I recently ridded my wife's computer of such a virus/trojan, whatever -- this day, we can't figure out how the machine ended up with it -- maybe autorun off a usb stick?
It was this ridiculous fake filescanner that would pop up at start up and scan every file on the computer, calling out 1/10th of them as "infected." This was Windows XP, and the filescanner suppressed msconfig and task man; in fact, you couldn't run notepad from the run dialog. It would pop up with "file infected; can't open" or some such. At any rate, this required going into the registry and checking what was in the "run once;" there was some weird file in allusers\localsettings. It was named like a random password, like asdf230123jfgnmv.exe.
The "removal" procedures were basically just to rename the file and restart. It hasn't come back yet. At any rate, while I was working with the file -- I noticed an artifact in the metadata listing the manufacturer -- I can't read Russian, but it definitely had cyrillic characters in it. Funny...
I'm sure that FreeBSD is good for allowing you to feel smug about loving Unix
Wow...jump to conclusions much? Did you read the part about where I used to use FreeBSD years ago...y'know, before Flash capability was a critical to viewing mainstream websites and multimedia content as it is today?
I use FreeBSD because it's the last thing Unix I used 7 or 8 years ago. I know how to update it (cvsup, buildworld, KERNCONF, ports, etc) and I know how to configure it (rc.conf).
"From version 3.9.2, the holder of the copyright, the University of Washington, changed the license so that even if the source code was still available, they did not allow modifications and changes to Pine to be distributed by anyone other than themselves. They also claimed that even the old license never allowed distribution of modified versions.[3]"
Hey, believe me: nostalgia is my friend. I recently bought a new computer and dual-boot windows and FreeBSD on it. Frankly, I have no reason to have FreeBSD. I'm not a developer or system administrator and I find web browsing in the Unix environment to be a pain in the neck -- flash crashes the browser, etc.
The only reason that I ever installed Linux in the first place was because I had a computer without a license and could not afford to buy Windows 95. If that computer had a working OS installed, I never would have installed Linux.
Anyway, I installed FreeBSD for the hell-of-it, and not without some degree of frustration. My wife noted this and said "You just love to screw up your computer and fix it, don't you?" The answer: Yeah, basically I do.
You're the guy that says that Rock and Roll stopped in the 70s. Give it a rest. Linux in 1997 is old-school, believe it or not. If you really think that Linux -- or FreeBSD -- for that matter is the same as it was in 1997, you're not paying attention.
Wanted to install a package, you had to search for all the dependencies and their dependencies whilst praying that there would be no Exit error at the end of the compilation.
I learned an extremely valuable lesson about what I wanted out of my computer about 8 weeks after I installed RedHat Linux 5.0 from a CD in the back of a book at age 16: don't trust RPMs to do it all for you. It's way, way better now, of course -- package management systems a la FreeBSD, Slackware, and Debian -- gotta admit, I know nothing about Fedora or Ubantu -- but back then I remember trying to install GTK 1.2, which is a total pain because GTK 1.1 -- or some other earlier version; it's hazy -- was required by somethings I had installed via RPM. What a disaster...
Anyway, the lesson -- either compile and "make install" everything or use the package manager for everything.
I gotta agree -- Linux can be as simple or flexible as you want it to be. It's just a matter of your choice of distribution. This guy's post seems to be more a lament of how simple is life used to be. As in, he used to have time to screw around with linux all the time -- now he has to spend his time actually producing, rather than having an excuse to tinker...
Linuxconf is a configurator for the Linux operating system. It features different user interfaces: a text interface, a web interface and a GTK interface. Currently, most Linux distributions consider it deprecated compared to other tools such as Webmin, the system-config-* tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora, drakconf on Mandriva, YaST on openSUSE and so on. Linuxconf was deprecated from Red Hat Linux in version 7.1 in April 2001.
More to the point, he had his sentence commuted because Bush thought 30 months for endangering the life of a intelligence operative was excessive:
From the wikipedia article you cite:
"After Libby was denied bail during his appeal process on July 2, 2007, President Bush commuted Libby's 30-month federal prison sentence, calling it "excessive", but he did not change the other parts of the sentence and their conditions.[17] That presidential commutation left in place the felony conviction, the $250,000 fine, and the terms of probation."
He was still punished, but whether a fine and probation is enough is questionable...
