What hardware *are* you using? I could spend some spare time hunting down documentation.:) I find it hard to believe that you're the only user using Linux for high-performance IO-bound applications.
IIUC, GPG public keys have all of the features of VCards. There's also a global distribution network that's dedicated to hosting them... say bye-bye to requests to "email me your credentials", or getting someone's VCard as an attachment to every damn email that they send.:D
The point, which you have so elegantly missed, is that there can and will be issues with the implementation.
Oooookay... are you claiming that *gasp* complex software systems have exploitable errors? If so, no shit, Sherlock. Thanks for the delivering the briefing from Captain Obvious. etc, etc. Or are you claiming that MSFT's ASLR implementation won't have vulns in it? If so, see the answer to my previous question.:)
NX is turned off for almost all apps by default on Vista.
GNUbuntu said:
Actually the ASLR is only turned on for those DLLs and EXEs which are specifically linked to be ASLR-enabled and is disabled for a whole hosts of applications for compatibility reasons.
When combined with unmaintained legacy binary-only apps, backcompat will prevent Vista from being the most secure system out there. Every program on my Hardened Gentoo systems is taking advantage of all of the various hardware and software protections that PaX and grsec have to offer. How? 'Cause I can rebuilt all of them to take advantage of the new environment.
Good job @ pointing to a seven-year old vuln report. Thanks.
The stack smashing daemon is caught by my PaX configuration.
$./paxtestd Password: (pretend that the last format-string-containing password in the paper is here. The filter is bitching at me 'cause I have too many junk characters in my post.) *** stack smashing detected ***: paxtestd - terminated paxtestd: stack smashing attack in function verify - terminated Report to http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Killed $
So, the information leak that the "runit" executable is demonstrating fails to occur. Next time, please try to present some relevant vulns.:)
The Air Force has these secret radars that can tell the difference between a mosquito and a gnat...
Heh. You don't need a secret radar to determine that. Any old radar can distinguish between the two... a gnat's radar return is *much* smaller than a mosquito's. The *really* tricky part is distinguishing between a gnat's return and that of the wind-blown trees outside!
Nothing's getting lost in translation. The poster that I was replying to had no idea how this system would work. I explained how it works. I also mentioned that this very system works in many, many places in the Real World as well.
Streaming TV over this is not an application that the internet handles well; it requires a quality of service that is not baked into your ISP's infrastructure design.
I'm not gonna disagree with your logic... How is a 500KBps IPTV stream different from downloading an.ISO at the same rate? How about if we download both on a line that can sustain 1MBps?
So, you mean to say that they shape traffic during the times of day in which users will wish to have fastest downloads, and leave it alone during other parts of the day?
Each company has a water supply. Each company connects their water supply to the water pipe system. You sign up for service with a water supplier. You use water. Said supplier bills you for the water that passed into your house.
Each supplier checks the water used by each other's downstream recipients vs. the water taken out of each supplier's reservoirs. Any supplier who had less water removed from his reservoir than was consumed by his customers is billed for the lost revenue by those who had the opposite thing happen.
This is the basic operation of any utilities cooperative organization (AKA: co-op).
With our public schools teaching Windows and Microsoft Office as part of the standard curriculum...
My experience (and that of my father's) does not match yours. Given your UID, I would imagine that my anecdotes are more recent than yours.:) I went to a rural high school in the very late 1990's. The only computer education I received from the State was a touch-typing course. My father is currently teaching in a suburban high school. The students in that school receive even less computer training that I did. The majority of their touch-typing class is devoted to internet browsing.
Money does talk. However, its absence says only one thing: "I don't like it.". I like to make the market more efficient by sending a more nuanced response to those who fall just short of the mark.
Or perhaps I'm missing the point of your post... maybe you wanted a particular rev of Mozilla and *really* had no choice but to build it? (What year was this? I thought that the Mozilla folks had *always* built.rpms and.debs for installation of a precompiled version of their software.)
Also, I suppose that this was more than a "'zilla needs version 4 of this shared lib, but version 3 is installed, so I need to find version 4." problem? If not, why not just compile and install version 4 of the lib?:)
Here, I'll give you one concrete example of what I deem a UI failure: the Gnome file-open dialog.
There are *very* *many* UI failures in Gnome. I think that the Gnome HIG has something to do with it.;)
The "Open With" and "Save As" dialogs in Firefox 3.0.8 (and probably earlier) have an autocomplete that drops down. IIRC, the FF autocomplete from earlier 3.x releases used the inline shadowing method... it just *looked* as if it was replacing the text that you typed.
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What hardware *are* you using? I could spend some spare time hunting down documentation. :) I find it hard to believe that you're the only user using Linux for high-performance IO-bound applications.
Is this what you mean by VCal?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCalendar#vCalendar_1.0
IIUC, GPG public keys have all of the features of VCards. There's also a global distribution network that's dedicated to hosting them... say bye-bye to requests to "email me your credentials", or getting someone's VCard as an attachment to every damn email that they send. :D
The point, which you have so elegantly missed, is that there can and will be issues with the implementation.
