You mean like the remote Samba root exploit that was in the code for something like a decade?
Not a troll, just figure I'd point out that this cuts both ways.
Having said that, Linux beats Windows hands down in my books, for one big reason: I don't even know how to close port 135 on a Windows machine, without killing other services. AFAIK the RPC service is pretty much tied up together, and many applications won't work without it.
Stock Linux install leaves maybe 2 ports open.. oh wait, 0 if you let IPtables do its thing. In Windows, I'm still busy playing whack-a-mole trying to close the 15 or so ports XP insists on listening on.
Or maybe it's easy in Windows, and I've just given up learning how to lock a machine down with every release. Anyone ever figure out how to *permanently* close those idiotic admin shares?
I request a file and several people have it. Then I let them all know that my IP address is "grc.com" and that I have practically unlimited bandwidth. Lots of hosts begin sending spoofed UDP packets at grc.com with no valid return address. Repeat until grc.com vanishes under all the traffic..
And re-appears a few days later with dozens more exclamation points and all caps text.
What do you think I've done, thanks to tabbed browsing?:)
-Run Winamp as a taskbar icon, there's no need to have it taking space when you're not switching to it and it's just playing background music.
Fair enough, but it's nice to see at a glance what track's playing.
-Stop running your full email client all the time, get a small client to check your every x minutes for you and pop up a message or flash an icon or something. There's plenty of better ways out there.
I just use OE for newsgroups; Opera takes care of the email quite nicely.
-So many mIRC's: Get a life?;-) Seriously, look into virtual desktops, or just run one instance of mIRC connected to all those servers. You don't need 4 mIRC windows open.
Again, mIRC now allows multiple server connections from a single application window. It handles this through tabbing within its own window.
-Binary Newsgroup Leecher: Stop pirating crappy games? Lay off the porn? I dunno, man.:-D
There's a lot more to usenet than piracy and porn:)
In any case, if you have anything running *all the time* then why the hell are you running it as an application? Set it up as a background process, or a service, or scheduled task. I see *no* reason to leave a windowed application running 24/7. That's just inefficent.
I have a multi-ghz cpu, almost a gig of ram, and this is a low-end system these days. It takes hardly any of my resources to leave this amount of stuff open; why not? It's not like I'm compiling Linux kernels in the background (this is a Windows box, in case it isn't obvious) where every cycle might count. Keep in mind that there's no easy way to run Windows applications as services, and even then, where does the interface component go? Yup, taskbar.
My computer runs 24/7. I could be using it at any time, and it's nice to not have to launch and close applications every time I want to do something. There are days when I'd be opening Opera 25 times, for starters. I have a nice realtime (feels like it, but the pedants will argue this point with me I'm sure:) response, I sit down, fire up the monitor, and everything I regularly use is sitting ready to go.
Hell, isn't this one of the reasons why we invented multiprogramming in the first place?
If you're only using your browser at any given time, I'd be inclined to agree with you.
Unfortunately, here's a rundown of my taskbar contents circa 2 years ago:
- 3 or 4 mIRC entries - 2 to 10 IE entries (average say about 6) - 1 Outlook Express entry - 1 Explorer (file, not web) entry - 1 binary newsgroup leecher - 1 Winamp
That's 14 taskbar entries alone, assuming I'm doing *nothing else at the time*. Unless you run in some insane screen resolution, don't use the systray or quicklaunch bar, or have a double-high taskbar, it's impossible to distinguish what you're looking at, other than "well, I have 6 IE icons, with a couple of characters of text each. Let's have fun clicking on each of them to find what I want".
Today, I usually have 6 things in my taskbar. Maybe 7 or 8 tops. And I'm still connected to 3 or 4 IRC servers, and often have a dozen or more webpages open at a time. Yes, tabbed browsing/IRC has reduced my clutter that much.
Know why?
Because when I'm in one application, I don't clutter up my screen detailing every last window/instance of every other application I'm running.
YMMV, but I'm all for making every application under the sun tab-able. As someone who runs his applications maximized, I'm surprised you don't appreciate tabs more. Taskbar hunt-and-peck is evil.
Muskol *spray* is anywhere between 25 and 40% DEET, depending on the type. There's a liquid form that's damn close to 100% (95% with 5% DEET isomers).
Note however, that increasing DEET concentration is an excersize in diminishing returns. Going from 40% to 100% DEET gives you less than an hour of extra mosquito repellent time.
Considering the jury's still out on the safety of DEET (personally, I'll take the risk, I live in Manitoba:), using 100% DEET is probably not in your best interest, when you consider what little benefit it offers. Yes kids, just like the Mhz myth, DEET concentration isn't the whole story.
