When I installed PHP-Nuke (yes, I actually use it) I went through the PHP code with a fine toothed comb before I opened the site to the public. I found lots of potential SQL injection, external file call and global variable exploits that needed fixing.
So just out of curiosity, did you submit your changes to the PHPNuke folks? Or just fix it for yourself? Seems it would be a kind thing (good for your karma, and not just the/. kind) to submit security fixes, if you know they exist.
Care to comment on where you made some of your fixes in the code, so that if you didn't report them yourself, then someone else can make those fixes public?
They shoulda thrown in the "Games" icon too, since after all, there are some Java games out there.:)
Nah, skip the games, they should probably add the Caldera/SCO icon though, what with SCO presenting BSD code snippets. And SCO will probably be suing xBSD anyway since now with a native Java JDK release, people will have less a reason to stick with Linux, and tha tmeans fewer SCO licenses extorted^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sold there hasn't been a SCO story in how long?...
Lois Lane falls from top of tall building, reaches terminal velocity of about 200 mph. Superman flies up from ground to meet her halfway, resulting in a 400mph relative speed. Superman catches Lois, and she's unhurt!
Super shock-absorbing arms, powered by Earth's yellow sun?
I'd bought Philips fluorescent bulbs mostly, and all but one are still working 2 years later...Even the ones that are in fixtures that are used for short periods of time (they recommend using them for situations where the bulbs stay lit for at least several minutes so you don't wear them out turning them off and on too much.
But anyway, the one bulb that died was under a 7 year guarantee, so I just sent it back and got it replaced...piece of cake!
I'm NOT gonna survive on theater popcorn, hotdogs and mega-jumbo Cokes for 11 hours. I hope they have intermissions between the films so we can hit the mall food court...
Windows 98 isn't affected by the blaster worm, so go purchase win4lin and install Windows 98 in a win4lin session in Linux. Then you can run Kazaa there.
This is pretty bad news. I wonder if this is the first step in the process of charging for MSN messenger usage.
Now why would they charge for MSN messenger usage? I just recently got an email that Bill Gates was gonna give me a ton of money just for forwarding it to test his email tracking system, and apparently from what I've seen, he's got a similar experiment going on for people who forward messages with MSN messenger. They're going to pay us to use it, not expect us to pay!
I've heard that President Bush is already deeply concerned with the Defense Dept's SkyNet project....
Re:The complete article text, you slashbutts
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While I applaud the audacity of calling people slashbutts (and still get moderated up), I have to ask: is it really necessary to have the article text posted here on Slashdot? I mean, news.com isn't going to get itself slashdotted, so there's little danger of the article text being unavailable.
I guess we're just doomed to be subject to rampant speculation, rumors, and hearsay here on Slashdot. We should really all be reading the article so we can draw our own conclusions, then proceed with the discussion...but hell, I guess I'm dreaming.
I'm not going to go to watch a stupid movie when it costs $20 without food/drinks for me and my woman ($35 if you get 2 tickets, 2 drinks, and a box of popcorn in NYC)... You know what I'm going to do? Pick up a book and go to the park. At least the view is nice (still warm enough for women in skimpy clothes)
Dude, if your woman is reading this, you're in truh-bull!
Ah, yes, the old Hindenburg chestnut. Are we cursed forever to avoid using the single most commmon element in the universe, one that will burn clean, simply because someone burned a balloon with it once decades ago?
Self Interest is human nature. Are you REALLY going campaign for a product that will possibly help you meet your own economic demise?? Chances are no, especially if they clientel (sp?) are easily swayed and lack knowledge.
Well it might not be so good for a consultant to recommend Macs (although it could free him up to spend more time with another client instead), but it basically boils down to this: Are you content with your job the way it is, and what you do, and that's it? What happened to your desire to learn and grow? If you can't keep up with the times, you likely deserve that economic demise.
I'm not saying everyone should be living in a dog-eat-dog world. I'm just saying that we could be a helluva lot more productive if we pick solutions that work so we can tackle bigger problems.
"The suit claimed that Apple had promised that OS X would be "fully optimized" to run on all G3 machines"
This optimization was NOT done, and that is what the suit is about.
So from what source did these people hear that OS X would be optimized to run on all G3s? It's certainly not what I heard when I looked into whether OS X would run on the Powerbook G3 that my wife had (which was later rendered inoperable by a leaky roof...so I'm especially glad I didn't try purchasing OS X for it!). And does "would be" mean "by the release date of OS X" or "some future date after initial release"?
So many questions, so little motivation to research it myself;)
A class-action lawsuit was filed over Mac OS X not working correctly on some of the older G3's, and Apple has tentatively agreed to refund the purchase price of the OS ($129) to people who purchased it for use on those computers, and wish to return it.
