If it's examining fragments, maybe this would work:
iptables -A INPUT -i eth+ -f -j DROP
But that's only for incoming, so maybe you'd need one for outgoing too.
At the moment I have the above rule running on my firewall, and I haven't experienced any problems; perhaps if I set a similar rule for the OUTPUT chain I'd have difficulty making outbound connections.
...but at least my ISP couldn't tell I was running NAT for multiple PCs.:)
The problem here is that people have gotten confused about what the "clipboard" is. The clipboard is not what selecting something with the mouse changes and not what your middle mouse button pastes. Selecting with the mouse changes the primary selection, and the middle mouse button pastes the primary selection. "Copy" copies the primary selection to the clipboard; merely selecting something doesn't, it just changes the primary selection to refer to what you selected. "Paste" inserts the contents of the clipboard in place of the current selection (which could be a "zero-length" selection, in which case it amounts to inserting at the point of the selection, e.g. insert at the text cursor in a text window).
I'm sorry, what?
I consider myself reasonably computer literate, and I was completely confused by this explanation. If I have to read this twice to understand how the X clipboard works, the average user is never going to understand why Control-C doesn't work...
I have to wonder too... it seems Apple threw the HIG out to the pinstriped window. No wonder I don't like the default MacOS X interface. Give me MacOS 9 any day... now, with a good theme (see above link) MacOS X is quite nice.
There is no point standardizing something that really should be a user option.
Exactly. An OS never needs such frivolities as default settings. The user should have to adjust all their settings in binary, via assembly code built on their own compiler. No one needs standards, like TCP/IP or 8 1/2" x 11" paper. Just think how much better off we'd all be if things like the metric system weren't holding us back (although I think the Stone Cutters are keeping the metric system down). Yes, now the user has ultimate freedom.... choose your own protocol, paper size, and system of measurement. Compatibility be damned!
</sarcasm>
You do realize, don't you, that you can always change the default settings! Geeze. By the way, if you don't like it, don't use it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned a key benefit of SVG desktops: session migration.
So, would it be possible to transmit the icon itself as text (XML) and then let the remote X client render it as it chooses? Seems like that would be faster than the server rendering it and then sending the pixmap...
...is that citizens of the USA are bred from explorers.
You're right. Good thing Europeans are the high point of evolution, and that they wanted to explore the rest of the planet, and conquer the savages who inhabited it. Yes, without Europeans and their desire to explore, nothing would have ever happened. Humans would not have evolved from lesser primates, and reptiles would rule the earth.
</sarcasm>
I'm sorry, but your post is completely rediculous. If you have a point that can be made without glossing over the known history, it'd be nice to hear it.
Are you really trying to argue that everyone in the USA is an explorer at heart? If so I have to disagree. Early European inhabitants of the US were persecuted in their native homes, and they headed for the US as a place of refuge. Oh, and what about the native populations? They actually arrived from modern day Russia/China thousands of years before the Europeans... but they started on the west coast not the east. They were not exploring for the sake of discovery, but rather survival.
Each culture has it's explorers. The USA has it's own as well. But they're not "descendants" of prior explorers, they're just people who are curious and find the means to push into new frontiers.
I'm sorry, you post was so incoherent I fear I am unable to properly express my dissatisfaction with it...
I have to agree with you, unfortunately. This is the question the US public will ask itself. But does the public take a risk? No. They take no risk, they just fund the project. The crew of the ISS/Shuttle know the risks when they participate in these projects (check out the education of all of the members, these are bright people).
The fruits of NASA (and other space programs') travels beyond the lower atmosphere have been amazing. Granted, the results are often less then obvious for the average taxpayer, but can we take the risk that we don't have a space program? Why would we rationally ignore an unexplored frontier of modern science? We wouldn't... only an irrational reaction would end (or postpone) NASA's space program.
There's no excuse. Just because it is harder to install than a simple windows update package isn't any kind of reason not to update.
I agree, however...
Microsoft has argued for a long time that Windows is easier to administer (than UNIX/Linux), and that you don't need to hire an expensive, trained admin (which I assume they are referring to UNIX admins, but aren't MCSE expensive, trained admins, all jokes about the quality of MCSEs aside?).
So here we are with MS SQL Server, which is supposed to be an enterprise quality database system... but it has no intuitive interface for installing patches. So either we have a real DBA, who should know how to do these patches, or we have a power user to manage the database through a better interface to keep up to date on patches.
Either it's easy and you don't need an admin, or it's difficult and you do need a trained admin. SQL Server updates can't be as "complex" as they currently are if Microsoft is going to claim that anyone can admin a Microsoft server product.
