First, they pick a word with the almost unique property that it starts with a silent G; a word so obscure that no average person really knows what it is. And then they go that one extra uber-geek step and insist that you pronounce the "G":
Yep, I agree. I gave up telling people about GNU software because non-Linux people think you're an idiot for pronouncing the G... Then you have to explain to them that they want you do pronounce the G.. it's nausiating. I wish they would have come up with a better name.
Btw, are you supposed to pronounce the G in GNOME?
This guy's a professor?? I've seen better written essays from high school kids. His facts are full of mistakes and missing info, plus his writing style is terrible. I'm really curious to find out what school is he from?
It's impossible to know what they are running. For all we know, they could have a Win2K box which just redirects port 80 to a UNIX box. Or if they are usinging an open source OS, wouldn't it be easy to to some modifications to make it look like a Win2K box from outside?
Code Red is a worm, not a virus.
The plural of "virus" is "viruses", not "virii".
Thank you!!! These people are driving me nuts!
The other thing that bugs me is that main stream media is not mentioning that Code Red only affects Microsoft operating systems. They mever mention that Unix and other OS's are immune.
Slightly off topic, I am on the Rogers @home network... I nmapped a friends computer, also on Rogers @home.. Shortly after, my modem went down. After days on the tech support line (I didn't tell them about the nmap) I finally got my account fixed -- they had to reset it (they left out the details of what needed to be done), but this was after refreshing my DHCP lease, checking the routers, etc. Is it possible Rogers has installed something which detects port scanning and disables the cuplrits account? I was actually doing it on my friends request, since he was experimenting with his firewall, but I havn't tried it since.
In any case, any use of nmap is deemed to be a hostile activity, and make sure you have permission of a machines owner before using it on their machine.
Do you ever wonder if these open source projects are actually helping Microsoft? I mean Microsofts coding standards are pretty low (check out Windows ME, IIS, well, everything from Microsoft)... They are probably studying the source code from these two projects and stealing ideas from them as far as better ways to implement the same frame work. Implementing any large scale project (and this one is big) raises many technical problems, and there are many different approaches to solving them. I wouldn't be surprised if MS is looking for ways to improve their own code by reading the source from these other projects.
You do not want to get a Gtk+ toolkit on MacOS, nor on Windows. You want to get a native interface
That's what Sun first thought when it first created Java... They soon realised the limitations (taking the lowest common demoninatar of each desktop) and created a Java native toolkit called Swing.
You have to remember this was one of the first ever games. Just the novelty of it was amazing at the time. This is probably before you were born, but this was a time before bank machines, home computers, etc, etc. Your comment is like complaining about the Ford Model T.. It had terrible gas mileage, had a bumpy ride, it would make you want to avoid cars all together.
This isn't reliable... I just tried emailing myself and adding a +test to the end of my name.. I got a delivery failure message. I guess @home (who use excite for mail) doesn't use sendmail.
Yeah, I'm not even running a website, it's just my little ol' 486 acting as my IP Masquerading gateway for my home LAN... I don't have much more than my resume on the web server!
Good point about the reverse DNS lookups, actually most of the ones I checked didn't even have a valid domaine name. Probably they are just Windows 2000 users with cable modems who leave their computers on all day, and don't even realize they are infected.
I've got the same thing in my Apache access logs.. 17 unique hosts sent it. Haven't noticed any side effects or problems on Apache or Linux yet (I know this is an IIS worm, but it's best to be cautious).
I havn't tried Windows Terminal Server, I hear it is quite expensive. We are slowly starting to use MS Netmeeting which is a little more stable than PC Anywhere. I should look into Terminal Server, though, since we have to support Windows based PC's at 4 remote warehouses.
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Yes, it really annoys me when books dedicate 50+ pages to printing licenses instead of providing internet links. I've got books which include Linux HOWTO's verbatim which I can read for free online (or in/usr/doc). This is blatent filler crap which just serves to make the book look bigger on the shelf.
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It's ironic that he wants users to have complete freedom to use the software, but yet we don't have the freedom to call GNU/Linux just Linux.
Yep, I agree. I gave up telling people about GNU software because non-Linux people think you're an idiot for pronouncing the G... Then you have to explain to them that they want you do pronounce the G.. it's nausiating. I wish they would have come up with a better name.
Btw, are you supposed to pronounce the G in GNOME?
Nice Airplane reference.
Probably starved to death...
It takes a lot of plants to improve air quality, guy.
This guy's a professor?? I've seen better written essays from high school kids. His facts are full of mistakes and missing info, plus his writing style is terrible. I'm really curious to find out what school is he from?
It's impossible to know what they are running. For all we know, they could have a Win2K box which just redirects port 80 to a UNIX box. Or if they are usinging an open source OS, wouldn't it be easy to to some modifications to make it look like a Win2K box from outside?
No, he would write an MS Outlook virus which would install the patch automatically!
Oh yeah?? I wrote a protocol that can take a 6 MB MP3 file and compress it to under 10 bytes!
(Some sound quality degragation may occur, use at own risk)
I'm serious, and please excuse my ignorance!
It's called bandwidth and clustered servers!! Check out the hardware section of the FAQ.
The plural of "virus" is "viruses", not "virii".
Thank you!!! These people are driving me nuts!
The other thing that bugs me is that main stream media is not mentioning that Code Red only affects Microsoft operating systems. They mever mention that Unix and other OS's are immune.
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In any case, any use of nmap is deemed to be a hostile activity, and make sure you have permission of a machines owner before using it on their machine.
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Do you ever wonder if these open source projects are actually helping Microsoft? I mean Microsofts coding standards are pretty low (check out Windows ME, IIS, well, everything from Microsoft)... They are probably studying the source code from these two projects and stealing ideas from them as far as better ways to implement the same frame work. Implementing any large scale project (and this one is big) raises many technical problems, and there are many different approaches to solving them. I wouldn't be surprised if MS is looking for ways to improve their own code by reading the source from these other projects.
That's what Sun first thought when it first created Java ... They soon realised the limitations (taking the lowest common demoninatar of each desktop) and created a Java native toolkit called Swing.
And don't forget: What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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When the aliens hit the yellow cellophane you knew you were in trouble!!
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Good point about the reverse DNS lookups, actually most of the ones I checked didn't even have a valid domaine name. Probably they are just Windows 2000 users with cable modems who leave their computers on all day, and don't even realize they are infected.
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Is this actually possible??
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