I don't see any flaw in BIOS being significant enough to carry a worm but I do see the possability for conflicting features.
As Dexter Boy Genious would say 'yoo are stoopid'
If there was a buffer overflow in the BIOS one could construct an email to execute arbitrary code.
Arbitrary.
Arbitrary code mean 'any code you like'.
One can fit a bootloader and a plan9 kernel including TCP stack, drivers for 23 different ethernet cards and VGA drivers for 24 vga chipsets into less than 1MB.
Even in 7bit ascii that's only 1.2Mb.
Therefore I could craft you an email that booted plan9 and even gave you a 'VIRUS LOADING' Hollywood style splash screen as it sent it's worms on their merry way.
> I think this should be integrated into the IRC protocol, along with all the other services and protocols.
IRC is a botch job, it should be totally re-implemented (no, not as XML)
stick to rfc 1459 and you'll be fine, dcc & ctcp are just cruft, who's business is it what client software I'm running or how long a ping takes and ugh %C02 colour rubbish
The only thing I would advocate is a switch to utf8
they just put their cleverness into more questionable things;)
like this : independent
The '/me' command, aka special CTCP action thingy... why does it use CTCP!?!?!?
because CTCP uses in band signalling that something special is happening/me is not part of the irc protocol and therefore is considered 'something special'
CTCP uses ^A or chr(1) You'll see from this table that ^A is defined in ASCII as:
A transmission control character used as the first character of a heading of an information message.
Curiously the authors chose to end the text with another ^A rather than ^C. In their defence there is no End of Heading marker defined./me is a client dependent implemtation of how to send : ^AACTION : $emote^A
I was being a bit tongue in cheek, but without the source code, plenty of times your fancy application can be rendered useless.
Written documentation cal easily fall out of step with actuality.
Thus the value of closed source software is diminished because I can't go look see.
How many times have you had a 'can't open file' dialog box pop up without it telling you which bloody file. Bad programming but with the soruce at least one stands a chance of finding out.
> I hate it when people say this.
I hate it when I get sent word documents or Excel spreadhseets but will *anyone* listen?
Or am I just a prude who's getting worked up over nothing?
No, I think you have a valid concern. I can be a porn hound with the best of the them but when I want to read about computer games or car modding it narks me that I'm bombarded with 'glamour' pictures. You should see the shit you get in car modding mags these days.
I think it has as much to do with the sudden power of the editors and other staff members. It's like the sad state that guys go through as soon as they get a bit of money to spend on the art budget. You also see it in music videos. Sad no-name rap group gets told they can spen $X on a video and get some women bumping and grinding, like it's some sort of badge of honour. Gee well, done guys, you got enough $ to hire a pretty girl to stand near you for a change.
If you really want a computer game magazine you should buy Future Publishing's Edge. It's written for and by adults in an adult style and doesn't go for the prurient. Stear clear of the sad wankers because if the need to show you some tits to make you buy their mag then their editorial must be shite.
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I use FreeBSD and Mozilla
Pretty much a java hostile zone
I know *some* people have gotten it to work but, for once, I'm glad I'm lef tout of this stuff.
no flash, no java, ah peace
If Google sinks without a trace tomorrow, at least they've forced other competitors to follow suit and remove paid listings as a revenue option.
Although not proven as a winner yet, Yahoo is going back to mixing in paid listings.
We used to pay for clicks but yahoo wants to *also* charge you every time your page is returned in the listings. fuck that.
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I don't see any flaw in BIOS being significant enough to carry a worm but I do see the possability for conflicting features.
As Dexter Boy Genious would say 'yoo are stoopid'
If there was a buffer overflow in the BIOS one could construct an email to execute arbitrary code.
Arbitrary.
Arbitrary code mean 'any code you like'.
One can fit a bootloader and a plan9 kernel including TCP stack, drivers for 23 different ethernet cards and VGA drivers for 24 vga chipsets into less than 1MB.
Even in 7bit ascii that's only 1.2Mb.
Therefore I could craft you an email that booted plan9 and even gave you a 'VIRUS LOADING' Hollywood style splash screen as it sent it's worms on their merry way.
Dude, buy an Apple. Never turn the thing off, just close the lid.
yup, sounds about right
I've got Maxx Headroom to thank for the introduction.
The faster the hardware gets, the more bloated the software gets.
*Some* software, *some*.
