Re:but it should be more like...
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IBM Wants Linux
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They are already porting JFS to Linux and have a bunch of Open Source projects. Check their OSS Website So they are actively working to get things ahead.
Yes, but read the article close - ActiveX is in violation of this patent too - so by having Microsoft get behind getting rid of ALL embedded HTMl APIs, they can wave this patent around, claim they are being good corporate citizens, and get everyone onto.NET to get around the patent - boom Monopoly creates new Monopoly on Internet.
Maybe your productivity would go up and your Carpal Tunnel would get better if you spent less time writing 1000 word essays in the/. comments section
Maybe if you read my post you'd have seen I don't have carpal tunnel - I had an accident that rendered my left hand unusable for typing for about 2 months. I can type fine now except for occasional swapped characters.
Just a clarification - I'm not saying my letter swapping is a disabliity - I structured that paragraph badly. I just mentioned it cause I've often had folks laugh at my spelling of some words in my posts.
My point was when my entire wrist and hadn were in a therapy contraption I was unable to type with my left hand for about 2 months. I can type fine now save the letter swapping thing. But when I was in therapy, I still had my right hand to type with! And it was STILL a huge hit to productivity and such. Being unable to type at all - well thats a huge deal. Sure, we all have manager swho get ahead only hunt and pecking, but lets be serious - in this day and age where you type lots each day - hunt a peck isn't gonna cut it;)
OK - hold on a second. Its one thing if some random burger flipper can't type. Its a whole other story if your career involves typing. How many of you here saying 'well of course its no disablility' would be saying the same thing if you lost your fingers in an accident? Your programmers, IT types, etc. WTF would you do? Use of a computer today is required in most fields - sure she can work at McDonalds, but thats a serious impact to her career and incoming earning potential.
I've been there. Anyone who has read my posts may notice that I often swap letters in words (especially the - its often teh) Theres a reason and its not dyslexia:) A few years ago, I was working in teh yard after a big storm hit. Lots of trees down, etc. Was finally getting the stumps to a burn pile to get rid of them. As I was rolling a stump onto the pile, it rolled forward, grabbed my glove and rolled onto my hand. A small sharp piece of metal or something punctured my wrist (1/4' max) and severed 3 tendons to my fingers on my left hand - I couldn't move them at all.
After surgery, I had months of rehab to slowly get the tendons back into shape without ripping them apart. Typing was out for some time. I was an IT manager who did about 50% mgmt and 50% seniuor IT tech work due to staffin glevels. It was a HUGE imparment to my work. This was in 97 or so, and I tried ViaVoice and stuff. It kinda worked, but was brutal and slow. Todays technology may be better so this is moot, but in 97 it wasn't up to par.
My productivity was greatly impacted during my recovery. I can understand where this woman is coming from. Due to a failin gin the therapy of my fingers, the tendons for 2 fingers fused at the repair site and I've lost about 70-80% of the independence of them (ie they move together often) So for some reason I often swap letters in words as I type not even realizing it since my brain has been wired to move my fingers to type in such a way for years. My point is, inability to type is a serious issue!
In working for her employer she injured herself by working at a workstation that wasn't ergonomic. She got CT really bad (my Mom had it - she couldn't even pick up a coffee cup at the worst - she finally had her hand and wrist cut open and they managed to reduce the pain so she sould sitll code) Then her company let her go (though its nice they did try to accomodate her) Bottom line is she is seriously disabled and its got her fired. She deserves disability in this day and age - sorry - call me a bleeding hear tliberal if you want (you'd be wrong) but inability to type is a huge imparment. She'd have to have someone to transcribe her stuff which to a company vastly increases the cost of her as an employee - not likely in this day and age.
So before scoffing at this, just think what it would be like if YOU couldn't type. Sure you MIGHT be able to improvise and such - but your productivity would go WAY down - would your employer just accept that or get rid of you?