Oooookay... are you claiming that *gasp* complex software systems have exploitable errors? If so, no shit, Sherlock. Thanks for the delivering the briefing from Captain Obvious. etc, etc. :)
Or are you claiming that MSFT's ASLR implementation won't have vulns in it? If so, see the answer to my previous question.
You said:
NX is turned off for almost all apps by default on Vista.
GNUbuntu said:
Actually the ASLR is only turned on for those DLLs and EXEs which are specifically linked to be ASLR-enabled and is disabled for a whole hosts of applications for compatibility reasons.
When combined with unmaintained legacy binary-only apps, backcompat will prevent Vista from being the most secure system out there.
Every program on my Hardened Gentoo systems is taking advantage of all of the various hardware and software protections that PaX and grsec have to offer. How? 'Cause I can rebuilt all of them to take advantage of the new environment.
Meh. That took a turn for the preachy. Sorry. :(
There is only one mainstream OS...
Ooh. That's a tricky statement.
Good job @ pointing to a seven-year old vuln report. Thanks.
The stack smashing daemon is caught by my PaX configuration.
So, the information leak that the "runit" executable is demonstrating fails to occur. :)
Next time, please try to present some relevant vulns.
By the way: If you know another crazy layer of tin-foil to put on top of it, please tell me.
Full disk encryption with a removable boot volume stored in a GSA-approved safe with a combination lock?
I'll take a fair meritocracy over a flat democracy any day of the week, TYVM.
Yeah... he's pretty lazy, too. Did you notice that he's still pimping his in-progress movie that he completed two years ago?
The Air Force has these secret radars that can tell the difference between a mosquito and a gnat...
Heh. You don't need a secret radar to determine that. Any old radar can distinguish between the two... a gnat's radar return is *much* smaller than a mosquito's. The *really* tricky part is distinguishing between a gnat's return and that of the wind-blown trees outside!
Nothing's getting lost in translation. The poster that I was replying to had no idea how this system would work. I explained how it works. I also mentioned that this very system works in many, many places in the Real World as well.
Streaming TV over this is not an application that the internet handles well; it requires a quality of service that is not baked into your ISP's infrastructure design.
I'm not gonna disagree with your logic... .ISO at the same rate?
How is a 500KBps IPTV stream different from downloading an
How about if we download both on a line that can sustain 1MBps?
Cite?
Does this comment help?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1196517&cid=27551035
(I'mma ask the OP for a citation.)
That would cut into their bottom line.
The only exception I can think of is unless the cap is so ridiculously high that it doesn't matter to just about everyone...
Today's ridiculously high cap is next year's "just barely adequate" cap.
(irregardless of the time of day)
So, you mean to say that they shape traffic during the times of day in which users will wish to have fastest downloads, and leave it alone during other parts of the day?
*sigh*
Each company has a water supply.
Each company connects their water supply to the water pipe system.
You sign up for service with a water supplier.
You use water.
Said supplier bills you for the water that passed into your house.
Each supplier checks the water used by each other's downstream recipients vs. the water taken out of each supplier's reservoirs. Any supplier who had less water removed from his reservoir than was consumed by his customers is billed for the lost revenue by those who had the opposite thing happen.
This is the basic operation of any utilities cooperative organization (AKA: co-op).
Nonsense. If that was true, then why don't we have a state-sanctioned monopoly on all foodstuffs
You do know about Federal and State farmer's subsidies?
Have they stopped teaching handwriting in elementary school?
With our public schools teaching Windows and Microsoft Office as part of the standard curriculum...
My experience (and that of my father's) does not match yours. Given your UID, I would imagine that my anecdotes are more recent than yours. :)
I went to a rural high school in the very late 1990's. The only computer education I received from the State was a touch-typing course. My father is currently teaching in a suburban high school. The students in that school receive even less computer training that I did. The majority of their touch-typing class is devoted to internet browsing.
Money does talk. However, its absence says only one thing: "I don't like it.". I like to make the market more efficient by sending a more nuanced response to those who fall just short of the mark.
Or perhaps I'm missing the point of your post... maybe you wanted a particular rev of Mozilla and *really* had no choice but to build it? (What year was this? I thought that the Mozilla folks had *always* built .rpms and .debs for installation of a precompiled version of their software.)
Also, I suppose that this was more than a "'zilla needs version 4 of this shared lib, but version 3 is installed, so I need to find version 4." problem? :)
If not, why not just compile and install version 4 of the lib?
Here, I'll give you one concrete example of what I deem a UI failure: the Gnome file-open dialog.
There are *very* *many* UI failures in Gnome. I think that the Gnome HIG has something to do with it. ;)
The "Open With" and "Save As" dialogs in Firefox 3.0.8 (and probably earlier) have an autocomplete that drops down. IIRC, the FF autocomplete from earlier 3.x releases used the inline shadowing method... it just *looked* as if it was replacing the text that you typed.