this virus has already been spreading actively since last thursday or something...
anyway, one stupid thing is that all the reports call it "privacy" sensitive because it sends out personal documents from your drive... but from all the stuff I received over the weekend, I noticed it's just the name of the document it uses... the actual content is the virus itself; an executable disguised as a document...
of course, since lots of windows users use 50% of the document contents in the name of the file, it could be quite emberassing if it picks the right document;)
as a matter of fact I was in a huge electronic store here in Amsterdam yesterday and they already sold RCE free players... it's good to know we have these large stores on 'our' side... (admittedly, their motivation is probably more economical than moral)
it also amused me to see that with one player they actually had a stack of papers next to it with a mini HOWTO to disable the region encoding in that player:-)
I was on a seminar in Helsinki earlier this year where a guy from Nokia did a presentation about this device...
one important thing I remember is that he said all the software on it is opensource, except some of the very specific video software ("nobody but us has use of it anyway") and I think Nokia's screen interface is propietary (sp?)...
In fact he said that even if they'd keep the whole box closed source he knew people were going to hack on it anyway so why make it difficult?
He was also showing off some kinda open developers portal they fully supported, which was linked to the development of the device...
isn't it time we allow floppy drives to die? it deserve a place next to the 5.25" drives...
it's time these unreliable and vulnerable little things get replaced by something more digital...
it's stupid how long these things have been around...
the only cool use I see is Linux Floppy Routers and wallpaper
I think i can answer one question though... if I remember correctly from my childhood, the reason why they could turn into human stuff like VW beetles is because they needed a way to blend in with the normal day of life on earth (not that a big ass ghetto blaster is that normal)
and yes that TRAILER still puzzles to this day, especially since there was such a huge lab inside it too.
I don't think WP5.1 is very portable...
If i'm not mistaken, it was written mainly in x86 assembly code (I could be wrong... I remember hearing about that though)... so making it in portable C code is just like rewriting it entirely...
even though dutch is our natural language, most of
us don't have a problem with speaking english (but forgive our weird accent)...
I happen to work for an international company in Amsterdam but when we were still "national" we already had a lot of english speaking colleagues...
RMS warned about more license traps trying to invade the freesoftware world... I guess he was right...
let's hope not too many developers fall in this trap again.
yes i learned alot from using slackware for several years... but it gets too darn complicated with all the different lib versions and gtk releases and other horror... i still have a libc5 slackware box running so i still get my compiling kicks (i've become very fast in installing apache+php+mysql straight from the source:) ) for servers @ work i use debian... it's great... need a webserver? just do the basic 60mb install and apt-get install apache and other stuff and you can be sure it doesn't include any other software you really don't need on it (except for telnet of course:) )
I've been using mysql for websites for several years now and I have nothing but good experiences... I don't care that mysql doesn't do all the fancy stuff a 'real' RDBMS does... IMHO, mysql is more than sufficient for most medium-sized websites.
I wouldn't want to put a really mission-critial database online on websites anyway, no matter what database engine is behind it.
I've seen a lot of companies putting big $$$ into putting their data online, even though they don't get more than 5 visitors a day who actually use that data...
most online store have huge, complicated database structures, even if they're only selling nothing more than just golf balls -- training people to actually understand such databases costs even more than buying the software and hardware.
i would really miss out on printed manuals because I like to read them in the subway or train plus there's nothing as great as reading the manual for a new product when you're on the toilet;)
and no, I don't care about ebooks or whatever priopetary devices... nothing compares to a paper manual.
uhm hello... it was bugtraq who discovered the so-called security flaw. if MS makes an ass out of itself, that's their own fault. microsoft is uhm, kinda related to computer technology so it's definately geek material....
I think it was CmdrTaco who mentioned cscmail in this episode (or it was the previous one... I'm not sure)... I've briefly glanced at it before but never decided to actually try it out... now it has been praised by a true geek, I wanted to try it out anyway... but the original website (cyberdeck.org/cscmail) is gone!:( somebody has not been paying his bills...
... the windows streaming media protocol and create our own Linux clients/servers... but then MS's lawyers could be at our doorstep the next day for violating their copyright;)
maybe the slashdot post should have mentioned that Fred is more involved in Linux and open source than just another "domain squatter" who happens to own the linux.net domain... he is not One Of The Bad Guys! (tm) try grepping his name in the Linux source tree and you'll see his name popping in several places...
I remember seeing his name quite often when i was trying to get a ppp connection working, back in those days when the world didn't know anything about the penguin and you could only get things working on your Linux box if you figured it out yourself, or happened to have a friend with a little more Linux experience...:)
i just realized this will be more work for webdesigners/developers... now you will need to make sure your website smells the same in all different browser types... cause we all know that Microsoft and Netscape will use different smell tags... hmmm well at least you can let IE users know (smell) what you think about them;)
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this virus has already been spreading actively since last thursday or something...