Is it really that horrible a thought that we might all have to pay 1/16th of the cost of a T1 for T1 speeds?
That is assuming that the cost of a T1 (> $1000/month) is fair market value - remember, T1s are regulated and tarriffed meaning they generally are more expensive and competitors can't easily provide them. So in this case its apples to oranges.
The idea here is not to regulate cheap prices. Its to avoid being gouged by a monopoly - the whole basis for anti-trust laws. If one company has complete or almost complete control over a market, the price of their product or service is not likely set by market forces/competition.
And of course monoploies rarely behave themselves. The most obvious example, tools the telco sgave the CLEC to pre qualify people for service (ie are you close enough, is yoru CO wired, etc, etc) Often, the CLEC got rejections from this sytsem only to have the telco send a DSL postcard to the users a week later offering them the telco DSL. Talk about shady!
The bottom line is, most DSL and cable providers are monopolies. The telcos want total control over the DSL market just like they have control over the telephone market. Makes them more money.
But, in the end, I don't see any other way - regulation won't work. The unionized telco workers with mgmt blessing delay DSL orders for CLECs into oblivion - hell, even if you get DSL FORM the telco it can take weeks and tons of hassles - it shouldn't be this complex. No regulation will change this. Unfortunately, we are unlikely to ever see serious DSL competition - same thing applies to cable modems. The only reason cable modems blew ahead of DSL is the cable companies planned their deployment and save for network bottlenecks which got worked out, they've executed. The telcos are still driving blind.
As much as I hate monopolies (*cough*Micro$oft*cough*), in this case I doubt there are other feasible options. Competing techs (Satellite, wireless, etc) are to immature and cost too much.
Thie ONLY saving grace is cross technology competition. The only thing keeping cable modem prices down is DSL - If DLS disappears, all you cable modem user can rest assured your rates will go up FASTER than your normal cable bill - count on it. But with DSL out there, its a threat.
DSL is to cable modems what satellite is to cable TV - it provides enough competition to keep the cable prices somewhat lower. Without Satellite TV competition, cable prices would be much higher because they are still a monopoly. Its amazing to think that combined, Echostar and DirectTV would be on par with AT&T in terms of the # of customers for 'cable' service. Like #2 nationwide.
So he's right, regulation probably won't work, but if we do give the telcos free reign over DSL, they better not screw it up or we'll all be stuck with RoadRUnner paying whatever AOL wants to charge!
Personally, I love my DSL connection - offered by a Mom & Pop phone company. Prompt service, installs happen quicklyt, upgrades are a phone call away - love it.:)
Corporation upset that people are getting Internet access for free - hurting their bottom line
Corporation donates millions to political candidates and current legislators
Corporation writes law banning free wireless networks as a threat to teh Internet (hackers can run with impunity!) and the well being of the nation
New media eats up the horror factor, writes totally bogus reports about how free networks are a dangerous thing. Public opinion turns against all those new age hippies with their free wireless networks.
Corrupt politician takes law written by Corporation (quid pro quo for donations), puts his name on it and gets it passed
I just can't help but think that as more and more people discover flaws in encryption standards that we the users lose in the end. If crackers won't release details of how they cracked an encryption standard, where's the motivation for that standard to be improved? You can say the bad press is enough, but heck - if nobody releases details, how are we to believe its true?
There was a time when encryption was done to ensure it couldn't be broken. Now it seems like organziations are using the DMCA as a way to prop up bogus standrads that are dangerous due to their flaws (*cough*ebook*cough*)
Its hard enough trying to explain why Dimitry should be freed. But how can you convince a legislator or govt official that the DMCA is bad for encryption without risking prosecution? Its a scary catch 22.
Even though the Dimitry case is getting some press (Time Mag had a 2 page article - well written), I still only see proposals to slightly change the law. Not enough to allow full reverse engineering for research and the ability to expose flaws in products. Seriously - an encryption standard used to say encrypt some copyrighted work gets hacked, the victims sue showing why its such a bad encryption std and the lawyers for teh company using the bad encryption get it disqualified because its illegal to bypass encryption or copyright schemes.
