I know... "Fortunately" we have switched to ClearCase, which is much better than SourceSafe, but I personally prefer the CVS way of doing stuff... I get things done faster with CVS...
It is true however that CVS has it's own problems (that's why we use ClearCase now), so I hope the company I work for will give SubVersion a try soon... I'm bugging people with email the whole morning already and keeping my fingers crossed... I'm even thinking of setting up a "test-repository" on one of the Linux machines I have for testing purposes...
Oh well... Still have to use SourceSafe for access to old projects sources however... Every time I open up the SourceSafe GUI I do it with fear... I'm actually thinking of writing a VBS/JS script that will take the sources and store them in a CVS repository... Have to wait for a weekend my girlfriend will be away...;)
Hm...:D Ok, I didn't really think of "protecting" the file like that... Oh well...;) I would do it the complicated way. Find the hash in the file, store it, change anything, adjust checksums and stuff... store the original password/hash... I think I might have gotten used to passwd/group files too much...
You never store a password or use it for encryption. Mostly hash values are used, which mean that you need a password that generates the same hash value and your "online"... And it is not the same just opening the file, so this is new. Now I can open your protected file, change it, and store it so nobody (not even you) notices... Except for the changed data of course... By the time you notice the changed data you might be arrested for fraud or anything else...;)
Its likely that a group of hackers would crack it, and allow Linux to open the "secure" content, but that would be illegal, which kinda kills the idea of Linux as an OS for the masses...
Don't get me wrong here... I totally agree with you on this one, but you also have to consider another thing: If enough people (the masses) are doing something illegal, wouldn't that send out a very clear message that something is wrong with the definition of legal?
That's not completly true. Yes, you're right when using "normal" triangulation. With GSM base stations you also to consider the fact that a cell is divided into several sectors, which are nothing more than oriented antenas that face a certain direction. This means that in many cases you only need data from 2 base stations, because (as you mentioned) you get cross points for 2 circles, but you can discard one point as it doesn't lie in the sector my phone is in. This also means that often records from a single base station are enough to prove me lying. If you take a micro-cell for example (having a range of up to a kilometer, I think), you can actually see whether I was north of the cell, like I'm claiming, or that I was in fact to the south, where a crime was commited...:) (this goes for any kind of cell, but a micro-cell can cover very small areas (often even only buildings), making the pin-pointing accurate enough)
Hope this makes any sense, I have to get some sleep...:)
Judging from the source it's a quite simple COM object, which hooks into IE and checks URLs before IE actually starts "processing" them (opening connections, parsing...) If it finds anything out of the ordinary (like an exploit) it just redirects IE to their own site. Specifically to http://www.openwares.org/cgi-bin/exploit.cgi. It adds a few paramters (the fake url among other), so I guess they will be building a database of exploiters...
It's no patch, IE stays as it is. It's more a workaround. I'm not sure whether these hooks are documented (allthough being a windows system programmer I never liked IE and stayed as far away from it as possible), but if yes, Microsoft might actually have nothing on openwaves...
It very much depends... Judging by the bugs description, the bug isn't spread out through much code... It might just be a condition in an (at least in the original source) if construct... Changing that might require only changing a few bytes of the executeable code, which can be done without any real problems...
Isn't it interesting that/. readers are willing to complain over duplicate posts and wonder whether the editors ever read/. them selfs... But at the same time they are not willing to RTFA in both the original or "duplicate" post...
I know this has nothing to do with the topic, and I'm not disagreeing with you here, but I was wondering (as english isn't my native language)... Isn't a coalition an alliance between several parties? In that case... Can you really say "US coalition"?
Just 1 thing... SYN/ACK is part of negotiating a TCP connection. Regardless of the service, it will be used when establishing a connection, so e-mail and other services can be affected by this kind of attack...
AFAIK MAS provides network transparent sound, just like X offers network transparent windows... This way an application can run on a computer at the other end of your building but it's sound output is routed through your machines sound card...
The IDE Raid controller you're talking about uses some functionality which I have a patent on. To make this functionality work the driver includes some code which of course I wrote and are the copyright owner. I see no point in releasing any of my code as that would lower my income, because none of the manufacturers would need to buy my code anymore...