;)
anyway, one stupid thing is that all the reports call it "privacy" sensitive because it sends out personal documents from your drive... but from all the stuff I received over the weekend, I noticed it's just the name of the document it uses... the actual content is the virus itself; an executable disguised as a document...
of course, since lots of windows users use 50% of the document contents in the name of the file, it could be quite emberassing if it picks the right document
as a matter of fact I was in a huge electronic store here in Amsterdam yesterday and they already sold RCE free players... it's good to know we have these large stores on 'our' side... (admittedly, their motivation is probably more economical than moral) :-)
it also amused me to see that with one player they actually had a stack of papers next to it with a mini HOWTO to disable the region encoding in that player
Ricardo.
I was on a seminar in Helsinki earlier this year where a guy from Nokia did a presentation about this device...
one important thing I remember is that he said all the software on it is opensource, except some of the very specific video software ("nobody but us has use of it anyway") and I think Nokia's screen interface is propietary (sp?)...
In fact he said that even if they'd keep the whole box closed source he knew people were going to hack on it anyway so why make it difficult?
He was also showing off some kinda open developers portal they fully supported, which was linked to the development of the device...
isn't it time we allow floppy drives to die? it deserve a place next to the 5.25" drives...
it's time these unreliable and vulnerable little things get replaced by something more digital...
it's stupid how long these things have been around...
the only cool use I see is Linux Floppy Routers and wallpaper
Ricardo.
verry funny :)
I think i can answer one question though... if I remember correctly from my childhood, the reason why they could turn into human stuff like VW beetles is because they needed a way to blend in with the normal day of life on earth (not that a big ass ghetto blaster is that normal)
and yes that TRAILER still puzzles to this day, especially since there was such a huge lab inside it too.
I don't think WP5.1 is very portable...
If i'm not mistaken, it was written mainly in x86 assembly code (I could be wrong... I remember hearing about that though)... so making it in portable C code is just like rewriting it entirely...
Ricardo.
even though dutch is our natural language, most of
us don't have a problem with speaking english (but forgive our weird accent)...
I happen to work for an international company in Amsterdam but when we were still "national" we already had a lot of english speaking colleagues...
Ricardo.
RMS warned about more license traps trying to invade the freesoftware world... I guess he was right...
let's hope not too many developers fall in this trap again.
yep... actually a colleague of mine installed Linux on his iPaq recently... including access to a wireless lan...
i saved it as a background image on my linux desktop...
.. and free too ! :-)
this is really good promotion for Linux
Ricardo.
darn as if Dan Bernstein's ego isn't big ;)
enough
Ricardo.
yes i learned alot from using slackware for
several years... but it gets too darn complicated
with all the different lib versions and gtk
releases and other horror...
i still have a libc5 slackware box running so
i still get my compiling kicks (i've become
very fast in installing apache+php+mysql straight
from the source
for servers @ work i use debian... it's great...
need a webserver? just do the basic 60mb install
and apt-get install apache and other stuff and
you can be sure it doesn't include any other
software you really don't need on it (except
for telnet of course
one word: yggdrasil...
that brings back memories!
Ricardo.
hmmm on which site are your scripts running? *grin*
I wouldn't want to put a really mission-critial database online on websites anyway, no matter what database engine is behind it.
I've seen a lot of companies putting big $$$ into putting their data online, even though they don't get more than 5 visitors a day who actually use that data...
most online store have huge, complicated database structures, even if they're only selling nothing more than just golf balls -- training people to actually understand such databases costs even more than buying the software and hardware.
don't forget... the web is merely a toy :)
Ricardo.
that would probably harm their production freedom
Ricardo.
ps: not all countries in europe are afraid of english language on the net, some even embrace it :)
and no, I don't care about ebooks or whatever priopetary devices... nothing compares to a paper manual.
microsoft is uhm, kinda related to computer technology so it's definately geek material....
Ricardo.
I think it was CmdrTaco who mentioned cscmail in this episode (or it was the previous one... I'm not sure)... I've briefly glanced at it before but never decided to actually try it out... :( somebody has not been paying his bills...
now it has been praised by a true geek, I wanted to try it out anyway...
but the original website (cyberdeck.org/cscmail) is gone!
any thoughts on where i can get it?
Thanks,
Ricardo.
I think the bandwidth biggest is the bottleneck
in the first place...
Ricardo.
the worst thing about it was that it was done by an Outlook Express user... how insecure can a system be if even OE users can "hack" it... :)
getting the domain back was a nightmare and we almost got sued by our customer for it...
we switched to notify-before-update so thats all we can do about it....
Ricardo.
... the windows streaming media protocol
and create our own Linux clients/servers...
but then MS's lawyers could be at our doorstep
the next day for violating their copyright
maybe the slashdot post should have mentioned
:)
that Fred is more involved in Linux and open
source than just another "domain squatter" who
happens to own the linux.net domain...
he is not One Of The Bad Guys! (tm)
try grepping his name in the Linux source
tree and you'll see his name popping in several
places...
I remember seeing his name quite often when i
was trying to get a ppp connection working,
back in those days when the world didn't know anything about the penguin and you could only
get things working on your Linux box if you
figured it out yourself, or happened to have
a friend with a little more Linux experience...
Ricardo.
i just realized this will be more work
for webdesigners/developers...
now you will need to make sure your website
smells the same in all different browser types...
cause we all know that Microsoft and Netscape
will use different smell tags...
hmmm well at least you can let IE users
know (smell) what you think about them
Ricardo.
Smell of Fear
:)
that's quite obvious, right ?