Far fetched, maybe, but I really fear we will continue to see substandard encryption schemes passed off as workable because folks are less likely to publicize flaws in them if they are tied to teh DMCA.
Sure this may help open encryption standards, but we all know where the commerical money goes, so goes the world. Bad encryption standards used for IP materials and protected by the DMCA would soon be sold to businesses for privacy and such - exposing those businesses to serious exposure since the encryption std is probably less secure due to less folks trying to find flaws for fear of prosecution.
Maybe we need a contest - free tshirt to the person who manages to come up with the Chicken Little 'the sky is falling' explanation for why the DMCA is bad that'll get Joe six-pack up in arms:)
And if you want some pretty pictures of knives with Damacus Blades, check out their product page Forgot to include the URL above before I hit submit *smack* ow.
I stumbled across this page from Viking Metal Works. Wonder if they use the process outlined above or not. The Gentleman's Dagger looks pretty cool, but damn! $200US Ouch
Try a MOSIX Cluster This type of cluster spreads processes out to the machine with the least load. A Beowulf can be done, but to take advantage of it, you have to run custom software that is capable of parallel processing.
That works great for text. But it doesn't retain formatting information if I copy from Konqueror and paste into KWord.
I agree the whole formatted cut and paste is nice - but it can also be a PIA. Like when I cut and paste something from the web into an email (friends don't let friends send HTML mail) I mean it gets converted anyway - but I like seeing my email in true form before they get sent.
It would be nice to have somethign like Ctrl-Shift-V or something do the paste WITHOUT all the formatting!
But I don't see the problem ending any time soon because it makes big money for the media.
True - the trick is figuring out how to make the media cover the really important stories of our time (DCMA, censorship, etc) in a way that'll benefit us instead of hinder us. If they make $$ covering the really important stuff, cool. Yeah - its a dream , but hey you gotta dream!:)
While I agree with you, its not gonna happen and we need this case to go to the courts. This is the first big test case and overall we really need this to expose the DMCA as the fraud that it is.
It sucks for him no doubt. But if his case wins us the repeal or watering down of the DMCA, he'll be a hero.
I figure if the above happens, lets setup a fund for his family & kids and make donations as a way to thank him for his trouble for improving things here. Life can be rough in RUssia, the least we can do is improve his standard of living a bit as a why of thanking him for hte trouble he went through to, hopefully, get rid of this stupid law.
Re:Why subscribe to software in the future...
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Windows in 2020
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However, notwithstanding the possibility of web browsing refrigerators and the like, the 'small tools for specific purposes' approach that would have to be favoured for embedded applications fits in nicely with the traditional Unix ethos rather better than for Windows. Will MS systems *really* find their way into toasters and lawnmowers any time soon?
Never say never when Micro$oft is concerned. I've been involved in the Home Automation industry and the established vendors got real nervous when Micro$oft started getting the biggest booth they could at HA shows. But all they really seemed to demo was home networking. Home Automation is more about centralized control of the systems in your house. Climate control, A/V, security, etc. For years it has been heavily run by embedded systems using RTOS setups. There are also systems that run on PCs, but they often lack easy to find and use I/O (Digital, Analog, RS-485, etc) Its out there but not for mainstream stuff. Right now, one of the more popular PC based setups is Mr House which is perl based.
So yes, Microsoft really thinks this is an area they can dominate. Yes, some of the high dollar systems (think 10-20% of the cost of your new home) run windows. But for 'everyday' Home Automation, embedded setups are king. Linux is just starting to get buzz for the next generation stuff, but primarily, Home Automation is run on 8-bit systems from PIC microcontrollers up to high end embedded CPUs. The reason? Cost. When you can buy a small system for
Considering you can get complete RTOS systems like uC-OS/II (Rabbit C) or Java (Dallas TINI) with a compiler with built in Internet libraries for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc, etc including servers for $300, its hard to justify paying royalties for anythign Micro$oft might come out with. Especially when the actual HW cores can be had for $30-$100 including ethernet!
