Yes, but the skill and motivation to hack OSX is much higher. You speak as if OSX exploits are a rare thing.
The person who can exploit OSX in a meaningful way would get a lot of prestige from the '*hat' community. You mean like the last contest winner who developed a working brower + quicktime attack in only a few hours? Are you saying the same class of exploit that is used to infect Windows users every day is not significant on OSX?
I thought with the lights out was great, but was very disappointed that no live soundboard versions of Token Eastern song or Talk to Me (probably my favorite Nirvana song) were included. There was also a fantastic recording of "Here She Comes Now" from a radio station in Holland that was not included. Granted the HSCN recording is circulating almost perfect form in trading circles, but it would have been nice to get an official release of it.
I can only hope that they are holding out in regards to "talk to me" and that some day they will release another disc with a live version of it as the single.
As for the song meanings, I no expert at analysis, but my wife is working on her masters in English Literature and specializes in analyzing writings. In the book Come as You are, Cobain claimed that Heart Shaped box was about a little girl who he visited in the hospital who had cancer, and despite the fact that her illness was terminal and he was a rich rock star, she ended up counseling him. The author kind of poo-poos Cobains claim as BS, as everyone assumed the song had something to do with courtney (None of Cobain's songs were about Courtney Love!). My wife, having never read the book, looked at the lyrics and immediate nailed it, saying the song seemed to be about "Guilt over a burdening young girl who was sick, and had lost her fertility." A lot of time Cobain admitted that some songs contained mostly "throw away" lyrics and didn't really mean anything. In looking some of the stranger songs, my wife would spot ones and say, "these lyrics are crap. He was just filling space in this song."
Even to this day it seems many people (RIAA) still do not understand just how revolutionary the mp3 file format (and the bandwidth to transfer them) really is Back in '97 there were people inside of the music industry who 'got it' but the music industry as a whole squashed their voices. I was (still am) a huge fan of Nirvana, and that year after getting a hold of a ton of Nirvana bootlegs, started a website called "GIC". The site had all of the unreleased studio songs by Nirvana and some live stuff all in mp3 and real audio format. The bitrate of the songs I was about 96Kbps. By today's standards 96kbps sucks, but back then most people we on dialup and HD space was still precious.
The site became very popular and tons of other copycat Nirvana (and other band) mp3 sites sprung up. After several months, Geffen records sent my ISP a take down notice, and after that started sending take down notices to all of the other copycat sites.
Understanding copyright law, I didn't resist and just took the site down. In talking via email with a Geffen representative, a guy named Drew said something to the effect of 'Imagine having ever Nirvana concert available online in mp3 format and being able to pay to download them'. Obviously rogue people like "Drew" were put in their place.
It's been 11 years since then, and I'm still waiting to be able to purchase all those Nirvana shows.
I used to trade on #mpeg3 on efnet, and yes I do remember being able to do scans on my local isp's network and find all kinds of interesting things on open shares.
Your claim to have had several GB on mp3s is impressive. The hard drive on my computer at the time had only 1GB capacity, and my smokin' pentium 100 encoded at a 0.5x rate.
'97 when I briefly used it before a buddy in the dorm showed me winamp I call BS on your post. I was an early user of WinAMP, as I was one of the several thousand or so people on the planet who new what an mp3 even was in 1997.
In 1997, WinAMP was a barely functional audio player that only played Mp2, MP3 and (I think?) uncompressed PCM audio files, whereas Real Player pretty much only played real media files, and maybe uncompressed PCM (wav/aif) files. Real Player most certainly didn't play MP3 files in 1997.
AFAIK, "Winplay", a really crappy shareware app from Fraunhofer and WinAMP were the only mp3 players for Windows that existed at the time. That you replaced RealPlayer with WinAMP in 1997 seems highly unlikely, as they most likely only shared the ability to play PCM audio.
If your kid tells you he wants to code for a living, hit him upside the head and tell him that janitors get more respect. Not only that, but at least the janitor doesn't have to deal with having the goalposts moved every five minutes. I'm a relatively well paid sysadmin/"DBA".
I've always told people that my job is just like a plumber's, except I deal with more shit and make less money.
