The local department has recently been replacing the CRT displays in the computing labs with LCDs as part of their rolling upgrade cycle. So that it's easier to distinguish between a working PC and a dead one by whether or not the login screen is showing, we turned off the screensaver -- thinking that ``there's no phosphor to get burned in.''.
Doesn't appear to be true, sadly. A number of displays are now starting to get a burnt-in image of the login window.
Time to update the login manager scripts with a small call to xscreensaver, methinks..
I can think of two primary reasons to be in such a group -- to stay ahead of the game as a security specialist, or to hide your own security weaknesses.
Microsoft, I guess, is trying to do both given its recent anti-virus firm acquisition.
It's interesting -- and possibly encouraging -- to note that neither Apple nor IBM is on that list.
-- One of these days I'll have to sue Darl McBride for defamation of character by association.;-)
They can play any game that they can't beat me at.:-)
Re:IMAP is not good enough
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Two things:
1) There is an internal Mozilla preference to tell Mozilla to check *all* IMAP mailboxes, rather than just your INBOX. Enter ``about:config`` in the address bar and create the following boolean pref:
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new
and set it to ``true``.
2) IMAP is not client-side check only -- the protocol allows for server-side checking and notification. Have a look at the new GPL IMAP server called Dovecot which has support for this.
Although it's not been released as stable yet, it's current version number is 0.99.9.1 (sound familiar?:) Once we're happy that the last bugs are squished, it will most likely replace wu-imapd on our site IMAP servers.
The author of KXine, a friend of mine, is currently busy doing his finals and individual project for his Masters degree. Updates are likely to be slow-coming for the next few months or so.:-)
Don't vote for any politician that will encroach on your freedom, whether it is a democrat, republican, green, libitarian, reform, communist or otherwise. Oops, that just ruled out every politician in our country.
There appears to be a common misconception that the subject being discussed here is simple web hosting.
This is not the case.
Web _services_ are a set of programmatically-accessible services implemented on top of HTTP, using a protocol like XML-RPC or SOAP. These web services are being used in current Grid Computing prototypes, hence the references to "collaborative applications".
The eventual aim of Grid Computing is to provide a means to expose resources (such as computational clusters, network links, visualisation suites, data-collecting instruments, SAN clusters, etc.); then, when jobs get submitted, the Grid infrastructure should automagically allocate resources for the task, taking into account what resources the submitter is permitted access to, what resources the job requires, what other jobs are already scheduled and potentially even what the monetary cost of using each resource is.
No, it's not. More precisely, manned space travel isn't worth the risk. (Unmanned missions are risk-free by comparison)
Umm, not exactly. Ask the people of Texas -- they're having to dodge the remains of Columbia which have been scattered over a large proportion of their back yard. And spacecraft wreckage can contain some deeply hostile stuff.
And deorbiting Mir wasn't exactly risk-free, either.
Developing better robots to operate space equipment won't only make extra-planetary research safer and cheaper- it'll also produce technological advances that will benefit civilians around the world!
The robotic, computational, avionics and practical advances that _have_ been made developing the systems required to take people into orbit -- and back again haven't only gone into the space program, they've gone into improvements in many other walks of life; from the non-stick surface on the inside of your frying pan to the hull designs of modern aircraft the engines which push them into the sky.
There is one, compelling reason why venturing out into space is a _really_ good idea:
Reporter: "After all that you've just gone through, I have to ask you the same question a lot of people back home are asking about space these days. Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems, at home?"
Commander: "No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics - and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes - all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we go to the stars."
-- Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5
(Penned by J. Michael Straczynski)
Microsoft don't make network drivers -- they just distribute the drivers written by hardware manufacturers.
Hence, Microsoft can claim that all of their code is not vulnerable when Microsoft installations are not necessarily safe from this bug.
(Not knowing anything about MS's kernel implementation, it's possible that the reponsibility for padding null bytes falls to the kernel and not individual drivers, in which case they could fairly claim that MS installations are not affected.)
The high metered cost of bandwidth may partially be to encourage an ISP's customers not to be gratuitous with their use of a shared resource rather than from a need to recoup increased costs due to load.
Nothing in this bill states that a copyright holder has a right to perform electronic attacks against those they believe are infringing apon them. Rather, they simply will not be penalised if they find and exploit the means.
The distinction here is subtle, but can be summed up as this: no-one (including a copyright holders ISP!) is obliged to allow an attack to take place.
ISP: "I'm sorry sir, I know you can't get any network connectivity outside of our network, but that seems to be because you've violated their terms of service."
Any ISP which has an even remotely sane Terms of Service is well within their contractual rights to terminate, without compensation, any wrongdoers network link if they start abusing it - copyright holder or otherwise, regardless of whether this bill passes into law.
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Yup, that's NDAs for you.
[NDA: Non-Deterministic Abbreviation]
The local department has recently been replacing the CRT displays in the computing labs with LCDs as part of their rolling upgrade cycle. So that it's easier to distinguish between a working PC and a dead one by whether or not the login screen is showing, we turned off the screensaver -- thinking that ``there's no phosphor to get burned in.''.
