ATTENTION: LEAKED FROM THE BOWELS OF THE MICROSOFT UNDERGROUND
Deep inside the complex maze of offices at Redmond, microsoft is working on genetically modifying humans to produce THE PERFECT MCSE. After some trials on apple trees, they were practicing creating something that looks and tastes nice, but leaves a disgusting aftertaste. Now they are shifting focus to humans. The perfect MSCE has the following qualities:
Looks swank in a suit
Doesn't know at all what he/she is talking about
hardcoded Microsoft bias
Built in phobia for commandlines
Takes whatever comes from MS as gospel
Has a mole on his/her ass in the shape of the windows logo (tm)
Certainly there are more features, but I can't list them all. This is what I was able to smuggle out of there. Also, rumors say that the first few prototypes got horribly wrong and came out as hardcore apple and amiga zealots. They promptly killed themselves when dicovering the Windows Logo(tm) shaped mole.
(Yes, this is a joke, and totally fictional and impossible)
Seems they rollbacked what the trolls did to it already. Yay for wikis with version management:)
Maybe the wiki should be locked down for a bit since the trolls are constantly changing it back with some stupid trollish message. Or send abuse messages to the ISP's off the trolls that are listed in the RecentChanges link. Yeah, their full host names are shown. So much for anonymity.
Hello troll boy. I'll bite. No, the fact that Kmail does _not_ send HTML messages is absolute bliss. It solves a lot of problems on the sender and reciever end.
- It will be readable by anyone on anything - It doesn't waste size, my archive of mail spans a few gigabytes, and the absence of html mail really helps with all those messages - Easier to weed spam from the ham (most spam is HTML mail anyway) - Less crash prone - More secure (no possibilities for web-bugs that will tell that you have read that mail and thus your mail adress is valid, and you'll get more and more spam, and no embedded applets)
So yes, I'd venture that HTML mail should be stamped out. Plain unicode text is modern enough for the rest of this century.
The problem with rich content is that it's very hard to nail down and do securely. That's why mail should stay HTML-free. Even in 2004 and years to come. BTW, you can attach vcards (wich is an open standard, which Outlook does understand) with appointments, calendar items and contact info, which you can create with the Kogranizer/Kontact suite.
Why not a BSD? And I hear Linux works great on it too. Who needs Solaris? I certainly don't. Not on a Sun workstation anyway. Linux and Net/OpenBSD works wonders here for my sun4m's here at least that do simple X terminal and routing tasks. I'd bet a beefy Ultra might make a decent workstation with BSD or Linux on it.
I guess he posted AC because it's not original. The blimmin BSD-are-dying-trolls have been posting this for ages. Not that those fucks know what they're talking about though, but that's offtopic I guess.
At least it's remotely on-topic now. By the way, I like most of the OpenBSD songs, it's a nice touch. Maybe I have to compose a little DragonFly anthem:)
It's just Matt aiming high. He doesn't care if he (and others) achieve it, but it would be choice if he would. The ultimate goal would be to achieve such a thing without much hassle, but we do know better. It just gives us something to aim for.
And when it comes down to it, backups are really where your safety lies. In the last CVS project I worked on, the repository was hosed twice. Once due to a careless admin, and once due to the hard drive dying. While we had some down time, virtually no work was lost, largely due to our nightly backups. The fact that CVS stored its data as plain text files certainly didn't protect us.
A non-issue on FreeBSD-5. Why? Filesystem snapshots. You just make a snapshot before you back up. Then back up the snapshot. When you're done, destroy the snapshot. Background fsck on FreeBSD-5 works the same way.
Well, Maestro from NASA uses 2d images to create 3d images by using perspective mapping. You can't move around in a 2d picture. When you map it to 3d, you can, in a way.
There is depth information in 2d images, namely perspective. It's not ideal, and the potential for gaps in your reality created from 2d is huge. But it sorta works.
I'd be interested to know how a return-into-libc exploit works.
Google around, or read about it in Phrack. It's pretty advanced stuff, way too big to post here on slashdot. The article I linked to deals with PaX, which basically does the same as marking stack pages read-only. Similar techniques work on SPARC hardware too.
There are other trampolines available. Merely making stack pages non-executable doesn't prevent return-into-libc exploits for example where you use the global offset table to jump into arbitrary code by overwriting the entry for a library call like printf(3).