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Code Red III
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It was also mentioned yesterday that NT4 servers that have been patched are still vulnerable to CR2 if they're using redirection. This seems odd to me
Seems odd to me too since Code Red II (not CRv2) can't infect NT servers - it just crashes them when it tries to run due to a bogus jump table that only works with Win 2K.
From the Code Red II analysis:
This worm, like the original Code Red worm, will only exploit Windows 2000
web servers because it overwrites EIP with a jmp that is only correct under
Windows 2000. Under NT4.0 etc... that offset is different so, the process
will simply crash instead of allowing the worm to infect the system and
spread.
That's Code Red II, released in teh wild Aug 4th. CRv2, the second variant of the original worm hit July 19th and again on Aug 1st. The ORIGINAL Code Red hit in early July - had a crappy IP gen routine and made little to no news cause it didn't go very far.
Re:Not SYSTEM-level access....
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Code Red III
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But Code Red II created virtual drives which allowed you to access cmd.exe directly via a corrupt explorer with root rights. So it had a pretty large back door to begin with - I look forward to the analysis of Code Red III if such a thing exists.
Re:What is it about DSL and wireless companies?
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Rhythms Flatlines
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But, back to the plight of the DSL companies...can these companies ever formulate a business plan that actually works and makes money? Are there independent (non-phone company) DSL providers that are making a profit?
Sure they can - the same day the telcos are actually forced to open up their networks and preform the requested work on tim einstead of delaying orders for months while they try to grab all DSL customers for themselves. I mean charging a DSL ISP $30 just for the freaking line is a juoke when you cna get DSL in many places for $35-$50.
So, alas - we're still where we were in the 70's Stuck with one company providing a communication service with no hope of competitors keeping prices low.
Cable you say? Maybe - but only for residential average users. I expect that most residential users will go to cable modems and telcos will jack up prices on DSL to the point only businesses can afford it - But businesses will pay the sky high DSL prices cause its more reliable and offers higher upstream bandwidth (without congestion slowdowns) than cable modems.
I consider myself very lucky to have a small Mom & Pop telco with DSL capability who have excellent service and charge a decent rate. I've been nothing but happy with my DSL and wish the technology wouldn't be driven into the ground by greedy telcos (can we say ISDN anyone?) It Still Does Nothing since telcos keep saying I See Dollars Now:)
I figure if a country wants to firewall itself - fine that's their problem (and their citizens) But France's attitude is a dsigrace. If they don't want their citizens to see stuff - then its up to them to filter it, not Yahoo's. I'm all for the having a web site be subject to the laws of the land where it is LOCATED. If its farmed into differnet countries, then all those laws will apply and the company has to deal with teh overlap. Proxies and cache don't count.
We all have our problems. But in this case, its easy - you don't want your citizens to see something? Its up to you to restrict them and deal with teh consequences like being voted out of office (if your citizens have that right.
Yes in an ideal world everything would be free and all would be free to see it - but that just isn't gonna happen. Sure, we can bitch about China firewalling and filtering everything - but that's life in a communist country.
Yes, I'm American so I can take this stance since my net use is pretty much wide open unless the FBI has a bad day, but beyond that, as long as some other country doesn't try to stick their noses into an American companies business (yeah right) I'm happy:)
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They are already porting JFS to Linux and have a bunch of Open Source projects. Check their OSS Website So they are actively working to get things ahead.
Well that's what the tag is for! Not sure why the W3C keeps leaving it out of their HTML specs! :)
Scary shit!
Maybe if you read my post you'd have seen I don't have carpal tunnel - I had an accident that rendered my left hand unusable for typing for about 2 months. I can type fine now except for occasional swapped characters.
