Considering that NT was built on 10 years of development (NT4), and that ReactOS has only really been in steady development since 3/4 years, and that we already support some Windows 2003/Longhorn features, I wouldn't call it slow.
Best regards, Alex Ionescu Kernel Developer, ReactOS
I won't be redundant to add that Sony already has stores in Montreal, Canada (which are very sucesful...who wouldn't want FireWire cable for 60$?), but that during the last 6 months, we've also have Dell stores in malls, selling computers and huge LCD screens for outrageous prices.
None of the retailers seem worried, everyone is doing business and life goes on...
It's perfectly analogous, since if he'd be in the library (notice he has a valid library card, and this is a public signal) he'd be using the exact same bandwidth.
On a side note, everyone on IRC/Bittorrent seems to be excited about a new leak of the NT Source Code, this time only the Kernel. Found a screenshot here: http://members.tripod.com/WinAlOS/Screenshot/sourc e.jpg It's on SuprNova and TorrentReactor...
Actually I think you're the one missing the point.
If you had bothered to RTF Site, you'd notice that's EXACTLY what they are working on. A functional Network Connections monitor, a functional Windows Explorer, a functional Network Neighborhood, a Functional Device manager...and I could go on and on. Their goal is to recreate all the windows applets for Linux. And honeslty, I think some of them are worth it. The Network Neighborhood applet seems very useful for graphically browsing Samba shares.
Heh, exactly...because you'll be running at Ring 3 (user-mode) and not in the Kernel, all those x86 interrupts you could use become useless, since you're only allowed executing user-code. And user-code is 99% OS-dependent, rendering the whole thing useless.
Basically you'd need a kernel buffer overflow on all the OSs you want to infect...good luck!
Yes, you can write x86 *CODE* that will run on any OS, by using BIOS interrupts, or even making different calls/checks to see what OS this is, and then using the appropriate system calls. But how to run this code?
Windows uses PE files, Linux uses ELF files, MacOS 9 uses data+ressource forks...etc. It would take a hell of a lot of hacking the formats to somehow make the PE offsets correspond to the ELF offsets or somehow put both kinds of headers in the executable program so it can run on both OSs.
So while your code might be multi-platform compatible, the cointainer itself will end up being OS-specific.
The first programming language(s) were coded in ASM, Assembly Language. Although ASM is a "language", it doesn't need to be translated and compiled like something like C. Each operation corresponds to opcodes, which are usually one or two bytes, that the CPU can directly read and interpret. Once powerful and stable C compilers (written usually in ASM) started to appear, new languages were usually directly written in C, but always containing some ASM.
The main problem that confuses people (such as the argument that C# was written in C#) are the IDEs (the Integrated Developpement Environment), which is merely a graphical frontend to do your work. So yes, the VS NET 2003 UI was made in C#, but the compiler for C# was written in C and ASM.
The big problem with mail filters, as the article mentions, is that they need to be updated when new spam technologies appear... and there's also a lot of false positives... I gave SPAMfighter a try (from www.spamfighter.com) and although it was a bit worse at finding spam (At first), I never got any false positives. The way it works is that the "filters" are actually some kind of hash that users submit whenever they block or unblock an email (it analyses the whole content I think, not just the text). So if a new type of spam technique appears, the users will just block it. And unlike many other client-side plugins, it actually works on Outlook Express.
Another one I recomment is Spambayes...but there's the problem with false positives. All the other ones I've tried are utter crap.
First of all the relase is a retail DVD-RIP on 2 DVD-5 discs (the retail is on a DVD 9, so Centropy split it in two), and it's not a telesync.
Secondly, do you even know what a telesync is? A telesync is when Joe goes in the cinema, takes his camera (WITH a tripod) and plugs it in directly to the audio out of the theater's sound system. So you usually have very good sound, and decent picture quality.
When you were referring to is called a TeleCine, but the transfer is not usually expensive, or needed. Just play it in the machine, connect the video/audio out and that's it.