If spam went away, everyone except for the largest email providers could run their MTAs on old surplus pentium 100s...and mail would flow very quickly.
320 is pretty high, so the difference you were hearing *may* have had to do with the mp3 encoder or decoder. I did a comparison test a couple of years ago with Lame, vorbis and musepack and uses ~200kbps. The.mp3 and.mpc files sounded slightly different (the mp3 had elevated bass and the mpc had elevated midtones)than the original.wav while the.ogg file was indistinguishable.
The basic problem is that it is difficult to run as a limited user.? This is where you are off. Admin (or root in UNIX) permission are not needed to turn a machine into and spam/DoS box.
MS are still using a kernel written (or rather, cobbled together) in 1991. MS are in deep trouble - the problems with the kernel first became apparent in NT4 Obviously you have some kind of first hand experience with the NT programming team, so could you tell me what you mean by "cobbled together"? Also, what problems are you talking about in regards to NT4?
Nor will they be - MS no longer employ people capable of writing a kernel. Dave Cutler, who was the lead architect of the NT kernel still works for Microsoft today.
You don't have to sign up to see the answers on experts exchange. They always have been free to everyone. Next time, scroll down past the "blocked" answer that asks you to subscribe, and you'll find a surprise further down the page.
There is no need too have the source. All that's needed is a little bit of knowledge about the history of NT and BSD, and a bit of common sense.
You wanna know what parts of NT were amde using BSD code? grep the binaries and dlls for "regents". ping, ftp, rsh, and rcp, finger and probably some other networking tools that I forgot is what you will get. Since the license permits it's use, I don't see why Microsoft would admit to using BSD code in a few low level network utilities but not in other areas. And why would a former Microsoft employee write this, when again there was no legal restriction against them using BSD licensed code in their operating system?
Aside from that, NT and UNIX are fundamentally different from the core. BSD code would have been of little use to the people who originally built NT.
Did I get that right? No. You got it completely wrong. I didn't buy the used saw. I'm not sure why you assumed that I did. I bought a nice Milwaukee instead. I thought about offering $20 for the used one, but the large gash on the front and the put me off.
It's the stores fault for not insuring all the parts were with it when it was returned, and then trying to sell it to someone else. Not "some asshole." Of course it's stores fault for not inspecting the return, but that didn't make what the person who returned it right.
I bought a reciprocal saw the other day at Home Depot. One of the saws' outside packaging was missing - it was a return, but it as the only DeWalt left. I asked the store clerk to open it (it had anti-theft a lock on the handle) so I could make sure all the parts were there. Upon inspection I found that the instructions, and saw blades were missing and the saw itself was extremely dirty and had a gash on the front hole where the saw blade attaches. Some asshole had bought it, used it on a job and then returned it.
Privilege separation (in the classic UNIX sense) is designed to protect users from other users on the same system. It is certainly not meant to protect users from themselves.
As an IPhone typically only ever has one user, what purpose would it serve to deny that user from using any part of the phone?
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I thought with the lights out was great, but was very disappointed that no live soundboard versions of Token Eastern song or Talk to Me (probably my favorite Nirvana song) were included. There was also a fantastic recording of "Here She Comes Now" from a radio station in Holland that was not included. Granted the HSCN recording is circulating almost perfect form in trading circles, but it would have been nice to get an official release of it.
I can only hope that they are holding out in regards to "talk to me" and that some day they will release another disc with a live version of it as the single.
As for the song meanings, I no expert at analysis, but my wife is working on her masters in English Literature and specializes in analyzing writings. In the book Come as You are, Cobain claimed that Heart Shaped box was about a little girl who he visited in the hospital who had cancer, and despite the fact that her illness was terminal and he was a rich rock star, she ended up counseling him. The author kind of poo-poos Cobains claim as BS, as everyone assumed the song had something to do with courtney (None of Cobain's songs were about Courtney Love!). My wife, having never read the book, looked at the lyrics and immediate nailed it, saying the song seemed to be about "Guilt over a burdening young girl who was sick, and had lost her fertility." A lot of time Cobain admitted that some songs contained mostly "throw away" lyrics and didn't really mean anything. In looking some of the stranger songs, my wife would spot ones and say, "these lyrics are crap. He was just filling space in this song."
