But here we have an example of mathematical stupidity too-- converting the digits from decimal to octal would result in everyone having less money, or owing less.
Nope, everyone would have exactly the same amount of money they had before.
It takes more effort to learn, but Changjie is faster (page is in Chinese, but the rightmost column pretty much explains how it works). You know that recent James Bond movie with the Chinese girl? The Chinese computer they showed had a Changjie keyboard.
Well the original kremvax (in the post you refer to) was an April Fool's joke... although when the USSR did get on the Internet years later, someone named a machine kremvax in tribute:)
Hmm, interesting that the current Internet2 backbone seems to be slower than current commercial backbones. For example, at least according to their website, Sprint's backbone is OC-48 (2.488Gbps); AT&T and Qwest both have OC-48 and OC-192[c] (10Gbps) on their backbones. (BTW, what's the difference between OC-192 and OC-192c?)
I guess Internet2 is nice in that it doesn't have to share traffic with the commercial Internet, but I still would've expected an academic network to have faster connections than what the rest of us get to use:)
Nah, he owes nothing... sure, it's a lot of fun to screw around with spammers, but hope the guy realizes that one can't accept a contract by sending an email.
Of course. There are also a million and one ways to undo that obfuscation. And that's what antivirus companies do - they look at the latest viruses, and reverse engineer them.
It's already too late by then... if you've already gotten a hold of a copy of the virus to reverse-engineer, you might as well just add it to the database. The idea is to have some way of noticing something suspicious about a brand new virus--one that the AV companies haven't seen yet.
Well, I did say "when the executable is copied to the computer".
The problem with Microsoft is that even stuff that you normally wouldn't consider executable is executable... such as Word documents and HTML. Although perhaps the VBScript you can put in a Word document won't let you go so far as making Win32 API calls to kill processes... I'm pretty sure you can create and call ActiveX components though, and it might be possible to exploit a bug in one of those to get it to execute arbitrary code.
Trivial to defeat, and a high chance for false positives... For example, Goner is compressed--the antivirus EXE names aren't visible. There are a million and one ways of hiding a string in the trojan. And if the antivirus software simply scanned for its own EXE name, you couldn't have text file, Word document, or whatever that had that EXE name. Even the HTML you're reading right now might be flagged as suspicious just because I say NAVW32.EXE or ZONEALARM.EXE:)
Under Win9x, how would a virus scanner stop a virus from killing its process? Programs in Win9x have full control of the system; there really isn't much a determined program can't do. Think kill -9 from a root program in Unix; there's nothing you can do to stop it. I guess a Robin Hood and Friar Tuck arrangement might be able to put up some sort of warning, but I suspect there's a way to work around even that.
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Isn't the point of language to communicate with others? If "mil" means mm in the machine shop you worked at, use it at the machine shop. But when addressing the/. populace, use the widely-accepted definition. Don't know what the widely-accepted definition is? That's what a dictionary is for.
Anyways, the only definition of "mil" as a unit of length that I've heard of is 1/1000 of an inch.
I dunno about Omnisky, but GoAmerica, which another poster mentioned, is partnered with Compaq. Compaq's iPAQnet CDPD service is through GoAmerica... a coworker got an iPAQ with iPAQnet service; it's kinda slow, but nifty. Seeing that Compaq is pushing CDPD as the wireless Internet solution for iPAQs, I suspect there are a decent number of subscribers.
wow i just right clicked my logitech mouse hooked up to my Mac running OS 10.1 and got a menu and changed the transparency.
No, you didn't. How 'bout you pony up some evidence... Here is what I get when I right-click on Terminal using a Logitech optical wheel mouse (well, maybe I do have a right mouse button after all:). Show me your menu.
Well either both Win2K and OSX do "it" natively, or neither do "it" natively. If you define "it" as being able to click any window to change its transparency, then neither OS has that functionality built-in. If you define "it" as having API-level support for transparent windows, both OSes have that support built-in. As many people have posted, this is not some funky hack to Win2K; this is just a simple utility that lets you set the transparency of abitrary windows, even if the app developer didn't include that support. Similar to what the plist editor does, I guess (I haven't used it before... I assume/Developer/Applications/PropertyListEditor.app is what you're talking about?)
You mean I can right-click on any window in MacOS X and have it pop up a menu where I can set/adjust the transparency of the window? Really? I just tried to do it, and I found that I don't even have a right mouse button.
No, MacOS X does not have this feature natively implemented.
I checked your little URL, and I see a screenshot of the QuickTime movie player... your point?
Seriously, check out the KB article I referenced. It explicitly mentions that you can't use named pipes on Win9x (as a server-side net library... i.e., MSDE can't listen on a named pipe on Win9x). And the "default" install of MSDE (1.0, at least) has "NetworkLibs=4095" in the unattend.iss file, which translates to Named Pipes, TCP/IP, and Multiprotocol.
