does anybody actually believe time warner and the rest of the cable providers will give users a fatter pipe to the internet without jacking the price to high hell? the chips to do this may only cost $10, but i guarantee you the cable providers will label it "platinum" service and charge triple what they do now. oh well, for a link that fat, i might pay it.
ok, so we know it's easy to have a process write all the contents of it's memory space to disk (dereference an invalid pointer in C, and the os will do it for you), so suspending isn't a problem. the problem, which is pointed out in several places in this thread, is starting the process back up again, because it won't start in the same memory space, pointers will be invalid, etc. so, would it be possible to have a program that would resurrect a suspended program, and spoof it to make it think it's in the same memory space it was before it was suspended. kind of an emergency vm of sorts. does this already exist? if not, why?
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yeah, wma's pretty impressive from a pure technology prespective. i'm far from a linux zealot, but this is one spot where i'd have to vote against wma. microsoft has made it perfectly clear that they want to control digital rights management for music and movies.
and sure the copy protection is optional, but all microsoft has to do is introduce a new player that won't play.wma's encoded without copy protection and it becomes mandatory if you ever want to upgrade.
an interesting question, is the wma spec available? could somebody (or has someone already) made an open source player? if it's not open, could it be reverse engineered?
i agree with you though, wma's do sound pretty damn good. without the other considerations, it's one of the best formats out there.
i guess that would make sense. daring the entire world to hack your platform would be one way to make it secure. but it seems that if you've got live customers running the software, they may not appreciate being made into targets for hackers.
i tend to think that this campaign was purely a marketing thing, not an engineering decision. i know i would prefer to keep the software in qa a little longer, rather than take on the world. i mean, if they still had buffer overflow errors in the code, it's far from unbreakable. don't you think they would've cleared out all the obvious bugs if it was their decision. gotta love runaway execs.
i would have to loved to have been a fly on the wall in the oracle engineering department the day ellison announced that their software was unbreakable. i guarantee you the engineers at oracle wouldn't have supported that campaign, if they even knew about it before ellison announced it at comdex. it's tough enough to keep your software secure when your ceo isn't directly taunting every hacker in the world.
from a technical purely perspective, the supernodes idea makes a lot of sense. but wouldn't that just give the RIAA a spot to attack to shut down the network?
quit thinking about the economics of the whole thing and your crusade against everything microsoft. normal people can't use linux. maybe in a couple of years things will change, but for now that's the way it is.
coming at it from another angle: if this is program is supposed to be giving computers to underpriveleged and presumably out of work people, doesn't it make sense to give them an OS that is used by most of the corporate world? most companies (i'm talking non-tech here) run windows, and not knowing the OS would be serious hindrance to these people finding a job.
oh well. southwestern bell and the rest will be fucked in a decade when everything finally goes wireless, and their last mile home access becomes worthless.
the only people using xp right now are regular users. no sensitive government information that could benefit al qaeda in any way will be put on xp for at least another 5 years, when most of the bugs have been rooted out of xp.
why doesn't somebody just set up a site exploiting this vulnerability, and we'll find out for sure if IE will execute without prompting or if this whole article is just hype?
shit, i'm using IE. i'm a brave man. i'll be the first to try it out.
thank you for making my point for me. that's the exact attitude i'm talking about. it's the "why-don't-the-users-get-smarter?" atttitude. shouldn't the question be "how-can-we-make-things-easier?"
it's really great that you know how to do all your configuration in vi. but it's still not the fastest or easiest way to do things. there shouldn't be a 6 month learning curve to correctly set up a server.
why is it that every time someone posts something saying that they have NT/2K/XP running smoothly and that linux didn't work for them, they get attacked by people saying that they obviously know nothing about linux and they should learn to configure correctly before they criticize? isn't this a sign that linux needs to be made easier to configure, when trained sysadmins screw it up regularly?
but for simple web based apps, which are (or at least should be) relatively simple applications, you don't need a "real" programming language. perl gives you all the functionality you need.
i work for a company that chose to do it's web based ui in a "real" language (java). our developers got so caught in using all the whiz bang OOP features of java, that they didn't solve the simple problem that was put in front of them. java is great for certain apps, but for simple web/db apps it's overkill.
exactly. nobody wants to mix platforms on the server side. companies will usually pick one architecture and stick with it (which makes more sense, less types of hardware to support). and besides, most modern programming languages are portable anyway. java's big deal is that you don't have to recompile to change platforms, but that only takes like 15 minutes anyway! the bottom line is, if you write your code correctly, portability shouldn't be an issue with most modern languages.
anyone remember the ms office 97 upgrade cd that you allowed you to point it back to the cd itself when it asked for the location of your office install? i love it when companies spend years designing the software and let an intern write the install procedures.
