Just to pick nits - the A20 line debacle has nothing to do with the processor; it was IBM's ridiculous design flaw introduced to make the PC/AT backwards compatible with the PC/XT.
How many programs assumed they could address 0000:x at ffff:x+10h I don't know, but I assume there must have been some otherwise they wouldn't have done it...
Slashdot has an editorial review process (even if it is somewhat questionable at times...)
The Slashdot editors generally don't bother to investigate the story they are submitting. They quote the submission verbatim without editing, and frequently without commenting.
It was a little misleading, to be frank. It really wouldn't have hurt to add a note that you're both author & publisher of this book...
Confidence inspiring. I've just downloaded the latest version from that projecct and there's a typo in the URL for downloading PuTTY (For anyone interested, s/chiart/chiark/ should fix it). Things like this should have been checked & fixed before publication.
Furthermore, I'm not entirely convinced by the choice of the horrendous AT&T syntax for beginners. Traditional Intel syntax is much easier to understand, IMHO, and its not as if there aren't free tools for working with it.
It's not about "my" code and "their" code. It's about "OUR" code,
Yes, that's pretty much what he was saying. Its about taking what would otherwise be 'their' code, and making it so that it becomes also 'your' code, giving it back to the group.
What he was also saying is that it doesn't have any affect on the ownership of _your_ code --- you'd already given that to the group and would also have done so if you'd chosen the BSD license (say).
Courier is preferred by people who have to read large volumes of text, such as those who work in the publishing industry, because they find it easier to read.
Proportional fonts look nicer, which is why they are used in areas where visual presentation is important, such as consumer goods.
Hehe, kinda like the defense "Yeah, I broke into the house but hey, I didnt steal anything so I dont deserve to be classed as a 'proper criminal'". Bollocks, you're a criminal.
Actually, this is rather ironic comparison, as he has been given approximately the same sentence that you would expect for a first offence of burglary in this country.
Ask anyone in the publishing industry, and chances are they will tell you that the most readable font available is Courier (in any standard variety) 12pt Regular.
I.e., precisely the font they are moving away from, on the grounds of readability.
I wonder if the person who made this choice is someone who has to read a lot of documents, or just somebody who thinks a proportional font looks nicer?
"" "If he's really sorry, then why did he release it," said Michele Morelock, technical support leader at anti-virus software maker Sophos Inc. "I would imagine it's much more tongue-in-cheek than saying I'm really sorry for releasing it." ""
What I want to know is - how come whenever anybody quotes somebody from an antivirus company, it's _always_ sophos?
the virus writer's mission of discrediting these [open source software] movements.
Yeah, right. I doubt the virus writer was that smart. I give it a 99% chance of being a dumb-ass script kiddie who was just looking for kicks, and a way to 'get back' at SCO.
You could do this one with any old POSIX compatibility layer you wanted to pull of the shelf, I think.
Oh, and even if you wanted to write a real virus, rather than a worm, remember that windows executables are in COFF these days, and that's an old format that was originally designed for Unix implementations...
It's not like this is the first time Outlook and all it's features additional to mailhandling (which mostly is usefull only to spammers and virii-writers) causes complete havoc on the internet.
Err, I don't think this one has anything to do with Outlook's various features. This worm doesn't execute automatically, it relies on the user opening an attached executable file to work. The same trick could work with any MIME compliant MUA that the writer chose to target; it just happens that Outlook & Outlook Express were the targets here (it runs under Windows and knows how to read their address books).
You're in luck. Just run your standard Windows e-mail client, publish your e-mail address on a web page, and start running all those nice screen savers people will e-mail to you. No sign up required.
I've not yet received the virus in my email so I can't check the code for myself.
Good god, man, don't complain when you've been that lucky. I got into the office this morning to find 550 unread messages, mostly copies of this, or messages saying that copies I had supposedly sent hadn't been delivered...
There are in fact decent mail-readers that won't bork your system and aren't spyware (cough *eudora* cough).
Err... last time I used Eudora (and I'll admit this was a fair few years ago) it used to automatically extract all attachments it received into a single directory on your hard disk, leaving it susceptible to a fair number of serious security vulnerabilities, like the one where you send a specific DLL and a Word document to somebody, and when they open the Word document, Word runs the code in the DLL...
I think mozilla is probably one of the safe choices for Windoze mail reading software at the moment, as long as you stay up-to-date.
There's not a lot of information in it, but the way I see it, you could write a special device driver in the linux kernel that interacts with your own mods in the windows driver to do whatever the hell you like with the windows API. You could, for instance, implement a device that sends & receives windows messages... then you could do DDE with a Windows app.
Although, to be honest, I reckon it'd be easier just to use the networking code...
