I keep getting prompted to run smileys.exe when I connect to MySpace, but Synaptic Package Manager barfs on it sayings it not a valid package file? I did a 'file' on it, and its some sort of executable for a system called "MS DOS" - is that like ProDOS?
Sorry FBI, I'd like to help, but it seems your wiles only affect chimps.
Are you insane? Do not ever, EVER, let one of those monkeys install your service. I've seen it happen - they set your homepage to their site, install crapware, etc.
The cheap phone that comes free with your plan sounds like just the ticket. Tell Ma not to press the 'camera' button, and presto, a phone that doesn't have a camera!
I hope this at least builds on the successes of OS distributions for devices like the Linksys NSLU2, the WRT54G, and the Sharp Zaurus series. These people have stable and tested toolchains, build practices, entire organizations set up around managing and maintaining Linux on these devices.
Call me when this runs on my 266MHz ARM box, aka the Linksys NSLU2. My current setup is Debian Etch installed to a flash drive, and 2 250GB disks in RAID-1 w/ LVM hung off the USB ports. Near silent, and sucks about 10W of power.
This will be greeted with cheers by countless Exchange-Server-In-A-Box admins, who can't configure any sort of spam or content filtering on their side, or by those too frightened by Unix to implement their own relays. "If it has Google goodness, it must be ok - lets just use Postini! (while I make myself less and less relevant)".
Sorry, bitter today, mopped up after too many bad mail admins.
Hello all, please give me, a foreign consultant with no work experience but an H1B visa, all your knowledge and a step by step instruction on how to do your job, so that I can displace you in yours, since your boss only looks at buzzwords on a resume anyways. I await your full attention to this matter, Samir Nagheenanajar
Just because it happens "online" doesn't matter. The issue is parody. "online" isn't some sacred, Gibsonian world. If it was about stuff that happened ONLY online, that would be a different story.
So the drive still runs at 10k rpm, and still has metal platters that heat up, and still only has a 16mb cache, but you can read it 100x faster..... resulting in exactly nothing.
It's time for a new form factor, think a stack of quarters rather than a pile of LPs. I want a 1/2" diameter drive, with 16 platters. Then you can talk about media speed.
This is like using a bump key - hit a lock with random impacts and it opens. Spew enough garbage at a program and it will probably die. Eat enough food you find on the ground and you will probably get sick. Other than getting the +1, Obvious award, whats the point?
No, they're still using the Mac that their parents bought them when they lived in the basement. The reason that they don't have any money is that they're too busy updating their blogs, and buying emo music, thick-rimmed glasses, and 1970s Tshirts.
So someone like Andre Hedrick, or Linus, or Alan Cox, or Theo, could write an exploit for this that would root a box, but any script kiddie or Russian hacker could write a CSS or JPEG hack for IE that roots the box. Which is easier? Which is more likely?
The braking system in my car could catastrophically fail, or a soccer mom could mow me down with an SUV. I trust the brakes, I don't necessarily trust the soccer moms. It's all about risk. It might be technically interesting to read Theo's analysis, but the sky is not falling.
It might NOT affect Macs, because of the way the OSX kernel handles specific failures. Remember when the F00F bug came out, Linus himself quickly came up with a Linux patch that mapped it over to (IIRC) a page fault, which then was handled separately. DOS machines just died.
For this PARTICULAR microcode issue, OSX _may_ do something interesting with it, and so not be affected. Or, they simply never tested/validated it, and so Apple has no patch.
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Why couldn't I sell my exploit to the black market, THEN sell it to Microsoft a day or two later?
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I keep getting prompted to run smileys.exe when I connect to MySpace, but Synaptic Package Manager barfs on it sayings it not a valid package file? I did a 'file' on it, and its some sort of executable for a system called "MS DOS" - is that like ProDOS?
Sorry FBI, I'd like to help, but it seems your wiles only affect chimps.
Are you insane? Do not ever, EVER, let one of those monkeys install your service. I've seen it happen - they set your homepage to their site, install crapware, etc.
The cheap phone that comes free with your plan sounds like just the ticket. Tell Ma not to press the 'camera' button, and presto, a phone that doesn't have a camera!
