As a C++ developer and boost user, I advise against starting to code for it. API design and implementation are quite hard as opposed to "normal" programming, as you need to factor several other problems: building a easy-to-use generic interface, mandatory in a library, is much more difficult to code than in project that works with specific data models. Also, I had specific problems with boost::filesystem API so I can tell you getting a bug acknowledged and fixed in a particular version might be frightening at first(no, I don't want to update my boost version to get it... I want it backported).
I suggest you find a piece of code that you are interested and find useful and follow this simple roadmap: 1.Install it and use it 2.Subscribe to user/devel mailing lists 3.Write missing documentation and unit tests for components 4.Offer to implement features/fix bugs that have been appearing for some time but have a low priority.
Newsflash... Greedy man enters Nigerian scam, looses money. If he thinks he will be charged with something leading to imprisonment, he will _never_ go to the Police reporting the scam. No crime here move along!
Guess the scammers will be happy!
imagine the song compressed with a new codec that is twice as efficient in terms of size but twice as compute intensive.
According to Leonardo Chiariglione (co-founder of MPEG): "the idea that compression technology keeps on improving is a myth". Actually I think we kinda reached the limit for compressing the stream without losing important data. I don't think I need more cores to do the same thing, I need several small groups of cores to do very specialized things (like some cores for graphics, a core or to for sound and so on).
In many situations, you are better off reusing the code inside Office rather than trying to reimplement it. Here are a few examples.
1. You have a web-based application that's needs to output existing Word files in PDF format. Here's how I would implement that: a few lines of Word VBA code loads a file and saves it as a PDF using the built in PDF exporter in Word 2007. You can call this code directly, even from ASP or ASP.NET code running under IIS. It'll work. The first time you launch Word it'll take a few seconds. The second time, Word will be kept in memory by the COM subsystem for a few minutes in case you need it again. It's fast enough for a reasonable web-based application.
2. Same as above, but your web hosting environment is Linux. Buy one Windows 2003 server, install a fully licensed copy of Word on it, and build a little web service that does the work. Half a day of work with C# and ASP.NET. So if you are on a Linux system, you are screwed . I think this article is written by some M$ fanboy. Nothing wrong here. But saying that Linux user should just dump their software, and go for Microsoft stuff , just because
It's very helpful of Microsoft to release the file formats for Microsoft and Office, but it's not really going to make it any easier to import or save to the Office file formats. I think it's wrong wrong wrong.
Iptables for Windows !? Really? I think we folks on Linux are pretty safe against a M$ forced update. Even on a Linux router, AFAIK, the rule should not target the INPUT chain, but the PREROUTING one.
AFAIK the passwords sent like this are still plain text, no encryption whatsoever. So the question rises : What site still uses this kind of primitive login?! No commercial sites, I guess. Another problem that makes this attack unlikely is that the user doesn't expect a dialog to appear, he wants the web_site_standard_login_form.
More problems come from giving the user an identical page hosted on some evil server, in that case the user expects to see the login form.Then again, a bug is still a bug, and the only good bug is a dead one.
How about moving the "hacking" tools to a server in another country. As long there is country in this world that has different laws regarding security / encryption tools there will be services that allow hosting that tools there. Or if you can't find any services just do what any good black hat hacker does: do not keep compromising files on your machine, install rootkits or other stuff on remote compromised servers and carry your attacks from there.
Wait a second! Have you ever coded in C++ ? Even if threads are not in the standard library, you have boost, you have Intel's TBB(threading building blocks), besides the native threading library. Do you trust you library in Java? What if the VM screws everything up. As for the compiler "optimizing" everything there is a little keyword : volatile that just tells the compiler not to optimize memory access for that varible. A think the real problem is working in a new programming paradigm : have a problem with sharing variables : code everything using pure functions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that jabber can be turned into an encrypted protocol. In other news, if you want your IM to be kinda "secure" meaning hiding it from you employers, you could use Tor + Privoxy . I know Tor was in a bad light recently because of some misuse, but, then again, IM is not for transmitting top secret information. For passwords i use an SMS or other not-TCP solution . Just an idea.
I've RTFA, is wasn't a memory leak caused by C#, is was caused by bad programming. After that,the whole article starts to advertise some obscure profiling tool. Maybe they should should have written the whole thing in C++ and use valgrind instead. Just an ideea...
