Just imagine what would happen if someone combined this hack with the blackops IP techniques discussed in prev/. article... could someone effectively wipe ALL the drives and servers running windows on the net?... do you think people would come down on MS then???
I think, that if this is left unpached, then those in the hacker community almost have a responsibility to fully exploit this... just to force a patch to be released... reformating 2^32 computer systems would get their attention, even if congress cant.
Scrue the self cleaning shue...
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I want the self cleaning car! ever since the gas station I frequent broke its car wash (8 months ago) Ive yet to get it washed...
are you kidding?!?!, the orrigional doom ran on 486's... and ran descently with enought memory... these cells are just as, if not more, powerfull with MORE memory than the 486's of DOOM's day.
dont worry about your framerates... just watch out for Imps arround the corner.:)
Typicly I will reuse my CDRW disks arround 10 -> 15 time, but im storeing my programs, mp3 backups, and web dev work... so once its backed up to my satisfaction... I stop...
Personaly I think that to acheve 30 -40 rewrites to a VCD disk with no real loss in quality beats the shit out of a VCR which you only really get 4-5 rewrites out of before you start noticeing quality issues...
Keep up the good work, and keep us informed as to when we can buy the set top version of your system:)
Ok, I know that we have found microbial bacteria in Antarctica... but take the temperatures there, and quintuple it... and you've got Pluto. Where, arguably, no life could survive past the microbial stage.
Now, go out a few million more miles, and your on one of these planets, who's temperatures make Pluto look like the Bahamas... NOW what are your odds?
The one thing that amuses me... is that the astronomers know the odds of finding life in the universe... infinitesimal, but life is out there. Yet, even when knowing this, they still hold hope of finding that life HERE in our own solar system.
Heres to the infinitely optimistic astronomer... Cheers!!!
Linux will never run out of money because they never had any to begin with... if linux can actualy move to the desktop, and off the server market,.. Plus gain application support enmase... then MS will definately have somthing to worry about... namely, a line of products with no bottom to hit.
I certenly feel your pain, I am currently the driving force in a 60,000+ code project. We (three of us) have speent a year on this project, and as of today, I have written 52,000 lines of code... and debugged all of it.
Now, I am the project lead, which means that the 5 month late period falls directly on MY head. Looking back on my mistakes, I have enough information to fill one of those "What NOT to do" management books that you have on your shelf... but here is what I have learned...
1) Make short, small, and precice yet reachable goals which every team member of your team must meet. If they cannot meet these deadlines, make it known that their job is on the line if they dont have a damn good reason.
2) Make it a habbit of looking over sholders. NEVER trust that the self touted code guru has what it takes... look at their code ever few hundred lines, or every few days.... it dosent take long to glance at code to know if its good or if its crap.
3) In large groups, impliment a peer review type system. Every week, pick one guy, and pass arround a few hundred line of his code. Pick the code randomly, and you might not want to tell the group whos code it is, there will be no anger direction that way... I found that helps. If the group can follow it, (they dont have to know exactaly what it does, just follow it), then ok... but out of a group of 5, there will be one that gets it just right, 2 that thinks its ok, and 3 that thinks it needs work. Have everyone present constructive criticizem of the code format, codeing methods, commenting, and structure to the group as a whole. The whole group will learn from it, and so will the author.
4) HAVE WELL DEFINED AND DOCUMENTED CODE STRUCTURE PRACTICES!!!! I cant type that in caps enough... if everyones code looks the same, and acts the same, then if you DO have to kick one of them off the team, anyone can pick it up and run with it.
5) If you choose to pick up all the work, then people will let you do it all... the trick is to EXPECT them to do the work! Make them accountable for missing a major deadline.
6) If payment for this project is dependant on meeting deadlines to the client, then make payment to the developer dependant on meeting project deadlines. You have no clue how hard people will work when rent is on the line.:) it is a brutal tactic, but so is the business...
7) Just remember that your not 'Uber Coder... no matter how good you are, your not going to carry the whole project yourself and get it in on time. But if you can make your coders accountable for their own work to the whole group... then you just might make a better group.
Thats my humble advice, now... as for my saveing grace... I have had to carry my project because I learned these lessions the hard way... but the client is pleased with my work, and now, I know.
Pre-Sig : My spelling sucks because Microsoft hasnt implimented a spell checker into IE.
this is somthng that graphic apps are notorious for.... just look at apps like 3D Studio Max.... it takes almost 3 months and a new book to re-learn the interface each time they release a new version.