I hope this at least builds on the successes of OS distributions for devices like the Linksys NSLU2, the WRT54G, and the Sharp Zaurus series. These people have stable and tested toolchains, build practices, entire organizations set up around managing and maintaining Linux on these devices.
Call me when this runs on my 266MHz ARM box, aka the Linksys NSLU2. My current setup is Debian Etch installed to a flash drive, and 2 250GB disks in RAID-1 w/ LVM hung off the USB ports. Near silent, and sucks about 10W of power.
Is the lzip sourceforge site still around? They should compare it against that.
Except for NATs, Proxies, and LUGs that hand out copies of distributions that they downloaded once.
You fail at the Internet.
This will be greeted with cheers by countless Exchange-Server-In-A-Box admins, who can't configure any sort of spam or content filtering on their side, or by those too frightened by Unix to implement their own relays. "If it has Google goodness, it must be ok - lets just use Postini! (while I make myself less and less relevant)".
Sorry, bitter today, mopped up after too many bad mail admins.
PS Find the joke and win the prize!
Hello all, please give me, a foreign consultant with no work experience but an H1B visa, all your knowledge and a step by step instruction on how to do your job, so that I can displace you in yours, since your boss only looks at buzzwords on a resume anyways.
I await your full attention to this matter,
Samir Nagheenanajar
is that there are so many to choose from.
Just because it happens "online" doesn't matter. The issue is parody. "online" isn't some sacred, Gibsonian world. If it was about stuff that happened ONLY online, that would be a different story.
Nice trollish headline. It's hardly a hack, rather a cease-and-desist from an 800 lb gorilla. In other words, not news for nerds.
So the drive still runs at 10k rpm, and still has metal platters that heat up, and still only has a 16mb cache, but you can read it 100x faster..... resulting in exactly nothing.
It's time for a new form factor, think a stack of quarters rather than a pile of LPs. I want a 1/2" diameter drive, with 16 platters. Then you can talk about media speed.
This is like using a bump key - hit a lock with random impacts and it opens. Spew enough garbage at a program and it will probably die. Eat enough food you find on the ground and you will probably get sick. Other than getting the +1, Obvious award, whats the point?
No, they're still using the Mac that their parents bought them when they lived in the basement. The reason that they don't have any money is that they're too busy updating their blogs, and buying emo music, thick-rimmed glasses, and 1970s Tshirts.
So someone like Andre Hedrick, or Linus, or Alan Cox, or Theo, could write an exploit for this that would root a box, but any script kiddie or Russian hacker could write a CSS or JPEG hack for IE that roots the box. Which is easier? Which is more likely?
The braking system in my car could catastrophically fail, or a soccer mom could mow me down with an SUV. I trust the brakes, I don't necessarily trust the soccer moms. It's all about risk. It might be technically interesting to read Theo's analysis, but the sky is not falling.
It might NOT affect Macs, because of the way the OSX kernel handles specific failures. Remember when the F00F bug came out, Linus himself quickly came up with a Linux patch that mapped it over to (IIRC) a page fault, which then was handled separately. DOS machines just died.
For this PARTICULAR microcode issue, OSX _may_ do something interesting with it, and so not be affected. Or, they simply never tested/validated it, and so Apple has no patch.
1) the Indie Douchebag. This Slashdotter will claim he only buys from 'local' or 'indie' bands, namely, his friends' garage band.
2) the Audiophile Loudmouth. This one buys 24k gold plated CDs, listened to on a 20bit DAC feeding monster-cabled speakers that he bought at Best Buy.
3) the Pirate. You all suck, Gnutella FTW!
Face it, none of the dorkwads on here, myself included, is representative of the mouthbreathers at Walmart whose choices power the economy.
No micrometeorite or space junk damage. Maneuvering jets might set up vibrations that take weeks to disipate.
My favorite was where they placed all the stress on better handling of multimedia, and Aero. Sorry, but the world does not spin around flash.
My my OS faster. Make is less virus-prone. Add hardware support for new stuff.
THATS ALL. I don't want my built-in File Manager to also be a Photo Manager, or a AIM client, with rounded corners and transparencies.
Wasn't this a Christian Slater movie?
Real men don't keep pr0n, they upload it to Gnutella and let the world mirror it.
The government is filled with douchebags.
I think more appropriate when discussing DHS.