The site became very popular and tons of other copycat Nirvana (and other band) mp3 sites sprung up. After several months, Geffen records sent my ISP a take down notice, and after that started sending take down notices to all of the other copycat sites.
Understanding copyright law, I didn't resist and just took the site down. In talking via email with a Geffen representative, a guy named Drew said something to the effect of 'Imagine having ever Nirvana concert available online in mp3 format and being able to pay to download them'. Obviously rogue people like "Drew" were put in their place.
It's been 11 years since then, and I'm still waiting to be able to purchase all those Nirvana shows.
I used to trade on #mpeg3 on efnet, and yes I do remember being able to do scans on my local isp's network and find all kinds of interesting things on open shares.
Your claim to have had several GB on mp3s is impressive. The hard drive on my computer at the time had only 1GB capacity, and my smokin' pentium 100 encoded at a 0.5x rate.
Sorry. Upon further reflection I was bored at work and grumpy and being a pedant.
In 1997, WinAMP was a barely functional audio player that only played Mp2, MP3 and (I think?) uncompressed PCM audio files, whereas Real Player pretty much only played real media files, and maybe uncompressed PCM (wav/aif) files. Real Player most certainly didn't play MP3 files in 1997.
AFAIK, "Winplay", a really crappy shareware app from Fraunhofer and WinAMP were the only mp3 players for Windows that existed at the time. That you replaced RealPlayer with WinAMP in 1997 seems highly unlikely, as they most likely only shared the ability to play PCM audio.
I've always told people that my job is just like a plumber's, except I deal with more shit and make less money.
If spam went away, everyone except for the largest email providers could run their MTAs on old surplus pentium 100s...and mail would flow very quickly.
320 is pretty high, so the difference you were hearing *may* have had to do with the mp3 encoder or decoder. I did a comparison test a couple of years ago with Lame, vorbis and musepack and uses ~200kbps. The .mp3 and .mpc files sounded slightly different (the mp3 had elevated bass and the mpc had elevated midtones)than the original .wav while the .ogg file was indistinguishable.
...that was back when the bell system used CPP/IP (Carrier Pigeon Protocol/Internet Protocol) to transmit data?
Oh, I see. When I think 16bit, I automatically think DOS, as I pretty much skipped straight from DOS to Win95.
For 16bit programs, you can run DOSBox. There is no need for the overhead of an entire virtual machine.
You don't have to sign up to see the answers on experts exchange. They always have been free to everyone. Next time, scroll down past the "blocked" answer that asks you to subscribe, and you'll find a surprise further down the page.
Why the hell would you want to block experts exchange? There are lots of great answers there.
I actually don't mind those brute force bots. It makes for a good laugh once in awhile.
I stand corrected (see my post below). The last time I used OpenBSD was 3.5.
There is no need too have the source. All that's needed is a little bit of knowledge about the history of NT and BSD, and a bit of common sense.
You wanna know what parts of NT were amde using BSD code? grep the binaries and dlls for "regents". ping, ftp, rsh, and rcp, finger and probably some other networking tools that I forgot is what you will get. Since the license permits it's use, I don't see why Microsoft would admit to using BSD code in a few low level network utilities but not in other areas. And why would a former Microsoft employee write this, when again there was no legal restriction against them using BSD licensed code in their operating system?
Aside from that, NT and UNIX are fundamentally different from the core. BSD code would have been of little use to the people who originally built NT.
So you are saying that ping, telnet and ftp a "large part" of the NT code base?
NT does not contain a lot of BSD code.
I bought a reciprocal saw the other day at Home Depot. One of the saws' outside packaging was missing - it was a return, but it as the only DeWalt left. I asked the store clerk to open it (it had anti-theft a lock on the handle) so I could make sure all the parts were there. Upon inspection I found that the instructions, and saw blades were missing and the saw itself was extremely dirty and had a gash on the front hole where the saw blade attaches. Some asshole had bought it, used it on a job and then returned it.
Privilege separation (in the classic UNIX sense) is designed to protect users from other users on the same system. It is certainly not meant to protect users from themselves.
As an IPhone typically only ever has one user, what purpose would it serve to deny that user from using any part of the phone?