Doesn't appear to be true, sadly. A number of displays are now starting to get a burnt-in image of the login window.
Time to update the login manager scripts with a small call to xscreensaver, methinks..
DFE-530TX? You want the ``via-rhine'' module.
I can think of two primary reasons to be in such a group -- to stay ahead of the game as a security specialist, or to hide your own security weaknesses.
;-)
Microsoft, I guess, is trying to do both given its recent anti-virus firm acquisition.
It's interesting -- and possibly encouraging -- to note that neither Apple nor IBM is on that list.
--
One of these days I'll have to sue Darl McBride for defamation of character by association.
You *really* think so? this might change your mind.
They can play any game that they can't beat me at. :-)
Two things:
:) Once we're happy that the last bugs are squished, it will most likely replace wu-imapd on our site IMAP servers.
1) There is an internal Mozilla preference to tell Mozilla to check *all* IMAP mailboxes, rather than just your INBOX. Enter ``about:config`` in the address bar and create the following boolean pref:
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new
and set it to ``true``.
2) IMAP is not client-side check only -- the protocol allows for server-side checking and notification. Have a look at the new GPL IMAP server called Dovecot which has support for this.
Although it's not been released as stable yet, it's current version number is 0.99.9.1 (sound familiar?
Cheers,
David
And apparently running an out of date, known-vulnerable version, no less.
(Versions prior to 1.3.26, IIRC, are vulnerable to chunked-encoding exploits and other nasties.)
Here, by the looks of it.
Counterexample: geo-synchronous satellites.
But as files get bigger, so will the typical network connection.
Remember when 9600 baud modem links were fast?
The author of KXine, a friend of mine, is currently busy doing his finals and individual project for his Masters degree. Updates are likely to be slow-coming for the next few months or so. :-)
Run for office.
Hey, if you're running a development 2.5 kernel then you should be prepared for (nay, expect) bad things to happen.
.. given that it was based on actual history. Have a look at http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/pirates/.
Software patents are not (currently) valid in the UK. Hence this is unlikely to be immediately squished by a megacorp from across the pond.
... SpamAssassin actually _lowers_ the spam rating of a particular mail if it's got a GPG signature on it.
There appears to be a common misconception that the subject being discussed here is simple web hosting.
This is not the case.
Web _services_ are a set of programmatically-accessible services implemented on top of HTTP, using a protocol like XML-RPC or SOAP. These web services are being used in current Grid Computing prototypes, hence the references to "collaborative applications".
The eventual aim of Grid Computing is to provide a means to expose resources (such as computational clusters, network links, visualisation suites, data-collecting instruments, SAN clusters, etc.); then, when jobs get submitted, the Grid infrastructure should automagically allocate resources for the task, taking into account what resources the submitter is permitted access to, what resources the job requires, what other jobs are already scheduled and potentially even what the monetary cost of using each resource is.
See also here and here.
Umm, not exactly. Ask the people of Texas -- they're having to dodge the remains of Columbia which have been scattered over a large proportion of their back yard. And spacecraft wreckage can contain some deeply hostile stuff.
And deorbiting Mir wasn't exactly risk-free, either.
The robotic, computational, avionics and practical advances that _have_ been made developing the systems required to take people into orbit -- and back again haven't only gone into the space program, they've gone into improvements in many other walks of life; from the non-stick surface on the inside of your frying pan to the hull designs of modern aircraft the engines which push them into the sky.
There is one, compelling reason why venturing out into space is a _really_ good idea:
Microsoft don't make network drivers -- they just distribute the drivers written by hardware manufacturers.
Hence, Microsoft can claim that all of their code is not vulnerable when Microsoft installations are not necessarily safe from this bug.
(Not knowing anything about MS's kernel implementation, it's possible that the reponsibility for padding null bytes falls to the kernel and not individual drivers, in which case they could fairly claim that MS installations are not affected.)
The high metered cost of bandwidth may partially be to encourage an ISP's customers not to be gratuitous with their use of a shared resource rather than from a need to recoup increased costs due to load.
Is someone trying to imply that Microsoft officials qualify as scholars or computer experts?
*ducks*
Much better than that.. you can have a Linux server farm sponsored by Microsoft. They subsidize production and sell those things at a loss, remember.
Having a trojaned SSH build script was bad enough.
You *really* don't want a compromised kernel. Use the signatures.
Nothing in this bill states that a copyright holder has a right to perform electronic attacks against those they believe are infringing apon them. Rather, they simply will not be penalised if they find and exploit the means.
The distinction here is subtle, but can be summed up as this: no-one (including a copyright holders ISP!) is obliged to allow an attack to take place.
ISP: "I'm sorry sir, I know you can't get any network connectivity outside of our network, but that seems to be because you've violated their terms of service."
Any ISP which has an even remotely sane Terms of Service is well within their contractual rights to terminate, without compensation, any wrongdoers network link if they start abusing it - copyright holder or otherwise, regardless of whether this bill passes into law.