to basically retire it in the near future as no one is developing for PPC architecture. I originally bought it as a memorial for a Mac-loving relative who passed away and it has basically just become a torrent box for me as I can't really run anything else on it.
I have no use for HBGary Federal. I believe that the CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, or whatever above-the-law agency of the USA that is bankrolling them no longer has any use for them either. I hope the USA has not wasted a lot of money on this broken puppet that probably never worked right from the beginning. I hate to see my taxes wasted on such crap.
The only sad thing is that I suspect that some people completely innocent of their employers' idiocy and hubris (which was the worst aspect, as that is what I think triggered Anon's attack) will most probably being losing jobs, when all of this could have been avoided by practicing the procedures the company was in place to advocate.
The worst part is not that they WERE owned that hard, but WHY they were owned so hard. Cybersecurity is not the place for "Do as I say, not as I do." Now I wouldn't blame them too much for the SQL injection, but the following elements of the attack is nothing but a long list of cybersecurity worst practices originating from the top of the company. I am not a cybersecurity guru, but I doubt I would find myself falling victim to things like password sharing, because I realize the problems they engender.
Well, at my current job (which is a crappy clerk job), I have a coworker who only worked part of last year and brought in a $6000 dollar tax return when I sincerely doubt they even came close to paying that much.
WinPhone has higher specs than Nokia can afford to use on the low end, they will probably keep Symbian or Maemo for the new "smarter but not smart" phones which seems to be the way the low end market is headed.
I refer to my Samsung Mythic as a "bright" phone.
Have had no problems beating on my Tomato install with all sorts of LAN abuse and it just seems to keep on, well, routing.
And, unfortunately, if you don't do it right, you always run the risk of bricking your router with a third-party firmware. Nature of the beast. Follow the instructions to the letter, and you should be okay though.
Tomato seems to be really stable, has great traffic management and tracking, as well as effective DNS masquerading, and even CIFS support, so I can automatically back my bandwidth measurements up to my NAS. The main reason I switched was that I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, which was one of the routers impacted by Buffalo's lawsuit, so they had stopped developing firmware for it. The hardware is very nice and runs Tomato like a dream.
FWIW, once installed, it seems Tomato "just works" while opening the door for a lot of customization and traffic shaping.
Well, this ties back in to my long ongoing complaint about the whole "customer pays" paradigm of cellular.
I call you, I pay.
You call me, I pay.
I initiate data, I pay.
You initiate data, I pay.
Ummmmm, no. Now, if I had given you keys to my shed and had not made sure that they were not also good for my house and car then I think we would be on the same page.
Question -
From what I am gathering from TFA, it seems to me that this was a rights/privileges misconfiguration issue. Following this theory, this leads me to believe, following this metaphor, that instead of a hole in the fence, it could be considered that the fence had no hole, and the owner left a note saying "Come in the back gate" without specifying who the note was actually for.
I remember poking through the help system once on a mainframe system during lunch at a company I once worked at, and ended up in areas the system administrator claimed had been completely inaccessible. I basically got told to never do that again, after I tried to describe how I got to where I did. I was not specifically looking for anything, nor did I actively attack or bypass security.
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So, under DCP/AP (Dead Cat Protocol/Amusement Protocol), instead of SYN/ACK, it's ACK/PHHHHHHHHHTTTT?
Well, look at the order: Rubber tires vs wooden. Model T vs 2011 Kia. LEDs vs Candles.
I just assumed that the Model T was considered the obviously better one.
I have a LED candle.
Well, Steam has never killed one of my systems. Also, Steam is a serious value add for me. I have repurchased games on Steam so I don't have the problem of either not being able to find the disc, or, more currently after a move, being able to find the discs, but not the CD key. Plus Steam adds the ability to find friends I might want to play with. So, I consider it a fair swap. Some control over the digital rights on my software for a seriously value-added proposition.
As Cardinal Richlieu said, back in the 1600's, "Give me six words of an innocent man, and I will find something in them with which to hang him."
Still using it as is, but the lack of evolution in response to security worries me.
Frankly, I AM the only local Mac user I know, and that's a 10 year old Sawtooth running 10.4.11.
