I still today spend way more time in a 4DOS (or well, 4NT) prompt than I do in the windows GUI.
Virtually everything I do at work is done via 4NT BTM files (batchfiles that only work in 4DOS/4NT).
The CMD line interface is really good, and it makes me a little sad that new computerusers don't realize this.
Some things are just done so much quicker using the CMD interface...
For example, I use multiple computers at work, and I have to transfer files between them all the time.. I do this using 4NT BTM's, and it takes a few seconds to transfer a file... doing the same thing in a FTP app takes much longer...
Hmm.. I was going to check how long it would take to run out of water if we really used 1500Kg's per computer.. but then I realized that we have a lot of it.... 1,400,000,000,000,000,000 (1,400 quadrillion) tons to be semi-exact:)
...requires at least 240 kilograms of fossil fuels, 22 kilograms of chemicals and 1,500 kilograms of water.
So, 1500Kg's is water... How do you use water such that it doesn't go back into circulation?
I mean, are they keeping the water in the computers or blasting it off into space after using it?
Resonably, the water is put back where it came from after being used and cleaned, so really it requires 300Kg's of raw material to produce a PC.
monitor requires at least 240 kilograms of fossil fuels
Monitors run on petrol?
I'd like to know how they got these figures. I mean, they didn't do something retarded like checking how much energy is used to produce a monitor, checking how much petrol would be required to produce that energy and then just using that figure?
Depending on where you are, the energy could be coming from water/wind/sun, or some other enviromentally friendly source.
I don't doubt for a second that PC's are unfriendly to the enviroment, and we should try to recycle... but 1800Kgs, when 1500 of it is water.. c'mon...
The company's main demonstration for the last several weeks has been a version built into a piece of open-source Gnutella software.
I don't know that much about licenses, but shouldn't the modifications to Gnutella force them to release the modified source?
If so, they must release the source fully so we can see how they are doing the filtering.
Anyone know if you are allowed to modify Gnutella without having to release the source?
This is hypothetical since I don't use music swapping programs. I only rip CDs I purchased and don't make them publically available.
I don't rip music, as I don't buy CDs. I don't download music either (well, not often anyways). Instead, I use shoutcast radio and listen to one of the thousands of radio channels that are available. I subscribe to www.di.fm, so I get a 192Kbit stream.
Not too bad at all.
I will NEVER buy a CD again... because it's too expensive, and since they started with the "copyprotection"... well.. f-off... If it can't be played on my computer.. I don't want it!
In regards to copyprotection software like the one in the article... being implemented in client-side P2P software... well... good luck.
I would like to see how my bittorrent client will recognize mp3's, as there is no file to compare to until I have the entire file downloaded.
I tried buying a license (just to see how much it was), and this is what I got:
The host 216.250.128.240 could not be contacted.
Guess they're having IP problems:)
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1, People complain when Microsoft doesn't follow standards, and now people are complaining because they ARE following standards?
2, How are raw sockets connected to a worm that uses HTTP GET request to DoS a website?
What this is about is: before XP, it was possible to recognise (and block) this sort of traffic at the routers.
So you are saying that the HTTP GET requests sent from a non-WinXP machine can be blocked, whereas the ones originating from WinXP machines cannot? One question (which you won't be able to answer as you are wrong, but still)... How??
lthough I certainly don't approve of these malicious virii, I can't help but think that Microsoft is partially responsible for the attacks on itself. Maybe this will be a wake up call to them that security on Windows sucks ass.
In related news: Due to an overwhelming number of trojans DoS attacking various sites, Microsoft has decided that only Internet Explorer is allowed to make outgoing HTTP GET requests on port 80.
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I think SCO have took their site down themselves as the attack shouldn't have happened yet.
Not everyone sets the time on their computers right... I mean, the people getting infected are probably 12 O'clock flashers anyways (all electronic equipment in their house flashes 00:00).
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Sunday isn't even a business day? How much money will they not lose?
...are you saying they would loose money if it was a business day?