My point was when my entire wrist and hadn were in a therapy contraption I was unable to type with my left hand for about 2 months. I can type fine now save the letter swapping thing. But when I was in therapy, I still had my right hand to type with! And it was STILL a huge hit to productivity and such. Being unable to type at all - well thats a huge deal. Sure, we all have manager swho get ahead only hunt and pecking, but lets be serious - in this day and age where you type lots each day - hunt a peck isn't gonna cut it ;)
I've been there. Anyone who has read my posts may notice that I often swap letters in words (especially the - its often teh) Theres a reason and its not dyslexia :) A few years ago, I was working in teh yard after a big storm hit. Lots of trees down, etc. Was finally getting the stumps to a burn pile to get rid of them. As I was rolling a stump onto the pile, it rolled forward, grabbed my glove and rolled onto my hand. A small sharp piece of metal or something punctured my wrist (1/4' max) and severed 3 tendons to my fingers on my left hand - I couldn't move them at all.
After surgery, I had months of rehab to slowly get the tendons back into shape without ripping them apart. Typing was out for some time. I was an IT manager who did about 50% mgmt and 50% seniuor IT tech work due to staffin glevels. It was a HUGE imparment to my work. This was in 97 or so, and I tried ViaVoice and stuff. It kinda worked, but was brutal and slow. Todays technology may be better so this is moot, but in 97 it wasn't up to par.
My productivity was greatly impacted during my recovery. I can understand where this woman is coming from. Due to a failin gin the therapy of my fingers, the tendons for 2 fingers fused at the repair site and I've lost about 70-80% of the independence of them (ie they move together often) So for some reason I often swap letters in words as I type not even realizing it since my brain has been wired to move my fingers to type in such a way for years. My point is, inability to type is a serious issue!
In working for her employer she injured herself by working at a workstation that wasn't ergonomic. She got CT really bad (my Mom had it - she couldn't even pick up a coffee cup at the worst - she finally had her hand and wrist cut open and they managed to reduce the pain so she sould sitll code) Then her company let her go (though its nice they did try to accomodate her) Bottom line is she is seriously disabled and its got her fired. She deserves disability in this day and age - sorry - call me a bleeding hear tliberal if you want (you'd be wrong) but inability to type is a huge imparment. She'd have to have someone to transcribe her stuff which to a company vastly increases the cost of her as an employee - not likely in this day and age.
So before scoffing at this, just think what it would be like if YOU couldn't type. Sure you MIGHT be able to improvise and such - but your productivity would go WAY down - would your employer just accept that or get rid of you?
That is assuming that the cost of a T1 (> $1000/month) is fair market value - remember, T1s are regulated and tarriffed meaning they generally are more expensive and competitors can't easily provide them. So in this case its apples to oranges.
The idea here is not to regulate cheap prices. Its to avoid being gouged by a monopoly - the whole basis for anti-trust laws. If one company has complete or almost complete control over a market, the price of their product or service is not likely set by market forces/competition.
And of course monoploies rarely behave themselves. The most obvious example, tools the telco sgave the CLEC to pre qualify people for service (ie are you close enough, is yoru CO wired, etc, etc) Often, the CLEC got rejections from this sytsem only to have the telco send a DSL postcard to the users a week later offering them the telco DSL. Talk about shady!
But, in the end, I don't see any other way - regulation won't work. The unionized telco workers with mgmt blessing delay DSL orders for CLECs into oblivion - hell, even if you get DSL FORM the telco it can take weeks and tons of hassles - it shouldn't be this complex. No regulation will change this. Unfortunately, we are unlikely to ever see serious DSL competition - same thing applies to cable modems. The only reason cable modems blew ahead of DSL is the cable companies planned their deployment and save for network bottlenecks which got worked out, they've executed. The telcos are still driving blind.
As much as I hate monopolies (*cough*Micro$oft*cough*), in this case I doubt there are other feasible options. Competing techs (Satellite, wireless, etc) are to immature and cost too much.
