Ironically enough, 'HomeBase' was one of the names considered for what eventually was named 'Microsoft Bob,' a 'friendly' computer interface where the computer was represented with a house and a variety of characters - try looking up the old slashdot column "Who Remembers Bob?"
I can't find it because the slashdot search engine does not index 3 letter words.
"Have you tried the mandrake install as of late? If you think the Red Hat install is easy, mandrake is much easier!"
I am using the Mandrake 8.2 7-CD powerpack bought in the store, and I agree that the install is VERY easy. It is also much easier to maintain than 8.0. The equivalent of windows update built into rpmdrake is an great step forward, especially for command-line fearing newbies.
Just click on 'download updates' and wait for the update list to be downloaded. Select what you want and click next and it will be downloaded. Ths util is still raw, as the progress meters don't work and you should be able to resize the windows. But overall it is a huge step.
"No they don't. I've bought Thawte certificates for both a fortune-500 company I work for and also for my own one-man company and in both cases all I had to do was fax an authroization letter along with the corporate filing or articles of organization and supply a D&B number."
Interesting... I read an account from one company where the Thawte people actually physically came to the premesis (a computer equipment + mod/cooling + hotrodding shop) and verified that they were a real legitimate business. If you browse the linked site's news archives, you'll see mention of it.
"Signed certificates cannot prove that:
The company you're purchasing from is trustworthy,
The certificate wasn't stolen,
Verisign wasn't tricked into signing the certificate (which has happened),
An attacker hasn't redirected your connection to some other site from the backend (think PHP fopen()) "
This is what Thawte certs are supposedly for. The company officials from Thawte physically visit your location to determine if you are a legitimate business with an honest operation. (note: I don't know if Enron ever got a Thawte cert)
"It seems normal to me that after associationg the IP with the amazon domain name in your hosts file, the malicious IP gets precedence over the autoritative association from the DNS.
So he dosen't get to the real amazon.com, obviously. If this attack requires a domain spoof it's quite unlikely to happen IMHO."
I expect that this bug could exploited in a deadly manner with some onmouseover tricks. The unwary user could be lulled into a false sense of security by seeing amazon.com (placed by javascript) in the status bar when in fact they are being sent to some other IP address, whose secure certificate is spoofed by exploiting this vulnerability.
"If you don't wake up drunk on your parent's living room floor with their car rammed into your mailbox..."
For a short period, I was wondering how big this guy's parents' mailbox was. I mean, it has to be pretty big for an automobile, even a VW beetle or a mini or one of those Japan-only micro-cars to fit in there.
"Instead, I actively seek out oppurtunities to use my skills- even for *gasp* free! And honestly, not only has some of my non-paying work been my most rewarding, but it has also lead to experience and oppurtunities to make lots of money in a short amount of time-- what many in the industry seek out, and miss, because they have the wrong approach."
I think you are on the right road here - not too long ago when I was 16 I was doing the same kind of stuff. Even if for free, if you help enough people, you name gets around and then you help people and businesses for pay. I was getting web/application development job offers for very good wages because teachers I helped gave my name to other former teachers who had become entrepreneurs.
Make sure you keep on top of your game and learn to write (so you can communicate with the suits.) Well done!
And I was the guy who wrote the music... I still have the.mid files.
Well, it was created in 'klik'n'create' which was some sort of scripting language game creation tool, but hey, it was a working side scroller! Not much real programming happenned.
"Not until the 35-disk set with all three movies, including the Director's Cut, the Producer's Cut, and the Gaffer's cut comes out will I even consider buying a LOTR DVD set. If I really decide I need to see it again, there's always NetFlix."
The dust will not have settled until I am able to choose CowboyNeal's cut in a slashdot poll.
"By the way, every new Mac sold also contains a diagnostic CD. The user can simply insert it, boot in 5 seconds and get a result back for tech support without even needing a supporting OS!! Kewl or wha'...."
Very cool, except when Celine Dion cooked the CD-drives in certain Apple machines. My suspicion is that since Apple machines have very good design behind them, they protected the user from Celine by committing suicide.
I'm going to line the inside of my wallet with tinfoil. I don't actually know what the people who manufactured all the plastic cards in there embedded in them.
"Just FYI, you can only do this with the nonfree versions of ZoneAlarm; the free version doesn't have IP blocking, only app-based blocking."
You might want to look into this freeware which was made by the original "Tiny Peronsal Firewall" crew. You can block based on ip, packet type and port.
"hope you dont allow web browsers to get through zonealarm. As it has been shown before, a program can open a URL with your default browser, then hide the window before you see it. All sony has to do is put the tracking information in the URL and submit it, bypassing zonealarm."
All you do is when you install a suspicious application, you close of ALL access via the firewall, and then you see what tries to connect via sniffers or firewall logs. If you see the iexplore.exe is unexpectedly trying to connect to a certain IP, then you ban that IP and then open up access to trusted applications again.
"Exactly how lazy are you that you cant wait an additional 12 seconds for the FBI warnings to scroll by? Use that valuable time to pick your nose I say."