Granted, they may not be making the claim that SQL Server is easy to administer, but what are the customers going to think? If Windows is "easy" (or so says the advertising), then SQL Server must be easy too! They both have little wizards to automate tasks, they both have a graphic interface for management...
I have this neato mouse that has 101 buttons. Unfortunately, it's a bit large and hard to move around, but I find this disadvantage is offset by the large number of buttons available for entering commands.
I have to wonder, though, how many free PCI slots you have in your case. Do you have one? Two? Three? All of them? With most components integrated, I would expect the average user to have three or more PCI slots free. Yes, some will buy FlexATX or MicroATX boards, but then they're buying for a specific purpose and even then I think it's unlikely they'll use all the slots.
Well, we keep getting these anti-spam software stories on Slashdot, and I thought it was finally time to post my Sendmail ruleset.
Using this system of RBLs and header checks, I'm able to whitelist certain users/domains/IPs, as well as block serious offenders. In the past few months, I've received one piece of spam (which was subsequently unceremoniously blocked). The worst offender is the Klez virus, which actually sends valid headers (more or less) and is thus harder to filter with my ruleset.
Also, my ruleset will return a 553 error during the SMTP coversation... no accept-then-delete here. As an alternative, you might wish to use a more robust filter, such as Exim SpamAssassin at SMTP time.
As long as religion reigns, ignorance will be our biggest social problem.
But is it really ignorance? Many "religious types" (and I consider belief in aliens a "religious" state of mind) want to believe so much, they are willing to either ignore repeately-proven facts, or they allow their imagination to fill in for their lack of facts (which is not necessarily due to ignorance).
Just think of the wild stories you could get if you took the news and filled in an adjective here, a verb there, and a noun elsewhere -- imagine MadLibs as the news. Now imagine if people actually believed it...
Seaquest is coming true.. I wonder if it comes with an ultra smart dolphin who has a translater hooked to it so i can have conversations with it.
I wonder if it comes with an "elite" password cracker otherwise known as Lucas Wolenczak. Yes, the man who could guess your password, no matter how complex, in three tries or less.
There was a short article on SecurityFocus a few weeks ago... US lawmakers are requesting input from the community regarding "hacker" sentencing. Hopefully the deadline for submissions hasn't passed yet:
Everything you wrote was a full sentence. But at no time did you ever actually say anything.
Welcome to Slashdot, I hope you enjoy your stay. It seems you already understand how things work around here...
. . .
Yes, I understand the irony of this post.
(By the way, there is no charge for the spelling correction)
Note that if this does not get modded as "Funny," then it is likely a pointless, meaningless post, and potential moderators are now dumber after reading it. My apologies to them, and to any posts they may review henceforth.
Think about all the overtime you work, do you think you should be paid for it? There ya go, someone is stealing from you and you let it happen does that make it right? Should you try to find a way to get your due money? Is that wrong?
Just ask that question to Karl Marx and I think you'll get an earful.
Marx might say that capitalists "steal" the worker's excess productivity and turn it into profit (for the capitalist).
Now that the same group of architects is working for Intel, they can probably make the IA-64 run almost as well or better...
Your assumption is that the Itanium architecture is as extensible, or more extensible than the Alpha. I'm no processor expert, but I would guess the Alpha engineers will do an excellent job on the Itanium. Will they be able to make the next Itanium better than the EV8? Hard to say... for one, the Itanium is a whole new design (compared to the Alpha, and compared to the rest of PC processors).
Hopefully a microprocessor guru can add some insight...
The real lesson here, I think, is that The Forces Of Evil never rest in their attempts to persecute hackers for actions that should not, by any sane measure, be crimes at all.
Yep, that's exactly it. We live in movie land where everything is black and white, hackers vs. Evil Corporation X, and computer operating systems look like virtual reality.
If you want to support your case, may I suggest you tone down the rhetoric a bit? "Forces of Evil" and "any sane measure" are appeals to emotion... but we want this to be objective, right? Right?
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We started getting these letters when my wife passed the bar. ...but was the bar licensed?
If it's examining fragments, maybe this would work:
...but at least my ISP couldn't tell I was running NAT for multiple PCs. :)
iptables -A INPUT -i eth+ -f -j DROP
But that's only for incoming, so maybe you'd need one for outgoing too.
At the moment I have the above rule running on my firewall, and I haven't experienced any problems; perhaps if I set a similar rule for the OUTPUT chain I'd have difficulty making outbound connections.
The problem here is that people have gotten confused about what the "clipboard" is. The clipboard is not what selecting something with the mouse changes and not what your middle mouse button pastes. Selecting with the mouse changes the primary selection, and the middle mouse button pastes the primary selection. "Copy" copies the primary selection to the clipboard; merely selecting something doesn't, it just changes the primary selection to refer to what you selected. "Paste" inserts the contents of the clipboard in place of the current selection (which could be a "zero-length" selection, in which case it amounts to inserting at the point of the selection, e.g. insert at the text cursor in a text window).