As for the real SQL Server, I just installed SQL Server 7.0 Developer Edition on a test Win2K Server machine--if I pick custom install, it lets me choose which network libs to install, and by default, Named Pipes is checked (and can't be unchecked), TCP/IP Sockets is checked, and Multi-Protocol is checked. I cancelled that and restarted the setup using all the default/typical settings, and after it was all done, I started the service and it was happily listening on TCP port 1433 with no password on the sa account.
So MSDE and SQL Server default to a couple of protocols; TCP/IP is one of them. You do not have to specifically tell them to listen on TCP/IP.
The following network libraries can be included: Named Pipes, TCP/IP sockets, Multi-Protocol, NWLink IPX/SPX, AppleTalk ADSP, and Banyan Vines. The Named Pipes and Banyan Vines server-side Net-Libraries cannot be installed on Windows 95 or Windows 98.
The installment you refer to doesn't listen to a TCP/IP port
Sure it does... how else would you connect to it from another machine? (And yes, you can connect to it from other machines--MSDE is made for small LAN workgroups). See MSKB article Q233312 for details on the network libraries MSDE supports.
I assume this worm attacks MSDE too? MSDE is a stripped down version of SQL server intended as an alternative to using an Access database... I believe MS Project and Visio both use it, for example. A product I worked on uses it too; originally the PHB types wanted it to install with no password, because they didn't think our users would be able to remember a password. I tried to convince them that it was a Very Bad Idea to not have a password, but only managed to get a compromise: the installer asks if they want a password or not, and it defaults to no password:(
P.S. Does anyone know if there's a way to keep MSDE from listening on TCP/IP connections? There's Named Pipes, but from what I was able to tell, that only works on WinNT, and not on 9x.
Come on guys, nobody is going to take linux seriously as long as problems like this -- or the VM saga -- keep popping up in supposedly stable kernels. FreeBSD has no trouble keeping separate -CURRENT and -STABLE trees; why can't linux do the same?
'cuz Linus hates CVS, even though it'd work just fine? (Sure, it's not perfect, but it's much better than the current situation of not using any revision control).
And how the hell do you know M$ doesn't fuck up your disk? Because their own tools tell you?
No, because I access my files, and they aren't corrupted. I'd notice if one of my source code files turned into random binary garbage. Or if one of the DLLs on my system wouldn't load because it no longer had a valid PECOFF header. Or if my MP3s no longer played properly. Et cetera...
Kind of like how a lot of unix admins who got started "back in the day" will still stick a -print in their list of find arguments, even though most modern finds assume it by default.
Well, the implied -print isn't exactly the same as just sticking a -print on at the end... at least with BSD's find (I dunno about GNU), find . -some -list -of -things
is equivalent to find . (-some -list -of -things) -print
not find . -some -list -of -things -print
So depending on what you want, the -print might be important. Real Life example: find . -name compile -prune -o -type f -print
leave off the -print, and a directory named "compile" will show up in the output, when the intention is to only show files.
Use of a software voice synthesizer was pretty cool, if a bit rough.
It was digitized, actually... didn't sound all that great coming out of the one-bit Apple II speaker, but it was cool back then:)
Anyone know what it actually said? I didn't know German back then, and I still don't. I always assumed it was something like "Stop! Come here!" (sounded something like "Halt! Kommen sie!" but apparently that's not proper German:)
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Nope, everyone would have exactly the same amount of money they had before.
It takes more effort to learn, but Changjie is faster (page is in Chinese, but the rightmost column pretty much explains how it works). You know that recent James Bond movie with the Chinese girl? The Chinese computer they showed had a Changjie keyboard.
Well the original kremvax (in the post you refer to) was an April Fool's joke... although when the USSR did get on the Internet years later, someone named a machine kremvax in tribute :)
I guess Internet2 is nice in that it doesn't have to share traffic with the commercial Internet, but I still would've expected an academic network to have faster connections than what the rest of us get to use :)
Nah, he owes nothing... sure, it's a lot of fun to screw around with spammers, but hope the guy realizes that one can't accept a contract by sending an email.
BTW, Accenture is Arthur Andersen... they changed their name to Accenture back in January.
You're off by an order of magnitude or so. USB 1.x is 12Mbps, USB 2.0 is 480Mbps.
It's already too late by then... if you've already gotten a hold of a copy of the virus to reverse-engineer, you might as well just add it to the database. The idea is to have some way of noticing something suspicious about a brand new virus--one that the AV companies haven't seen yet.
Well, I did say "when the executable is copied to the computer".
The problem with Microsoft is that even stuff that you normally wouldn't consider executable is executable... such as Word documents and HTML. Although perhaps the VBScript you can put in a Word document won't let you go so far as making Win32 API calls to kill processes... I'm pretty sure you can create and call ActiveX components though, and it might be possible to exploit a bug in one of those to get it to execute arbitrary code.