I can't believe you haven't figured out what the EML files are yet. Anyone remember NIMDA? The worm from 2002 I think? It had this exact same effect of sticking infected eml files all over your folders (by taking some names from your files, and others randomly). Opening those EML files or forwarding them would guarantee future and constant infection.
It's clearly evident that this machine was infected by nimda and got port-scanned and found. The rest of the code is probably going to come soon enough, unless MS already found out and pulled the plug.
By the way, alpha doesn't mean "Alpha Version" but the Alpha CPU made by DEC, now owned by Compaq.
Mars does have a small atmosphere...so sound waves could probably be transmitted. But they wouldn't sound anything like real sound, the pitch would be way off (kind of like hearing a sound underwater, but backwards)
They didn't make it incompatible. Win9x is a piece of shit GUI that runs on top of 16-bit DOS. It was designed simply to be a visual shell.
NT on the other hand is a true micro-kernel OS with an extendable subsystem architecture, syscalls, protected mode, privilege levels etc. One of NT's strengths it that by itself it simply runs in "Native" mode. On top of that, Microsoft built the Win32 Subsystem (win32k.sys), the OS/2 subsystem and the POSIX subsystem. The OS/2 subsystem is not available on XP anymore, and the POSIX one is now an optional "Expension" pack (Service for Unix.)
You can read more about Native APIs and Subsystem at:
Relsoft Articles
At the bottom of the page.
I think they mean "Windows Services for Unix Compatiblity". As in, these are services, running on windows "For" unix...somethign..compatibilty...support...anythin g. I guess they just left out the word because they couldn't find one or something. You could put emulation, compatibility, support...so I guess they decided not to put anything:P
There's actually software mods now that do this after booting from a CD by using one of the 2 exploits (Audio CD and font files). Plus there's 3 games that have another exploit if you use a special corrupted save game with the executable code. Ta-da, no more need to open up the xbox/solder/pogo-pins.
Plus the xbox can play games and run a variety of other applications (web server etc..) Can this DVD player do that? Nope. (oh not to mention it supports every single possible video format out there that exists on Linux/mplayer/windows, including QT/RA/Ogg)
Virtual desktops >> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/power toys. I haven't checked the link but look for the Virtual Desktop Power Toy
fish:// urls for accessing files over ssh >> Install any SSH client and add the association to the the registry. Since when is SSH considered part of the OS? It's a separate app.
Embeddable terminal in file browser >> What is the point of this?
Focus follows mouse >> It's called x-mouse, you can enable it with Tweak UI or a registry setting (All MS software)
Per-user file associations >> Windows XP supports this, but almost no apps take advantage of it.
Kiosk mode >> You can do this in Windows, just change the shell variable for your kiosk app.
Tabbed web browsing >> Nothing to do with the OS. Download Opera Win32.
Tabbed file browsing >> Good one... I think they are copying it in Longhorn.
Tabbed anything you damned well please >> Some tabbed stuff is useless, but file browing would be nice.
File dialog with built in preview for all applications
Postscript-enabled printing and previewing >> Present in Windows with the right drivers
Printing to PDF >> Install Arobat Distiller, this has nothing to do with the OS.
Please don't flame me, I wasn't trying to say Windows>Linux, just that everything can be done in Windows as well, either harder or easier. But I don't think that Linux UI is the main thing in which Linux wins over Windows...I think it's more security and stability.
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Considering that NT was built on 10 years of development (NT4), and that ReactOS has only really been in steady development since 3/4 years, and that we already support some Windows 2003/Longhorn features, I wouldn't call it slow.
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Kernel Developer, ReactOS
I won't be redundant to add that Sony already has stores in Montreal, Canada (which are very sucesful...who wouldn't want FireWire cable for 60$?), but that during the last 6 months, we've also have Dell stores in malls, selling computers and huge LCD screens for outrageous prices.
None of the retailers seem worried, everyone is doing business and life goes on...
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
President, http://www.relsoft.net/
Kernel Developer, http://www.reactos.com/
Nantucket, which is an island off the coast of Cape Cod. It's mentionned once or twice.
