Add them to the "Power Users" group. From Computer Management:
Power Users possess most administrative powers with some restrictions. Thus, Power Users can run legacy applications in addition to certified applications
A large number of programs want to be able to write and modify files located in system directories as well as make changes in the registry. Normal Users are not allowed to do this.
"Start --> Help --> Search --> Power Users" to get a list of the things Power Users are able to do and what they are restricted from doing.
Without the admin password used for the NAV server, it's difficult to remove the client from a computer. Most administrators of NAV servers lock everything down on the client. This includes restricting a user from making changes to the configuration or being able to stop administrative scans. Symantec has a 20-step process listed on their website to remove the client if you don't have the admin password. The instruction are a little too involved for the average user.
SCO's lawsuit against IBM is over a breach of contract. It doesn't mention the GPL at all. However, IBM's countersuit does bring up the GPL several times. SCO's lawsuit can be laughed out of court without affecting IBM's countersuit. From what I've heard, IBM would like a court ruling backing the GPL as much as the rest of the open source community. The chances of IBM dropping their countersuit is really small. If IBM is sending subpoenas to investors, then it sounds like IBM would like to make an example out of SCO and everyone that has helped them.
I have a Digital VT510 serial console sitting in front of me. I really like it since I can connect to two differnt computers via serial connections at the same time. Finding MMJ cables and DB25 --> MMJ adapters is a pain though. I also have a Digital VT420 serial console floating around here somewhere. It's possible to get NICs for them so that they can get their own IP and connect online.
I'm writing an evil spambot email collection tool. Much to my surprise, people are making it hard for me to collect email addresses to sell to the scum-of-the-earth spammers. How do you change your email address to fool spambots like mine? This way I can create a new spambot that can determine what your real email address is so that we can stuff it with spam. Please ignore my shinny new account and the trolling I'm doing cleverly disguised as an EXPERIMENT.
There are a number of countries that lack the necessary laws to protect the interests of copy right holders. A number of people have mentioned, including kernel developers, that if SCO is successful with their lawsuit against IBM and their threats of charging Linux users, then the Linux kernel development will simply be moved off shore.
I was pointing out a problem that may be overlooked by companies interested in out sourcing. Lineo obviously overlooked this problem. Yes, a local out sourcing company could infringe on the copy righted works of others. But then they open themselves up to the same lawsuit that was brought against Lineo. I haven't seen any attept by Lineo or Canopy to sue Hexamark Technologies over the infringement. This brings into question whether such an attempt is even possible.
Claiming I was spreading FUD about other countries lacking a competitive advantage is simply an absurd exaggeration on your part. Not having to conform to the laws of the US can be seen by some as a competitive advantage.
In a telephone interview, Canopy's chief executive acknowledged that Lineo had infringed on MontaVista's copyrights but blamed the transgression on the work of Hexamark Technologies, an Indian outsourcing company that worked for Lineo.
Here is something that many companies that are pushing all of their IT offshore may not have thought about. The developers in some third world country may either not care about intellectual propertiy infringement issues or copying others work may be legal in that country (i.e. - they don't have laws saying that it is illegal). But that doesn't help the company that has pushed their business offshore to make a quick buck on cheap labor and may very well be setting themselves up for failure. Getting sued because of something the company you out sourced to did will eat up any profits from working with that company.
I first saw the virus on the evening of the 18th. Running 'strings' on the attachment turned up two URL's.
GET http://ww2.fce.vutbr.cz/bin/counter.gif/link=bacil lus&width=6&set=cnt006 HTTP/
1.0
ww2.fce.vutbr.cz
The first was a counter. At the time I checked it had well over a million hits and was going up FAST. At the time I'd been hit by about 20 copies of the virus. The next morning the counter was taken down and replaced with a warning. At that time I'd been "hit" over 70 times by the virus.
There seems to be variations to the emails that contain the virus. The main one is a 160K email that contains an attachmentwith a content type of Application/X-MSDOWNLOAD. The second is about 148K is size and the attachment has the content type of Audio/X-WAV. There are some emails that are 16K in size but the attachment is a zero length file. I've also been getting emails claiming to be "bounces" from Yahoo and other ISP's saying I'm trying to send a virus infected email to someone. But the Received lines show the the email is not from Yahoo. So far I've received over 170 of these damn things.