I can imagine a new Linux install process that doesn't require booting from a disk or CD. Instead you download a giant executable which starts a coLinux system
Unfortunately, it seems to require you to install drivers at the Windows end, so you still can't do it without a reboot.
I think it's possible in Windows to resize an NTFS partition online, correct me if I'm wrong though...
I'm not certain, but there are some operations that windows cannot perform on a mounted partition, and I suspect resizing is one of them. I know FAT->NTFS conversion is, if you want to do that to your system partition it has to reboot (or at least it did in NT4, which was the last time I did that operation...).
Whilst I'm usually a supporter of gnutella, I can understand the desire to support FastTrack. The network has something like 20 times as many users and a much wider variety of files available.
The plus side is that as Morpheus leeches all these files from FT, they'll become available to those of us who do use gnutella.
Reverse engineering is a practice which you have a right to perform in many jurisdictions, including all of Europe and many (most? all? I'm not sure) U.S. states.
And all that's happened there anyway is that somebody has violated the EULA to do the reverse engineering. If Sharman could prove (a) who had done it, (b) that that person actually agreed to the EULA in the first place, and (c) it happened in a jurisdiction where reverse engineering is not legally protected, they might have a case to sue that person for damages. My understanding is that they couldn't demand any software produced with knowledge gained by that reverse engineering be withdrawn... the only way you can enforce license restrictions on knowledge is through a patent.
It doesn't matter what the EULA states, that just ain't enforceable.
Of course, I ain't a lawyer, so don't take this as actually reliable or anything...
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Just to pick nits - the A20 line debacle has nothing to do with the processor; it was IBM's ridiculous design flaw introduced to make the PC/AT backwards compatible with the PC/XT.
How many programs assumed they could address 0000:x at ffff:x+10h I don't know, but I assume there must have been some otherwise they wouldn't have done it...
Slashdot has an editorial review process (even if it is somewhat questionable at times...)
The Slashdot editors generally don't bother to investigate the story they are submitting. They quote the submission verbatim without editing, and frequently without commenting.
It was a little misleading, to be frank. It really wouldn't have hurt to add a note that you're both author & publisher of this book...
Confidence inspiring. I've just downloaded the latest version from that projecct and there's a typo in the URL for downloading PuTTY (For anyone interested, s/chiart/chiark/ should fix it). Things like this should have been checked & fixed before publication.
Furthermore, I'm not entirely convinced by the choice of the horrendous AT&T syntax for beginners. Traditional Intel syntax is much easier to understand, IMHO, and its not as if there aren't free tools for working with it.
... intimite knowledge of poor coding skills and Microsoft vulnerabilities ...
How many times do I have to say this?
MyDoom has _nothing_ _to_ _do_ _with_ _Microsoft_ _vulnerabilities_.
It is a social engineering attack. A program is included in the e-mail, and the user is persuaded by the text of the message to run it. Nothing fancy.
It's not about "my" code and "their" code. It's about "OUR" code,
Yes, that's pretty much what he was saying. Its about taking what would otherwise be 'their' code, and making it so that it becomes also 'your' code, giving it back to the group.
What he was also saying is that it doesn't have any affect on the ownership of _your_ code --- you'd already given that to the group and would also have done so if you'd chosen the BSD license (say).
Strange. Maybe, after all this, it is just a matter of what you're used to.
Courier is preferred by people who have to read large volumes of text, such as those who work in the publishing industry, because they find it easier to read.
Proportional fonts look nicer, which is why they are used in areas where visual presentation is important, such as consumer goods.
Hehe, kinda like the defense "Yeah, I broke into the house but hey, I didnt steal anything so I dont deserve to be classed as a 'proper criminal'". Bollocks, you're a criminal.
Actually, this is rather ironic comparison, as he has been given approximately the same sentence that you would expect for a first offence of burglary in this country.
I find this interesting.
Ask anyone in the publishing industry, and chances are they will tell you that the most readable font available is Courier (in any standard variety) 12pt Regular.
I.e., precisely the font they are moving away from, on the grounds of readability.
I wonder if the person who made this choice is someone who has to read a lot of documents, or just somebody who thinks a proportional font looks nicer?
"" "If he's really sorry, then why did he release it," said Michele Morelock, technical support leader at anti-virus software maker Sophos Inc. "I would imagine it's much more tongue-in-cheek than saying I'm really sorry for releasing it." ""
What I want to know is - how come whenever anybody quotes somebody from an antivirus company, it's _always_ sophos?
The link "tailspintoys.com" actually goes to "tailspingtoys.com" (which is not resolved at all).
Quick! Someone register it and send it to Mozilla.org
[reposting this 'cause I left in on plain old text, so the HTML code got munged]
... more stuff
I got a funny one the other day. I had a load of stuff that I had put like this:
<div class="whatever">text</div>
<p>
where 'whatever' is a class defined to float right and put a border around it. Fairly standard stuff.
