Actaully, The "script-kiddie" phenomenon does provide an interesting toolset; once you find any security hole in a system, the off-the-shelf toolkits let you infest that system with backdoors, etc. in a rapid, automated fashion. So you find just one bug in the system you're attacking, via either black-box or white-box testing methods, and the "root kits" promptly pry it the rest of the way open.
What our anonymous friend overlooks is that you do not need to run all of StarOffice in the browser, just a remote GUI front end to StarOffice.
So you take the existing StarOffice GUI interface, make a java applet "display server" paired to an interface library for StarOffice, and voila, you're in business.
And on top of that, you get a chunk of software usable for other things...
Instead of expensive network cards with boot proms, you could also get EPROM floppy emulator cards like this or this and then copy a working boot floppy image onto it. You can find these and more by asking Alta Vista for: solid near state and emulate and floppy and EPROM
The motive is simple -- selling more licenses. The proposition is that if you want to host multiple websites on one system you need "unsupported" non-commercial freeware, whereas the Microsoft Supported Solution is to install more servers, with more copies of Windows NT, etc.
Well, if its really a fait accomplis that the term hacker has been eaten by the mainstream press, etc. then we should pick a new term, and those of us who consider ourselves such should change the appropriate names, etc.
It seems to me one must start with attempts at synonyms to "hack", and work from there. The ones I can think of offhand are kind of lame, to wit: hack -> feat:: hacker-> feater(?!?) hack -> stunt:: hacker -> stunter(?!?) But I'm certain the august readers of this forum can do better...
Agreed! I just wrote them up a note on NNTP, pointing at web copies of the RFC (which are dated Feb. 1986, for those of you keeping score), and suggesting appropriate "translation" of some of the not-so-techno-babble in the patent.
We should realize that this is not neccesarily a Good Thing -- IBM will no doubt start trying to add Proprietary Extensions to something called IBM Linux... Just you wait and see.
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Actaully, The "script-kiddie" phenomenon does provide an interesting toolset; once you find any security hole in a system, the off-the-shelf toolkits let you infest that system with backdoors, etc. in a rapid, automated fashion. So you find just one bug in the system you're attacking, via either black-box or white-box testing methods, and the "root kits" promptly pry it the rest of the way open.
So you take the existing StarOffice GUI interface, make a java applet "display server" paired to an interface library for StarOffice, and voila, you're in business.
And on top of that, you get a chunk of software usable for other things...
Instead of expensive network cards with boot proms, you could also get EPROM floppy emulator cards like this or this and then copy a working boot floppy image onto it. You can find these and more by asking Alta Vista for: solid near state and emulate and floppy and EPROM
The motive is simple -- selling more licenses. The proposition is that if you want to host multiple websites on one system you need "unsupported" non-commercial freeware, whereas the Microsoft Supported Solution is to install more servers, with more copies of Windows NT, etc.
It seems to me one must start with attempts at synonyms to "hack", and work from there. The ones I can think of offhand are kind of lame, to wit: :: hacker-> feater(?!?) :: hacker -> stunter(?!?)
hack -> feat
hack -> stunt
But I'm certain the august readers of this forum can do better...
Agreed! I just wrote them up a note on NNTP, pointing at web copies of the RFC (which are dated Feb. 1986, for those of you keeping score), and suggesting appropriate "translation" of some of the not-so-techno-babble in the patent.
coffee mugs with the project slogan.
We should realize that this is not neccesarily a Good Thing -- IBM will no doubt start trying to add Proprietary Extensions to something called IBM Linux... Just you wait and see.