Then there are all of the real ISP's who are not helping the problem. I keep getting warnings claiming that someone I don't know tried to send me an email with a virus. Thank you, but your anti-virus software just sent out a useless email and just accomplished one of the goals of swen, to clog up email servers. Send an email to the moron who is currently infected and stop sending out thousands of emails telling everyone else about it.
This may sound harsh, but I'm really hoping the next big Microsoft worm or virus will disable the infected comupters.
Can those that pay by the amount of data that flows through their pipes start charging VeriSign for the extra traffic?
Currently, the page VeriSign is approximately 2.9k is size. What happens they start adding banner ads? Will the extra traffic slow down the internet as a whole?
I wouldn't be surprised if the next Microsoft worm used VeriSign's new "feature" to bring the internet to a crawl.
$ host thisdomaindoesnotexist.com
thisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 64.94.110.11
So every program that looked for a DNS error when a domain does not exist will no longer get that error. I wonder what kind of problems this will create.
Hi. I want to test my 5ki11z against Big Brother. I thought I'd ask first on/. using my 31337 SE 5ki11z and see if anyone was dumb enough to let me know what I'm up against or point out any easy targets. Can you also post IP blocks, OS's and software used, any logins and passwords.....
That would be one way for Microsoft to get rid of company that has pissed them off in the past. Convince the new CEO to single handedly take on an 800-lb gorilla and a hornet's nest.
I believe that NT variants of Windows have full event logging and such (for instance, I think there's a GUI tool similar to last, but harder to find).
Are you refering to Event Viewer? The logging you see isn't as verbose as what you can get through syslog. And the entries in Event Viewer will sometimes let you know when something is wrong, but trying to figure out what the exact problem is and how to fix it is not always easy. About the most useful entry is the Event ID, but doing a search for that on TechNet will 9 times out of 10 give you the same worthless description of the problem that the entry in the Event Viewer gives you. And don't get me started on the lack of logging with Active Directory. I've seen it lock up several times and the only error you get is DNS complaining about not being able to contact Active Directory. I still have no idea what went wrong since there was no errors logged any where.
If I park someone in I deny them the right to use their car, but I haven't stolen it. I'm talking about the legal definition of theft not your intuitive definition of it. Intent is key, if I intended to return it I did not steal it.
The courts disagree with your intuitive definition of intent with regard to stealing.
With regard to whether the car was stolen, defendant asserts that there was no evidence presented that he intended to permanently deprive the owner of her car. Defendant's argument hinges on his assertion that for the property to be "stolen," it must have been taken by larceny and, thus, taken with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of possession. Defendant is correct that a larceny requires that the property must be taken with such an intent. See, e.g., Cain, supra at 119, citing People v Goodchild, 68 Mich App 226, 232; 242 NW2d 465 (1976) ("The felonious intent required for larceny, animus furandi, is an intent to permanently deprive the owner of his property."). However, we find that the statute concerns any property taken without permission, not only property taken by larceny.
MCL 750.535(3)(a) requires that a defendant must have possessed stolen goods. However, the statute does not define "stolen." In the absence of statutory definition of a term, this Court may consult dictionary definitions to determine the common meaning of a term. People v Morey, 461 Mich 325, 330; 603 NW2d 250 (1999). Random House Webster's College Dictionary (2000), defines "steal" as "to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force," and "to appropriate . . . without right or acknowledgement." For goods to be considered stolen under this definition, they need only be taken without permission or right; thus, "stolen" goods encompass a broader category than just goods taken by larceny. Defendant conceded that sufficient evidence was offered to permit a reasonable jury to conclude that he took the car without permission. Accordingly, the jury could have concluded that the car was "stolen" as that term is used in the statute.
I can point out other cases that essentially say the same thing if you would like.
If you take someone's car and then return it, it's still theft. You denied the owner his right to use his car while you had it. Not only that, he can blame you for EVERYTHING that is wrong with the car. Whether you had anything to do with it or not. A tear in the seat, engine runs a little rough, a dent in the fender, etc. Even if you didn't cause any problems, how are you going to prove that you had nothing to do with it? You did take the car without permission. Who's going to believe you?
