In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII?
How do you want people to answer this? From the point of view of a black person - or that of a white?
Yah - I know exactly what you mean. I was rooted through my anonymous FTP server - RedHat 6.2 default. It was interesting and absolutely terrifying to see what they were doing. Set my eth0 to "promiscuous" mode and were logging everything - including emails I sent my wife. Luckily I found out a few days later. They have been back, but the firewall was there to greet them:-) Everything looked like it had been run from a script... pretty elaborate. Stuff was hidden inside/usr/lib/kerneld... a bogus directory I think. As far as I can tell they helped themselves to some MP3s and left. I know what you mean about feeling dumb, but its not like you shouldn't be able to run an anon FTP... I remember wuftp was broken in RedHat 5.? I guess I should have learnt this daemon sucks. Now it looks like OpenBSD even has an exploit in their ftp server.
The web page says this jvm will run on the 8085 8 bit processor. Does anyone know about this processor? Intel/Motorola/other? ML Compatible with which line? etc. thanks
Lately it seems like people complain about how impractical certain achievements posted on Slashdot are. I was under the impression that in the eyes of fellow geeks, hacks stand on their own merit - being judged on how clever they are and nothing else. When did all this concern about how useful or practical an accomplishment is factor into the equation about whether it deserves recognition? (ex. a Slashdot article). Java on 8 bit machines is an extremely cool hack - inter-geek approval where it is merrited - if they want to try and make a living off this hack, that's their business (and their investors' I suppose).
And set up SMTP through your home machine if at all possible. Of course - only allow forwarding through it from your work IP or you'll have all kinds of spammmer trouble on your hands. I believe VNC can be run through a secure connection as well, though I don't bother. Surf from work with your home machine as well... The only thing I don't know how to protect is keystroke recording.
I remember the first time I saw contextual menus (OS/2)... I said to myself WOW - finally something truly beneficial to the original GUI concept. MS of course jumped on it with win95 etc. etc.
Apple - who has actually BRAGGED about its simpleton single button mouse since almost day one of the Mac - continues to poo-poo the concept. It chose to slap half-assed contextual menu support into its late OS releases through system extensions, but the mouse remains single button.
OK - now they come out with their Rolls-Royce OS and it looks like they're dropping contextual menus all together (according to what I just read in this article)!
I can't see there being any new Macs in my life. I'm serious - its that important IMHO.
I admit I haven't sampled OSX yet, but how can you possibly ignore what has become a VERY basic component of modern GUIs? How can you work around its absence?
Can someone clarify for me whether or not, once the buffer overflow had been exploited, wouldn't the attack need to continue from the user's mail server? Also - I'm assuming the user's Outlook would crash and they'd restart... closing the open port.
Right, wrong? I'd be interested to know more. Thanks
yes - absolutely... many Maxtor disaster stories. But I should add that I haven't used Maxtor drives in a long time (because of the constant unreliability) so they may have improved over the years. In fact people do tell me that they are better now. I guess I hold grudges... Maxtor is right up there with Corel in my book.
Very Realistic.... Can't wait till I can smoke a huge cigar in a tiny space fighter cockpit like Starbuck always did. Just imagine all the advances in air filtration that lie ahead!
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... I used to carry the original Mac portable to school (pre powerbook era). What was that? ~20 pounds? 16Mhz?
In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII? How do you want people to answer this? From the point of view of a black person - or that of a white?
Yah - I know exactly what you mean. I was rooted through my anonymous FTP server - RedHat 6.2 default. It was interesting and absolutely terrifying to see what they were doing. Set my eth0 to "promiscuous" mode and were logging everything - including emails I sent my wife. Luckily I found out a few days later. They have been back, but the firewall was there to greet them :-) Everything looked like it had been run from a script... pretty elaborate. Stuff was hidden inside /usr/lib/kerneld ... a bogus directory I think. As far as I can tell they helped themselves to some MP3s and left. I know what you mean about feeling dumb, but its not like you shouldn't be able to run an anon FTP... I remember wuftp was broken in RedHat 5.? I guess I should have learnt this daemon sucks. Now it looks like OpenBSD even has an exploit in their ftp server.
The web page says this jvm will run on the 8085 8 bit processor. Does anyone know about this processor? Intel/Motorola/other? ML Compatible with which line? etc. thanks
Ummm yah - if its verified somehow, I'd say that would get you a nobel prize in physics.
Lately it seems like people complain about how impractical certain achievements posted on Slashdot are. I was under the impression that in the eyes of fellow geeks, hacks stand on their own merit - being judged on how clever they are and nothing else. When did all this concern about how useful or practical an accomplishment is factor into the equation about whether it deserves recognition? (ex. a Slashdot article). Java on 8 bit machines is an extremely cool hack - inter-geek approval where it is merrited - if they want to try and make a living off this hack, that's their business (and their investors' I suppose).
My TRS-80 Color Computer had preemptive multitasking in ... what ... 1982? I'm sure it wasn't the first micro to preemptively multitask either.
Heisenbug? ROFLMAO Thanks for that little gem. People will be hearing it around my office for sure.
What if there was a unique port running either way. Then the firewall would only be seing two radio stations.
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Apple didn't steal anything. They made an agreement with Parc and Xerox received Apple shares in return. Microsoft... now that's another story.
at least Apple paid Parc for the right to use the GUI (in Apple shares I believe).
If Unix isn't an OS then Darwin can't be one either. What is Darwin then?
your server isn't responding
And set up SMTP through your home machine if at all possible. Of course - only allow forwarding through it from your work IP or you'll have all kinds of spammmer trouble on your hands. I believe VNC can be run through a secure connection as well, though I don't bother. Surf from work with your home machine as well... The only thing I don't know how to protect is keystroke recording.
20 GOTO 10
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Out of memory error
good one
Apple - who has actually BRAGGED about its simpleton single button mouse since almost day one of the Mac - continues to poo-poo the concept. It chose to slap half-assed contextual menu support into its late OS releases through system extensions, but the mouse remains single button.
OK - now they come out with their Rolls-Royce OS and it looks like they're dropping contextual menus all together (according to what I just read in this article)!
I can't see there being any new Macs in my life. I'm serious - its that important IMHO.
I admit I haven't sampled OSX yet, but how can you possibly ignore what has become a VERY basic component of modern GUIs? How can you work around its absence?
Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier
A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier? In boardrooms bending arms? In courtrooms? Sounds like a "must read".
Right, wrong? I'd be interested to know more. Thanks
yes - absolutely... many Maxtor disaster stories. But I should add that I haven't used Maxtor drives in a long time (because of the constant unreliability) so they may have improved over the years. In fact people do tell me that they are better now. I guess I hold grudges... Maxtor is right up there with Corel in my book.
lol... I was waiting for this one. You know you can upgrade the coco to 8Mb, and there is some speculation that it could be doubled yet again.
No - you bought their new hardware.
Very Realistic.... Can't wait till I can smoke a huge cigar in a tiny space fighter cockpit like Starbuck always did. Just imagine all the advances in air filtration that lie ahead!
Yes - and be sure to run it on a TRS-80 Model 16.