Unfortunately, sometimes you don't have a choice. I have an old Sawtooth G4 which has been reliable as all hell and which I have upgraded somewhat with a bigger drive and extra RAM, but I will have to basically retire it in the near future as no one is developing for PPC architecture. I originally bought it as a memorial for a Mac-loving relative who passed away and it has basically just become a torrent box for me as I can't really run anything else on it.
F12. I use Guake.
I'd love to see new Firefly episodes because it would get Summer Glau off of that crap show "The Cape"
Pity that comment shows no taste in television.
I have no use for HBGary Federal. I believe that the CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, or whatever above-the-law agency of the USA that is bankrolling them no longer has any use for them either. I hope the USA has not wasted a lot of money on this broken puppet that probably never worked right from the beginning. I hate to see my taxes wasted on such crap.
The only sad thing is that I suspect that some people completely innocent of their employers' idiocy and hubris (which was the worst aspect, as that is what I think triggered Anon's attack) will most probably being losing jobs, when all of this could have been avoided by practicing the procedures the company was in place to advocate.
The worst part is not that they WERE owned that hard, but WHY they were owned so hard. Cybersecurity is not the place for "Do as I say, not as I do." Now I wouldn't blame them too much for the SQL injection, but the following elements of the attack is nothing but a long list of cybersecurity worst practices originating from the top of the company. I am not a cybersecurity guru, but I doubt I would find myself falling victim to things like password sharing, because I realize the problems they engender.
Well, at my current job (which is a crappy clerk job), I have a coworker who only worked part of last year and brought in a $6000 dollar tax return when I sincerely doubt they even came close to paying that much.
WinPhone has higher specs than Nokia can afford to use on the low end, they will probably keep Symbian or Maemo for the new "smarter but not smart" phones which seems to be the way the low end market is headed. I refer to my Samsung Mythic as a "bright" phone.
Have had no problems beating on my Tomato install with all sorts of LAN abuse and it just seems to keep on, well, routing. And, unfortunately, if you don't do it right, you always run the risk of bricking your router with a third-party firmware. Nature of the beast. Follow the instructions to the letter, and you should be okay though.
Tomato seems to be really stable, has great traffic management and tracking, as well as effective DNS masquerading, and even CIFS support, so I can automatically back my bandwidth measurements up to my NAS. The main reason I switched was that I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, which was one of the routers impacted by Buffalo's lawsuit, so they had stopped developing firmware for it. The hardware is very nice and runs Tomato like a dream. FWIW, once installed, it seems Tomato "just works" while opening the door for a lot of customization and traffic shaping.
I'd settle for just one of them. Better clarify - The deliciously full lipped one.
Well, this ties back in to my long ongoing complaint about the whole "customer pays" paradigm of cellular. I call you, I pay. You call me, I pay. I initiate data, I pay. You initiate data, I pay.
Big surprise. My router's bandwidth figures never match those of my ISP's.
Buuuuut, you don't have to pay for that ARP traffic, do you?
Yup. Preordered Premier Edition. All 20, key worked fine first time.
Ummmmmmm, .DEB?
APT packaging was originated by Debian, and was a real selling point for some of us when it came to choosing a distro...
I have one of the infamous ar5007 chipsets that have caused so many problems.
It did not work out of the box, but installing the backports package did.
Ummmmm, no. Now, if I had given you keys to my shed and had not made sure that they were not also good for my house and car then I think we would be on the same page.
Based on my knowledge of security, if I wasn't supposed to be there, then I shouldn't be able to get there.
Question - From what I am gathering from TFA, it seems to me that this was a rights/privileges misconfiguration issue. Following this theory, this leads me to believe, following this metaphor, that instead of a hole in the fence, it could be considered that the fence had no hole, and the owner left a note saying "Come in the back gate" without specifying who the note was actually for.
I remember poking through the help system once on a mainframe system during lunch at a company I once worked at, and ended up in areas the system administrator claimed had been completely inaccessible. I basically got told to never do that again, after I tried to describe how I got to where I did. I was not specifically looking for anything, nor did I actively attack or bypass security.
Sounds a little like this.