Plan9 using linuxbios can boot to the gui in 5 seconds
My FreeBSD machine booting from CF goes from power on to playing mp3s from cdrom in 35s.
>why does CTC mean Client To Client :)?
because it's fucked up
>I got those 'windows boxes'
> I think this should be integrated into the IRC protocol, along with all the other services and protocols.
IRC is a botch job, it should be totally re-implemented (no, not as XML)
stick to rfc 1459 and you'll be fine, dcc & ctcp are just cruft, who's business is it what client software I'm running or how long a ping takes and ugh %C02 colour rubbish
The only thing I would advocate is a switch to utf8
I don't care about being modded OT.
hmm, tricky
These things (in the UK) are ususally decided by the 'reasonable person' test : i.e. what would a reasonable person think was happening.
they just put their cleverness into more questionable things ;)
/me is not part of the irc protocol and therefore is considered 'something special'
:
/me is a client dependent implemtation of how to send : ^AACTION : $emote^A
like this : independent
The '/me' command, aka special CTCP action thingy... why does it use CTCP!?!?!?
because CTCP uses in band signalling that something special is happening
CTCP uses ^A or chr(1)
You'll see from this table that ^A is defined in ASCII as
A transmission control character used as the first character of a heading of an information message.
Curiously the authors chose to end the text with another ^A rather than ^C. In their defence there is no End of Heading marker defined.
You can see the other CTCP messages here
On a related note, isn't it illegal to sell grass to someone while saying it's marijuana?
yeah, it's intent to supply, no controlled susbtances required.
It's by "Kissing the Pink" and it's for the BBC Micro
It produces a set of visuals to go with the music on the A side
It's in storage atm. and I'm not going off to find it
lol, if you're so concerned *you* write the damn driver
I don't use Linux so why would I care ?
>Yes, I could install to standard IDE
even better if you fired up a text editor, got some spec sheets out, wrote a driver and stopped bitching
I was being a bit tongue in cheek, but without the source code, plenty of times your fancy application can be rendered useless.
Written documentation cal easily fall out of step with actuality.
Thus the value of closed source software is diminished because I can't go look see.
How many times have you had a 'can't open file' dialog box pop up without it telling you which bloody file. Bad programming but with the soruce at least one stands a chance of finding out.
> I hate it when people say this.
I hate it when I get sent word documents or Excel spreadhseets but will *anyone* listen?
lol0x
ever have an MSDN subscription?
finished? you gotta be joking
documentation? that's whats source code is for
then you're probably useless anyway
MS is fairly good at is putting together a consistent UI. Might be ugly as sin like WinXP's default, but it's consistent.
Open Explorer, press f3, find that file boy!
what a dog
you might wanny get the Borg to spellcheck your lousy
It's not a TLD, but maybe I should just block @yahoo.com and @hotmail.com, just becuase so much spam seems to be coming from them...
here's my shit list, if they aren't whitelisted and use any of these in From: they go to
msn.com
lycos.com
wanadoo.fr
china.com
free.fr
email2me
icqmail.com
hongkong.com
microsoft.com
be
mail.pf
yahoo.ca
Juno.com
truthmail.com
enea.
vista333.com
mail.sign-up.to
netscape.net
n
health-shop.com
bah, can't truss 'em
Or am I just a prude who's getting worked up over nothing?
No, I think you have a valid concern. I can be a porn hound with the best of the them but when I want to read about computer games or car modding it narks me that I'm bombarded with 'glamour' pictures. You should see the shit you get in car modding mags these days.
I think it has as much to do with the sudden power of the editors and other staff members. It's like the sad state that guys go through as soon as they get a bit of money to spend on the art budget. You also see it in music videos. Sad no-name rap group gets told they can spen $X on a video and get some women bumping and grinding, like it's some sort of badge of honour. Gee well, done guys, you got enough $ to hire a pretty girl to stand near you for a change.
If you really want a computer game magazine you should buy Future Publishing's Edge. It's written for and by adults in an adult style and doesn't go for the prurient. Stear clear of the sad wankers because if the need to show you some tits to make you buy their mag then their editorial must be shite.
repeated use of hydrogen peroxide causes the hair to disintegrate, i.e. split
> Either way though I think it's hairsplitting, really.
nah, that would be H2O2 - hydrogen peroxide
mmm monooxide
ooh they have hidrogen on computers now