I seem to recall stories of hackers gaiing access to machines, then closing up all the security holes so the machine would stay 'theirs'....
Who wants to get together and build a worm that does nothing but fix known security problems? We can make it grab all it's data from a chat-room, or web page, so it can stay small, but call upon a large database of known exploits, download them to the machine, and execute them...
Perhaps self modifying? To take advantage of newer exploits as they are found, so it can continue spreading itself? (Again data taken from IRC or Web URL) Perhaps just several variants of the worm...
My Jag does... It's originally designed for 95-06 Octane that they serve up over in Britain... I have to make do with 92 here. Luckily they tuned it down a little for the american models.
Most cars these days won't get a performance kick simply by putting higher octane gas in them, and might actually decrease their preformance. But, if you put lower grade fuel into an engine designed for Super, it WILL drop in preformance quite a bit.
Oh, and yes, although the sticker was Over $40k, I paid a little less...
On our part of the ATT Cable network (Portland OR), all DNS pointed to the switch page. I had connectivety, but could only browse the page on how to switch over to the new system. (I still had an Excite IP, and external computers were able to get into my system for Web, FTP, TS, Mail, Etc...) I think the changeover was exceedingly smooth. They left a good window where both services were running concurently. Who could ask for more?
-So therefore, I stand by my joke (which at the time was only meant to be humorous) as also being topical and relevant to the discussion.
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-IE. bite me.
LOL! Thanks. I'll have to use this one at work sometime...
I have SCA drives that are Hot-Swappable.
They are in Aluminum Removable Caddies. I turn the key, (which powers the drive down) turn the handle, and remove. I pop in a different drive, turn the key, and w.2000 thinks a few seconds, and accepts the new drive.
This is a good removable backup solution. (As long as you don't drop the drive on your way to the fire safe)
Has anyone seen or heard of a removable IDE system? That would be much more affordable...
Even at a few hundred $ per drive, it beats tape on all counts.
-Speed
-Price per MB
-User Friendly (No multiple tape backups, one drive does it all...)
Anybody else here ever completely kill a Windows 2000 system by upgrading a disk from basic to dynamic?
I had two different systems completely crap out on me during the interval between 'You must reboot your POS Windows Box for Changes To Take Effect', and the inevitable "No Boot Partition Found - System Halted"
One system I recovered, the other was a complete loss. Emergency Disks, Repair Installs, Parallel Installs, etc all claimed the disks were simply 'damaged'. Disk sector editors were about the only useful tools when I was done.
All this, so that the OS would allow me to mirror a few volumes...:)
Lots of great comments, but perhaps I mistated the original problem.
Imagine if you will a company that "IN THE COURSE OF THEIR BUSINESS" has to send.doc.xls etc to partner companies. (hundreds of partners)
From what I've read, SO is not going to be able to do it.
About the closest solution would be a translation service for the docs as they enter/leave the company mail server, but I think this is one of the complexities they were trying to get rid of.
Translating both incoming and outgoing files realtime, without corrupting them... wonder what such a translation service would do when it was fed a macro virus in a Word doc?
Guess I'll hold my breath for OS6, and ask them to do the same, unless there is a better idea?
(I loved the reference to OS5x being half-baked. To listen to some people out there, it's a direct replacement to Office'97, and bug-free to boot. Nice to hear some of the flip-side.)
If they are really trying for a 4th Qtr, 2001 luanch date, seems like the lander would have to be built already. All I see are CGI mockups of it. All of the literature says about the lander is that it 'will be' this, and 'will have' that. Sounds like these folks are perhaps selling pretty pictures already?
Why not write the app to just drop a.txt note on the 'all users' desktop? Just about as easy, once they've been hit with code red 2...
Publicly accesible cmd is an interesting thing.
Infected Servers are literally screaming out their presence. My little firewall is logging 3-4 hits per second from infected machines on nearby subnets. I've used a web browser on a few of them and discovered that/../scripts/root.exe exists quite often....
All the ISP has to do is look at a firewall log to see who's got it. Knock that IP off their routers, and wait for the doofus to call tech support.
Isn't this the same as being an Anotomical Donor?
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It doesn't sound like anybody agreed to being a donor in this case, though. The researcher just saw something useful, grabed it, and started showing off to his peers by passing it around. I'd be real curious to know if the family even knew it was happening at the time. (Let alone consented to it beforehand).