Since at least the mid-80's, my brother and I have had discussions on just how to kill the most people, in the most dramatic way possible. We pretty much ended up with a 9-11 type scenario, fly a plane into an office tower, maybe pre-load it with some explosives (or a full fuel tank).
About an hour after the first plane hit the WTC, these discussions came flooding back from memory. Freaky, to say the least.
Since then, we've been working on ways Al Queda could increase the body count. I figure hitting a packed football stadium (no roof, of course)would easily result in >3,000 deaths, when you think about how big a 747 is, and how far burning jet fuel will spread upon impact against what is essentially a flat surface....
And we're two of the least violent people I've ever met. Yup, I'm one hell of a wimp. I'm pretty much the person who runs from any possible physical confrontation, I'm in support of really tight firearms laws, hell, my brother has adopted abused cats because he feels sorry for them.
Thinking != acting, and I really wish certain people in our society would stop claiming that it is.
I'd suggest that removing freedom from the majority only to stop a *very* small minority from doing what they may like have done anyway (sure, I'll admit the evidence is out) is a REALLY stupid idea.
We don't ban cars because one or two idiots a year decide to deliberately crash into another person. And we don't ban movies that make speeding look cool, even though it kills far more people every day than even the most paranoid would claim videogames have in the past 31 years.
I guess those trailers were somehow digitally enhanced to make the film look better quality.
I dunno, maybe it's me: Schindler's List had B&W trailers, so I knew going in it was a B&W movie. Blair Witch looked like shit in the trailers, and gee golly, it did in the cinema too.
28 days later looked, quality wise, the same in the trailers as it did for the real thing.
And none of the above movies would have been any better with a perfect picture quality, because the storytelling and filmmaking was more important than how much noise was in each frame of video.
We're in the process of organizing a BBQ on campus for one of our student groups. On the application form, there is a question:
Do you plan to play music? ____ $35.00
Do you plan to have dancing? ____ $60.00
The dollar amount represents something called a "SOCAN" fee (this is a Canadian thing related to copyright). Apparently, playing the radio is fine, but if we fire up some CDs, we have to contribute to a nice fund to (I assume) help out the artists - by which they most likely mean the labels. Nowhere does it specify whether we're going to be playing signed acts, or the local campus band.
But my question is, why is it more expensive if we want to let people dance to the music???
Does this individual have a first name, perhaps George? Or is this someone else entirely, and it's now in fashion to just use our initials *cough* Rowling *cough*?
And if it is George, anyone have any idea if they're ever gonna resurrest the Wild Cards series?
Looks like it's open season on the Xbox now, but I'm a bit confused. The ZDnet article mentions the $100,000 no hardware mod prize, yet right in the exploit description it states:
Q1: How do I get the files onto the harddisk?
A1: There are several ways. You could f.e. install the files with the Mechassault or 007 hacks. This requires one of the games and the files on a memorycard. The other way is to open the box and do the harddisk swap trick which is described all over the net.
So if you need to use an existing hack to do this, and those hacks didn't qualify for the prize, how could this one? Any Xbox experts care to comment?
Additionally, isn't it nice to see that companies are now suing on a regular basis for exploit publication. Good that they only want black hats posessing this sort of information.
I've been pricing out toner/ink comparisons lately, because I spend way too much on ink, and end up just printing stuff out at work anyway.
In Canada, a $100 toner cartridge gets you around 5000 sheets on a low-end laser printer. The same price cartridge for a more expensive printer (same toner, but different cartridge shape for obvious reasons) gets you well over 10000 sheets.
Most inkjet cartridges here are in the $40-$50 range (assuming all black printing). You get anywhere between 200 to 500 pages per cartridge.
So basically:
a $300 laser printer + $100 toner = 5000 pages, or about 8 cents per page, with any extra pages costing 2 cents a pop.
a $600 printer + $100 toner = 10000 pages, or about 7 cents per page, extra pages around 1 cent each.
a $99 inkjet + $50 ink = 500 pages (I'll be optimistic here), or about 30(!!) cents a page. Extra pages are 10 cents each.
Note that I'm ignoring any ink/toner that comes with the printer; usually these are extremely low-yield 'samples', and in any case the initial toner cartridge almost always outperforms what you get for free with an inkjet.
So basically, unless you're planning on only printing a few hundred pages EVER, it makes no sense to buy an inkjet for B&W printing. Never mind the fact that if you rarely use an inkjet, the ink nozzles eventually stop working even if there's plenty of ink inside. At least, no amount of cleaning can fix the ones I use in my Epson Stylus 700, if I don't print for more than 3 months.