She has found that when her kids were given these, the kids who had done NO work all year, were suddenly writeing papers, doing homework, and makeing B's (which for those kids is somthing)...
Its amazeing how much they get done when properly motivated. and its incrediable how the alpha smart motivates them.
in legal jargon, they cant say that the WILL give credit, if they miss placeing your name somewhere, you could sue the shit out of them, instead, they say use the phrase "make the best effort to" to imply that they will do their best.
to put that in context... its the same as me, a freelance software developer, saying in a contract:
"my company will make the program so that it cant be hacked"
or
"my company will make the best effort to construct the application in such a way to avoid user hacks"
Do you think that if they paid actors at the same ratio as they paid music artist that the actors would continue to make the movies?
No, their arguments haven't changed much over the years... but also, neither have peoples practices. I remember recording movies from the video store on my 2 VCR hookup... but I didn't dent the profit margin any...
And I don't believe that I will by burning or downloading the new Such-and-Such album either.
If I am ever to pay for my music.... I am going to want unlimited transfer..... then and only then would I pay for napster....
And I most likely would pay for the service.... playing banner games on hotline, and working with slow networks of buggy / slow / limiting applications like Morphious is getting a bit teadious......
I wonder if they have thrown in the continental drifts into the equasion.... if they are going to predict thousands of years into the future, then that has to have an affect, yet I saw no mention of that....
I also wonder if we will see any earthquake preditions comeing out of this.
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How long before the RIAA starts sueing those unsigned musicians for not being part of the RIAA?
Its not protected... it will work on your c:\drive.
We used to use this durring tech support when formating others hard drives to eliminate the confirmation step.
with the right command in the arg string, I think its /y, it will run automaticly.
Just imagine what would happen if someone combined this hack with the blackops IP techniques discussed in prev /. article... could someone effectively wipe ALL the drives and servers running windows on the net?... do you think people would come down on MS then???
I think, that if this is left unpached, then those in the hacker community almost have a responsibility to fully exploit this... just to force a patch to be released... reformating 2^32 computer systems would get their attention, even if congress cant.
I want the self cleaning car! ever since the gas station I frequent broke its car wash (8 months ago) Ive yet to get it washed...
*bad owner, BAD!*
are you kidding?!?!, the orrigional doom ran on 486's... and ran descently with enought memory... these cells are just as, if not more, powerfull with MORE memory than the 486's of DOOM's day.
:)
dont worry about your framerates... just watch out for Imps arround the corner.
Orrigional DOOM without a DOS prompt... SINFULL!!!
Oh well, at least this one wont (assumption) crash....
In 2 years we could all be War-Couch-Surfing....
/. HELLA slow today?
Is it just me, or is
this is true, but once DVDRW standards really get into place, he/you could just replace your drive and have a 4+gig disk. :)
Wont that be nice...
No, its you... :) /. has been doing this to random users for a while...
Typicly I will reuse my CDRW disks arround 10 -> 15 time, but im storeing my programs, mp3 backups, and web dev work... so once its backed up to my satisfaction... I stop...
:)
Personaly I think that to acheve 30 -40 rewrites to a VCD disk with no real loss in quality beats the shit out of a VCR which you only really get 4-5 rewrites out of before you start noticeing quality issues...
Keep up the good work, and keep us informed as to when we can buy the set top version of your system
Ok, I know that we have found microbial bacteria in Antarctica... but take the temperatures there, and quintuple it... and you've got Pluto. Where, arguably, no life could survive past the microbial stage.
Now, go out a few million more miles, and your on one of these planets, who's temperatures make Pluto look like the Bahamas... NOW what are your odds?
The one thing that amuses me... is that the astronomers know the odds of finding life in the universe... infinitesimal, but life is out there. Yet, even when knowing this, they still hold hope of finding that life HERE in our own solar system.
Heres to the infinitely optimistic astronomer... Cheers!!!
Linux will never run out of money because they never had any to begin with... if linux can actualy move to the desktop, and off the server market,.. Plus gain application support enmase... then MS will definately have somthing to worry about... namely, a line of products with no bottom to hit.
I certenly feel your pain, I am currently the driving force in a 60,000+ code project. We (three of us) have speent a year on this project, and as of today, I have written 52,000 lines of code... and debugged all of it.
:) it is a brutal tactic, but so is the business...