Same issue with White Hat hacking. If you break into someones computer or network, then you can get blamed for EVERYTHING that goes wrong. A harddrive dies, a computer gets infected with a virus, techs have to get called in to fix a networking problem, etc. If you had unauthorized access, you can be blamed. And who's going to believe you when you say all you did was look around? How are you going to prove that you had nothing to do with the problems? Sure, you can give the authorities a log of what happened, but how are you going to prove to them and a court that you didn't alter them to make yourself look good? At best, using a log to prove your you didn't destroy anything will prove that you did break into the computer(s)/network. Remember, anything can and WILL be used against you.
Even though it goes into effect on 8/31, the number of telemarketer calls has gone up since I've signed up. Surprise, surprise..... The telemarketers have a new and verified list of people to call. Kind of like yelling down the hallway of a college dorm that you are trying to sleep and then wonder why everyone that walks by bangs on your door. My only fear is that someone will sue to have Do-Not-Call list stopped from going into affect.
"One could argue that developers could write exact or very similar code, but the developers' comments in the code are basically your DNA, or fingerprints, for a particular piece of source code," said Laura DiDio, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group (Boston), who viewed the evidence.
OMFG!!!!
Since SCO has not released this information to the public, who can realistically say that SCO didn't plant this evidence? Until SCO's "evidence" is released so that _EVERYONE_ can evaluate it, who's to say that SCO didn't claim that code from some Joe Linux kernel hacker as their own under SCO's fucked up idea that all derivative code of UNIX V belongs to them? Until SCO's "evidence" is released to the world, the issue is a Red Herring(TM). Unfortunately, not everyone in the business world looks at the issue this way.
So I question - what can Microsoft do to usenet? I suspect, nothing
nice. Probably their efforts result in even more MIME/HTML postings,
with binaries attached in non-binary groups (probably something like
"My Signature.exe").
Nice. Now we know what will be the cause of the next big internet worm, MS's USENET client auto
executing signatures.....
RICO requires that an "enterprise" be shown to exist. "Enterprise" is broadly defined to mean "any individual, partnership,
corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity."
Yes it does. Rambus was facing the possibility of RICO charges at one point.
Cnet says : Two-thirds of the unclaimed money will go to California public schools in a mix of donated Microsoft software and cash grants."
I feel sorry for the students of the public schools in California. I was a student there myself over ten years ago. Everytime something like this comes down, the state pulls that much from what they give to the schools. When Loto first came around, all of the politicians stood behind it because of all the money that would be pumped into the school system. The next year when it came time to do the state budget, what ever amount of money that was being pumped into the schools from Loto was pulled out of the state budget for the school system and used elsewhere. When the amount that Loto was bringing in started to fluxuate, everyone cried foul. But the state didn't lift a finger. One year I remember being told by a teacher that the school didn't have anymore money to buy paper for the rest of the school year. And this was only a couple of months into the school year.
Those with money could care less what happens to the public school system because they send their kids to private schools.
Whenever something happens were "EXTRA" money goes to the school system, the schools never see it. The state will use that money as an excuse to withhold that amount during the next years budget. And the state wonders why they have one of the worse public school systems in the world....
Slashdot Mirror
"Start --> Help --> Search --> Power Users" to get a list of the things Power Users are able to do and what they are restricted from doing.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle /sts-102/html/s102e5100.html
And why would the switch above the data plate be in russian on the Space Shuttle? The URL doesn't tell the whole story. Nice try though.
Making intrusive changes to a stable kernel didn't them kernel developers from completely replacing the VM subsystem.
Without the admin password used for the NAV server, it's difficult to remove the client from a computer. Most administrators of NAV servers lock everything down on the client. This includes restricting a user from making changes to the configuration or being able to stop administrative scans. Symantec has a 20-step process listed on their website to remove the client if you don't have the admin password. The instruction are a little too involved for the average user.
Oh..., you're talking about game consoles...
I'm writing an evil spambot email collection tool. Much to my surprise, people are making it hard for me to collect email addresses to sell to the scum-of-the-earth spammers. How do you change your email address to fool spambots like mine? This way I can create a new spambot that can determine what your real email address is so that we can stuff it with spam. Please ignore my shinny new account and the trolling I'm doing cleverly disguised as an EXPERIMENT.
There are a number of countries that lack the necessary laws to protect the interests of copy right holders. A number of people have mentioned, including kernel developers, that if SCO is successful with their lawsuit against IBM and their threats of charging Linux users, then the Linux kernel development will simply be moved off shore.
