I don't think the XP EULA is on MS's site... I haven't actually looked for it, but I suspect they want you to buy it before you can see what you're getting into:) The link I posted was to eula.txt from the XP Pro CD available as part of my MSDN subscription.
And SQL Server is completely different from XP... I have the SQL Server CD somewhere, but it'd take too much effort to dig it up and look at the EULA. From what I've heard though, it's fairly standard practice for all DBMS vendors to restrict publishing benchmark info. I've never looked at their license agreements myself, but others have said that Oracle and Sybase have the same restrictions. Apparently, it has to do with tuning being such an important aspect of DB benchmarks that the vendors want to make sure that benchmarkers are properly tuning their systems before claiming that their engines suck.
Anyways, I didn't have any problem with your post--what I was complaining about the AC who said, "The 'no benchmarking' clause is quite real," when it wasn't. (Unless you are said AC, in which case, I was complaining about your post:)
The current PowerMac G4s already have a 64-bit 33MHz PCI bus. I'm sure these new PowerMacs will have at least that--maybe they'll even have 64-bit 66MHz slots.
Geez, how many times does it have to be repeated? The FrontPage Web components are not FrontPage the HTML editor! The FrontPage Web components are these little ActiveX dealies you can drop onto your web page to do various relatively useless things.
Actually, real yams and potatos aren't particularly related... they're both plants, and that's about it:) However, the orange things sold in the US as "yams" are actually potatoes. You can get real yams though (usually in ethnic stores); they look very different from the American "yams".
Those Aggies at Texas A&M have an explanation of the difference between sweet potatoes and yams.
I doubt BIOS issues are keeping people from making PPC motherboards, other than maybe the lack of a vendor (like Award or Phoenix) for a standard BIOS.
FirmWorks has a popular OpenFirmware implementation.
Tell me how to write an IFS using Win32 I don't think anyone uses Win32 to write an IFS. MS tells you how to write an IFS though. Let me know when your UFS driver is ready.
So... you got anything besides fork() and ancient articles about NT 3.5 that haven't applied in years?
Yeah, Rocky's Boots was great, as was Robot Odyssey. No 'coon in that one though, as it was geared towards older kids, and was a lot harder too. I had to get a EE senior friend to help me solve one of the puzzles near the end (he taught me Karnaugh mapping:).
Well, seeing that MS added some new CLI utilities and enhanced some existing ones in XP, I think they don't mind you using the CLI at all. (But only if you're a "professional"; XP Home doesn't include any of the cool utils.)
X-Rays may be "light" for some definition of light, but they're definitely more harmful than visible light. X-Rays are ionizing radiation--they can knock electrons out of orbit. Even ultraviolet light, which isn't that far from visible light in the spectrum, can be pretty dangerous.
OSX is considered a "Unix" due to its kernel being Mach/BSD. And why do you think NT uses BSD's TCP/IP stack? NT [poorly] implements BSD's socket API, but that doesn't mean the underlying stack has anything to do with BSD code.
Every time I see RMS get all uppity like this, I'm tempted to port the BSD userland to Linux--replace glibc with BSD's libc, dump gawk for the One True Awk, etc... and release a distribution with only a small amount of GNU stuff (separated out so you can easily delete it if you want). But unfortunately, I don't have the time for it... it'd be awesome if someone did this though:)
You mean #357? In that one, GC says he and others haven't found a way to use root.exe to shutdown IIS either. As far as I know, an admin would have to be actively asking for trouble to let CGI scripts/EXEs have privileges to stop IIS. I suspect most CR-infected machines are adminned by the passively clueless, not actively stupid:) They'd have to put the IUSR account into the Power Users group (by default, it's in the Guests group), change the anonymous user to a more privileged account, or something like that for someone to use/scripts/root.exe to stop IIS. BTW, NTFS doesn't really come into play, since that only affects filesystem access, not user privileges--even if someone installed Win2K on a FAT partition, IUSR still wouldn't be able to stop any services.
Looks like this one works. Just done it on my own machine. Can anyone confirm that it really does, please?
Works in what way? If you mean it sends the HTTP request, then yeah, that probably does work. But it's not gonna shut down IIS.
I just tried copying cmd.exe to the scripts directory on an IIS box and sent a query for it to do an iisreset/stop and I get an Access denied error. I don't think the IUSR_ account has permission to stop services.
Maybe what'd work is to take advantage of the buffer overflow and just send a bunch of junk to make IIS crash, instead of attempting a clean shutdown.
It's a pretty ineffectual script anyways even if it did work right, at least in terms of stopping CR. First it stops IIS, but it doesn't change the service settings to not make it start automatically on boot. Then it (tries to) reboot the machine. Well, if it was successful, IIS would start right back up again, vulnerable as ever. It'd be reinfected in a few minutes.
Actually, it's probably better that it can't reboot--I think just stopping IIS will stop the machine from trying to infect other machines, so things would be okay until the next reboot.
There is no way for that link to shut down or restart your machine. If you look at the script, it just prints a message if you link to it as default.ida. You have to have a query string for it to attempt to shut down IIS. And how's it gonna reboot your machine anyways, if it's already shut down IIS? That script obviously hasn't actually been tested:) (and it's not like it'd be terribly difficult to test if you had a NT box around... put IIS on it and wait a couple of minutes and I'm sure someone'll send it Code Red. Set your firewall to block outgoing packets on port 80 from that machine so it won't infect other machines).
CNN Headline News had a bit about Skylarov's release and the protests, and one thing they made a point to zoom in on and show for more than a few seconds was some protester's sign: "DMCA VIOLATES OUR RIGTS" (or something to that effect). Gee, thanks, guy... how about making sure your sign is spelled correctly next time?
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I've had a 45GB 75GXP for almost a year now; it's been working just fine.
