Back in the DOS days with BBS systems we used to have software that would determine the real file type of the upload, unpack it by shelling out to zip/rar/arj/lha/ha/arj and then scan it with a couple of virus scanners and heuristics (Thunderbyte AV, McAfee Scan, F-Prot)
Anyway, while you could argue the current RAR approach does get past most email scanning systems anyone running an on-access scanner will get still get the alert it's infected the moment they try to launch/unpack an infected file from within it.
Uou mean like Unix was? Or more correctly wasn't. In fact Dennis Ritchie wrote about UNIX: "It was not designed from the start to be secure. It was designed with the necessary characteristics to make security serviceable."
And of course, this from the same people who brought us the C language which makes writing code to buffer overrun a virtue of simplicity leading to the number one cause of vulnerabilities today.
As for Windows services, not all execute with Administrator permissions. IIS for example runs under an anonymous IUSR_computername account that is highly restricted. In my experience any web server setup by a competent Windows admin is as secure as one setup by a competent Linux admin.
Windows bad reputation is at least partly to blame on the sort of users it attracts. Most Windows end-users can not tell the OS from the apps, rarely update and have no idea what clicking Yes to warnings in their web browser is actually doing.
How many Unix users could you say the same of?
Windows XP SP2 is a whole lot better, and coupled with either a locked-down IE or Firefox install and a good updating anti-virus makes for a system that is secure and easy to use.
Everybody's speculating on how this could let Google charge a fee for Bloggers to have their own domain name. Bloggers already have an FTP to your own server option so this doesn't add much.
Surely much more interesting is the concept of Gmail with your own domain name.
With an administration tool allowing Joe User to setup family and friend create email accounts under your their domain name with Google taking care of all the scanning/filtering/storage.
Such an option would give them something different to Hotmail and YahooMail to the point of being something worth paying for. Sure some ISP's already offer this but none of the web interfaces I've seen touch GMail.
As always a story brings out the most short sighted posters, upset over the treatment of Star Wars.
Lets not forget that the award is not for Star Wars but for his achievements to the industry.
Lucas helped found ILM which helped get special effects to the what they are today. Skywalker Sound has contributed to hundreds of films. THX certification got cinemas, film and DVD production quality up.
Heaven forbid that somebody reads before they submit to Slashdot... from the Express Edition FAQ:
Q: "Are the Express Edition products free?"
A: "We have not announced pricing and licensing and will not do so until next calendar year. For the time being, we can tell you that the Express Editions will be low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire."
Plenty of the stories don't have happy endings, in fact I realised after reading a fair few if you just think the most screwed up paranoid thing possible you'd be on the right track.
Err, I think you'll find Piers Anthony was tasked with writing the book to tie in with the film. His book was based on the screenplay, which was in turn based on "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale".
quickly discarded it because it would fail as soon as the observer moved or looked at it from a slight angle - the problem being of course the system has no way of knowing where a viewer might be to correctly map the 'camera' to the right 'display cell'.
I was really expecting the free downloads would be available to everybody as kind of a taster to keep people outside the USA interested and excited about getting music via iTunes.
It seems alas, that you have to setup an account (no problem) that needs a USA registered billing address:(
Okay, I'll retract the statement "Sounds like Intel haven't helped at all" although I did mention at the end of my statement it could be that the SF site wasn't crediting intel with any assistance.
Frankly I think the rest of my posting stands. While it's obvious some people have put hard work into this I don't think Intel have met the promises covered in the previous stories.
I fail to see how "Finally Intel has made their different announcements about Linux support for the WLAN part of the Centrino technology become true."
when the SourceForge web site clearly states in the first paragraph.
"This project was created to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 (IPW2100) mini PCI adapter. This project is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available)"
Sounds like Intel haven't helped at all and some enterprising folks have done their own. Kudos to them, shame on Intel.
And shame on Werner and Timothy for getting basic cursory facts right. Unless of course the SF website is failing to give credit to Intel.
I doubt very much that anything will replace DVD any time soon. It is too new, has a lot of momentum and people aren't prepared to cash out again.
Look at CD and the multitude of formats that have tried to replace it - minidisc, HDCD, DVD-Audio, DTS Audio CD...
The fact is people needed something better than tape and they've got it. Sure you might get the film buffs - previously collectors of LaserDisc titles - but if they are expecting DVD-like sales they're going to be sadly disappointed.
The fact that all Mac binaries are PPC is going to mean at best on i386 platforms you're going to have to use emulation, a better approach is to emulate the Cocoa API allowing a recompile for i386/whatever.
The Cocoa API is basically the NextStep API with Quartz replacing Display Postscript for the display composition/rendering and a number of additional classes and extensions since. (Display Postscript was licenced, Quartz is based on the free PDF specification).
The original NextStep API exists on non-PPC platforms in two forms;
The first is Apple's own implementation which was called 'Yellow Box' back in the NextStep days and let you recompile your apps for Windows. Alas there were licencing issues that Apple claim meant the runtime was expensive to deploy.