Seems like there's been a dozen shells written that took the place of Windows 3.1 / DOS for the beginner users back in the good old days.
Since Linux is in it's (desktop) infancy, where is the shell for Mom and Dad? My copy of Mandrake looks a lot like W.95, but really, it was never written for Grandma/Grampa to use for E-Mail...
As long as Unix is written by Geeks for Geeks it's Never going to be mainstream. (Maybe Good, Maybe Bad. How many of us would still sit around chatting it up if it was as easy and prolific as AOL?)
The DMCA doesn't work.
The current laws on the books regarding copyright are not working.
I have yet to see an intelligent article regarding modifying the copyright law to correctly reflect the state of information on todays society. Pharmecutical companies manage to obtain fair use of their designer drugs for a reasonable time, and don't scream about going bankrupt because of generic knockoffs. Why can't the artists get together with the lawyers and design a business plan that gets them revenue (mainly concerts, and 1st run CD sales), but doesn't depend on a 20+ year stream of royalties for them to be financially happy. Somebody once told these folks that they record some good music, get popular, and then are set up for life. I work hard hard every day, I create wonderful peices of (networking) art. I get paid for it on the spot. I don't continue to get paid for it for the rest of my natural life just because it continues to get used. My heirs don't continue to get a stream of revenue from my endevours after I die.
Worried that the artists won't have enough incentive to record more music? Well then screw 'em. Maby the current Pop stars will go get real jobs, and the only ones left recording music will be the people that are in it for the art.
The copyright laws were installed while we weren't paying attention. Let's pay some attention now, and roll them back...
It currently costs $10,000 per pound to send material into space.
Seems to me that the cost and time it would take to gradually (over the next few years) move the MIR into an orbit alongside the IIS would pay off greatly in the long run.
With the use of solar furnace, the MIR could be melted into the raw materials of the next Mars missions.
Seems a few $million to add a recyling plant to the IIS might pay off in the long run.
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Dead conversation, but I HAVE my C-64 still in my house...
Lots of ASM went through that keyboard... B-)
Wow, I thought laser pointers in traffic were bad.
This'll bring it to a whole new level.
Who wants to get together and build a worm that does nothing but fix known security problems? We can make it grab all it's data from a chat-room, or web page, so it can stay small, but call upon a large database of known exploits, download them to the machine, and execute them...
Perhaps self modifying? To take advantage of newer exploits as they are found, so it can continue spreading itself? (Again data taken from IRC or Web URL) Perhaps just several variants of the worm...
What fun we could have!
And You beleived them?
'Ya big dummy...Yeah, I am... You can't have my 4MV, but I have a buddy who may still have 10-15 HP2's...
I'm sure you can have however many you can carry
Finally, they picked on a user-base large enough to pick back...
I sincerly hope this signals the beginning of the end...
My Jag does... It's originally designed for 95-06 Octane that they serve up over in Britain... I have to make do with 92 here. Luckily they tuned it down a little for the american models.
Most cars these days won't get a performance kick simply by putting higher octane gas in them, and might actually decrease their preformance. But, if you put lower grade fuel into an engine designed for Super, it WILL drop in preformance quite a bit.
Oh, and yes, although the sticker was Over $40k, I paid a little less...
On our part of the ATT Cable network (Portland OR), all DNS pointed to the switch page. I had connectivety, but could only browse the page on how to switch over to the new system. (I still had an Excite IP, and external computers were able to get into my system for Web, FTP, TS, Mail, Etc...) I think the changeover was exceedingly smooth. They left a good window where both services were running concurently. Who could ask for more?
-So therefore, I stand by my joke (which at the time was only meant to be humorous) as also being topical and relevant to the discussion.
-
-IE. bite me.
LOL! Thanks. I'll have to use this one at work sometime...
I have SCA drives that are Hot-Swappable.
They are in Aluminum Removable Caddies. I turn the key, (which powers the drive down) turn the handle, and remove. I pop in a different drive, turn the key, and w.2000 thinks a few seconds, and accepts the new drive.
This is a good removable backup solution. (As long as you don't drop the drive on your way to the fire safe)
Has anyone seen or heard of a removable IDE system? That would be much more affordable...
Even at a few hundred $ per drive, it beats tape on all counts.
-Speed
-Price per MB
-User Friendly (No multiple tape backups, one drive does it all...)
Many of the ones I played with were non-removable.
(Something like plastic rivets holding the whole affair together)
It was a bitch to replace when the fan on one went dead...