Our IT department just sent out a notice to the institute about security over the holiday weekend. I'd love to see our website hacked. It is one of those no useful content sites with lots of tasteful colours and pictures.
If you really wanted a free society, you'd want a democratic political system combined with a communistic economic system. You'd need a society that didn't glorify greed and materialism. If everyone recognised that having a comfortable level of prosperity was all they needed, and motivated people with respect and reputation rather than money, things would be fine.
There's a problem with this: in a free society, I should be free to believe whatever I want. I happen to believe that I'd like more than just a 'comfortable' level of existence, because what some people call comfortable I call barely livable. You may disagree with me, but who are you to impose your view upon me? By definition, a free society is one in which I am free to live however I want. We can add in the 'no harm to others clause', but that's so subjective it's not even worth debating in an online forum.
Having said that, I do agree to some degree with the rest of what you've said. I'm just happy that I have the freedom not to live life as you see fit:)
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In fact, the text of the DMCA EXPLICITLY allows you to DISCUSS the circumvention of copyright.
So how'd 2600 lose their linking case then? From what I understand, they only DISCUSSED DeCSS.
Pretty much all consoles until the Playstation (someone correct me if I'm wrong here, I only own about 30) used an external brick transformer.
Heat-wise, though, the Intellivision was a real champ. The heatsinks on the mainboard (at least on the original, I've never taken apart an INTV2) are HUGE. I mean really, really huge. I think part of that is the power regulation inside the thing; an Intellivision took in some bizzare voltage (16v iirc), and the CPU was rather unique, not sure what it took exactly but I doubt it was 16v. Oh, but it was an odd duck, 12 bits (again, iirc).
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You mean like the remote Samba root exploit that was in the code for something like a decade?
Not a troll, just figure I'd point out that this cuts both ways.
Having said that, Linux beats Windows hands down in my books, for one big reason: I don't even know how to close port 135 on a Windows machine, without killing other services. AFAIK the RPC service is pretty much tied up together, and many applications won't work without it.
Stock Linux install leaves maybe 2 ports open.. oh wait, 0 if you let IPtables do its thing. In Windows, I'm still busy playing whack-a-mole trying to close the 15 or so ports XP insists on listening on.
Or maybe it's easy in Windows, and I've just given up learning how to lock a machine down with every release. Anyone ever figure out how to *permanently* close those idiotic admin shares?
I request a file and several people have it. Then I let them all know that my IP address is "grc.com" and that I have practically unlimited bandwidth. Lots of hosts begin sending spoofed UDP packets at grc.com with no valid return address.
Repeat until grc.com vanishes under all the traffic..
And re-appears a few days later with dozens more exclamation points and all caps text.
Holy crap, man. SIMPLIFY.
:)
;-) Seriously, look into virtual desktops, or just run one instance of mIRC connected to all those servers. You don't need 4 mIRC windows open.
:-D
:)
:) response, I sit down, fire up the monitor, and everything I regularly use is sitting ready to go.
What do you think I've done, thanks to tabbed browsing?
-Run Winamp as a taskbar icon, there's no need to have it taking space when you're not switching to it and it's just playing background music.
Fair enough, but it's nice to see at a glance what track's playing.
-Stop running your full email client all the time, get a small client to check your every x minutes for you and pop up a message or flash an icon or something. There's plenty of better ways out there.
I just use OE for newsgroups; Opera takes care of the email quite nicely.
-So many mIRC's: Get a life?
Again, mIRC now allows multiple server connections from a single application window. It handles this through tabbing within its own window.
-Binary Newsgroup Leecher: Stop pirating crappy games? Lay off the porn? I dunno, man.
There's a lot more to usenet than piracy and porn
In any case, if you have anything running *all the time* then why the hell are you running it as an application? Set it up as a background process, or a service, or scheduled task. I see *no* reason to leave a windowed application running 24/7. That's just inefficent.
I have a multi-ghz cpu, almost a gig of ram, and this is a low-end system these days. It takes hardly any of my resources to leave this amount of stuff open; why not? It's not like I'm compiling Linux kernels in the background (this is a Windows box, in case it isn't obvious) where every cycle might count. Keep in mind that there's no easy way to run Windows applications as services, and even then, where does the interface component go? Yup, taskbar.