Ok, I admit, I'm not holding any patents and didn't write any driver code that's included in any RAID driver (not that I know of, at least)... But I think you get the picture here... It doesn't have to be the actual hardware manufacturer who's responsible for the drivers not to be released in source form. They might be restricted by other parties....
Your right... partly... An arms manufacturer can't be blamed for my using a gun they manufactured to kill my neigbour... The arms manufacturer should be blamed for using faulty materials which cause the gun to go off without me squeezing the trigger... And possibly killing my neighbour;)
The same goes for kazaa and microsoft... File sharing *can* be used for bad things (piracy). Microsoft left too many doors open for spyware (viruses, worms, name them) to be installed...
Ok, ok... I appologize...:D Actually, when you come to think of it... Both actually use the energy in photons to achieve the desired effect... Whether it's forcing electrons to "flow" or causing the sail to move... Didn't think of it this way before... Thanks?;)
Does a laser "generator" (so the laser device itself) feel the reaction force of the photons? Let me explain. I guess we all know the cartoons where you have a small sail boat and a fan tied at the back, which blows in the direction of the sail. We also know that that's impossible, because the fan gets an equal reaction force in the opposite direction of the "wind" blowing. And as such the boat wont move (at least not because of the fan)... Is this the same with a laser/photons? Will the photons leaving a laser cause a force on the laser device opposite of the direction of the photons moving?
No... Solar sails use (or intend to use) a different principle... Here you use electricity to power a laser, which you point at solar cells (kinda) and generate electricity to power the electromotor on the airplane... Ever thought of RTFA?:)
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Exactly... Otherwise you might have patches/updates that would break your system even worse, right?
Well, IIRC, that has happened in the past...
I know...
;)
"Fortunately" we have switched to ClearCase, which is much better than SourceSafe, but I personally prefer the CVS way of doing stuff... I get things done faster with CVS...
It is true however that CVS has it's own problems (that's why we use ClearCase now), so I hope the company I work for will give SubVersion a try soon... I'm bugging people with email the whole morning already and keeping my fingers crossed... I'm even thinking of setting up a "test-repository" on one of the Linux machines I have for testing purposes...
Oh well... Still have to use SourceSafe for access to old projects sources however... Every time I open up the SourceSafe GUI I do it with fear... I'm actually thinking of writing a VBS/JS script that will take the sources and store them in a CVS repository... Have to wait for a weekend my girlfriend will be away...
Oh come on... SourceUnSafe??? ;)
That's unfair! It's doesn't lose source... Not very often, at least...
Does anyone know what Darls sexual habits are?
This might not be a real punishment for him...
How about SciTE?
Oops...
Hm... :D ;)
Ok, I didn't really think of "protecting" the file like that... Oh well...
I would do it the complicated way. Find the hash in the file, store it, change anything, adjust checksums and stuff... store the original password/hash...
I think I might have gotten used to passwd/group files too much...
You never store a password or use it for encryption. Mostly hash values are used, which mean that you need a password that generates the same hash value and your "online"... ;)
And it is not the same just opening the file, so this is new. Now I can open your protected file, change it, and store it so nobody (not even you) notices... Except for the changed data of course...
By the time you notice the changed data you might be arrested for fraud or anything else...
Don't get me wrong here... I totally agree with you on this one, but you also have to consider another thing:
If enough people (the masses) are doing something illegal, wouldn't that send out a very clear message that something is wrong with the definition of legal?
Just a thought...
Which means you dont have a clue about how he feels about the whole thing.
If he would know about the lawsuit, he might think/act differently...
Man, he's even better than we all thought... ;)
That's not completly true. Yes, you're right when using "normal" triangulation. :) (this goes for any kind of cell, but a micro-cell can cover very small areas (often even only buildings), making the pin-pointing accurate enough)
:)
With GSM base stations you also to consider the fact that a cell is divided into several sectors, which are nothing more than oriented antenas that face a certain direction. This means that in many cases you only need data from 2 base stations, because (as you mentioned) you get cross points for 2 circles, but you can discard one point as it doesn't lie in the sector my phone is in.