Well, I guess they have received "linux-fees" from 12 linux users so far... so if the DoS attack keeps the website down for a week, they might loose like USD 600 (or whatever the fee was).
The person who wrote the worm is not very good anyways... only 25% of infected machines will perform the DoS attack (see the virus information page for McAfee and Symantec).
Anyways, they are counting that there's about 1Million infected machines, and if 25% of those do the DoS attack, it's 250 000 machines.. which would still be the largest DDoS attack in history so far.
One thing I don't understand is why the DNS entry hasn't been removed for www.sco.com. I mean, they have no chance in hell of stopping this thing, and keeping the DNS entry intact causes a slowdown on a lot more things than just SCO's webserver.
I guess it's just a matter of time until www.sco.com is pointing to www.slashdot.org:)
So far, I've submitted copies of this to Symantec, and ClamAV, both of which did not detect it in the latest definitions.
Either you're lying or you don't have the latest definitions.
From the Symantec page: Virus Definitions (LiveUpdate(TM)) ** January 18, 2004
1, It's 20th today, and this thing has been in the defs since 18.
2, I use NAV and it detected the worm fine for me...
To me it's unbelievable that people get infected with this thing. There's no good social engineering applied to the worm or the email message, the attachment is a.exe, which is something companies should be filtering (people wanting to send execuables can zip them) and it doesn't use any exploits. It's just unbelievable that this can happen... AGAIN!
This last one would also work in reverse, meaning hams, airplanes, or the military keying up their radios could take out large areas of internet service (with airplanes, potentially over several hundred miles).
I've seen tons of post suggesting that a few bytes changed in the file will get around the hashing.
First of all, I don't think this is necessarly true. They never say how they will hash the file... for all we know the hash could be based on every 100th byte in the file.
Secondly, how many KaZzA users know how to change bytes in a file using a hexeditor? How many KaZzA users know what a hexeditor is?
I think that packing is the best way of getting around hashing. Zip, Rar, Ace etc etc... just use a packer and the hash is useless...
And anybody who thinks a joke is still funny after being constantly retold for more than 50 years is only excused if he has a brain tumor.
Actually, Brain Tumors are really serious, most often fatal, and not funny at all. The French giving up was a choice, braintumor is not... I'd say you should have skipped the brain tumor excuse part.
Making fun of the French is fine. Americans make fun of Canadians, Swedish people make fun of Norwegians, Brits make fun of French and Irish, Irish make fun of Brittish... etc etc etc...
Why do the Irish make fun of the Brittish? Why not make fun of Arabic people instead? Obviously, the reason is based on some serious history, just like the French jokes you don't find funny.
Point being, everyone does it and most people think it's funny, so you're a minority in this case. If these jokes were hurting someone, then I'd agree that they are bad. However, in this case, what bad can come out of joking about the French? At worst, one or two pissed of French people... which won't make a difference cause French people are rude an impolite anyways:)
Oh c'mon. They gave up much quicker than they had to. They stood by watching German Nazis parade down Champs Elysee through Arc de Triumph merely days after the attacking started. They would have been beaten eventually, and they probably saved lives by giving up... but at the same time they gave up their pride and gave us the right to make fun of them for it.
SCO has superior intellectual property, France will be part of the SCO empire by noon tomorrow (altought some brave souls will fight SCO by using Linux without paying... zat is ze French way). McBride will walk victoriously down Champs Elysee, and then through Arc de Triumph, where Linus will smack him in the head with a small eiffeltower he bought for 25euros (ripoff) outside the Eiffel Tower... and SCO will be no more...
Linus will take the Thalys to Amsterdam to celebrate his victory... little does he know that McBride didn't die, and the girl he's about to visit in Amsterdam is really McBride in disguise...
Please tune in tomorrow for the next episode of: "Linus Eiffelsmacks McBride and then shags him".
I'm Swedish too, and it's been over seven years since I left Sweden. I think the country is great, but I am just not willing to pay the taxes. Sweden has the worlds highest tax-pressure (this is true for 2002, google for it and you'll see).