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As a C++ developer and boost user, I advise against starting to code for it. API design and implementation are quite hard as opposed to "normal" programming, as you need to factor several other problems: building a easy-to-use generic interface, mandatory in a library, is much more difficult to code than in project that works with specific data models. Also, I had specific problems with boost::filesystem API so I can tell you getting a bug acknowledged and fixed in a particular version might be frightening at first(no, I don't want to update my boost version to get it... I want it backported). I suggest you find a piece of code that you are interested and find useful and follow this simple roadmap:
1.Install it and use it
2.Subscribe to user/devel mailing lists
3.Write missing documentation and unit tests for components
4.Offer to implement features/fix bugs that have been appearing for some time but have a low priority.
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Q:How do you call the Intel Pentium FDIV instruction? A:A good random number generator!
One billionth mouse just in time for the Diablo III launch. Maybe Logitech is stacking up ...
I have multiple personalities: #killall self :)
Newsflash... Greedy man enters Nigerian scam, looses money. If he thinks he will be charged with something leading to imprisonment, he will _never_ go to the Police reporting the scam. No crime here move along! Guess the scammers will be happy!
imagine the song compressed with a new codec that is twice as efficient in terms of size but twice as compute intensive. According to Leonardo Chiariglione (co-founder of MPEG): "the idea that compression technology keeps on improving is a myth". Actually I think we kinda reached the limit for compressing the stream without losing important data. I don't think I need more cores to do the same thing, I need several small groups of cores to do very specialized things (like some cores for graphics, a core or to for sound and so on).
You're wrong, I can pretty sure say you are @HOME
Or on windows , use WinSCP.
AFAIK, you need a mount / -o remount,rw for passwd to really write the /etc/shadow file as / in being mounted ro in single
1. You have a web-based application that's needs to output existing Word files in PDF format. Here's how I would implement that: a few lines of Word VBA code loads a file and saves it as a PDF using the built in PDF exporter in Word 2007. You can call this code directly, even from ASP or ASP.NET code running under IIS. It'll work. The first time you launch Word it'll take a few seconds. The second time, Word will be kept in memory by the COM subsystem for a few minutes in case you need it again. It's fast enough for a reasonable web-based application.
2. Same as above, but your web hosting environment is Linux. Buy one Windows 2003 server, install a fully licensed copy of Word on it, and build a little web service that does the work. Half a day of work with C# and ASP.NET. So if you are on a Linux system, you are screwed . I think this article is written by some M$ fanboy. Nothing wrong here. But saying that Linux user should just dump their software, and go for Microsoft stuff , just because It's very helpful of Microsoft to release the file formats for Microsoft and Office, but it's not really going to make it any easier to import or save to the Office file formats. I think it's wrong wrong wrong.
XML is like violence.. when it doesn't work, use some more!
Iptables for Windows !? Really? I think we folks on Linux are pretty safe against a M$ forced update. Even on a Linux router, AFAIK, the rule should not target the INPUT chain, but the PREROUTING one.
More problems come from giving the user an identical page hosted on some evil server, in that case the user expects to see the login form.Then again, a bug is still a bug, and the only good bug is a dead one.
How about moving the "hacking" tools to a server in another country. As long there is country in this world that has different laws regarding security / encryption tools there will be services that allow hosting that tools there. Or if you can't find any services just do what any good black hat hacker does: do not keep compromising files on your machine, install rootkits or other stuff on remote compromised servers and carry your attacks from there.
... there is a martial Bruce Willis to save them.
Wait a second! Have you ever coded in C++ ? Even if threads are not in the standard library, you have boost, you have Intel's TBB(threading building blocks), besides the native threading library. Do you trust you library in Java? What if the VM screws everything up. As for the compiler "optimizing" everything there is a little keyword : volatile that just tells the compiler not to optimize memory access for that varible. A think the real problem is working in a new programming paradigm : have a problem with sharing variables : code everything using pure functions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that jabber can be turned into an encrypted protocol. In other news, if you want your IM to be kinda "secure" meaning hiding it from you employers, you could use Tor + Privoxy . I know Tor was in a bad light recently because of some misuse, but, then again, IM is not for transmitting top secret information. For passwords i use an SMS or other not-TCP solution . Just an idea.
Why did the integer drown ? Because it couldn't float!
I've RTFA, is wasn't a memory leak caused by C#, is was caused by bad programming. After that,the whole article starts to advertise some obscure profiling tool. Maybe they should should have written the whole thing in C++ and use valgrind instead. Just an ideea...
Neah... I think it's GPL actually:
15. Disclaimer of Warranty. THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM
I said Program... I meant building!
The thing about violence: when it doesn't work, better use some more!
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