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Kernel Developer, ReactOS
http://www.relsoft.net/
It's perfectly analogous, since if he'd be in the library (notice he has a valid library card, and this is a public signal) he'd be using the exact same bandwidth.
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Kernel Developer, ReactOS
http://www.relsoft.net/
On a side note, everyone on IRC/Bittorrent seems to be excited about a new leak of the NT Source Code, this time only the Kernel. Found a screenshot here: http://members.tripod.com/WinAlOS/Screenshot/sourc e.jpg
It's on SuprNova and TorrentReactor...
Alex,
Take a look at www.xpde.com...
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Actually I think you're the one missing the point.
If you had bothered to RTF Site, you'd notice that's EXACTLY what they are working on. A functional Network Connections monitor, a functional Windows Explorer, a functional Network Neighborhood, a Functional Device manager...and I could go on and on. Their goal is to recreate all the windows applets for Linux. And honeslty, I think some of them are worth it. The Network Neighborhood applet seems very useful for graphically browsing Samba shares.
Heh, exactly...because you'll be running at Ring 3 (user-mode) and not in the Kernel, all those x86 interrupts you could use become useless, since you're only allowed executing user-code. And user-code is 99% OS-dependent, rendering the whole thing useless.
Basically you'd need a kernel buffer overflow on all the OSs you want to infect...good luck!
Actually you basically can't for a simple reason.
Yes, you can write x86 *CODE* that will run on any OS, by using BIOS interrupts, or even making different calls/checks to see what OS this is, and then using the appropriate system calls. But how to run this code?
Windows uses PE files, Linux uses ELF files, MacOS 9 uses data+ressource forks...etc. It would take a hell of a lot of hacking the formats to somehow make the PE offsets correspond to the ELF offsets or somehow put both kinds of headers in the executable program so it can run on both OSs.
So while your code might be multi-platform compatible, the cointainer itself will end up being OS-specific.
The first programming language(s) were coded in ASM, Assembly Language. Although ASM is a "language", it doesn't need to be translated and compiled like something like C. Each operation corresponds to opcodes, which are usually one or two bytes, that the CPU can directly read and interpret. Once powerful and stable C compilers (written usually in ASM) started to appear, new languages were usually directly written in C, but always containing some ASM.
The main problem that confuses people (such as the argument that C# was written in C#) are the IDEs (the Integrated Developpement Environment), which is merely a graphical frontend to do your work. So yes, the VS NET 2003 UI was made in C#, but the compiler for C# was written in C and ASM.
I hope this makes sense...it's 2:30AM...lol
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Relsoft Technologies
The big problem with mail filters, as the article mentions, is that they need to be updated when new spam technologies appear... and there's also a lot of false positives... I gave SPAMfighter a try (from www.spamfighter.com) and although it was a bit worse at finding spam (At first), I never got any false positives. The way it works is that the "filters" are actually some kind of hash that users submit whenever they block or unblock an email (it analyses the whole content I think, not just the text). So if a new type of spam technique appears, the users will just block it. And unlike many other client-side plugins, it actually works on Outlook Express.
Another one I recomment is Spambayes...but there's the problem with false positives. All the other ones I've tried are utter crap.
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Relsoft Technologies
I don't know if you're trolling but I'll bite...
First of all the relase is a retail DVD-RIP on 2 DVD-5 discs (the retail is on a DVD 9, so Centropy split it in two), and it's not a telesync.
Secondly, do you even know what a telesync is? A telesync is when Joe goes in the cinema, takes his camera (WITH a tripod) and plugs it in directly to the audio out of the theater's sound system. So you usually have very good sound, and decent picture quality.
When you were referring to is called a TeleCine, but the transfer is not usually expensive, or needed. Just play it in the machine, connect the video/audio out and that's it.
Sic means it was a mistake in the article. It's GIGAbytes. Not Megabytes.
Guys...
I can't believe you haven't figured out what the EML files are yet.