Ok, well first of all, it was stupid of these consumers to purchase OS X for systems which it was known not to work on. I'd considered purchasing OSX for my wife's old Powerbook G3, until I learned that OS X wasn't made to work with it. I wasn't stupid and plunk down money on software that wouldn't do me any good.
Second of all...it's just hard in general to return opened software for a refund. Doubly important to know what you're getting into before you plunk down the money. I wish it were easier to return such software, but I place a lot of blame on these poor class action lawsuit-filing "victims".
Is this why slashdot.org feels slow/not responding and have missing images? All other Web sites seem fine. I noticed this at work, home, etc. with Mozilla v1.4.
I've had the same experience with slashdot.org the last couple days. I use Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1+, and I've also tried going to slashdot.org with IE 6.0, with similar (though less severe seeming) results.
If the GPL is compeletly invalid -- they have a singular problem : Distributing copywrited software without a license. Linus et all can sue for massive damages.
IANAL, but I pretend to be one on/.:p
Umm, in order to claim massive damages, wouldn't SCO's distribution of Linux only affect those who would have otherwise made a profit from distributing it themselves? Since they're giving it away themselves, it's not too easy for the copyright owners to prove those massive damages.
from http://www.siia.net/piracy/policy/edu_copy.asp:
Q. So I'm never allowed to copy software for any reason? A. If a backup copy was not included in the box with your original diskettes or if the software instructs you to make backup copies when you turn on a new computer, you are permitted to make one copy in order to have both a working copy and a backup copy of the program. Copyright law prohibits you from making additional copies of the software for any other reason without the permission of the software company. If the publisher has authorized any exceptions to the copyright law, they will be stated in the license agreements that accompany all software products.
Of course, this refers to software. NOT, as you may notice, SOURCE CODE.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone manage to get the text of the article before the server died?
Read other comments much?
That's no business plan! Here's a real business plan:
1) Ask slashdot how to start a business
2) ???
3) PROFIT! Woohoo!
until it starts eating the tourists.
Well I don't know about you, but I've got money on it happening...go Lucky!
This makes me imagine a bad movie based on a cross between Westworld and Jurassic Park.
Oh thank God...for a second there I thought you said it was a cross between Jurassic Park and Waterworld.
When I installed PHP-Nuke (yes, I actually use it) I went through the PHP code with a fine toothed comb before I opened the site to the public. I found lots of potential SQL injection, external file call and global variable exploits that needed fixing.
/. kind) to submit security fixes, if you know they exist.
So just out of curiosity, did you submit your changes to the PHPNuke folks? Or just fix it for yourself? Seems it would be a kind thing (good for your karma, and not just the
Care to comment on where you made some of your fixes in the code, so that if you didn't report them yourself, then someone else can make those fixes public?
Thanks!
This story has 8 story icons associated with it.
:)
They shoulda thrown in the "Games" icon too, since after all, there are some Java games out there.
Nah, skip the games, they should probably add the Caldera/SCO icon though, what with SCO presenting BSD code snippets. And SCO will probably be suing xBSD anyway since now with a native Java JDK release, people will have less a reason to stick with Linux, and tha tmeans fewer SCO licenses extorted^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sold there hasn't been a SCO story in how long?...
Lois Lane falls from top of tall building, reaches terminal velocity of about 200 mph. Superman flies up from ground to meet her halfway, resulting in a 400mph relative speed. Superman catches Lois, and she's unhurt!
Super shock-absorbing arms, powered by Earth's yellow sun?
I used to change my porch light every month. It was on about 10 hours per day.
;-)
"by running an exterior light all night in the first place?"
Read carefully...he was running his porch light during the day!
I'd bought Philips fluorescent bulbs mostly, and all but one are still working 2 years later...Even the ones that are in fixtures that are used for short periods of time (they recommend using them for situations where the bulbs stay lit for at least several minutes so you don't wear them out turning them off and on too much.
But anyway, the one bulb that died was under a 7 year guarantee, so I just sent it back and got it replaced...piece of cake!
I'm NOT gonna survive on theater popcorn, hotdogs and mega-jumbo Cokes for 11 hours. I hope they have intermissions between the films so we can hit the mall food court...
How NOT to smuggle food into the movies...
I saw the movie, does that count?
Windows 98 isn't affected by the blaster worm, so go purchase win4lin and install Windows 98 in a win4lin session in Linux. Then you can run Kazaa there.
How does everyone pronounce it anyway...
Kuh-ZAH
or
KAH-zuh
?
This is pretty bad news. I wonder if this is the first step in the process of charging for MSN messenger usage.
Now why would they charge for MSN messenger usage? I just recently got an email that Bill Gates was gonna give me a ton of money just for forwarding it to test his email tracking system, and apparently from what I've seen, he's got a similar experiment going on for people who forward messages with MSN messenger. They're going to pay us to use it, not expect us to pay!