Trivial to defeat, and a high chance for false positives... For example, Goner is compressed--the antivirus EXE names aren't visible. There are a million and one ways of hiding a string in the trojan. And if the antivirus software simply scanned for its own EXE name, you couldn't have text file, Word document, or whatever that had that EXE name. Even the HTML you're reading right now might be flagged as suspicious just because I say NAVW32.EXE or ZONEALARM.EXE :)
Under Win9x, how would a virus scanner stop a virus from killing its process? Programs in Win9x have full control of the system; there really isn't much a determined program can't do. Think kill -9 from a root program in Unix; there's nothing you can do to stop it. I guess a Robin Hood and Friar Tuck arrangement might be able to put up some sort of warning, but I suspect there's a way to work around even that.
Anyways, the only definition of "mil" as a unit of length that I've heard of is 1/1000 of an inch.
I dunno about Omnisky, but GoAmerica, which another poster mentioned, is partnered with Compaq. Compaq's iPAQnet CDPD service is through GoAmerica... a coworker got an iPAQ with iPAQnet service; it's kinda slow, but nifty. Seeing that Compaq is pushing CDPD as the wireless Internet solution for iPAQs, I suspect there are a decent number of subscribers.
No, you didn't. How 'bout you pony up some evidence... Here is what I get when I right-click on Terminal using a Logitech optical wheel mouse (well, maybe I do have a right mouse button after all :). Show me your menu.
Well either both Win2K and OSX do "it" natively, or neither do "it" natively. If you define "it" as being able to click any window to change its transparency, then neither OS has that functionality built-in. If you define "it" as having API-level support for transparent windows, both OSes have that support built-in. As many people have posted, this is not some funky hack to Win2K; this is just a simple utility that lets you set the transparency of abitrary windows, even if the app developer didn't include that support. Similar to what the plist editor does, I guess (I haven't used it before... I assume /Developer/Applications/PropertyListEditor.app is what you're talking about?)
You mean I can right-click on any window in MacOS X and have it pop up a menu where I can set/adjust the transparency of the window? Really? I just tried to do it, and I found that I don't even have a right mouse button.
No, MacOS X does not have this feature natively implemented.
I checked your little URL, and I see a screenshot of the QuickTime movie player... your point?
As for the real SQL Server, I just installed SQL Server 7.0 Developer Edition on a test Win2K Server machine--if I pick custom install, it lets me choose which network libs to install, and by default, Named Pipes is checked (and can't be unchecked), TCP/IP Sockets is checked, and Multi-Protocol is checked. I cancelled that and restarted the setup using all the default/typical settings, and after it was all done, I started the service and it was happily listening on TCP port 1433 with no password on the sa account.
So MSDE and SQL Server default to a couple of protocols; TCP/IP is one of them. You do not have to specifically tell them to listen on TCP/IP.
Server-Side Network Libraries
The following network libraries can be included: Named Pipes, TCP/IP sockets, Multi-Protocol, NWLink IPX/SPX, AppleTalk ADSP, and Banyan Vines. The Named Pipes and Banyan Vines server-side Net-Libraries cannot be installed on Windows 95 or Windows 98.
Sure it does... how else would you connect to it from another machine? (And yes, you can connect to it from other machines--MSDE is made for small LAN workgroups). See MSKB article Q233312 for details on the network libraries MSDE supports.
Do the machines at gnu.ai.mit.edu have a root password set yet? :)
P.S. Does anyone know if there's a way to keep MSDE from listening on TCP/IP connections? There's Named Pipes, but from what I was able to tell, that only works on WinNT, and not on 9x.
'cuz Linus hates CVS, even though it'd work just fine? (Sure, it's not perfect, but it's much better than the current situation of not using any revision control).
No, because I access my files, and they aren't corrupted. I'd notice if one of my source code files turned into random binary garbage. Or if one of the DLLs on my system wouldn't load because it no longer had a valid PECOFF header. Or if my MP3s no longer played properly. Et cetera...
Well, the implied -print isn't exactly the same as just sticking a -print on at the end... at least with BSD's find (I dunno about GNU),
find . -some -list -of -things
is equivalent to
find . (-some -list -of -things) -print
not
find . -some -list -of -things -print
So depending on what you want, the -print might be important. Real Life example:
find . -name compile -prune -o -type f -print
leave off the -print, and a directory named "compile" will show up in the output, when the intention is to only show files.
It was digitized, actually... didn't sound all that great coming out of the one-bit Apple II speaker, but it was cool back then :)
Anyone know what it actually said? I didn't know German back then, and I still don't. I always assumed it was something like "Stop! Come here!" (sounded something like "Halt! Kommen sie!" but apparently that's not proper German :)
- GD-ROMs in a CD-ROM drive look like they have 1 short audio track and no data tracks.
- Bootable DC CDs look like they have 1 short audio track and no data tracks.
And you're trying to somehow conclude from the above that all Dreamcasts can boot CDs?