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bands like phish and the grateful dead have been letting people "rip off" their shows for years, so it's not completely out of the question.
does anybody actually believe time warner and the rest of the cable providers will give users a fatter pipe to the internet without jacking the price to high hell? the chips to do this may only cost $10, but i guarantee you the cable providers will label it "platinum" service and charge triple what they do now. oh well, for a link that fat, i might pay it.
yeah, hurd's the solution. how long has that thing been in development? 10 years? still doesn't really work. sweet. sign me up.
ok, so we know it's easy to have a process write all the contents of it's memory space to disk (dereference an invalid pointer in C, and the os will do it for you), so suspending isn't a problem. the problem, which is pointed out in several places in this thread, is starting the process back up again, because it won't start in the same memory space, pointers will be invalid, etc. so, would it be possible to have a program that would resurrect a suspended program, and spoof it to make it think it's in the same memory space it was before it was suspended. kind of an emergency vm of sorts. does this already exist? if not, why?
yeah, wma's pretty impressive from a pure technology prespective. i'm far from a linux zealot, but this is one spot where i'd have to vote against wma. microsoft has made it perfectly clear that they want to control digital rights management for music and movies.
.wma's encoded without copy protection and it becomes mandatory if you ever want to upgrade.
and sure the copy protection is optional, but all microsoft has to do is introduce a new player that won't play
an interesting question, is the wma spec available? could somebody (or has someone already) made an open source player? if it's not open, could it be reverse engineered?
i agree with you though, wma's do sound pretty damn good. without the other considerations, it's one of the best formats out there.
i guess that would make sense. daring the entire world to hack your platform would be one way to make it secure. but it seems that if you've got live customers running the software, they may not appreciate being made into targets for hackers.
i tend to think that this campaign was purely a marketing thing, not an engineering decision. i know i would prefer to keep the software in qa a little longer, rather than take on the world. i mean, if they still had buffer overflow errors in the code, it's far from unbreakable. don't you think they would've cleared out all the obvious bugs if it was their decision. gotta love runaway execs.
i would have to loved to have been a fly on the wall in the oracle engineering department the day ellison announced that their software was unbreakable. i guarantee you the engineers at oracle wouldn't have supported that campaign, if they even knew about it before ellison announced it at comdex. it's tough enough to keep your software secure when your ceo isn't directly taunting every hacker in the world.
from a technical purely perspective, the supernodes idea makes a lot of sense. but wouldn't that just give the RIAA a spot to attack to shut down the network?
quit thinking about the economics of the whole thing and your crusade against everything microsoft. normal people can't use linux. maybe in a couple of years things will change, but for now that's the way it is.
coming at it from another angle: if this is program is supposed to be giving computers to underpriveleged and presumably out of work people, doesn't it make sense to give them an OS that is used by most of the corporate world? most companies (i'm talking non-tech here) run windows, and not knowing the OS would be serious hindrance to these people finding a job.
oh well. southwestern bell and the rest will be fucked in a decade when everything finally goes wireless, and their last mile home access becomes worthless.
the only people using xp right now are regular users. no sensitive government information that could benefit al qaeda in any way will be put on xp for at least another 5 years, when most of the bugs have been rooted out of xp.
why doesn't somebody just set up a site exploiting this vulnerability, and we'll find out for sure if IE will execute without prompting or if this whole article is just hype?
shit, i'm using IE. i'm a brave man. i'll be the first to try it out.
thank you for making my point for me. that's the exact attitude i'm talking about. it's the "why-don't-the-users-get-smarter?" atttitude. shouldn't the question be "how-can-we-make-things-easier?"
it's really great that you know how to do all your configuration in vi. but it's still not the fastest or easiest way to do things. there shouldn't be a 6 month learning curve to correctly set up a server.
why is it that every time someone posts something saying that they have NT/2K/XP running smoothly and that linux didn't work for them, they get attacked by people saying that they obviously know nothing about linux and they should learn to configure correctly before they criticize? isn't this a sign that linux needs to be made easier to configure, when trained sysadmins screw it up regularly?
but for simple web based apps, which are (or at least should be) relatively simple applications, you don't need a "real" programming language. perl gives you all the functionality you need.
i work for a company that chose to do it's web based ui in a "real" language (java). our developers got so caught in using all the whiz bang OOP features of java, that they didn't solve the simple problem that was put in front of them. java is great for certain apps, but for simple web/db apps it's overkill.
exactly. nobody wants to mix platforms on the server side. companies will usually pick one architecture and stick with it (which makes more sense, less types of hardware to support). and besides, most modern programming languages are portable anyway. java's big deal is that you don't have to recompile to change platforms, but that only takes like 15 minutes anyway! the bottom line is, if you write your code correctly, portability shouldn't be an issue with most modern languages.
anyone remember the ms office 97 upgrade cd that you allowed you to point it back to the cd itself when it asked for the location of your office install? i love it when companies spend years designing the software and let an intern write the install procedures.
how can you honestly say and eddie murphy is funnier without cussing? ever seen delirious?