Last night, I downloaded the a patch for a popular game. It's freely available, but the download from EA was slow -- something like 100kbps, and this was a 2GB patch. With the torrent, I was pulling it down at 1.2MBPS, the maximum that my AT&T connection can do.
But I have no idea if there was a trojan in that file. Probably should have checked the sum, but alas -- I have no idea of how to do that...oops.
Honestly, how much of your budget could gas really consume? If you're driving 10 miles each way to and from work and have a 30 mile per gallon car you're burning 2/3 of a gallon of gas daily. At $3 that's $2. At $3.50 that's $2.33. An increase of $.50 is going to bankrupt you or anyone else?
The sales of starbucks coffee suggest otherwise...
Does this remind anyone of Capacitor Plague? Look at the resale prices of potentially affected Dells to get an idea of the impact of these kinds of decisions. There will be all of these hardware rev numbers and manufacturers won't be forthcoming with information on which units have which. It's ridiculous.
I've been reading HuffPo for a number of years and there is one thing that they do that is just so tacky, the "rate this picture."
There are always topics like "The 10 best cities to raise a kid" and then pictures of each city and then everyone votes on which picture is best. What is the point of that? About 50% of the time they'll put up a picture of a different city than that indicated.
Taxpayer-disapproval of public-servants being high on or off the job is almost universal. I can't think of a single taxpayer that would disapprove of hearing from government employees what is going on in the government.
Let's not forget something else -- this is a city, not the CIA. With a few exceptions -- police officers, health authorities -- there are no privacy or public safety implication to a city government releasing information about his own work.
This has nothing to do with protecting the public from harm, but with protecting the employees' managers from embarrassment. And we know that's what this is about.
During past hurricanes in the gulf, there were instances where entire ships ended up on land. This would likely damage one of these server ships and anything in it.
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Yeah, it sure is a pain int he neck here. But I'll take this over a hidden virus/trojan -- at least you know that there is something wrong...
I recently ridded my wife's computer of such a virus/trojan, whatever -- this day, we can't figure out how the machine ended up with it -- maybe autorun off a usb stick?
It was this ridiculous fake filescanner that would pop up at start up and scan every file on the computer, calling out 1/10th of them as "infected." This was Windows XP, and the filescanner suppressed msconfig and task man; in fact, you couldn't run notepad from the run dialog. It would pop up with "file infected; can't open" or some such. At any rate, this required going into the registry and checking what was in the "run once;" there was some weird file in allusers\localsettings. It was named like a random password, like asdf230123jfgnmv.exe.
The "removal" procedures were basically just to rename the file and restart. It hasn't come back yet. At any rate, while I was working with the file -- I noticed an artifact in the metadata listing the manufacturer -- I can't read Russian, but it definitely had cyrillic characters in it. Funny...
That was...hilarious. What is this guy, sweedish?
I'm sure that FreeBSD is good for allowing you to feel smug about loving Unix
Wow...jump to conclusions much? Did you read the part about where I used to use FreeBSD years ago...y'know, before Flash capability was a critical to viewing mainstream websites and multimedia content as it is today?
I use FreeBSD because it's the last thing Unix I used 7 or 8 years ago. I know how to update it (cvsup, buildworld, KERNCONF, ports, etc) and I know how to configure it (rc.conf).
I bow down before you. Care to link me to the procedures to get it to show youtube without crashing?
It was due to copyright reasons, from wikipedia:
"From version 3.9.2, the holder of the copyright, the University of Washington, changed the license so that even if the source code was still available, they did not allow modifications and changes to Pine to be distributed by anyone other than themselves. They also claimed that even the old license never allowed distribution of modified versions.[3]"
So there is now alpine.
Hey, believe me: nostalgia is my friend. I recently bought a new computer and dual-boot windows and FreeBSD on it. Frankly, I have no reason to have FreeBSD. I'm not a developer or system administrator and I find web browsing in the Unix environment to be a pain in the neck -- flash crashes the browser, etc.
The only reason that I ever installed Linux in the first place was because I had a computer without a license and could not afford to buy Windows 95. If that computer had a working OS installed, I never would have installed Linux.
Anyway, I installed FreeBSD for the hell-of-it, and not without some degree of frustration. My wife noted this and said "You just love to screw up your computer and fix it, don't you?" The answer: Yeah, basically I do.
Should have used ZMODEM.