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And guess what, I'm not American :)
Oh well. Good that they caught this. The artist do deserve their money.
ATTENTION: LEAKED FROM THE BOWELS OF THE MICROSOFT UNDERGROUND
Deep inside the complex maze of offices at Redmond, microsoft is working on genetically modifying humans to produce THE PERFECT MCSE. After some trials on apple trees, they were practicing creating something that looks and tastes nice, but leaves a disgusting aftertaste. Now they are shifting focus to humans. The perfect MSCE has the following qualities:
Certainly there are more features, but I can't list them all. This is what I was able to smuggle out of there. Also, rumors say that the first few prototypes got horribly wrong and came out as hardcore apple and amiga zealots. They promptly killed themselves when dicovering the Windows Logo(tm) shaped mole.
(Yes, this is a joke, and totally fictional and impossible)
Just give Jon (from DeCSS fame) a few weeks. That guy is the ultimate masochist, and we love him for it :)
If that's true, someone should hack in RBL blacklisting support and use a RBL that has open proxies in it.
Maybe the wiki should be locked down for a bit since the trolls are constantly changing it back with some stupid trollish message. Or send abuse messages to the ISP's off the trolls that are listed in the RecentChanges link. Yeah, their full host names are shown. So much for anonymity.
There's also cvsync, which is a good cvsup alternative, written in C.
Hello troll boy. I'll bite. No, the fact that Kmail does _not_ send HTML messages is absolute bliss. It solves a lot of problems on the sender and reciever end.
- It will be readable by anyone on anything
- It doesn't waste size, my archive of mail spans a few gigabytes, and the absence of html mail really helps with all those messages
- Easier to weed spam from the ham (most spam is HTML mail anyway)
- Less crash prone
- More secure (no possibilities for web-bugs that will tell that you have read that mail and thus your mail adress is valid, and you'll get more and more spam, and no embedded applets)
So yes, I'd venture that HTML mail should be stamped out. Plain unicode text is modern enough for the rest of this century.
The problem with rich content is that it's very hard to nail down and do securely. That's why mail should stay HTML-free. Even in 2004 and years to come. BTW, you can attach vcards (wich is an open standard, which Outlook does understand) with appointments, calendar items and contact info, which you can create with the Kogranizer/Kontact suite.
Why not a BSD? And I hear Linux works great on it too. Who needs Solaris? I certainly don't. Not on a Sun workstation anyway. Linux and Net/OpenBSD works wonders here for my sun4m's here at least that do simple X terminal and routing tasks. I'd bet a beefy Ultra might make a decent workstation with BSD or Linux on it.
At least it's remotely on-topic now. By the way, I like most of the OpenBSD songs, it's a nice touch. Maybe I have to compose a little DragonFly anthem :)
It's just Matt aiming high. He doesn't care if he (and others) achieve it, but it would be choice if he would. The ultimate goal would be to achieve such a thing without much hassle, but we do know better. It just gives us something to aim for.
I think he gets decent speeds, but the latency must be a bitch.
Heck, and I thought it involved fairy cake. Turns out you need to travel to mars first. Oh well.
A non-issue on FreeBSD-5. Why? Filesystem snapshots. You just make a snapshot before you back up. Then back up the snapshot. When you're done, destroy the snapshot. Background fsck on FreeBSD-5 works the same way.
Sorry, gotta dump core.
On the other hand, your comment just gave me deja-vu. *cough* clipper chip *cough*
4) the ability to draw straight lines or polygons. That's the only friggin button that I'm missing.
Well, Maestro from NASA uses 2d images to create 3d images by using perspective mapping. You can't move around in a 2d picture. When you map it to 3d, you can, in a way.
There is depth information in 2d images, namely perspective. It's not ideal, and the potential for gaps in your reality created from 2d is huge. But it sorta works.
Google around, or read about it in Phrack. It's pretty advanced stuff, way too big to post here on slashdot. The article I linked to deals with PaX, which basically does the same as marking stack pages read-only. Similar techniques work on SPARC hardware too.
Does NASA (or any other US gov thing) have a special department that think up cool acronyms?
There are other trampolines available. Merely making stack pages non-executable doesn't prevent return-into-libc exploits for example where you use the global offset table to jump into arbitrary code by overwriting the entry for a library call like printf(3).
An ABI. It 'maps' win32 calls to unix/X11 ones. It does little emulating. All code you run with WINE runs natively.