It's not the point, it's the principle of the thing!
Seriously, don't just settle for what they give you, or they'll give you something worse and worse every time because you'll settle for it.
"You can't tell me you've never wanted to have a semi-decent network connection while in a car, on a train, on a bus, or in an airport. Now you can. To me that is pretty cool, and is why I thought highly enough of 3G to take a job related to it. I'd use it. Wouldn't you?..."
I'm still looking for a decent internet connection at HOME! Our in-home network is good (it's all 100 mbit) but the damn long phone loops limit dialup to 28.8 or 31.2 of I'm lucky. The cable and adsl are non-existant.
And of course I'd like an untethered IDSN class connection. That would be great for business and fun purposes.
"Actually I know of no one using 1X to transmit better voice quality. This is generally the result of better vocoders. IS-95 or 1X most are still using 14k or 8k vocoders."
Maybe my new 1x phone just has a better microphone then...
Slashdot Mirror
I can't find it because the slashdot search engine does not index 3 letter words.
I am using the Mandrake 8.2 7-CD powerpack bought in the store, and I agree that the install is VERY easy. It is also much easier to maintain than 8.0. The equivalent of windows update built into rpmdrake is an great step forward, especially for command-line fearing newbies.
Just click on 'download updates' and wait for the update list to be downloaded. Select what you want and click next and it will be downloaded. Ths util is still raw, as the progress meters don't work and you should be able to resize the windows. But overall it is a huge step.
There are at least 8. My buddy runs a solaris 8 on an x86 box under his bed in his dorm just for fun. I bet you didn't count him ;-)
The joke here is that this was posted under the 'hardware' section. Heh.
good point ... now your comment seems even funnier to me
look at your sig, man!
"...and you will know me by the trail of dead kittens"
Interesting ... I read an account from one company where the Thawte people actually physically came to the premesis (a computer equipment + mod/cooling + hotrodding shop) and verified that they were a real legitimate business. If you browse the linked site's news archives, you'll see mention of it.
This is what Thawte certs are supposedly for. The company officials from Thawte physically visit your location to determine if you are a legitimate business with an honest operation. (note: I don't know if Enron ever got a Thawte cert)
1 year: most Linux/BSD users get around to updating"
You forgot:
7 months: security people figure out that MSIE patch doesn't work, MSFT denies it.
9 months: microsoft releases new patch
18 months: IE users finally are patched
I expect that this bug could exploited in a deadly manner with some onmouseover tricks. The unwary user could be lulled into a false sense of security by seeing amazon.com (placed by javascript) in the status bar when in fact they are being sent to some other IP address, whose secure certificate is spoofed by exploiting this vulnerability.
I've had Moz 1.1 complain about certificates where the cert company was inconsistent with the issuer.
It means that you should be part of a professional test audience for TV show concepts.
For a short period, I was wondering how big this guy's parents' mailbox was. I mean, it has to be pretty big for an automobile, even a VW beetle or a mini or one of those Japan-only micro-cars to fit in there.
I think you are on the right road here - not too long ago when I was 16 I was doing the same kind of stuff. Even if for free, if you help enough people, you name gets around and then you help people and businesses for pay. I was getting web/application development job offers for very good wages because teachers I helped gave my name to other former teachers who had become entrepreneurs.
Make sure you keep on top of your game and learn to write (so you can communicate with the suits.) Well done!
Well, it was created in 'klik'n'create' which was some sort of scripting language game creation tool, but hey, it was a working side scroller! Not much real programming happenned.
The dust will not have settled until I am able to choose CowboyNeal's cut in a slashdot poll.
You cound bounce the encrypted information off some alien sun, and bounce the key off another in the opposite direction.
Very cool, except when Celine Dion cooked the CD-drives in certain Apple machines. My suspicion is that since Apple machines have very good design behind them, they protected the user from Celine by committing suicide.
I'm going to line the inside of my wallet with tinfoil. I don't actually know what the people who manufactured all the plastic cards in there embedded in them.
You might want to look into this freeware which was made by the original "Tiny Peronsal Firewall" crew. You can block based on ip, packet type and port.
All you do is when you install a suspicious application, you close of ALL access via the firewall, and then you see what tries to connect via sniffers or firewall logs. If you see the iexplore.exe is unexpectedly trying to connect to a certain IP, then you ban that IP and then open up access to trusted applications again.
It's not the point, it's the principle of the thing!
Seriously, don't just settle for what they give you, or they'll give you something worse and worse every time because you'll settle for it.
I'm still looking for a decent internet connection at HOME! Our in-home network is good (it's all 100 mbit) but the damn long phone loops limit dialup to 28.8 or 31.2 of I'm lucky. The cable and adsl are non-existant.
And of course I'd like an untethered IDSN class connection. That would be great for business and fun purposes.
Maybe my new 1x phone just has a better microphone then ...
There is a hidden command in these things to seek out and spray down people secretly doing pr0n in the datacenters.