Got a request through from the client that meant the arrangement had to be so the div was in a table cell.
On a few of them, I neglected to delete the empty paragraph that ended up following them. The client complained that some of their text was missing...
The following code:
<td><div class="whatever"> text </div><p></p></td>
produces no output on Internet Explorer. Remove the <p></p> and it works fine.
Needless to say, Mozilla gets it right in both cases.
text
... more stuff
textwhere 'whatever' is a class defined to float right and put a border around it. Fairly standard stuff.
Got a request through from the client that meant the arrangement had to be so the div was in a table cell.
On a few of them, I neglected to delete the empty paragraph that ended up following them. The client complained that some of their text was missing...
The following code:
produces no output on Internet Explorer. Remove the
and it works fine.
Needless to say, Mozilla gets it right in both cases.
the virus writer's mission of discrediting these [open source software] movements.
Yeah, right. I doubt the virus writer was that smart. I give it a 99% chance of being a dumb-ass script kiddie who was just looking for kicks, and a way to 'get back' at SCO.
You could do this one with any old POSIX compatibility layer you wanted to pull of the shelf, I think.
Oh, and even if you wanted to write a real virus, rather than a worm, remember that windows executables are in COFF these days, and that's an old format that was originally designed for Unix implementations...
It's not like this is the first time Outlook and all it's features additional to mailhandling (which mostly is usefull only to spammers and virii-writers) causes complete havoc on the internet.
Err, I don't think this one has anything to do with Outlook's various features. This worm doesn't execute automatically, it relies on the user opening an attached executable file to work. The same trick could work with any MIME compliant MUA that the writer chose to target; it just happens that Outlook & Outlook Express were the targets here (it runs under Windows and knows how to read their address books).
You're in luck. Just run your standard Windows e-mail client, publish your e-mail address on a web page, and start running all those nice screen savers people will e-mail to you. No sign up required.
Assuming you're talking about the Windows Update DDOS, you probably mean bastards.com.
I've not yet received the virus in my email so I can't check the code for myself.
Good god, man, don't complain when you've been that lucky. I got into the office this morning to find 550 unread messages, mostly copies of this, or messages saying that copies I had supposedly sent hadn't been delivered...
There are in fact decent mail-readers that won't bork your system and aren't spyware (cough *eudora* cough).
Err... last time I used Eudora (and I'll admit this was a fair few years ago) it used to automatically extract all attachments it received into a single directory on your hard disk, leaving it susceptible to a fair number of serious security vulnerabilities, like the one where you send a specific DLL and a Word document to somebody, and when they open the Word document, Word runs the code in the DLL...
I think mozilla is probably one of the safe choices for Windoze mail reading software at the moment, as long as you stay up-to-date.
There's not a lot of information in it, but the way I see it, you could write a special device driver in the linux kernel that interacts with your own mods in the windows driver to do whatever the hell you like with the windows API. You could, for instance, implement a device that sends & receives windows messages... then you could do DDE with a Windows app.
Although, to be honest, I reckon it'd be easier just to use the networking code...
I can imagine a new Linux install process that doesn't require booting from a disk or CD. Instead you download a giant executable which starts a coLinux system
Unfortunately, it seems to require you to install drivers at the Windows end, so you still can't do it without a reboot.
I think it's possible in Windows to resize an NTFS partition online, correct me if I'm wrong though...
I'm not certain, but there are some operations that windows cannot perform on a mounted partition, and I suspect resizing is one of them. I know FAT->NTFS conversion is, if you want to do that to your system partition it has to reboot (or at least it did in NT4, which was the last time I did that operation...).
Whilst I'm usually a supporter of gnutella, I can understand the desire to support FastTrack. The network has something like 20 times as many users and a much wider variety of files available.
The plus side is that as Morpheus leeches all these files from FT, they'll become available to those of us who do use gnutella.
Reverse engineering is a practice which you have a right to perform in many jurisdictions, including all of Europe and many (most? all? I'm not sure) U.S. states.
... the only way you can enforce license restrictions on knowledge is through a patent.
And all that's happened there anyway is that somebody has violated the EULA to do the reverse engineering. If Sharman could prove (a) who had done it, (b) that that person actually agreed to the EULA in the first place, and (c) it happened in a jurisdiction where reverse engineering is not legally protected, they might have a case to sue that person for damages. My understanding is that they couldn't demand any software produced with knowledge gained by that reverse engineering be withdrawn
It doesn't matter what the EULA states, that just ain't enforceable.
Of course, I ain't a lawyer, so don't take this as actually reliable or anything...
My understanding is that Kazaalite used code that was directly copied from Kazaa, and was not a re-implementation from scracth.