My computer runs 24/7. I could be using it at any time, and it's nice to not have to launch and close applications every time I want to do something. There are days when I'd be opening Opera 25 times, for starters. I have a nice realtime (feels like it, but the pedants will argue this point with me I'm sure
Hell, isn't this one of the reasons why we invented multiprogramming in the first place?
If you're only using your browser at any given time, I'd be inclined to agree with you.
Unfortunately, here's a rundown of my taskbar contents circa 2 years ago:
- 3 or 4 mIRC entries
- 2 to 10 IE entries (average say about 6)
- 1 Outlook Express entry
- 1 Explorer (file, not web) entry
- 1 binary newsgroup leecher
- 1 Winamp
That's 14 taskbar entries alone, assuming I'm doing *nothing else at the time*. Unless you run in some insane screen resolution, don't use the systray or quicklaunch bar, or have a double-high taskbar, it's impossible to distinguish what you're looking at, other than "well, I have 6 IE icons, with a couple of characters of text each. Let's have fun clicking on each of them to find what I want".
Today, I usually have 6 things in my taskbar. Maybe 7 or 8 tops. And I'm still connected to 3 or 4 IRC servers, and often have a dozen or more webpages open at a time. Yes, tabbed browsing/IRC has reduced my clutter that much.
Know why?
Because when I'm in one application, I don't clutter up my screen detailing every last window/instance of every other application I'm running.
YMMV, but I'm all for making every application under the sun tab-able. As someone who runs his applications maximized, I'm surprised you don't appreciate tabs more. Taskbar hunt-and-peck is evil.
Well, there's a live-action Transformers movie in pre-production as we speak, featuring the original characters from 1984.
I'd suggest that we're just seeing the beginning of 80's nostalgia.
So bascially what you're saying is:
- RTFM
- if you don't get it, you don't understand computers enough
- distro zealotry is alive and well
Oh yeah, once again I remember why Linux isn't big on the desktop yet.
Muskol *spray* is anywhere between 25 and 40% DEET, depending on the type. There's a liquid form that's damn close to 100% (95% with 5% DEET isomers).
:), using 100% DEET is probably not in your best interest, when you consider what little benefit it offers. Yes kids, just like the Mhz myth, DEET concentration isn't the whole story.
Note however, that increasing DEET concentration is an excersize in diminishing returns. Going from 40% to 100% DEET gives you less than an hour of extra mosquito repellent time.
Considering the jury's still out on the safety of DEET (personally, I'll take the risk, I live in Manitoba
Since at least the mid-80's, my brother and I have had discussions on just how to kill the most people, in the most dramatic way possible. We pretty much ended up with a 9-11 type scenario, fly a plane into an office tower, maybe pre-load it with some explosives (or a full fuel tank).
...
About an hour after the first plane hit the WTC, these discussions came flooding back from memory. Freaky, to say the least.
Since then, we've been working on ways Al Queda could increase the body count. I figure hitting a packed football stadium (no roof, of course)would easily result in >3,000 deaths, when you think about how big a 747 is, and how far burning jet fuel will spread upon impact against what is essentially a flat surface.
And we're two of the least violent people I've ever met. Yup, I'm one hell of a wimp. I'm pretty much the person who runs from any possible physical confrontation, I'm in support of really tight firearms laws, hell, my brother has adopted abused cats because he feels sorry for them.
Thinking != acting, and I really wish certain people in our society would stop claiming that it is.
I'd suggest that removing freedom from the majority only to stop a *very* small minority from doing what they may like have done anyway (sure, I'll admit the evidence is out) is a REALLY stupid idea.
We don't ban cars because one or two idiots a year decide to deliberately crash into another person. And we don't ban movies that make speeding look cool, even though it kills far more people every day than even the most paranoid would claim videogames have in the past 31 years.
I'll take a 747 over your gun anyday, thanks.
And Wolverine over Spider-Man, while we're at it.
You don't mean nvidia by chance?
:)
(yes, it's a joke kids
I guess those trailers were somehow digitally enhanced to make the film look better quality.
I dunno, maybe it's me: Schindler's List had B&W trailers, so I knew going in it was a B&W movie. Blair Witch looked like shit in the trailers, and gee golly, it did in the cinema too.
28 days later looked, quality wise, the same in the trailers as it did for the real thing.
And none of the above movies would have been any better with a perfect picture quality, because the storytelling and filmmaking was more important than how much noise was in each frame of video.
We're in the process of organizing a BBQ on campus for one of our student groups. On the application form, there is a question:
Do you plan to play music? ____ $35.00
Do you plan to have dancing? ____ $60.00
The dollar amount represents something called a "SOCAN" fee (this is a Canadian thing related to copyright). Apparently, playing the radio is fine, but if we fire up some CDs, we have to contribute to a nice fund to (I assume) help out the artists - by which they most likely mean the labels. Nowhere does it specify whether we're going to be playing signed acts, or the local campus band.