I'm sorry, what?
I consider myself reasonably computer literate, and I was completely confused by this explanation. If I have to read this twice to understand how the X clipboard works, the average user is never going to understand why Control-C doesn't work...
homepage.mac.com/max_08/themes/brushed.htm
I have to wonder too... it seems Apple threw the HIG out to the pinstriped window. No wonder I don't like the default MacOS X interface. Give me MacOS 9 any day... now, with a good theme (see above link) MacOS X is quite nice.
There is no point standardizing something that really should be a user option.
Exactly. An OS never needs such frivolities as default settings. The user should have to adjust all their settings in binary, via assembly code built on their own compiler. No one needs standards, like TCP/IP or 8 1/2" x 11" paper. Just think how much better off we'd all be if things like the metric system weren't holding us back (although I think the Stone Cutters are keeping the metric system down). Yes, now the user has ultimate freedom.... choose your own protocol, paper size, and system of measurement. Compatibility be damned!
</sarcasm>
You do realize, don't you, that you can always change the default settings! Geeze. By the way, if you don't like it, don't use it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned a key benefit of SVG desktops: session migration.
So, would it be possible to transmit the icon itself as text (XML) and then let the remote X client render it as it chooses? Seems like that would be faster than the server rendering it and then sending the pixmap...
...is that citizens of the USA are bred from explorers.
You're right. Good thing Europeans are the high point of evolution, and that they wanted to explore the rest of the planet, and conquer the savages who inhabited it. Yes, without Europeans and their desire to explore, nothing would have ever happened. Humans would not have evolved from lesser primates, and reptiles would rule the earth.
</sarcasm>
I'm sorry, but your post is completely rediculous. If you have a point that can be made without glossing over the known history, it'd be nice to hear it.
Are you really trying to argue that everyone in the USA is an explorer at heart? If so I have to disagree. Early European inhabitants of the US were persecuted in their native homes, and they headed for the US as a place of refuge. Oh, and what about the native populations? They actually arrived from modern day Russia/China thousands of years before the Europeans... but they started on the west coast not the east. They were not exploring for the sake of discovery, but rather survival.
Each culture has it's explorers. The USA has it's own as well. But they're not "descendants" of prior explorers, they're just people who are curious and find the means to push into new frontiers.
I'm sorry, you post was so incoherent I fear I am unable to properly express my dissatisfaction with it...
"Is space worth the risk?"
I have to agree with you, unfortunately. This is the question the US public will ask itself. But does the public take a risk? No. They take no risk, they just fund the project. The crew of the ISS/Shuttle know the risks when they participate in these projects (check out the education of all of the members, these are bright people).
The fruits of NASA (and other space programs') travels beyond the lower atmosphere have been amazing. Granted, the results are often less then obvious for the average taxpayer, but can we take the risk that we don't have a space program? Why would we rationally ignore an unexplored frontier of modern science? We wouldn't... only an irrational reaction would end (or postpone) NASA's space program.
This dose of reality brought to you today by the concept of common sense.
Common sense ruins the fun, yet again!
There's no excuse. Just because it is harder to install than a simple windows update package isn't any kind of reason not to update.
I agree, however...
Microsoft has argued for a long time that Windows is easier to administer (than UNIX/Linux), and that you don't need to hire an expensive, trained admin (which I assume they are referring to UNIX admins, but aren't MCSE expensive, trained admins, all jokes about the quality of MCSEs aside?).
So here we are with MS SQL Server, which is supposed to be an enterprise quality database system... but it has no intuitive interface for installing patches. So either we have a real DBA, who should know how to do these patches, or we have a power user to manage the database through a better interface to keep up to date on patches.
Either it's easy and you don't need an admin, or it's difficult and you do need a trained admin. SQL Server updates can't be as "complex" as they currently are if Microsoft is going to claim that anyone can admin a Microsoft server product.
Granted, they may not be making the claim that SQL Server is easy to administer, but what are the customers going to think? If Windows is "easy" (or so says the advertising), then SQL Server must be easy too! They both have little wizards to automate tasks, they both have a graphic interface for management...
REAL mice have THREE buttons...
I have this neato mouse that has 101 buttons. Unfortunately, it's a bit large and hard to move around, but I find this disadvantage is offset by the large number of buttons available for entering commands.