Anybody else here ever completely kill a Windows 2000 system by upgrading a disk from basic to dynamic?
:)
I had two different systems completely crap out on me during the interval between 'You must reboot your POS Windows Box for Changes To Take Effect', and the inevitable "No Boot Partition Found - System Halted"
One system I recovered, the other was a complete loss. Emergency Disks, Repair Installs, Parallel Installs, etc all claimed the disks were simply 'damaged'. Disk sector editors were about the only useful tools when I was done.
All this, so that the OS would allow me to mirror a few volumes...
Lots of great comments, but perhaps I mistated the original problem.
.doc .xls etc to partner companies. (hundreds of partners)
Imagine if you will a company that "IN THE COURSE OF THEIR BUSINESS" has to send
From what I've read, SO is not going to be able to do it.
About the closest solution would be a translation service for the docs as they enter/leave the company mail server, but I think this is one of the complexities they were trying to get rid of.
Translating both incoming and outgoing files realtime, without corrupting them... wonder what such a translation service would do when it was fed a macro virus in a Word doc?
Guess I'll hold my breath for OS6, and ask them to do the same, unless there is a better idea?
(I loved the reference to OS5x being half-baked. To listen to some people out there, it's a direct replacement to Office'97, and bug-free to boot. Nice to hear some of the flip-side.)
If they are really trying for a 4th Qtr, 2001 luanch date, seems like the lander would have to be built already. All I see are CGI mockups of it. All of the literature says about the lander is that it 'will be' this, and 'will have' that. Sounds like these folks are perhaps selling pretty pictures already?
Why not write the app to just drop a .txt note on the 'all users' desktop? Just about as easy, once they've been hit with code red 2...
Publicly accesible cmd is an interesting thing.
Infected Servers are literally screaming out their presence. My little firewall is logging 3-4 hits per second from infected machines on nearby subnets. I've used a web browser on a few of them and discovered that /../scripts/root.exe exists quite often....
All the ISP has to do is look at a firewall log to see who's got it. Knock that IP off their routers, and wait for the doofus to call tech support.
It doesn't sound like anybody agreed to being a donor in this case, though. The researcher just saw something useful, grabed it, and started showing off to his peers by passing it around. I'd be real curious to know if the family even knew it was happening at the time. (Let alone consented to it beforehand).
I'd love to hear the details of this connection.
I've had mine in the garage for years, now. What do you need to set this up?
Since Linux is in it's (desktop) infancy, where is the shell for Mom and Dad? My copy of Mandrake looks a lot like W.95, but really, it was never written for Grandma/Grampa to use for E-Mail...
As long as Unix is written by Geeks for Geeks it's Never going to be mainstream. (Maybe Good, Maybe Bad. How many of us would still sit around chatting it up if it was as easy and prolific as AOL?)
The DMCA doesn't work. The current laws on the books regarding copyright are not working. I have yet to see an intelligent article regarding modifying the copyright law to correctly reflect the state of information on todays society. Pharmecutical companies manage to obtain fair use of their designer drugs for a reasonable time, and don't scream about going bankrupt because of generic knockoffs. Why can't the artists get together with the lawyers and design a business plan that gets them revenue (mainly concerts, and 1st run CD sales), but doesn't depend on a 20+ year stream of royalties for them to be financially happy. Somebody once told these folks that they record some good music, get popular, and then are set up for life. I work hard hard every day, I create wonderful peices of (networking) art. I get paid for it on the spot. I don't continue to get paid for it for the rest of my natural life just because it continues to get used. My heirs don't continue to get a stream of revenue from my endevours after I die. Worried that the artists won't have enough incentive to record more music? Well then screw 'em. Maby the current Pop stars will go get real jobs, and the only ones left recording music will be the people that are in it for the art. The copyright laws were installed while we weren't paying attention. Let's pay some attention now, and roll them back...
The tank is large, the drag is great... The Capsule looks rather sleek. (from photots) I assume the two would seperate rather quickly.
I caught in in the Local news shows the last few weeks. People are taking it seriously, here...
It currently costs $10,000 per pound to send material into space. Seems to me that the cost and time it would take to gradually (over the next few years) move the MIR into an orbit alongside the IIS would pay off greatly in the long run. With the use of solar furnace, the MIR could be melted into the raw materials of the next Mars missions. Seems a few $million to add a recyling plant to the IIS might pay off in the long run.