Now, I am the project lead, which means that the 5 month late period falls directly on MY head. Looking back on my mistakes, I have enough information to fill one of those "What NOT to do" management books that you have on your shelf... but here is what I have learned...
1) Make short, small, and precice yet reachable goals which every team member of your team must meet. If they cannot meet these deadlines, make it known that their job is on the line if they dont have a damn good reason.
2) Make it a habbit of looking over sholders. NEVER trust that the self touted code guru has what it takes... look at their code ever few hundred lines, or every few days.... it dosent take long to glance at code to know if its good or if its crap.
3) In large groups, impliment a peer review type system. Every week, pick one guy, and pass arround a few hundred line of his code. Pick the code randomly, and you might not want to tell the group whos code it is, there will be no anger direction that way... I found that helps. If the group can follow it, (they dont have to know exactaly what it does, just follow it), then ok... but out of a group of 5, there will be one that gets it just right, 2 that thinks its ok, and 3 that thinks it needs work. Have everyone present constructive criticizem of the code format, codeing methods, commenting, and structure to the group as a whole. The whole group will learn from it, and so will the author.
4) HAVE WELL DEFINED AND DOCUMENTED CODE STRUCTURE PRACTICES!!!! I cant type that in caps enough... if everyones code looks the same, and acts the same, then if you DO have to kick one of them off the team, anyone can pick it up and run with it.
5) If you choose to pick up all the work, then people will let you do it all... the trick is to EXPECT them to do the work! Make them accountable for missing a major deadline.
6) If payment for this project is dependant on meeting deadlines to the client, then make payment to the developer dependant on meeting project deadlines. You have no clue how hard people will work when rent is on the line.
7) Just remember that your not 'Uber Coder... no matter how good you are, your not going to carry the whole project yourself and get it in on time. But if you can make your coders accountable for their own work to the whole group... then you just might make a better group.
Thats my humble advice, now... as for my saveing grace... I have had to carry my project because I learned these lessions the hard way... but the client is pleased with my work, and now, I know.
Pre-Sig : My spelling sucks because Microsoft hasnt implimented a spell checker into IE.
this is somthng that graphic apps are notorious for.... just look at apps like 3D Studio Max.... it takes almost 3 months and a new book to re-learn the interface each time they release a new version.
Im working with 2 other developers and one source of fundage.... the client.
I has been an enormus task to get the software: A) bug free B) functional C) better than the compitition in a year.
There are problems, and there are alot of thing that I would like to do different.... but its just not possiable...
I can only hope that it does well after release. but it makes me wonder what I could have done with more fundage...
She has found that when her kids were given these, the kids who had done NO work all year, were suddenly writeing papers, doing homework, and makeing B's (which for those kids is somthing)...
Its amazeing how much they get done when properly motivated. and its incrediable how the alpha smart motivates them.
in legal jargon, they cant say that the WILL give credit, if they miss placeing your name somewhere, you could sue the shit out of them, instead, they say use the phrase "make the best effort to" to imply that they will do their best.
to put that in context... its the same as me, a freelance software developer, saying in a contract:
"my company will make the program so that it cant be hacked"
or
"my company will make the best effort to construct the application in such a way to avoid user hacks"
Im still looking for the part where I agree to give my soul to bioware when I buy the game. That always hapens when I buy one of these games.
well... if that isnt the pot calling the kettle black I dont know what is....
It takes a special kind of stupid to admit to doing the exact thing that he is trying to stop.
Do you think that if they paid actors at the same ratio as they paid music artist that the actors would continue to make the movies?
No, their arguments haven't changed much over the years... but also, neither have peoples practices. I remember recording movies from the video store on my 2 VCR hookup... but I didn't dent the profit margin any...
And I don't believe that I will by burning or downloading the new Such-and-Such album either.
Well, it was only a matter of time.... Not that it will matter much, its not like hotmail is exactly free from spam.
If I am ever to pay for my music.... I am going to want unlimited transfer..... then and only then would I pay for napster....
And I most likely would pay for the service.... playing banner games on hotline, and working with slow networks of buggy / slow / limiting applications like Morphious is getting a bit teadious......
Why would any site want to cover their own content with someone elses???
Ya, it only last for a couple of seconds, but that still long enough for me to find the back button...
Tech TV's site did this for a bit too...
I wonder if they have thrown in the continental drifts into the equasion.... if they are going to predict thousands of years into the future, then that has to have an affect, yet I saw no mention of that....
I also wonder if we will see any earthquake preditions comeing out of this.