So yes, everything is nice and everything works, but you just can't make money in the country.
I'll will move back eventually, either after making my fortunes, or getting old enough:)
Alright, I'm Swedish, so I might have made a mistake or two.. I'm not doing a complete translation, just translating the relevant bits.
Content should be accurate though.
Lawyer: DVD-Jon is on holiday in France, and I haven't spoken to him yet. However, we have discussed this as a possible outcome, and I therefore know that he will be very pleased to hear the news, as he can finally relax and stop thinking about this case.
It has been 4 years since the legal actions against DVD-Jon were taken, and he was only 15 at the time. It has been a heavy burden for him during these important years in his life. However, I think he has handled the situation well. He wrote DeCSS so that people can play DVD's on other OS'es than Windows. This case has been brought up by IT media all over the world, and many people have expressed support for DVD-Jon.
From the verdict in the "lagmannsretten" in december last year, the court said that it was clear that he had bought the DVD's himself, and therefore he has the right to play them however he wishes to.
"Lagmannsretten" also said that if you buy a DVD, there is a risk that it may become damaged, and therefore you have the right to make a copy of the DVD, if it's a movie you intend to preserve.
As I said, not an exact translation, but should be sufficient:)
Slashdot Mirror
Well, if you buy one of these, dont forget to double the space and increase the speed!
If you wanna speed it up even more, you should defraggle the drive :)
Remember??
I still today spend way more time in a 4DOS (or well, 4NT) prompt than I do in the windows GUI.
Virtually everything I do at work is done via 4NT BTM files (batchfiles that only work in 4DOS/4NT).
The CMD line interface is really good, and it makes me a little sad that new computerusers don't realize this.
Some things are just done so much quicker using the CMD interface...
For example, I use multiple computers at work, and I have to transfer files between them all the time.. I do this using 4NT BTM's, and it takes a few seconds to transfer a file... doing the same thing in a FTP app takes much longer...
Hmm.. I was going to check how long it would take to run out of water if we really used 1500Kg's per computer.. but then I realized that we have a lot of it.... 1,400,000,000,000,000,000 (1,400 quadrillion) tons to be semi-exact :)
...requires at least 240 kilograms of fossil fuels, 22 kilograms of chemicals and 1,500 kilograms of water.
So, 1500Kg's is water... How do you use water such that it doesn't go back into circulation?
I mean, are they keeping the water in the computers or blasting it off into space after using it?
Resonably, the water is put back where it came from after being used and cleaned, so really it requires 300Kg's of raw material to produce a PC.
monitor requires at least 240 kilograms of fossil fuels
Monitors run on petrol?
I'd like to know how they got these figures. I mean, they didn't do something retarded like checking how much energy is used to produce a monitor, checking how much petrol would be required to produce that energy and then just using that figure?
Depending on where you are, the energy could be coming from water/wind/sun, or some other enviromentally friendly source.
I don't doubt for a second that PC's are unfriendly to the enviroment, and we should try to recycle... but 1800Kgs, when 1500 of it is water.. c'mon...
Microsoft's evil plan
McInsane
:)
:)
I've always been thinking that McDonalds should name a burger after McBride (I mean, how good wouldn't it feel it eat a McBride for lunch)
I must say that McInsane is an even better name for it
The company's main demonstration for the last several weeks has been a version built into a piece of open-source Gnutella software.
I don't know that much about licenses, but shouldn't the modifications to Gnutella force them to release the modified source?
If so, they must release the source fully so we can see how they are doing the filtering.
Anyone know if you are allowed to modify Gnutella without having to release the source?
This is hypothetical since I don't use music swapping programs. I only rip CDs I purchased and don't make them publically available.
.. alright.. guess I'm done ranting for now :)
I don't rip music, as I don't buy CDs. I don't download music either (well, not often anyways). Instead, I use shoutcast radio and listen to one of the thousands of radio channels that are available. I subscribe to www.di.fm, so I get a 192Kbit stream. Not too bad at all.