But my question is, why is it more expensive if we want to let people dance to the music???
You know, some of us enjoyed the fact that Schindler's List was in Black and White, even though they easily could have made it in colour.
Hell, some people (not me) even thought it made Blair Witch better because of the poor picture quality.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. It's pretty simple. There are plenty of pixel-perfect CGI masterpieces for you to see this summer.
You're kidding, right?
Televisions pre-date 2001 by at least 20 years. Using one with a computer was common by the 1960s.
Does this individual have a first name, perhaps George? Or is this someone else entirely, and it's now in fashion to just use our initials *cough* Rowling *cough*?
And if it is George, anyone have any idea if they're ever gonna resurrest the Wild Cards series?
Looks like it's open season on the Xbox now, but I'm a bit confused. The ZDnet article mentions the $100,000 no hardware mod prize, yet right in the exploit description it states:
Q1: How do I get the files onto the harddisk?
A1: There are several ways. You could f.e. install the files with the Mechassault or 007 hacks. This requires one of the games and the files on a memorycard. The other way is to open the box and do the harddisk swap trick which is described all over the net.
So if you need to use an existing hack to do this, and those hacks didn't qualify for the prize, how could this one? Any Xbox experts care to comment?
Additionally, isn't it nice to see that companies are now suing on a regular basis for exploit publication. Good that they only want black hats posessing this sort of information.
In Canada, a $100 toner cartridge gets you around 5000 sheets on a low-end laser printer. The same price cartridge for a more expensive printer (same toner, but different cartridge shape for obvious reasons) gets you well over 10000 sheets.
Most inkjet cartridges here are in the $40-$50 range (assuming all black printing). You get anywhere between 200 to 500 pages per cartridge.
So basically:
Note that I'm ignoring any ink/toner that comes with the printer; usually these are extremely low-yield 'samples', and in any case the initial toner cartridge almost always outperforms what you get for free with an inkjet.
So basically, unless you're planning on only printing a few hundred pages EVER, it makes no sense to buy an inkjet for B&W printing. Never mind the fact that if you rarely use an inkjet, the ink nozzles eventually stop working even if there's plenty of ink inside. At least, no amount of cleaning can fix the ones I use in my Epson Stylus 700, if I don't print for more than 3 months.
Can you figure out how to make these slashdot tshirts not magically start smelling like body order after 5 to 6 days of use?
Already done. In english-speaking countries it's called "laundry".
Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy Sig
on Wednesday July 02, @05:52PM, chloroquine said:
Our IT department just sent out a notice to the institute about security over the holiday weekend. I'd love to see our website hacked. It is one of those no useful content sites with lots of tasteful colours and pictures.
But don't quote me on that.
Aw, fuck...
Slashdot had two articles (semi-dupes) on 55808 (aka Stumbler)
:)
And 55,808 articles on the other Windows worms of the year
If you really wanted a free society, you'd want a democratic political system combined with a communistic economic system. You'd need a society that didn't glorify greed and materialism. If everyone recognised that having a comfortable level of prosperity was all they needed, and motivated people with respect and reputation rather than money, things would be fine.
:)
There's a problem with this: in a free society, I should be free to believe whatever I want. I happen to believe that I'd like more than just a 'comfortable' level of existence, because what some people call comfortable I call barely livable. You may disagree with me, but who are you to impose your view upon me? By definition, a free society is one in which I am free to live however I want. We can add in the 'no harm to others clause', but that's so subjective it's not even worth debating in an online forum.
Having said that, I do agree to some degree with the rest of what you've said. I'm just happy that I have the freedom not to live life as you see fit
In fact, the text of the DMCA EXPLICITLY allows you to DISCUSS the circumvention of copyright.
So how'd 2600 lose their linking case then? From what I understand, they only DISCUSSED DeCSS.
Pretty much all consoles until the Playstation (someone correct me if I'm wrong here, I only own about 30) used an external brick transformer.
Heat-wise, though, the Intellivision was a real champ. The heatsinks on the mainboard (at least on the original, I've never taken apart an INTV2) are HUGE. I mean really, really huge. I think part of that is the power regulation inside the thing; an Intellivision took in some bizzare voltage (16v iirc), and the CPU was rather unique, not sure what it took exactly but I doubt it was 16v. Oh, but it was an odd duck, 12 bits (again, iirc).