The technical reasons of why overwriting a buffer is bad, are beyond the scope of this post. Just know that it is one of the worst things that can happen;)
I'll have a go at a simple explanation....
The data fills up all the room that was allocated for it and then carries on. You make sure there's enough that it overwrites a special bit of memory called the EIP which tells the computer where the next intruction in memory is. So you make sure the data that lands in the EIP points to the data (actually instructions) you've kindly provided! Whatever process you've overrun has now been hijacked and your code is running. Make sense?
And how is this different from false advertising? Aren't there legal penalties for a store advertising a book for $10, and then demanding $20 from customers?
To use your analogy: it's $10 for the paperback edition and $20 for the hardback, even though they have the same content. The company can still use the free version, but they must comply with the GPL. That doesn't stop them buying a different license for the software if the author offers one...
I guess letting companies having biometric information could be the beginning of a long and slippery slope, but I can't really see a worst case scenario... someone care to visualize it for me?
Hell, I still haven't found the "deselect" option for after you use one of the selection tools... maybe they just think it's not necessary? I don't know.
Select...None (in 1.3 or 2.0)
I'm hardly an artistic power user either, but that didn't take me long to find...
Since you've already been told about the keyboard shortcuts, I'll just add: you know that dotted line at the top of each menu? Click that and it tears off the menu as a seperate window. Handy if you're using the same effect a few times or trying different settings.
I think the major problem with The GIMP is that people don't use it long enough to find out these things. These two tips should be the first to appear when you start the program.
So, will there be a Windows version anytime soon for us Windows users (over half of./), or are we stuck with the ancient 1.2.5?
I'm running 1.3.23 on my Win2K machine. Download it from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
You may have to wait a bit till gimp.org gets back on its feet...
I had a problem in that it didn't detect my fonts, and I had to grab fontconfig from http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WindowsInstall to fix it. The new interface took a little getting used to, but I like it now.
No, it doesn't. You don't understand the fault. IE would only show "http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com" in the address bar. Moz and Firebird show "http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com%01@security.op enwares.org/Update.htm" which is correct, even though it may be misleading to some people. It would probably be a good idea to have a warning of some sort if there's a username in the URI.
Quick: in your head: how much is 6 dozen and 3 times 7 and 1/2 score? This is the kind of math they used to teach in elementary school in the 1800s.
Well, I'm not that old, but at primary school I certainly learned what a dozen was and my six times table, which covers the first. 3 times 7 is supposed to be difficult? I also learned at primary school what a score was, so I don't think I'm going to have any difficulty halving it.
I don't understand the point of your example. I suspect any 10 year old child nowadays could calculate that in their head.
would be stomped out in any organization that had a financial investment in producing professional, streamlined output.
Actually, no. In an "organization that had a financial investment in producing professional, streamlined output" HyperDev would be dropped because the Head of Team SupraDev had recently become engaged to the boss's niece. Only half of Team HyperDev would be informed of this, and no-one in Team CyberDeX (which depends on the correct Dev) would be informed at all. Marketing would state that the product would be ready in three weeks, despite the fact that none of them even know what CyberDeX does.
CyberDeX would be released 3 months later and if you tried to use it with more than 2 users it would fall over. A patch would be released 6 weeks later which allowed you to have 3 users. The product would crash daily.
One year later CyberDeX would finally become something approaching stable with the release of Service Pack 4, which essentially rips out SupraDev and puts HyperDev back in.
The head of Team SupraDev gets promotion and a raise.
Doesn't the FSF deny people the right to copy and distribute software, unless they agree to the GPL?
No.
OK. So I can distribute linux binaries without distributing the source, then?
I think you misunderstood him. The FSF doesn't deny people the right to copy and distribute other people's software any more than it denies you the right to break into the developer's house and steal his computer. The law denies you these "rights".
The GPL gives you the additional right to distribute software as long as you abide by the license.
If you feel you should have the right to distribute others' software any way you like, you should take that up with whoever makes the laws in the country you live in.
All programmes derived from YaST, and all works derived thereof as a whole or parts thereof may only be disseminated with the amended sources and this licence in accordance with 2b).
I know it says "may only" but it does say it may be done, as long as the conditions of 2b are followed.
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The data fills up all the room that was allocated for it and then carries on. You make sure there's enough that it overwrites a special bit of memory called the EIP which tells the computer where the next intruction in memory is. So you make sure the data that lands in the EIP points to the data (actually instructions) you've kindly provided! Whatever process you've overrun has now been hijacked and your code is running. Make sense?
http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/
You needed to google for something like "evolution linux lotus notes" (without quotes) and it would have come up.
Ahh...thanks anyway, but I'm in the UK.
If you didn't understand it, how did you know where the mistakes were?
Urgh. Remove the space or click here
I'm hardly an artistic power user either, but that didn't take me long to find...
Since you've already been told about the keyboard shortcuts, I'll just add: you know that dotted line at the top of each menu? Click that and it tears off the menu as a seperate window. Handy if you're using the same effect a few times or trying different settings.
I think the major problem with The GIMP is that people don't use it long enough to find out these things. These two tips should be the first to appear when you start the program.
I'm running 1.3.23 on my Win2K machine. Download it from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.htm
You may have to wait a bit till gimp.org gets back on its feet...
I had a problem in that it didn't detect my fonts, and I had to grab fontconfig from http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WindowsInstall to fix it. The new interface took a little getting used to, but I like it now.
No, it doesn't. You don't understand the fault. IE would only show "http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com" in the address bar. Moz and Firebird show "http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com%01@security.op enwares.org/Update.htm" which is correct, even though it may be misleading to some people. It would probably be a good idea to have a warning of some sort if there's a username in the URI.
I don't understand the point of your example. I suspect any 10 year old child nowadays could calculate that in their head.
CyberDeX would be released 3 months later and if you tried to use it with more than 2 users it would fall over. A patch would be released 6 weeks later which allowed you to have 3 users. The product would crash daily.
One year later CyberDeX would finally become something approaching stable with the release of Service Pack 4, which essentially rips out SupraDev and puts HyperDev back in.
The head of Team SupraDev gets promotion and a raise.
Thanks a lot. Now I can't get "18. Imitate what you think a conversation between Gollum, Dobby and Yoda would be like." out of my head...
The AC is correct. It's from "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams.
The GPL gives you the additional right to distribute software as long as you abide by the license.
If you feel you should have the right to distribute others' software any way you like, you should take that up with whoever makes the laws in the country you live in.
I know it says "may only" but it does say it may be done, as long as the conditions of 2b are followed.
In Mozilla Firebird:
Tools...Page Info
Select the Media tab
Select the Embed address, and click Save...As