I will NEVER buy a CD again... because it's too expensive, and since they started with the "copyprotection"... well.. f-off... If it can't be played on my computer.. I don't want it!
In regards to copyprotection software like the one in the article... being implemented in client-side P2P software... well... good luck.
I would like to see how my bittorrent client will recognize mp3's, as there is no file to compare to until I have the entire file downloaded.
Brilliant man!!
:)
It's been a while since I laughed that hard
I tried buying a license (just to see how much it was), and this is what I got: The host 216.250.128.240 could not be contacted. Guess they're having IP problems :)
1, People complain when Microsoft doesn't follow standards, and now people are complaining because they ARE following standards?
2, How are raw sockets connected to a worm that uses HTTP GET request to DoS a website?
What this is about is: before XP, it was possible to recognise (and block) this sort of traffic at the routers.
So you are saying that the HTTP GET requests sent from a non-WinXP machine can be blocked, whereas the ones originating from WinXP machines cannot?
One question (which you won't be able to answer as you are wrong, but still)... How??
3, Profit!
lthough I certainly don't approve of these malicious virii, I can't help but think that Microsoft is partially responsible for the attacks on itself. Maybe this will be a wake up call to them that security on Windows sucks ass.
In related news: Due to an overwhelming number of trojans DoS attacking various sites, Microsoft has decided that only Internet Explorer is allowed to make outgoing HTTP GET requests on port 80.
I think SCO have took their site down themselves as the attack shouldn't have happened yet.
Not everyone sets the time on their computers right... I mean, the people getting infected are probably 12 O'clock flashers anyways (all electronic equipment in their house flashes 00:00).
Sunday isn't even a business day? How much money will they not lose?
...are you saying they would loose money if it was a business day?
:)
Well, I guess they have received "linux-fees" from 12 linux users so far... so if the DoS attack keeps the website down for a week, they might loose like USD 600 (or whatever the fee was).
The person who wrote the worm is not very good anyways... only 25% of infected machines will perform the DoS attack (see the virus information page for McAfee and Symantec).
Anyways, they are counting that there's about 1Million infected machines, and if 25% of those do the DoS attack, it's 250 000 machines.. which would still be the largest DDoS attack in history so far.
One thing I don't understand is why the DNS entry hasn't been removed for www.sco.com. I mean, they have no chance in hell of stopping this thing, and keeping the DNS entry intact causes a slowdown on a lot more things than just SCO's webserver.
I guess it's just a matter of time until www.sco.com is pointing to www.slashdot.org
Ahh... you fortunate people..
I'm from Sweden, and this is the taxsituation in the country with the worlds highest taxpressure!
Public Revenue from Taxes and Social Security Contributions as Percentage of the Gross Domestic Product.
Sweden:
1975 = 43,4%
1985 = 50%
1995 = 47,6%
1998 = 52%
1999 = 52,1%
2000 = 52%
Canada:
1975 = 33,1%
1985 = 33,1%
1995 = 35,7%
1998 = 37,4%
2000 = 37,4%
:)
So, you guys thought you were paying a lot of taxes huh?
So far, I've submitted copies of this to Symantec, and ClamAV, both of which did not detect it in the latest definitions.
.exe, which is something companies should be filtering (people wanting to send execuables can zip them) and it doesn't use any exploits. It's just unbelievable that this can happen... AGAIN!
Either you're lying or you don't have the latest definitions.
From the Symantec page: Virus Definitions (LiveUpdate(TM)) ** January 18, 2004
1, It's 20th today, and this thing has been in the defs since 18.
2, I use NAV and it detected the worm fine for me...
To me it's unbelievable that people get infected with this thing. There's no good social engineering applied to the worm or the email message, the attachment is a
This last one would also work in reverse, meaning hams, airplanes, or the military keying up their radios could take out large areas of internet service (with airplanes, potentially over several hundred miles).
