It's a non-issue until you print it anyhow. An image on paper might pass as a banknote under the right conditions; an image on harddrive or screen won't.
One of our clients got a bill for over $2,000 just before Christmas. Someone sent them a 1.3G mail attachment. It bounced, so they sent a smaller 977M attachment which also bounced.
I've seen a scan (can't find the URL now, dammit) of someone's bill for $25,000 in one month.
.. which is linked from the site the error message refers you to says you CAN make full-colour copies of US currency, as long as the image is single-sided and at least 75% smaller or 150% larger than a real note.
Just after I posted that (remembering Ernie Ball from an earlier Reg. story) I noticed the same site has a list of large companies who've switched to Linux. Lots of them, with a bit of the story behind each, in just about every category you could imagine. A good number are using Linux on the desktop, not just in a server role.
Public/private key models are great, as long as you're on a network. But say you sent me a protected document (signed with your private key), which I saved onto my laptop right before boarding a flight to Europe. Now I'd like to read your document on my way there, but for some reason, my laptop can't find your public key to allow me to open the document.
If it's been signed and if you don't already have my public key in your keyring, you can still read it just fine but you won't be able to check the signature until you can get to a keyserver.
If it's been encrypted with my public key, you're not going to be able to read it anyhow, anywhere.
Sheesh, get hard. All our household wiring is 240v, and I've done plenty of work 'live' on it. Had a couple of shocks too!
Anyway, I'd just like to point out how totally insecure Linux is; on almost any major distro you can boot with init=/bin/bash, remount root and change the root password. If you make a backup of/etc/shadow you can even set it back afterwards. CF Windows, where you at least need a bootable install CD to change the admin password and cannot trivially restore it back to what it was!
Or internet explorer (right click, Open in new window)
This is one of my many annoyances, websites add stupid features (open in new window, click here to bookmark / make this your homepage, etc) because people don't know how to work their software. You can right-click and get a new window in every major browser. You can drag the bookmark icon to your homepage, bookmarks, toolbar, desktop, whatever in every major browser. I'm amazed and frustrated at how many users simply don't know this!
Despite the much-touted 'pagerank', they've had real problems with people making linkfarms and even more trouble with blogger googlebombing.
Trying to combat this has resulted in glitches where thousands of perfectly good results vanish on some queries. But they won't take the (quite obvious IMHO) step of providing a blog-related filter, which would surely be easier to impliment than their existing adult-content filter.
They haven't updated google images for well over a year.
They used to source google diretory from dmoz, but they haven't synced them for close to a year.
They're still far ahead of most other search engines, but nowhere near as good as they used to be:(
If you have a 3G windows install on a 120G drive, ghost is going to copy 3G of files and boot sector. dd is going to copy 3G of files and 117G of freshly formatted unused filesystem.
And it breaks if you're not copying to an identical drive. Copying from a 120G Segate to a 120G Western Digital is almost certain to fail, because they won't have exactly the same CHS or sector count.
my -earliest- BBS memory was using a 300 baud modem on an SV328, and manually dialling (no AT commands back then!) a part-time BBS in Auckland which was the only one operating in the country at the time.
A bit expensive, so I didn't really do anything else until a friend got supplied with an XT and smart modem (1200 baud iirc) by his school to set up a BBS. The software was fairly experimental and buggy, and took a lot of setting up.
Sorting out a UUCP newsfeed (back when internet access meant having a dialup shell..), mostly so I could get the alt.binaries groups and have the best pr0n collection in the region.
If suits really need someone to offload risks to, there's always your friendly insurance company that wants to earn a living by assessing and managing risks. I can see people contributing code for free but I doubt people are going to put their financial future on the line for free.
The stupid part is, paid programmers won't either. They'll get insurance against being sued, just like doctors take out malpractise insurance. Then they'll go on writing the same shitty code because the end users continue to demand ease of use and featurisim ahead of security.
The better idea is to just take out insurance against being hacked in the first place. Insurance companies already offer this.
IP-over-DNS is a form of tunneling similar to IP over UDP. You need to set up a gateway 'outside', then you send out specially crafted DNS requests "whois {big-chunk-of-encoded-data}.mydomain.org" and get data back the same way ({encoded-data}.mydomain.org is a CNAME for {some-more-encoded-data}.mydomain.org )
This works because the pay-for-use networks let DNS function normally, but redirect outbound connections to their login server until you've paid.
For any random IP, you'll see an average of one worm hit every 30 seconds. It varies depending on time of day, phase of moon, etc, but that's about what it averages out to.
So the average Windows user doing a nice fresh install of XP, or switching on their newly purchased WinXP machine with marginally patched OEM install is almost certain to get infected by something, even if the _very first thing_ they do is start downloading the latest security patches.