It's huge (eats a PCI-slot) and noisy
x .html
Many workstation-class video cards take up multiple slots:
www.sun.com/desktop/products/graphics/xvr1000/
www.3dlabs.com/product/wildcat4/index.htm
www.3dlabs.com/product/wildcat3/wc3_6210.htm
mirror.ati.com/products/workstation/fireglx1/inde
I have to wonder, though, how many free PCI slots you have in your case. Do you have one? Two? Three? All of them? With most components integrated, I would expect the average user to have three or more PCI slots free. Yes, some will buy FlexATX or MicroATX boards, but then they're buying for a specific purpose and even then I think it's unlikely they'll use all the slots.
Well, we keep getting these anti-spam software stories on Slashdot, and I thought it was finally time to post my Sendmail ruleset.
Using this system of RBLs and header checks, I'm able to whitelist certain users/domains/IPs, as well as block serious offenders. In the past few months, I've received one piece of spam (which was subsequently unceremoniously blocked). The worst offender is the Klez virus, which actually sends valid headers (more or less) and is thus harder to filter with my ruleset.
Also, my ruleset will return a 553 error during the SMTP coversation... no accept-then-delete here. As an alternative, you might wish to use a more robust filter, such as Exim SpamAssassin at SMTP time.
Without further ado, here's the URL for my ruleset:
www.doorbot.com/guides/sendmail/antispam/
I ask that you go easy on my bandwidth as best you can... I'm on a 128kbit upload DSL.
As long as religion reigns, ignorance will be our biggest social problem.
But is it really ignorance? Many "religious types" (and I consider belief in aliens a "religious" state of mind) want to believe so much, they are willing to either ignore repeately-proven facts, or they allow their imagination to fill in for their lack of facts (which is not necessarily due to ignorance).
Just think of the wild stories you could get if you took the news and filled in an adjective here, a verb there, and a noun elsewhere -- imagine MadLibs as the news. Now imagine if people actually believed it...
mechanisms for thermodynamically analyzing
Who moderated this +1, Insightful?
Definitely +1, Funny... but insightful? Did the moderator even understand the words yeOldSkeptic was using?
Seaquest is coming true.. I wonder if it comes with an ultra smart dolphin who has a translater hooked to it so i can have conversations with it.
I wonder if it comes with an "elite" password cracker otherwise known as Lucas Wolenczak. Yes, the man who could guess your password, no matter how complex, in three tries or less.
Be aware ladies, despite his youthful looks, he's actually 29!
There was a short article on SecurityFocus a few weeks ago... US lawmakers are requesting input from the community regarding "hacker" sentencing. Hopefully the deadline for submissions hasn't passed yet:
online.securityfocus.com/news/2028
Guidelines here:
www.ussc.gov/FEDREG/fedr1202.htm
Everything you wrote was a full sentence. But at no time did you ever actually say anything.
Welcome to Slashdot, I hope you enjoy your stay. It seems you already understand how things work around here...
.
.
.
Yes, I understand the irony of this post.
(By the way, there is no charge for the spelling correction)
Note that if this does not get modded as "Funny," then it is likely a pointless, meaningless post, and potential moderators are now dumber after reading it. My apologies to them, and to any posts they may review henceforth.
Think about all the overtime you work, do you think you should be paid for it? There ya go, someone is stealing from you and you let it happen does that make it right? Should you try to find a way to get your due money? Is that wrong?
Just ask that question to Karl Marx and I think you'll get an earful.
Marx might say that capitalists "steal" the worker's excess productivity and turn it into profit (for the capitalist).
Is that evil? Read Capital and get back to me.
Can anyone say OSX on EV7?
I just did, but you'll have to take my word for it.
Can anyone say "rhubarb Constantinople?"
Now that the same group of architects is working for Intel, they can probably make the IA-64 run almost as well or better...
Your assumption is that the Itanium architecture is as extensible, or more extensible than the Alpha. I'm no processor expert, but I would guess the Alpha engineers will do an excellent job on the Itanium. Will they be able to make the next Itanium better than the EV8? Hard to say... for one, the Itanium is a whole new design (compared to the Alpha, and compared to the rest of PC processors).
Hopefully a microprocessor guru can add some insight...
That's probably going to be the single biggest factor in deciding which 64-bit server CPU dominates the marketplace.
Linux on UltraSparc works great, and has excellent support under Debian (although I guess that's no surprise).
The real lesson here, I think, is that The Forces Of Evil never rest in their attempts to persecute hackers for actions that should not, by any sane measure, be crimes at all.
Yep, that's exactly it. We live in movie land where everything is black and white, hackers vs. Evil Corporation X, and computer operating systems look like virtual reality.
If you want to support your case, may I suggest you tone down the rhetoric a bit? "Forces of Evil" and "any sane measure" are appeals to emotion... but we want this to be objective, right? Right?