Apple still use this runtime in WebObjects for Windows - I don't know if it's been extended to keep up with the OSX enhancements.
The second option is an interesting project called GNUStep who are working towards a complete implementation of the NextStep API and have stated they will add Cocoa's extensions where they provide value. With it being open source you could always add any missing classes/functionality yourself.
This project is usable on FreeBSD and Linux and the core and gui classes are nearly complete however the developer tools themselves are not. This i not a problem however if you are developing on OSX and using them for a port.
This means you work on an object in your local address space but the object you are working with is in fact sending off your method calls to the real object elsewhere (another machine, another address space, whatever) that performs the necessary operations.
In.NET this interaction between the two objects can either use a binary protocol or SOAP.
A comparison of.NET Remoting vs Web Services can be found at http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/22017 01
I'm really hoping that this is using Bluetooth or WiFi however that press release doesn't mention either.
If they've come up with something unique that's all we need. My DECT digital cordless phone has already died with the advent of a WiFi installation nearby. In fact we had to switch our WiFi to get ours usable again.
I recently came close to buying a video sender but at the last moment noticed the dreaded 2.4GHz frequency range again.
How much more stuff is going to sit on this frequency and not play nice.
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And what sort of geek would tell his wife he can get something he doesn't want for less than something he does.
Seriously.
Back in the DOS days with BBS systems we used to have software that would determine the real file type of the upload, unpack it by shelling out to zip/rar/arj/lha/ha/arj and then scan it with a couple of virus scanners and heuristics (Thunderbyte AV, McAfee Scan, F-Prot)
Anyway, while you could argue the current RAR approach does get past most email scanning systems anyone running an on-access scanner will get still get the alert it's infected the moment they try to launch/unpack an infected file from within it.
> Security needs to be #1 in design
Uou mean like Unix was? Or more correctly wasn't. In fact Dennis Ritchie wrote about UNIX: "It was not designed from the start to be secure. It was designed with the necessary characteristics to make security serviceable."
And of course, this from the same people who brought us the C language which makes writing code to buffer overrun a virtue of simplicity leading to the number one cause of vulnerabilities today.
As for Windows services, not all execute with Administrator permissions. IIS for example runs under an anonymous IUSR_computername account that is highly restricted. In my experience any web server setup by a competent Windows admin is as secure as one setup by a competent Linux admin.
Windows bad reputation is at least partly to blame on the sort of users it attracts. Most Windows end-users can not tell the OS from the apps, rarely update and have no idea what clicking Yes to warnings in their web browser is actually doing.
How many Unix users could you say the same of?
Windows XP SP2 is a whole lot better, and coupled with either a locked-down IE or Firefox install and a good updating anti-virus makes for a system that is secure and easy to use.
This MS security bashing is getting old.
Everybody's speculating on how this could let Google charge a fee for Bloggers to have their own domain name. Bloggers already have an FTP to your own server option so this doesn't add much.
Surely much more interesting is the concept of Gmail with your own domain name.
With an administration tool allowing Joe User to setup family and friend create email accounts under your their domain name with Google taking care of all the scanning/filtering/storage.
Such an option would give them something different to Hotmail and YahooMail to the point of being something worth paying for. Sure some ISP's already offer this but none of the web interfaces I've seen touch GMail.
That might even explain why it's still in beta...
Surely such a law should also give users a right to purchase ink cartridges from other manufacturers?
Not putting your e-mail address up on the web?
Maybe an okay option if all you email is friends but if you are part of any online communities or want to provide support for products etc...
Seems that he just bugged the guy until he stopped after he realised the ISP's weren't interested.
MailList King... Sounds like the sort of software used to bulk mail the crap that blocks up my email every morning.
In which case I'd have no sympathy.
As always a story brings out the most short sighted posters, upset over the treatment of Star Wars.
Lets not forget that the award is not for Star Wars but for his achievements to the industry.
Lucas helped found ILM which helped get special effects to the what they are today. Skywalker Sound has contributed to hundreds of films. THX certification got cinemas, film and DVD production quality up.
And personally, I loved Howard the Duck...
Heaven forbid that somebody reads before they submit to Slashdot... from the Express Edition FAQ:
Q: "Are the Express Edition products free?"
A: "We have not announced pricing and licensing and will not do so until next calendar year. For the time being, we can tell you that the Express Editions will be low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire."
Okay, thats a fair comment ;-)
Plenty of the stories don't have happy endings, in fact I realised after reading a fair few if you just think the most screwed up paranoid thing possible you'd be on the right track.
Err, I think you'll find Piers Anthony was tasked with writing the book to tie in with the film. His book was based on the screenplay, which was in turn based on "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale".
That screenplay had over 40 drafts...
Blade Runner (1982) based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" - A rather decent movie with not much to do with the book.
Total Recall (1990) based on "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" - A fun movie vaguely based on the short story.