Anyone remember NIMDA? The worm from 2002 I think? It had this exact same effect of sticking infected eml files all over your folders (by taking some names from your files, and others randomly). Opening those EML files or forwarding them would guarantee future and constant infection.
It's clearly evident that this machine was infected by nimda and got port-scanned and found. The rest of the code is probably going to come soon enough, unless MS already found out and pulled the plug.
By the way, alpha doesn't mean "Alpha Version" but the Alpha CPU made by DEC, now owned by Compaq.
Mars does have a small atmosphere...so sound waves could probably be transmitted. But they wouldn't sound anything like real sound, the pitch would be way off (kind of like hearing a sound underwater, but backwards)
They didn't make it incompatible. Win9x is a piece of shit GUI that runs on top of 16-bit DOS. It was designed simply to be a visual shell.
NT on the other hand is a true micro-kernel OS with an extendable subsystem architecture, syscalls, protected mode, privilege levels etc. One of NT's strengths it that by itself it simply runs in "Native" mode. On top of that, Microsoft built the Win32 Subsystem (win32k.sys), the OS/2 subsystem and the POSIX subsystem. The OS/2 subsystem is not available on XP anymore, and the POSIX one is now an optional "Expension" pack (Service for Unix.)
You can read more about Native APIs and Subsystem at:
Relsoft Articles At the bottom of the page.
I think they meann g.
"Windows Services for Unix Compatiblity".
As in, these are services, running on windows "For" unix...somethign..compatibilty...support...anythi
I guess they just left out the word because they couldn't find one or something. You could put emulation, compatibility, support...so I guess they decided not to put anything:P
The Borg actually paid SCO the licensing free...something like 100 million dollars. Where do you think SCO got all that money?
(Please don't quote me on the dollar figure...but I know it's licensed for a fact)
There's actually software mods now that do this after booting from a CD by using one of the 2 exploits (Audio CD and font files). Plus there's 3 games that have another exploit if you use a special corrupted save game with the executable code. Ta-da, no more need to open up the xbox/solder/pogo-pins.
Plus the xbox can play games and run a variety of other applications (web server etc..) Can this DVD player do that? Nope. (oh not to mention it supports every single possible video format out there that exists on Linux/mplayer/windows, including QT/RA/Ogg)
Mods: mods this up! We'd like to get more people for a better experience and hear more input from everyone :)
Great, I just HAD to misspell "entity"...
I have a lot of free time on my hand to reply to this I guess.
Your correction is incorrect. We are talking about IBM's legion, which is a singular entitiy.
Virtual desktopsr toys. I haven't checked the link but look for the Virtual Desktop Power Toy
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powe
fish:// urls for accessing files over ssh
>> Install any SSH client and add the association to the the registry. Since when is SSH considered part of the OS? It's a separate app.
Embeddable terminal in file browser
>> What is the point of this?
Focus follows mouse
>> It's called x-mouse, you can enable it with Tweak UI or a registry setting (All MS software)
Per-user file associations
>> Windows XP supports this, but almost no apps take advantage of it.
Kiosk mode
>> You can do this in Windows, just change the shell variable for your kiosk app.
Tabbed web browsing
>> Nothing to do with the OS. Download Opera Win32.
Tabbed file browsing
>> Good one... I think they are copying it in Longhorn.
Tabbed anything you damned well please
>> Some tabbed stuff is useless, but file browing would be nice.
File dialog with built in preview for all applications
Postscript-enabled printing and previewing
>> Present in Windows with the right drivers
Printing to PDF
>> Install Arobat Distiller, this has nothing to do with the OS.
Please don't flame me, I wasn't trying to say Windows>Linux, just that everything can be done in Windows as well, either harder or easier. But I don't think that Linux UI is the main thing in which Linux wins over Windows...I think it's more security and stability.
Price? 600$ more
Screen? 1 inch smaller
Please check your facts as well.
Umm...did you think that just MAYBE VW actually licensed the songs?
You can license songs for previewing, distribution and downloading, as long as you pay the copyright holder the proper licensing fees.