Windows firewall would help, but it's switched off by default and most users don't know how to switch it on or if they do, what to do when it gets in the way of applications (gaming, p2p, etc) other than switching it off again.
Step #1 in improving Windows security; firewall everything by default. Step #2; Make it easy to identify and open one port at a time. Make it much harder to just switch off the firewall.
Is there any possible reason why they should need to use javascript or flash rather than bog-standard HTML?
Does the page validate? Without even bothering to check, I would bet fairly good money that it doesn't.
So yes; there's two web standards; There's the clearly defined, backwards-compatable, gracefully-degrading standards set by W3C that Mozilla, Opera, and most other browsers follow (and that IE claims to follow, although they don't as places like csszengarden and cssedge clearly show) and there's the MSHTML "decomodetized" standard that MS apparently complies with, although this a rather a difficult standard to follow since it's mostly undocumented, changes from one version of IE to the next, and isn't always backwards-compatable.
So a properly designed W3C-standard website should be able to use CSS and/or flash and/or java if available, but gracefully degrade to a less pretty but still fully functional bog-standard HTML page for earlier browsers. MS's page, as usual, doesn't follow this standard. That was my point.
Because the form isn't standard HTML that works in every W3C-standard-compliant browser?
I can't be bothered investigating further, but on this box (FBSD, Mozilla, no Java or Flash) none of the buttons work. End of survey, Microsoft loses!
I'd have left them a comment about properly following published standards, but what's the point? "De-comoditizing" standards and protocols was mentioned way back in Halloween #1.. it's a deliberate strategy and I don't see any advantage in letting them know how well it's working.
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It's a non-issue until you print it anyhow. An image on paper might pass as a banknote under the right conditions; an image on harddrive or screen won't.
I frequently use "echo rm -rf foo*" so I know exactly what the shell's going to expand it to. Then I uparrow and remove the "echo".
Full-rate ADSL users pay 15 to 18c /M over here.
One of our clients got a bill for over $2,000 just before Christmas. Someone sent them a 1.3G mail attachment. It bounced, so they sent a smaller 977M attachment which also bounced.
I've seen a scan (can't find the URL now, dammit) of someone's bill for $25,000 in one month.
.. which is linked from the site the error message refers you to says you CAN make full-colour copies of US currency, as long as the image is single-sided and at least 75% smaller or 150% larger than a real note.
Just after I posted that (remembering Ernie Ball from an earlier Reg. story) I noticed the same site has a list of large companies who've switched to Linux. Lots of them, with a bit of the story behind each, in just about every category you could imagine. A good number are using Linux on the desktop, not just in a server role.
A non tech company such as the world's largest manufacturer of guitar strings, perhaps?
bash-2.05b$ ping beagle-2.co.uk
:)
ping: cannot resolve beagle-2.co.uk: Unknown host
(seriously; I actually typed that
Public/private key models are great, as long as you're on a network. But say you sent me a protected document (signed with your private key), which I saved onto my laptop right before boarding a flight to Europe. Now I'd like to read your document on my way there, but for some reason, my laptop can't find your public key to allow me to open the document.
If it's been signed and if you don't already have my public key in your keyring, you can still read it just fine but you won't be able to check the signature until you can get to a keyserver.
If it's been encrypted with my public key, you're not going to be able to read it anyhow, anywhere.
220V?!!! OMFG You could have been KILLED!!
/etc/shadow you can even set it back afterwards. CF Windows, where you at least need a bootable install CD to change the admin password and cannot trivially restore it back to what it was!
Sheesh, get hard. All our household wiring is 240v, and I've done plenty of work 'live' on it. Had a couple of shocks too!
Anyway, I'd just like to point out how totally insecure Linux is; on almost any major distro you can boot with init=/bin/bash, remount root and change the root password. If you make a backup of
Or internet explorer (right click, Open in new window)
This is one of my many annoyances, websites add stupid features (open in new window, click here to bookmark / make this your homepage, etc) because people don't know how to work their software. You can right-click and get a new window in every major browser. You can drag the bookmark icon to your homepage, bookmarks, toolbar, desktop, whatever in every major browser. I'm amazed and frustrated at how many users simply don't know this!
Google has already lots their edge.
:(
Despite the much-touted 'pagerank', they've had real problems with people making linkfarms and even more trouble with blogger googlebombing.
Trying to combat this has resulted in glitches where thousands of perfectly good results vanish on some queries. But they won't take the (quite obvious IMHO) step of providing a blog-related filter, which would surely be easier to impliment than their existing adult-content filter.
They haven't updated google images for well over a year.
They used to source google diretory from dmoz, but they haven't synced them for close to a year.
They're still far ahead of most other search engines, but nowhere near as good as they used to be
30 7 * * * zcat aumix -v30 ; madplay -z /media/music/*/*.mp3 & .. and it's loud enough. I have a nice amp and speakers (150W RMS per channel).