Drug-Taking and the Arts (1994) based on "A Scanner Darkly" - Alas I've not seen.
Screamers (1995) based on "Second Variety" - An enjoyable movie but nothing special.
Impostor (2002) based on short story of the same name (at last). Okay, enjoyable and starting to get near to the fiction...
Minority Report (2002) - Again, enjoyable but deviating from the book in several critical respects.
Paycheck (2003) - My favourite short story ruined by the "joe scientist" suddenly being some sort of stick wielding stunt biker.
When are Hollywood going to realise the appeal of PKD is that these are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances?
Instead we keep getting movies aimed a dumb audience with a simple plot and an action hero.
Sigh.
quickly discarded it because it would fail as soon as the observer moved or looked at it from a slight angle - the problem being of course the system has no way of knowing where a viewer might be to correctly map the 'camera' to the right 'display cell'.
If anybody's interested - both JBoss and MySQL ship as part of OS X Server (as well as a few other open-source products).
I was really expecting the free downloads would be available to everybody as kind of a taster to keep people outside the USA interested and excited about getting music via iTunes.
:(
It seems alas, that you have to setup an account (no problem) that needs a USA registered billing address
[)amien
Or alternatively for those that don't want to register at NYT.
Okay, I'll retract the statement "Sounds like Intel haven't helped at all" although I did mention at the end of my statement it could be that the SF site wasn't crediting intel with any assistance.
Frankly I think the rest of my posting stands. While it's obvious some people have put hard work into this I don't think Intel have met the promises covered in the previous stories.
No, it's nothing to do with being hosted on sourceforge.
It's entirely to do with the words "community effort " and "no HW documentation".
I fail to see how "Finally Intel has made their different announcements about Linux support for the WLAN part of the Centrino technology become true."
when the SourceForge web site clearly states in the first paragraph.
"This project was created to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 (IPW2100) mini PCI adapter. This project is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available)"
Sounds like Intel haven't helped at all and some enterprising folks have done their own. Kudos to them, shame on Intel.
And shame on Werner and Timothy for getting basic cursory facts right. Unless of course the SF website is failing to give credit to Intel.
I doubt very much that anything will replace DVD any time soon. It is too new, has a lot of momentum and people aren't prepared to cash out again.
Look at CD and the multitude of formats that have tried to replace it - minidisc, HDCD, DVD-Audio, DTS Audio CD...
The fact is people needed something better than tape and they've got it. Sure you might get the film buffs - previously collectors of LaserDisc titles - but if they are expecting DVD-like sales they're going to be sadly disappointed.
The fact that all Mac binaries are PPC is going to mean at best on i386 platforms you're going to have to use emulation, a better approach is to emulate the Cocoa API allowing a recompile for i386/whatever.
The Cocoa API is basically the NextStep API with Quartz replacing Display Postscript for the display composition/rendering and a number of additional classes and extensions since. (Display Postscript was licenced, Quartz is based on the free PDF specification).
The original NextStep API exists on non-PPC platforms in two forms;
The first is Apple's own implementation which was called 'Yellow Box' back in the NextStep days and let you recompile your apps for Windows. Alas there were licencing issues that Apple claim meant the runtime was expensive to deploy.
Apple still use this runtime in WebObjects for Windows - I don't know if it's been extended to keep up with the OSX enhancements.
The second option is an interesting project called GNUStep who are working towards a complete implementation of the NextStep API and have stated they will add Cocoa's extensions where they provide value. With it being open source you could always add any missing classes/functionality yourself.
This project is usable on FreeBSD and Linux and the core and gui classes are nearly complete however the developer tools themselves are not. This i not a problem however if you are developing on OSX and using them for a port.
.NET Remoting is obviously a lot newer and fits in with Microsoft's .NET strategy but it's a lot less mature than DCOM.
There is no support for transactions, load balancing or object pooling in remoting - all were all present in DCOM.
At least remoting has the SOAP option - anyone who's ever tried to get DCOM working through a firewall will give that a thumbs up.
No doubt it will gain DCOM's missing features in time.
In a nutshull;
.NET equivalent of a Java's RMI.
.NET this interaction between the two objects can either use a binary protocol or SOAP.
.NET Remoting vs Web Services can be found at http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/22017 01
Remoting is the
This means you work on an object in your local address space but the object you are working with is in fact sending off your method calls to the real object elsewhere (another machine, another address space, whatever) that performs the necessary operations.
In
A comparison of
From the review;
"...after all, Apple has never written any Windows software, let alone had to deal with the vagries of the Windows installation process..."
Erm, QuickTime?
I'm really hoping that this is using Bluetooth or WiFi however that press release doesn't mention either.
If they've come up with something unique that's all we need. My DECT digital cordless phone has already died with the advent of a WiFi installation nearby. In fact we had to switch our WiFi to get ours usable again.
I recently came close to buying a video sender but at the last moment noticed the dreaded 2.4GHz frequency range again.
How much more stuff is going to sit on this frequency and not play nice.