I wonder how long it will be until you see informercials on TV about this "new way to make easy money" all filmed on location at a mansion with a giant pool party in the background and testimonials from people all wearing hawaiian shirts and bermuda shorts.
Actually, since mpd is already running (It's my main music app), and the sound file is in the database, It's actually easier to fire up ncmpcpp (ncurses mpc app) and just hit play.
Not to mention some distros have much better organized wikis and documentation than others, so their users don't use google as often when searching for help as opposed to simply searching directly on the website. For instance, Arch has a very well organized wiki requiring maybe 4 clicks to find information on anything from installation to sound troubleshooting, while Ubuntu has separate pages and directories for each release and they like to rename stuff making google your best bet since most information is in forum threads instead of wikis.
I log into my laptop with ssh, then remotely run cheese (remote-X) and check out my webcam from another floor. A really fun trick is to install mpd on the laptop, then watch the webcam until someone starts trying to mess with it and start playing a self-destruct audio file using mpc (or ncmpcpp, etc). My favorite is a star-trek recording with the start of a countdown:D
Most of the iPhone apps fall under the following categories:
-small flash-like games
-videos wrapped in an app api
-sound boards
If you are going to count apps like that, then lets add the following to the n900's list
-*actual* flash games (addictinggames.com, etc all work)
-built in unix tools (top, etc)
I'm fairly certain if you compared these now-equivalent lists, you would probably find the n900 has MANY more apps, and that most of them are probably MUCH better written to boot.
Oh, did I mention you can literally write your own apps in almost ANY language you want without paying $100 for a developers key. You can even distribute your own software repository publicly without paying a fee or asking users to void their warranties.
Yeah, 250 000 apps sounds kind of pathetic to me...
If I recall correctly there is a special case when the original creator of the work can not be identified. From what I've read, the origins of the scream are still in question. There are some strong opinions as to who created it, but nobody is sure.
I'm 100% sure if you took as user that had only used MS Word up to the pre-2007 version and stuck them in front of a computer with MS 2007 (or higher) and OpenOffice, they would think that OpenOffice was the microsoft one.
Believe it or not, but a lot of people are still using the older versions of MS Office.
So why not do what a lot of non-US ISPs already do and block bad ports, but let the users unblock them if they have a use for them. 99% of home user applications use only outbound ports > 1024. Blocking ports below 1025 by default would solve most of these problems. If users want to use a lower port (http, ssh, etc), give them an easy method (local router, remote control panel, etc) to enable the ones they *do* want.
A router solves pretty much all of these problems. It's difficult for malware to modify the router's firewall (separate machine), they block all incoming connections by default and users can easily (without dealing with the ISP) forward specific ports to any machine on their network.
In fact, some ISP's (Telus does, I think Shaw is moving towards it) are supplying modems with routers built into them that the user can configure themselves.
The majority of botnets attack more than civilians. Most of them are designed to go after large targets (thus the need for a botnet in the firstplace). These targets (businesses, governments, etc) are MORE than capable of reporting these attacks.
This is the same thing that the "abuse@domain" addresses are for.
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Your post seems to imply that writing security and crytography software according to the whims of a marketing manager is a "good" thing...
Yes, and that's how they do it.
I'm having trouble deciding whether you are simply vengeful or looking for a proven easy target...
A nice captcha could possibly fix this. At least for "automated" attacks.
I wonder how long it will be until you see informercials on TV about this "new way to make easy money" all filmed on location at a mansion with a giant pool party in the background and testimonials from people all wearing hawaiian shirts and bermuda shorts.
If that's the case I can do you one better. In Canada we use LITRES!
I'm pretty sure they mean "new" products...
4500 Watts? That's 2.5 15 Amp circuits at 100% capacity or 3 dedicated circuits at 83% capacity.
That is one *serious* sound system.
Actually, since mpd is already running (It's my main music app), and the sound file is in the database, It's actually easier to fire up ncmpcpp (ncurses mpc app) and just hit play.
Not to mention some distros have much better organized wikis and documentation than others, so their users don't use google as often when searching for help as opposed to simply searching directly on the website. For instance, Arch has a very well organized wiki requiring maybe 4 clicks to find information on anything from installation to sound troubleshooting, while Ubuntu has separate pages and directories for each release and they like to rename stuff making google your best bet since most information is in forum threads instead of wikis.
Of all the problems with using biometrics (ESPECIALLY face-recognition) for online banking, you think a STROKE is the biggest flaw?!?
I log into my laptop with ssh, then remotely run cheese (remote-X) and check out my webcam from another floor. A really fun trick is to install mpd on the laptop, then watch the webcam until someone starts trying to mess with it and start playing a self-destruct audio file using mpc (or ncmpcpp, etc). My favorite is a star-trek recording with the start of a countdown :D
If I ever found such a "feature" on my bank's website, they would find my account drained and closed VERY quickly.
250,000 huh?
Most of the iPhone apps fall under the following categories:
-small flash-like games
-videos wrapped in an app api
-sound boards
If you are going to count apps like that, then lets add the following to the n900's list
-*actual* flash games (addictinggames.com, etc all work)
-built in unix tools (top, etc)
I'm fairly certain if you compared these now-equivalent lists, you would probably find the n900 has MANY more apps, and that most of them are probably MUCH better written to boot.
Oh, did I mention you can literally write your own apps in almost ANY language you want without paying $100 for a developers key. You can even distribute your own software repository publicly without paying a fee or asking users to void their warranties.
Yeah, 250 000 apps sounds kind of pathetic to me...
I have an old laptop with an x200m graphics card in it. There are drivers for the x200 and the x300m, but NOTHING for the x200m on their website.
.bin installer it uses COMPLETELY thrashed my xorg to the point of needing a complete reinstall.
And yes, I tried the x200 driver and the
...I'm fairly confident in assuming that the vast majority of students would not be owning and using their devices on the school's WiFi network...
It only tak es one.
If I recall correctly there is a special case when the original creator of the work can not be identified. From what I've read, the origins of the scream are still in question. There are some strong opinions as to who created it, but nobody is sure.
I'm 100% sure if you took as user that had only used MS Word up to the pre-2007 version and stuck them in front of a computer with MS 2007 (or higher) and OpenOffice, they would think that OpenOffice was the microsoft one.
Believe it or not, but a lot of people are still using the older versions of MS Office.
Ah, I didn't realise the machine logging in via ssh wasn't the same as the one retrieving the file.
So I guess that would not include my WRT54GC? It doesn't even have enough memory to run tomato or openwrt :(
So why not do what a lot of non-US ISPs already do and block bad ports, but let the users unblock them if they have a use for them. 99% of home user applications use only outbound ports > 1024. Blocking ports below 1025 by default would solve most of these problems. If users want to use a lower port (http, ssh, etc), give them an easy method (local router, remote control panel, etc) to enable the ones they *do* want.
Some phones (android, etc) CAN run servers such as ssh, etc. I think the n900 can even run apache if you are so inclined.
A router solves pretty much all of these problems. It's difficult for malware to modify the router's firewall (separate machine), they block all incoming connections by default and users can easily (without dealing with the ISP) forward specific ports to any machine on their network.
In fact, some ISP's (Telus does, I think Shaw is moving towards it) are supplying modems with routers built into them that the user can configure themselves.
Just out of curiosity why not just use scp...?
The majority of botnets attack more than civilians. Most of them are designed to go after large targets (thus the need for a botnet in the firstplace). These targets (businesses, governments, etc) are MORE than capable of reporting these attacks.
This is the same thing that the "abuse@domain" addresses are for.