And SQL Server is completely different from XP... I have the SQL Server CD somewhere, but it'd take too much effort to dig it up and look at the EULA. From what I've heard though, it's fairly standard practice for all DBMS vendors to restrict publishing benchmark info. I've never looked at their license agreements myself, but others have said that Oracle and Sybase have the same restrictions. Apparently, it has to do with tuning being such an important aspect of DB benchmarks that the vendors want to make sure that benchmarkers are properly tuning their systems before claiming that their engines suck.
Anyways, I didn't have any problem with your post--what I was complaining about the AC who said, "The 'no benchmarking' clause is quite real," when it wasn't. (Unless you are said AC, in which case, I was complaining about your post :)
If it's so real, how 'bout you show us where it is? Can't, huh? You know why? Because there isn't one.
Here's the Windows XP Professional EULA for those of you who want to look for yourselves.
Has the MPAA actually said you can't take screenshots of DVDs? 'cuz InterVideo WinDVD lets you get a digital framegrab just by hitting the "P" key.
No, it doesn't.
IPX is still supported, if you wanna share files but don't want to bother with configuring TCP/IP.
Probably from the spec... Look at the draft again, and note the first sentence of Section 4.4.1:
Also, Section 6, which talks about short haul STP cabling, says 1.6Gbps over cables up to 4.5m long.The numbers you're quoting are from the long-distance versions.
The current PowerMac G4s already have a 64-bit 33MHz PCI bus. I'm sure these new PowerMacs will have at least that--maybe they'll even have 64-bit 66MHz slots.
Geez, how many times does it have to be repeated? The FrontPage Web components are not FrontPage the HTML editor! The FrontPage Web components are these little ActiveX dealies you can drop onto your web page to do various relatively useless things.
Actually, real yams and potatos aren't particularly related... they're both plants, and that's about it :) However, the orange things sold in the US as "yams" are actually potatoes. You can get real yams though (usually in ethnic stores); they look very different from the American "yams".
Those Aggies at Texas A&M have an explanation of the difference between sweet potatoes and yams.
FirmWorks has a popular OpenFirmware implementation.
Yeah, they raided InfoCom Corp., formerly at www.infocomcorp.com. InfoCom denies any connection with this; I don't think the govt. has said anything either way.
Tell me how to write an IFS using Win32
I don't think anyone uses Win32 to write an IFS. MS tells you how to write an IFS though. Let me know when your UFS driver is ready.
So... you got anything besides fork() and ancient articles about NT 3.5 that haven't applied in years?
Yes, Sir!
Tell me how to cancel an outstanding asynchronous I/O request in Win32.
As you say, Sir!
Tell me how to do disk defragmentation using Win32 calls.
Hope this helps Sir!
HAND, Sir!
Yeah, Rocky's Boots was great, as was Robot Odyssey. No 'coon in that one though, as it was geared towards older kids, and was a lot harder too. I had to get a EE senior friend to help me solve one of the puzzles near the end (he taught me Karnaugh mapping :).
Well, seeing that MS added some new CLI utilities and enhanced some existing ones in XP, I think they don't mind you using the CLI at all. (But only if you're a "professional"; XP Home doesn't include any of the cool utils.)
OSX is considered a "Unix" due to its kernel being Mach/BSD. And why do you think NT uses BSD's TCP/IP stack? NT [poorly] implements BSD's socket API, but that doesn't mean the underlying stack has anything to do with BSD code.
Every time I see RMS get all uppity like this, I'm tempted to port the BSD userland to Linux--replace glibc with BSD's libc, dump gawk for the One True Awk, etc... and release a distribution with only a small amount of GNU stuff (separated out so you can easily delete it if you want). But unfortunately, I don't have the time for it... it'd be awesome if someone did this though :)
You mean #357? In that one, GC says he and others haven't found a way to use root.exe to shutdown IIS either. As far as I know, an admin would have to be actively asking for trouble to let CGI scripts/EXEs have privileges to stop IIS. I suspect most CR-infected machines are adminned by the passively clueless, not actively stupid :) They'd have to put the IUSR account into the Power Users group (by default, it's in the Guests group), change the anonymous user to a more privileged account, or something like that for someone to use /scripts/root.exe to stop IIS. BTW, NTFS doesn't really come into play, since that only affects filesystem access, not user privileges--even if someone installed Win2K on a FAT partition, IUSR still wouldn't be able to stop any services.
Works in what way? If you mean it sends the HTTP request, then yeah, that probably does work. But it's not gonna shut down IIS.
I just tried copying cmd.exe to the scripts directory on an IIS box and sent a query for it to do an iisreset /stop and I get an Access denied error. I don't think the IUSR_ account has permission to stop services.
Maybe what'd work is to take advantage of the buffer overflow and just send a bunch of junk to make IIS crash, instead of attempting a clean shutdown.
Actually, it's probably better that it can't reboot--I think just stopping IIS will stop the machine from trying to infect other machines, so things would be okay until the next reboot.
There is no way for that link to shut down or restart your machine. If you look at the script, it just prints a message if you link to it as default.ida. You have to have a query string for it to attempt to shut down IIS. And how's it gonna reboot your machine anyways, if it's already shut down IIS? That script obviously hasn't actually been tested :) (and it's not like it'd be terribly difficult to test if you had a NT box around... put IIS on it and wait a couple of minutes and I'm sure someone'll send it Code Red. Set your firewall to block outgoing packets on port 80 from that machine so it won't infect other machines).
CNN Headline News had a bit about Skylarov's release and the protests, and one thing they made a point to zoom in on and show for more than a few seconds was some protester's sign: "DMCA VIOLATES OUR RIGTS" (or something to that effect). Gee, thanks, guy... how about making sure your sign is spelled correctly next time?