I've seen some pretty fast-moving viruses get past the very expensive virus-scanner we have at work, but the only one to get by the simple, free, procmail-based one I use at home is the stupid one where you have to open an encrypted zipfile.
http://impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security. ht ml
Now I have to ask, if users are dumb enough to open a password-protected zipfile in what sure looks like an obvious virus-generated message to me, aren't those users dumb enough to be convinced to chmod +x &&./runMyVirus
I think this is evidence that no security system can realy be foolproof. The fools are just too persistent!
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Can someone please explain to me what's so damned bad about./configure && make && sudo make install?
I like tools like apt that automate downloading and checking MD5 hashes etc, but some things just require custom building.
My only issue with tools like that is that there's no automated uninstall, but really, since the end result is usually a single file, who cares? If its existance is a problem, rm -i `which progname`
I have way more problems with the 'run setup.exe and click OK 43 times' win32 installers than custom building *nix stuff.
--from-the-department-of-the-glaringly-obvious-- To keep our neighbors to the south happy, legalization will happen incrementally, but it will happen. Once we get it legal, instead of wasting tax dollars keeping people from smoking pot, we can add huge tax revenue from its legal sale.
you forgot the greatest feature of mutt: regexp-based header modification hooks.
I can automatically have a different sig/from address/whatever based on who I'm emailing. I can automatically set it to pgp sign/encryot some users and not others.
Also, you can mod the colours to make keeping track of email SO much easier - mail from my GF is red, mail to lists is white,...
And easy plugin config - word docs can get previewed thru antiword, very convenient...
>> then eventually the batteries were low so it went into a sort of 'safe mode'
No, what I read in TFA was that they interrupted the boot cycle, and told it to start without mounting the flash filesystem. Pertty normal practice for dealing with sick filesystem under vxWorks.
What's impressive is that they can maintain a stable enough network connection to another fucking planet to do this. I routinely do it with systems running vxWorks on _this_ planet, but even then keeping a reliable connection is the tricky part...
Slashdot Mirror
>> You know who opened your bag.
at best you know who opened your bag _first_ - assuming the TAS key hasn't been compromised...
then the TSA folks unlock the TSA lock, and break the other one. You've gained what, exactly?
from my proxy config:
user-agent "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.01; Windows NT Sucks)"
I think theo finds lots of things scary - and I like that in a guy who writes OS code :)
Translation of parent post: my wife reads slashdot, and I need some brownie points ;)
whoops - should have said 'local _directory_' ie it doesn't look along %PATH% for stuff to run.
autocomplete only works for the local drive in cmd - still pretty crippled...
I've seen some pretty fast-moving viruses get past the very expensive virus-scanner we have at work, but the only one to get by the simple, free, procmail-based one I use at home is the stupid one where you have to open an encrypted zipfile.
. ht ml
./runMyVirus
http://impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security
Now I have to ask, if users are dumb enough to open a password-protected zipfile in what sure looks like an obvious virus-generated message to me, aren't those users dumb enough to be convinced to chmod +x &&
I think this is evidence that no security system can realy be foolproof. The fools are just too persistent!
Do you have links/references to backup your sig?
very curious...
tx
as a die-hard slack user who was just recently motivated by a job change to try debian, here's a resounding 'Me Too' to the grandparent post.
Apt is absolutely fucking beautiful.
And I've been quite happy with the 'testing' distro - the one between stable and unstable
I'll be happy when Mr Fusion (tm) is powering my car. Just toss in some garbage and off you go...
Should have said 'copied from someone's sig'
note that the ogiginal sig is unharmed by the copying...
You forgot my favourite description of Dubya: Moron
Well, ex-president would be better, but we can't use that yet. Soon, I hope...
Can someone please explain to me what's so damned bad about ./configure && make && sudo make install?
I like tools like apt that automate downloading and checking MD5 hashes etc, but some things just require custom building.
My only issue with tools like that is that there's no automated uninstall, but really, since the end result is usually a single file, who cares? If its existance is a problem, rm -i `which progname`
I have way more problems with the 'run setup.exe and click OK 43 times' win32 installers than custom building *nix stuff.
you can install debian over the serial port on x86 boxes.
Try that with a GUI!
There's some irony in Wyatt Earp setting the record straight here :)
If(when) it gets legalized, I plan on marketing my pot brownie recipe.
Almost all the negative issues around pot relate to burning it - there are other ways...
--from-the-department-of-the-glaringly-obvious--
To keep our neighbors to the south happy, legalization will happen incrementally, but it will happen. Once we get it legal, instead of wasting tax dollars keeping people from smoking pot, we can add huge tax revenue from its legal sale.
The sooner the better, IMHO
you forgot the greatest feature of mutt: regexp-based header modification hooks.
...
I can automatically have a different sig/from address/whatever based on who I'm emailing.
I can automatically set it to pgp sign/encryot some users and not others.
Also, you can mod the colours to make keeping track of email SO much easier - mail from my GF is red, mail to lists is white,
And easy plugin config - word docs can get previewed thru antiword, very convenient...
>> then eventually the batteries were low so it went into a sort of 'safe mode'
No, what I read in TFA was that they interrupted the boot cycle, and told it to start without mounting the flash filesystem. Pertty normal practice for dealing with sick filesystem under vxWorks.
What's impressive is that they can maintain a stable enough network connection to another fucking planet to do this. I routinely do it with systems running vxWorks on _this_ planet, but even then keeping a reliable connection is the tricky part...
while following a link from a MS ad on slashdot, I got the following error:
msxml3.dll error '80072f76'
/library/toolbar/3.0/vb.asp, line 34
:)
http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/security/
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The requested header was not found
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Now, to my mind that gives information that really shouldn't be in a public error message.
Weren't there a few holes in msxml3's parsing a while ago?
I was just lamenting the time I'd wasted reading slashdot this eevning, until I read your sig
thank you, I'm off to edit my fortune file...
how the fsck is this offtopic - fedora core 2 will now be the first distro to be SELinux-ready out of the box...
This is a good thing - might even get me to move from slack, at least until slack gets SELinux...
and there was much rejoicing
>> as said 8 year old downloads, compiles and runs the latest open source variant of Medal of Honour
:)
and then proceeds to beat you're ass at it