33 7 * * * zcat aumix -v35
35 7 * * * zcat aumix -v40
To switch it off I have to log in and "killall madplay", so I'm usually fairly awake by then.
I think the point was that dd copies -everything-
If you have a 3G windows install on a 120G drive, ghost is going to copy 3G of files and boot sector. dd is going to copy 3G of files and 117G of freshly formatted unused filesystem.
And it breaks if you're not copying to an identical drive. Copying from a 120G Segate to a 120G Western Digital is almost certain to fail, because they won't have exactly the same CHS or sector count.
I already do that with Mozilla.
I leave it logged in (IMAP) all the time, it checks my mailbox every two minutes and moves spam to a 'junk' folder.
When I'm out I can check my mail from anywhere with a browser via SquirrelMail, and it's already spam-filtered.
Open Source == Communisim
The same way that "..of the people, by the people, for the people" == communisim?
my -earliest- BBS memory was using a 300 baud modem on an SV328, and manually dialling (no AT commands back then!) a part-time BBS in Auckland which was the only one operating in the country at the time.
A bit expensive, so I didn't really do anything else
until a friend got supplied with an XT and smart modem (1200 baud iirc) by his school to set up a BBS. The software was fairly experimental and buggy, and took a lot of setting up.
Sorting out a UUCP newsfeed (back when internet access meant having a dialup shell..), mostly so I could get the alt.binaries groups and have the best pr0n collection in the region.
If suits really need someone to offload risks to, there's always your friendly insurance company that wants to earn a living by assessing and managing risks. I can see people contributing code for free but I doubt people are going to put their financial future on the line for free.
The stupid part is, paid programmers won't either. They'll get insurance against being sued, just like doctors take out malpractise insurance. Then they'll go on writing the same shitty code because the end users continue to demand ease of use and featurisim ahead of security.
The better idea is to just take out insurance against being hacked in the first place. Insurance companies already offer this.
IP-over-DNS is a form of tunneling similar to IP over UDP. You need to set up a gateway 'outside', then you send out specially crafted DNS requests "whois {big-chunk-of-encoded-data}.mydomain.org" and get data back the same way ({encoded-data}.mydomain.org is a CNAME for {some-more-encoded-data}.mydomain.org )
This works because the pay-for-use networks let DNS function normally, but redirect outbound connections to their login server until you've paid.
Offtopic? See you in META, asshole :)
Or they could remove fat32 support from the kernel and make it available as a patch elsewhere.
Sort of like how redhat removed all mp3 support from 8.0 upwards, but you can easily get it back by installing a few third-party RPM's.
I metamod almost every negative moderation as unfair; The few exceptions would be page-widening posts, crapfloods, and misleading links.
For any random IP, you'll see an average of one worm hit every 30 seconds. It varies depending on time of day, phase of moon, etc, but that's about what it averages out to.
So the average Windows user doing a nice fresh install of XP, or switching on their newly purchased WinXP machine with marginally patched OEM install is almost certain to get infected by something, even if the _very first thing_ they do is start downloading the latest security patches.
Windows firewall would help, but it's switched off by default and most users don't know how to switch it on or if they do, what to do when it gets in the way of applications (gaming, p2p, etc) other than switching it off again.
Step #1 in improving Windows security; firewall everything by default.
Step #2; Make it easy to identify and open one port at a time. Make it much harder to just switch off the firewall.
They're ONLY CHECKBOXES ffs!!
Is there any possible reason why they should need to use javascript or flash rather than bog-standard HTML?
Does the page validate? Without even bothering to check, I would bet fairly good money that it doesn't.
So yes; there's two web standards; There's the clearly defined, backwards-compatable, gracefully-degrading standards set by W3C that Mozilla, Opera, and most other browsers follow (and that IE claims to follow, although they don't as places like csszengarden and cssedge clearly show) and there's the MSHTML "decomodetized" standard that MS apparently complies with, although this a rather a difficult standard to follow since it's mostly undocumented, changes from one version of IE to the next, and isn't always backwards-compatable.
So a properly designed W3C-standard website should be able to use CSS and/or flash and/or java if available, but gracefully degrade to a less pretty but still fully functional bog-standard HTML page for earlier browsers. MS's page, as usual, doesn't follow this standard. That was my point.
Because the form isn't standard HTML that works in every W3C-standard-compliant browser?
I can't be bothered investigating further, but on this box (FBSD, Mozilla, no Java or Flash) none of the buttons work. End of survey, Microsoft loses!
I'd have left them a comment about properly following published standards, but what's the point? "De-comoditizing" standards and protocols was mentioned way back in Halloween #1.. it's a deliberate strategy and I don't see any advantage in letting them know how well it's working.