Thie ONLY saving grace is cross technology competition. The only thing keeping cable modem prices down is DSL - If DLS disappears, all you cable modem user can rest assured your rates will go up FASTER than your normal cable bill - count on it. But with DSL out there, its a threat.
DSL is to cable modems what satellite is to cable TV - it provides enough competition to keep the cable prices somewhat lower. Without Satellite TV competition, cable prices would be much higher because they are still a monopoly. Its amazing to think that combined, Echostar and DirectTV would be on par with AT&T in terms of the # of customers for 'cable' service. Like #2 nationwide.
So he's right, regulation probably won't work, but if we do give the telcos free reign over DSL, they better not screw it up or we'll all be stuck with RoadRUnner paying whatever AOL wants to charge!
Personally, I love my DSL connection - offered by a Mom & Pop phone company. Prompt service, installs happen quicklyt, upgrades are a phone call away - love it. :)
ROFLMAO!
There was a time when encryption was done to ensure it couldn't be broken. Now it seems like organziations are using the DMCA as a way to prop up bogus standrads that are dangerous due to their flaws (*cough*ebook*cough*)
Its hard enough trying to explain why Dimitry should be freed. But how can you convince a legislator or govt official that the DMCA is bad for encryption without risking prosecution? Its a scary catch 22.
Even though the Dimitry case is getting some press (Time Mag had a 2 page article - well written), I still only see proposals to slightly change the law. Not enough to allow full reverse engineering for research and the ability to expose flaws in products. Seriously - an encryption standard used to say encrypt some copyrighted work gets hacked, the victims sue showing why its such a bad encryption std and the lawyers for teh company using the bad encryption get it disqualified because its illegal to bypass encryption or copyright schemes.
Far fetched, maybe, but I really fear we will continue to see substandard encryption schemes passed off as workable because folks are less likely to publicize flaws in them if they are tied to teh DMCA.
Sure this may help open encryption standards, but we all know where the commerical money goes, so goes the world. Bad encryption standards used for IP materials and protected by the DMCA would soon be sold to businesses for privacy and such - exposing those businesses to serious exposure since the encryption std is probably less secure due to less folks trying to find flaws for fear of prosecution.
Maybe we need a contest - free tshirt to the person who manages to come up with the Chicken Little 'the sky is falling' explanation for why the DMCA is bad that'll get Joe six-pack up in arms :)
And if you want some pretty pictures of knives with Damacus Blades, check out their product page Forgot to include the URL above before I hit submit *smack* ow.
I stumbled across this page from Viking Metal Works. Wonder if they use the process outlined above or not. The Gentleman's Dagger looks pretty cool, but damn! $200US Ouch
Try a MOSIX Cluster This type of cluster spreads processes out to the machine with the least load. A Beowulf can be done, but to take advantage of it, you have to run custom software that is capable of parallel processing.
I agree the whole formatted cut and paste is nice - but it can also be a PIA. Like when I cut and paste something from the web into an email (friends don't let friends send HTML mail) I mean it gets converted anyway - but I like seeing my email in true form before they get sent.
It would be nice to have somethign like Ctrl-Shift-V or something do the paste WITHOUT all the formatting!
True - the trick is figuring out how to make the media cover the really important stories of our time (DCMA, censorship, etc) in a way that'll benefit us instead of hinder us. If they make $$ covering the really important stuff, cool. Yeah - its a dream , but hey you gotta dream! :)
It sucks for him no doubt. But if his case wins us the repeal or watering down of the DMCA, he'll be a hero.
I figure if the above happens, lets setup a fund for his family & kids and make donations as a way to thank him for his trouble for improving things here. Life can be rough in RUssia, the least we can do is improve his standard of living a bit as a why of thanking him for hte trouble he went through to, hopefully, get rid of this stupid law.