...but we get faster internet, right? :)
I've seen tons of post suggesting that a few bytes changed in the file will get around the hashing.
... just use a packer and the hash is useless...
First of all, I don't think this is necessarly true. They never say how they will hash the file... for all we know the hash could be based on every 100th byte in the file.
Secondly, how many KaZzA users know how to change bytes in a file using a hexeditor? How many KaZzA users know what a hexeditor is?
I think that packing is the best way of getting around hashing. Zip, Rar, Ace etc etc
And anybody who thinks a joke is still funny after being constantly retold for more than 50 years is only excused if he has a brain tumor.
... etc etc etc...
:)
Actually, Brain Tumors are really serious, most often fatal, and not funny at all. The French giving up was a choice, braintumor is not... I'd say you should have skipped the brain tumor excuse part.
Making fun of the French is fine. Americans make fun of Canadians, Swedish people make fun of Norwegians, Brits make fun of French and Irish, Irish make fun of Brittish
Why do the Irish make fun of the Brittish? Why not make fun of Arabic people instead? Obviously, the reason is based on some serious history, just like the French jokes you don't find funny.
Point being, everyone does it and most people think it's funny, so you're a minority in this case. If these jokes were hurting someone, then I'd agree that they are bad. However, in this case, what bad can come out of joking about the French? At worst, one or two pissed of French people... which won't make a difference cause French people are rude an impolite anyways
Oh c'mon. They gave up much quicker than they had to. They stood by watching German Nazis parade down Champs Elysee through Arc de Triumph merely days after the attacking started. They would have been beaten eventually, and they probably saved lives by giving up... but at the same time they gave up their pride and gave us the right to make fun of them for it.
SCO has superior intellectual property, France will be part of the SCO empire by noon tomorrow (altought some brave souls will fight SCO by using Linux without paying... zat is ze French way). McBride will walk victoriously down Champs Elysee, and then through Arc de Triumph, where Linus will smack him in the head with a small eiffeltower he bought for 25euros (ripoff) outside the Eiffel Tower... and SCO will be no more...
Linus will take the Thalys to Amsterdam to celebrate his victory... little does he know that McBride didn't die, and the girl he's about to visit in Amsterdam is really McBride in disguise...
Please tune in tomorrow for the next episode of: "Linus Eiffelsmacks McBride and then shags him".
I'm Swedish too, and it's been over seven years since I left Sweden. I think the country is great, but I am just not willing to pay the taxes. Sweden has the worlds highest tax-pressure (this is true for 2002, google for it and you'll see).
:)
So yes, everything is nice and everything works, but you just can't make money in the country.
I'll will move back eventually, either after making my fortunes, or getting old enough
Hmm.. maybe I can stop replying to myself soon... it appears that's the old story ... the new one aint up yet :-/
:)
Murphy, you got away this time
and... what do you know... after spending 10min translating the thing, this appeared.
:)
Damn you Murphy
Alright, I'm Swedish, so I might have made a mistake or two.. I'm not doing a complete translation, just translating the relevant bits. Content should be accurate though.
:)
Lawyer: DVD-Jon is on holiday in France, and I haven't spoken to him yet. However, we have discussed this as a possible outcome, and I therefore know that he will be very pleased to hear the news, as he can finally relax and stop thinking about this case.
It has been 4 years since the legal actions against DVD-Jon were taken, and he was only 15 at the time. It has been a heavy burden for him during these important years in his life. However, I think he has handled the situation well. He wrote DeCSS so that people can play DVD's on other OS'es than Windows. This case has been brought up by IT media all over the world, and many people have expressed support for DVD-Jon.
From the verdict in the "lagmannsretten" in december last year, the court said that it was clear that he had bought the DVD's himself, and therefore he has the right to play them however he wishes to.
"Lagmannsretten" also said that if you buy a DVD, there is a risk that it may become damaged, and therefore you have the right to make a copy of the DVD, if it's a movie you intend to preserve.
As I said, not an exact translation, but should be sufficient