Nope, I am merely saying that my first born (a girl) is much better behaved than my second born (a boy).
It seems to me that no matter what sex, the first born usually is the better behaved child (out of two).
I've heard that President Bush is already deeply concerned with the Defense Dept's SkyNet project....
While I applaud the audacity of calling people slashbutts (and still get moderated up), I have to ask: is it really necessary to have the article text posted here on Slashdot? I mean, news.com isn't going to get itself slashdotted, so there's little danger of the article text being unavailable.
I guess we're just doomed to be subject to rampant speculation, rumors, and hearsay here on Slashdot. We should really all be reading the article so we can draw our own conclusions, then proceed with the discussion...but hell, I guess I'm dreaming.
You slashbutts.
I'm not going to go to watch a stupid movie when it costs $20 without food/drinks for me and my woman ($35 if you get 2 tickets, 2 drinks, and a box of popcorn in NYC) ... You know what I'm going to do? Pick up a book and go to the park. At least the view is nice (still warm enough for women in skimpy clothes)
Dude, if your woman is reading this, you're in truh-bull!
Ah, yes, the old Hindenburg chestnut. Are we cursed forever to avoid using the single most commmon element in the universe, one that will burn clean, simply because someone burned a balloon with it once decades ago?
You call it clean burning; some say it will use up all of the earth's breathable oxygen!
Self Interest is human nature. Are you REALLY going campaign for a product that will possibly help you meet your own economic demise?? Chances are no, especially if they clientel (sp?) are easily swayed and lack knowledge.
Well it might not be so good for a consultant to recommend Macs (although it could free him up to spend more time with another client instead), but it basically boils down to this: Are you content with your job the way it is, and what you do, and that's it? What happened to your desire to learn and grow? If you can't keep up with the times, you likely deserve that economic demise.
I'm not saying everyone should be living in a dog-eat-dog world. I'm just saying that we could be a helluva lot more productive if we pick solutions that work so we can tackle bigger problems.
From the article:
;)
"The suit claimed that Apple had promised that OS X would be "fully optimized" to run on all G3 machines"
This optimization was NOT done, and that is what the suit is about.
So from what source did these people hear that OS X would be optimized to run on all G3s? It's certainly not what I heard when I looked into whether OS X would run on the Powerbook G3 that my wife had (which was later rendered inoperable by a leaky roof...so I'm especially glad I didn't try purchasing OS X for it!). And does "would be" mean "by the release date of OS X" or "some future date after initial release"?
So many questions, so little motivation to research it myself
A class-action lawsuit was filed over Mac OS X not working correctly on some of the older G3's, and Apple has tentatively agreed to refund the purchase price of the OS ($129) to people who purchased it for use on those computers, and wish to return it.
Ok, well first of all, it was stupid of these consumers to purchase OS X for systems which it was known not to work on. I'd considered purchasing OSX for my wife's old Powerbook G3, until I learned that OS X wasn't made to work with it. I wasn't stupid and plunk down money on software that wouldn't do me any good.
Second of all...it's just hard in general to return opened software for a refund. Doubly important to know what you're getting into before you plunk down the money. I wish it were easier to return such software, but I place a lot of blame on these poor class action lawsuit-filing "victims".
Is this why slashdot.org feels slow/not responding and have missing images? All other Web sites seem fine. I noticed this at work, home, etc. with Mozilla v1.4.
I've had the same experience with slashdot.org the last couple days. I use Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1+, and I've also tried going to slashdot.org with IE 6.0, with similar (though less severe seeming) results.
What's wrong with Slashdot lately?
If the GPL is compeletly invalid -- they have a singular problem : Distributing copywrited software without a license. Linus et all can sue for massive damages.
/. :p
IANAL, but I pretend to be one on
Umm, in order to claim massive damages, wouldn't SCO's distribution of Linux only affect those who would have otherwise made a profit from distributing it themselves? Since they're giving it away themselves, it's not too easy for the copyright owners to prove those massive damages.
Either way, SCO's in trouble with the law.
This other site sheds a little more light on this issue:
http://www.mcdonald.com/articles/swp.htm
from http://www.siia.net/piracy/policy/edu_copy.asp:
Q. So I'm never allowed to copy software for any reason?
A. If a backup copy was not included in the box with your original diskettes or if the software instructs you to make backup copies when you turn on a new computer, you are permitted to make one copy in order to have both a working copy and a backup copy of the program. Copyright law prohibits you from making additional copies of the software for any other reason without the permission of the software company. If the publisher has authorized any exceptions to the copyright law, they will be stated in the license agreements that accompany all software products.
Of course, this refers to software. NOT, as you may notice, SOURCE CODE.