Never say never when Micro$oft is concerned. I've been involved in the Home Automation industry and the established vendors got real nervous when Micro$oft started getting the biggest booth they could at HA shows. But all they really seemed to demo was home networking. Home Automation is more about centralized control of the systems in your house. Climate control, A/V, security, etc. For years it has been heavily run by embedded systems using RTOS setups. There are also systems that run on PCs, but they often lack easy to find and use I/O (Digital, Analog, RS-485, etc) Its out there but not for mainstream stuff. Right now, one of the more popular PC based setups is Mr House which is perl based.
So yes, Microsoft really thinks this is an area they can dominate. Yes, some of the high dollar systems (think 10-20% of the cost of your new home) run windows. But for 'everyday' Home Automation, embedded setups are king. Linux is just starting to get buzz for the next generation stuff, but primarily, Home Automation is run on 8-bit systems from PIC microcontrollers up to high end embedded CPUs. The reason? Cost. When you can buy a small system for Considering you can get complete RTOS systems like uC-OS/II (Rabbit C) or Java (Dallas TINI) with a compiler with built in Internet libraries for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc, etc including servers for $300, its hard to justify paying royalties for anythign Micro$oft might come out with. Especially when the actual HW cores can be had for $30-$100 including ethernet!
Seems odd to me too since Code Red II (not CRv2) can't infect NT servers - it just crashes them when it tries to run due to a bogus jump table that only works with Win 2K.
From the Code Red II analysis: This worm, like the original Code Red worm, will only exploit Windows 2000 web servers because it overwrites EIP with a jmp that is only correct under Windows 2000. Under NT4.0 etc... that offset is different so, the process will simply crash instead of allowing the worm to infect the system and spread.
That's Code Red II, released in teh wild Aug 4th. CRv2, the second variant of the original worm hit July 19th and again on Aug 1st. The ORIGINAL Code Red hit in early July - had a crappy IP gen routine and made little to no news cause it didn't go very far.
But Code Red II created virtual drives which allowed you to access cmd.exe directly via a corrupt explorer with root rights. So it had a pretty large back door to begin with - I look forward to the analysis of Code Red III if such a thing exists.
Sure they can - the same day the telcos are actually forced to open up their networks and preform the requested work on tim einstead of delaying orders for months while they try to grab all DSL customers for themselves. I mean charging a DSL ISP $30 just for the freaking line is a juoke when you cna get DSL in many places for $35-$50.
So, alas - we're still where we were in the 70's Stuck with one company providing a communication service with no hope of competitors keeping prices low.
Cable you say? Maybe - but only for residential average users. I expect that most residential users will go to cable modems and telcos will jack up prices on DSL to the point only businesses can afford it - But businesses will pay the sky high DSL prices cause its more reliable and offers higher upstream bandwidth (without congestion slowdowns) than cable modems.
I consider myself very lucky to have a small Mom & Pop telco with DSL capability who have excellent service and charge a decent rate. I've been nothing but happy with my DSL and wish the technology wouldn't be driven into the ground by greedy telcos (can we say ISDN anyone?) It Still Does Nothing since telcos keep saying I See Dollars Now :)
Me too and I'm American :) The worst part is most Americans KNOW they are spoon fed and honestly don't seem to care - now THAT is scary.
will it be running the NCSA server software or will they finally switch to Apache? ;) ;)
Oh it wasn't me - it was Jesus Oquendo. See K5 for more info.
We all have our problems. But in this case, its easy - you don't want your citizens to see something? Its up to you to restrict them and deal with teh consequences like being voted out of office (if your citizens have that right.
Yes in an ideal world everything would be free and all would be free to see it - but that just isn't gonna happen. Sure, we can bitch about China firewalling and filtering everything - but that's life in a communist country.
Yes, I'm American so I can take this stance since my net use is pretty much wide open unless the FBI has a bad day, but beyond that, as long as some other country doesn't try to stick their noses into an American companies business (yeah right) I'm happy :)