You're the guy that says that Rock and Roll stopped in the 70s. Give it a rest. Linux in 1997 is old-school, believe it or not. If you really think that Linux -- or FreeBSD -- for that matter is the same as it was in 1997, you're not paying attention.
Wanted to install a package, you had to search for all the dependencies and their dependencies whilst praying that there would be no Exit error at the end of the compilation.
I learned an extremely valuable lesson about what I wanted out of my computer about 8 weeks after I installed RedHat Linux 5.0 from a CD in the back of a book at age 16: don't trust RPMs to do it all for you. It's way, way better now, of course -- package management systems a la FreeBSD, Slackware, and Debian -- gotta admit, I know nothing about Fedora or Ubantu -- but back then I remember trying to install GTK 1.2, which is a total pain because GTK 1.1 -- or some other earlier version; it's hazy -- was required by somethings I had installed via RPM. What a disaster...
Anyway, the lesson -- either compile and "make install" everything or use the package manager for everything.
Oh touche, my friend. Consider me zinged.
I gotta agree -- Linux can be as simple or flexible as you want it to be. It's just a matter of your choice of distribution. This guy's post seems to be more a lament of how simple is life used to be. As in, he used to have time to screw around with linux all the time -- now he has to spend his time actually producing, rather than having an excuse to tinker...
Linux conf: http://tinyurl.com/4jfae7f
From wikipedia:
Linuxconf is a configurator for the Linux operating system. It features different user interfaces: a text interface, a web interface and a GTK interface. Currently, most Linux distributions consider it deprecated compared to other tools such as Webmin, the system-config-* tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora, drakconf on Mandriva, YaST on openSUSE and so on. Linuxconf was deprecated from Red Hat Linux in version 7.1 in April 2001.
Oh so a President can change the way the entire government works overnight? Let's not forget who set up Homeland Security in the first place...
Well, it's certainly process, but it's clearly not due
More to the point, he had his sentence commuted because Bush thought 30 months for endangering the life of a intelligence operative was excessive:
From the wikipedia article you cite:
"After Libby was denied bail during his appeal process on July 2, 2007, President Bush commuted Libby's 30-month federal prison sentence, calling it "excessive", but he did not change the other parts of the sentence and their conditions.[17] That presidential commutation left in place the felony conviction, the $250,000 fine, and the terms of probation."
He was still punished, but whether a fine and probation is enough is questionable...
Last night, I downloaded the a patch for a popular game. It's freely available, but the download from EA was slow -- something like 100kbps, and this was a 2GB patch. With the torrent, I was pulling it down at 1.2MBPS, the maximum that my AT&T connection can do.
But I have no idea if there was a trojan in that file. Probably should have checked the sum, but alas -- I have no idea of how to do that...oops.
Honestly, how much of your budget could gas really consume? If you're driving 10 miles each way to and from work and have a 30 mile per gallon car you're burning 2/3 of a gallon of gas daily. At $3 that's $2. At $3.50 that's $2.33. An increase of $.50 is going to bankrupt you or anyone else?
The sales of starbucks coffee suggest otherwise...
Does this remind anyone of Capacitor Plague? Look at the resale prices of potentially affected Dells to get an idea of the impact of these kinds of decisions. There will be all of these hardware rev numbers and manufacturers won't be forthcoming with information on which units have which. It's ridiculous.
I've been reading HuffPo for a number of years and there is one thing that they do that is just so tacky, the "rate this picture."
There are always topics like "The 10 best cities to raise a kid" and then pictures of each city and then everyone votes on which picture is best. What is the point of that? About 50% of the time they'll put up a picture of a different city than that indicated.
Taxpayer-disapproval of public-servants being high on or off the job is almost universal. I can't think of a single taxpayer that would disapprove of hearing from government employees what is going on in the government.
Let's not forget something else -- this is a city, not the CIA. With a few exceptions -- police officers, health authorities -- there are no privacy or public safety implication to a city government releasing information about his own work.
This has nothing to do with protecting the public from harm, but with protecting the employees' managers from embarrassment. And we know that's what this is about.
Yeah -- what is with all the white space? On my display, it shows two stories where there could be 4.
Second, if stalking immigrant kids is the FBI "doing their job", they should find a different job.
Just for the record, the kid is a US-born American citizen. His claim to fame was being half-egyptian.
Uh sir...it's in the building
During past hurricanes in the gulf, there were instances where entire ships ended up on land. This would likely damage one of these server ships and anything in it.