This also means that often records from a single base station are enough to prove me lying. If you take a micro-cell for example (having a range of up to a kilometer, I think), you can actually see whether I was north of the cell, like I'm claiming, or that I was in fact to the south, where a crime was commited...
Hope this makes any sense, I have to get some sleep...
Judging from the source it's a quite simple COM object, which hooks into IE and checks URLs before IE actually starts "processing" them (opening connections, parsing...)
If it finds anything out of the ordinary (like an exploit) it just redirects IE to their own site. Specifically to http://www.openwares.org/cgi-bin/exploit.cgi. It adds a few paramters (the fake url among other), so I guess they will be building a database of exploiters...
It's no patch, IE stays as it is. It's more a workaround. I'm not sure whether these hooks are documented (allthough being a windows system programmer I never liked IE and stayed as far away from it as possible), but if yes, Microsoft might actually have nothing on openwaves...
It very much depends...
Judging by the bugs description, the bug isn't spread out through much code... It might just be a condition in an (at least in the original source) if construct...
Changing that might require only changing a few bytes of the executeable code, which can be done without any real problems...
Isn't it interesting that /. readers are willing to complain over duplicate posts and wonder whether the editors ever read /. them selfs...
But at the same time they are not willing to RTFA in both the original or "duplicate" post...
Hm... Does make sense... ;)
Thanks...
I know this has nothing to do with the topic, and I'm not disagreeing with you here, but I was wondering (as english isn't my native language)...
Isn't a coalition an alliance between several parties? In that case... Can you really say "US coalition"?
Just 1 thing...
SYN/ACK is part of negotiating a TCP connection. Regardless of the service, it will be used when establishing a connection, so e-mail and other services can be affected by this kind of attack...
Don't forget Solitaire and FreeCell now...
AFAIK MAS provides network transparent sound, just like X offers network transparent windows... This way an application can run on a computer at the other end of your building but it's sound output is routed through your machines sound card...
That's not true, they might lose money...
The IDE Raid controller you're talking about uses some functionality which I have a patent on. To make this functionality work the driver includes some code which of course I wrote and are the copyright owner.
I see no point in releasing any of my code as that would lower my income, because none of the manufacturers would need to buy my code anymore...
Ok, I admit, I'm not holding any patents and didn't write any driver code that's included in any RAID driver (not that I know of, at least)...
But I think you get the picture here... It doesn't have to be the actual hardware manufacturer who's responsible for the drivers not to be released in source form. They might be restricted by other parties....
Actually I think this was a very reasonable thing to do...
How many slashdotters do you think actually went and subbmitted a program?
Your right... partly... ;)
An arms manufacturer can't be blamed for my using a gun they manufactured to kill my neigbour...
The arms manufacturer should be blamed for using faulty materials which cause the gun to go off without me squeezing the trigger... And possibly killing my neighbour
The same goes for kazaa and microsoft... File sharing *can* be used for bad things (piracy). Microsoft left too many doors open for spyware (viruses, worms, name them) to be installed...
Microsoft has been searching for hackers... :)
Obviously the bounty paid off...
Ok, ok... I appologize... :D ;)
Actually, when you come to think of it... Both actually use the energy in photons to achieve the desired effect... Whether it's forcing electrons to "flow" or causing the sail to move... Didn't think of it this way before...
Thanks?
Does a laser "generator" (so the laser device itself) feel the reaction force of the photons?
Let me explain. I guess we all know the cartoons where you have a small sail boat and a fan tied at the back, which blows in the direction of the sail.
We also know that that's impossible, because the fan gets an equal reaction force in the opposite direction of the "wind" blowing. And as such the boat wont move (at least not because of the fan)...
Is this the same with a laser/photons? Will the photons leaving a laser cause a force on the laser device opposite of the direction of the photons moving?
No... Solar sails use (or intend to use) a different principle... :)
Here you use electricity to power a laser, which you point at solar cells (kinda) and generate electricity to power the electromotor on the airplane...
Ever thought of RTFA?