How about (mozilla 0.9.5):
edit->prefs->navigator->Tabbed browsing:
load links in the background and
open tabs instead of windows for: windows opened by the web page
OT? Hell no, it'll be in the next Netscape release:)
Whoa. You realize your cron starts up in $HOME, and if that `cd` for some reason returns an error...
No mod points unfortunately, so I'll go for the suppporting comment:)
A customer was bitten by this a couple of months ago. cd failed because a drive had failed to mount. The script wiped out just about everything.
The sad thing was that this happened while we were trying to fix some vague un-related hardware problem that kept corrupting databases, so ofcourse we where blamed for a dead production server. You can imagine how relieved we were when we found out it was one of the customers own scripts.
Morale: check those return values, make sure your command worked as intended, especially in cron!
That's not a good argument against releasing exploit binaries. Sure, crackers who know what they are doing may be able to reverse engineer it, but the not-so-hot kiddies won't be able to.
I respectfully disagree with this. Surely you don't think that the readily availably rootkits are put together by not-so-hot kiddies?
A binary exploit would be a pretty small program, not to difficult to disassemble. It would take only one knowledgable person to translate it into c source, and distribute that source. And then only one small step into rootkits.
So I do think it is a good argument. Your other argument is a good one as well. And I do look forward to exploits being mailed to me for testing the senders security:-)
Well, that was my first reaction. But now that I'm back in my chair I find it rather sad, to put it mildly.
The only thing it would accomplish is that the relatively harmless scriptkiddies would no longer be able to easily crack random machines. However, crackers with Real Bad Intentions (read: terrorists) would still be able to find and abuse security holes. Since they would be a lot more careful in when to use the holes, the security community would not alerted to the problem.
And there is still the argument that publishing holes is often the only way to get them patched. But we've been over that many, many times already here at/.
Wow.. Another example of why Linux is so hard to use... in Win9x you only have to do [start][run][command.com] to achieve that, and it's no secret either:-)
Great nick, especially since I wanted to reply to haxor.dk's question by suggesting that such robots might be useful for getting rid of piles of dogshit in the streets:)
Yes. Dutch aircraft (IIRC, from the squadron where I served, 323 sqn) also took part in the operations in the Balkan a couple of years ago. Check the official NATO site.
You should see the hat that I had to wear when I was in the blue uniform in the Dutch Airforce (most of the time I was allowed to wear green 'though..). Anyway, we called it a "cowcunt" (literal translation). Don't even try to imagine how it looked...:-/
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Excellent explanation of the BEC! Thanks Mr. Slippery!
Yes, I remember those days. And IIRC, for a while, ZyXEL was te company to turn to for the fastest modems, and the most features as well.
You know that the best vacation destinations always lose their attraction when people start publishing travelguides and maps and stuff... :-/
Aha! Well, that explains why he kept shouting: "Must Consult Senior Entertainer! Must Consult Senior Entertainer!" :P
I don't get it. What does MCSE (Minesweeper Consultant and Solitair Expert) have to do with sysadminning?
<duck>
And next you tell us that the robots run MIT/Cesium 4.02. Somehow I lost confidence in MIT :-)
Did you, by any chance, also work on MIT/Cesium? :)
How about (mozilla 0.9.5):
:)
edit->prefs->navigator->Tabbed browsing:
load links in the background and
open tabs instead of windows for: windows opened by the web page
OT? Hell no, it'll be in the next Netscape release
No mod points unfortunately, so I'll go for the suppporting comment :)
A customer was bitten by this a couple of months ago. cd failed because a drive had failed to mount. The script wiped out just about everything.
The sad thing was that this happened while we were trying to fix some vague un-related hardware problem that kept corrupting databases, so ofcourse we where blamed for a dead production server. You can imagine how relieved we were when we found out it was one of the customers own scripts.
Morale: check those return values, make sure your command worked as intended, especially in cron!
renders just fine! :)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011019
Whoops... should've edited those win thingies out
I do not think that Afghanistan has internet access at this time... ;P
With a backslash? MS-HTML XP? :P
MS-DOS does not count....
Have you tried tight VNC??
I respectfully disagree with this. Surely you don't think that the readily availably rootkits are put together by not-so-hot kiddies?
:-)
A binary exploit would be a pretty small program, not to difficult to disassemble. It would take only one knowledgable person to translate it into c source, and distribute that source. And then only one small step into rootkits.
So I do think it is a good argument. Your other argument is a good one as well. And I do look forward to exploits being mailed to me for testing the senders security
Reverse Engineering.
:-)
Now burn, you troll
Well, that was my first reaction. But now that I'm back in my chair I find it rather sad, to put it mildly.
/.
The only thing it would accomplish is that the relatively harmless scriptkiddies would no longer be able to easily crack random machines. However, crackers with Real Bad Intentions (read: terrorists) would still be able to find and abuse security holes. Since they would be a lot more careful in when to use the holes, the security community would not alerted to the problem.
And there is still the argument that publishing holes is often the only way to get them patched. But we've been over that many, many times already here at
Wow.. Another example of why Linux is so hard to use... in Win9x you only have to do [start][run][command.com] to achieve that, and it's no secret either :-)
Great nick, especially since I wanted to reply to haxor.dk's question by suggesting that such robots might be useful for getting rid of piles of dogshit in the streets :)
Well, no one is stopping you from blowing *that* up :-)
Yes. Dutch aircraft (IIRC, from the squadron where I served, 323 sqn) also took part in the operations in the Balkan a couple of years ago. Check the official NATO site.
Which ofcourse makes me wonder just how much you have to "produce" in the bathroom to make your boss happy? :-)
I warned you: do not even _try_ to imagine it
Sure wouldn't mind doing some teamwork on 7of9 ;-)
You should see the hat that I had to wear when I was in the blue uniform in the Dutch Airforce (most of the time I was allowed to wear green 'though..). Anyway, we called it a "cowcunt" (literal translation). Don't even try to imagine how it looked... :-/