User: apankrat

MOD THIS UP, PLS

On: Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP

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Have they heard of non-blocking sockets ?

On: Tarpits for Microsoft Worms

".. that grabs their computer's connection -- and doesn't release it". Ha ha ha .. very funny, belongs to the tabloid cover.

Wait, wait, here is a good part - ".. they are then forced to shut down their hacking program or computer to escape". Oh my, I guess their VB ActiveX object is not that good after all.

Here it is :)

On: New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nim da.a@mm.html

NAT is not a protocol

On: Choosing a Router/Firewall for the Home LAN

2c

Check out exports of kernel32.dll

On: Peter Tattam Of The PetrOS Project Talks To OSNews

From a first glance, 50-70% of these functions are documented, while the rest of them (having rather self-explanatory names) are not. Same applies to user32.dll and other core DLLs.

None of MS applications will ever work ..

On: Peter Tattam Of The PetrOS Project Talks To OSNews

.. under PetrOS as they all use undocumented APIs. Lots of them. So Trumpet will either have to reverse engineer core DLLs (which may bring MS lawers upon their as*es) or limit this new OS to documented APIs only (which is obviously a poor choice).

Misplaced comma

On: Finally, A Solution To The DMCA

"...On the thirteenth day, He discovered the fatal flaw, a misplaced comma He did find..."

In 1960s there was Soviet Venus Exploration Program. The first lander successfully decended to the Venus at 1967 was Venera 4. Note the ***4*** :) - according to the rumors previous 3 missed the Venus because there was an error in navigation program (written in Fortran) .. and, yes, you guessed it right - dot was misplaced with the comma :). But that's just a rumor though :)

Re:Fantastic argument!

On: Ask AtheOS Creator Kurt Skauen About His Creature

.. or may be he just wanted to code the OS for as long as he remembers :)

That should not be a big problem ..

On: Bringing Interruption-Based Ads To the Web

.. simple filter scanning http stream and replacing N second refresh with 0 second one should do nicely. :)