I was pointing out a problem that may be overlooked by companies interested in out sourcing. Lineo obviously overlooked this problem. Yes, a local out sourcing company could infringe on the copy righted works of others. But then they open themselves up to the same lawsuit that was brought against Lineo. I haven't seen any attept by Lineo or Canopy to sue Hexamark Technologies over the infringement. This brings into question whether such an attempt is even possible.
Claiming I was spreading FUD about other countries lacking a competitive advantage is simply an absurd exaggeration on your part. Not having to conform to the laws of the US can be seen by some as a competitive advantage.
GET http://ww2.fce.vutbr.cz/bin/counter.gif/link=bacil lus&width=6&set=cnt006 HTTP/
1.0
ww2.fce.vutbr.cz
The first was a counter. At the time I checked it had well over a million hits and was going up FAST. At the time I'd been hit by about 20 copies of the virus. The next morning the counter was taken down and replaced with a warning. At that time I'd been "hit" over 70 times by the virus.
There seems to be variations to the emails that contain the virus. The main one is a 160K email that contains an attachmentwith a content type of Application/X-MSDOWNLOAD. The second is about 148K is size and the attachment has the content type of Audio/X-WAV. There are some emails that are 16K in size but the attachment is a zero length file. I've also been getting emails claiming to be "bounces" from Yahoo and other ISP's saying I'm trying to send a virus infected email to someone. But the Received lines show the the email is not from Yahoo. So far I've received over 170 of these damn things.
Then there are all of the real ISP's who are not helping the problem. I keep getting warnings claiming that someone I don't know tried to send me an email with a virus. Thank you, but your anti-virus software just sent out a useless email and just accomplished one of the goals of swen, to clog up email servers. Send an email to the moron who is currently infected and stop sending out thousands of emails telling everyone else about it.
This may sound harsh, but I'm really hoping the next big Microsoft worm or virus will disable the infected comupters.
Currently, the page VeriSign is approximately 2.9k is size. What happens they start adding banner ads? Will the extra traffic slow down the internet as a whole?
I wouldn't be surprised if the next Microsoft worm used VeriSign's new "feature" to bring the internet to a crawl.
$ host thisdomaindoesnotexist.com
thisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 64.94.110.11
So every program that looked for a DNS error when a domain does not exist will no longer get that error. I wonder what kind of problems this will create.
Anything else I'm missing?
Hi. I want to test my 5ki11z against Big Brother. I thought I'd ask first on /. using my 31337 SE 5ki11z and see if anyone was dumb enough to let me know what I'm up against or point out any easy targets. Can you also post IP blocks, OS's and software used, any logins and passwords.....
"We'll be there for you .... honest ...."
http://courtofappeals.mijud.net/documents/OPINIONS /FINAL/COA/20021217_C228081_57_280O.228081.OPN.COA .PDF
I can point out other cases that essentially say the same thing if you would like.Same issue with White Hat hacking. If you break into someones computer or network, then you can get blamed for EVERYTHING that goes wrong. A harddrive dies, a computer gets infected with a virus, techs have to get called in to fix a networking problem, etc. If you had unauthorized access, you can be blamed. And who's going to believe you when you say all you did was look around? How are you going to prove that you had nothing to do with the problems? Sure, you can give the authorities a log of what happened, but how are you going to prove to them and a court that you didn't alter them to make yourself look good? At best, using a log to prove your you didn't destroy anything will prove that you did break into the computer(s)/network. Remember, anything can and WILL be used against you.
Even though it goes into effect on 8/31, the number of telemarketer calls has gone up since I've signed up. Surprise, surprise..... The telemarketers have a new and verified list of people to call. Kind of like yelling down the hallway of a college dorm that you are trying to sleep and then wonder why everyone that walks by bangs on your door. My only fear is that someone will sue to have Do-Not-Call list stopped from going into affect.
Torvalds: They are smoking crack.
Since SCO has not released this information to the public, who can realistically say that SCO didn't plant this evidence? Until SCO's "evidence" is released so that _EVERYONE_ can evaluate it, who's to say that SCO didn't claim that code from some Joe Linux kernel hacker as their own under SCO's fucked up idea that all derivative code of UNIX V belongs to them? Until SCO's "evidence" is released to the world, the issue is a Red Herring(TM). Unfortunately, not everyone in the business world looks at the issue this way.
Linux Users - You don't scare me with this Gestapo shit.
SCO - Tell me, what good is a kernel if you have to pay for it?
Those with money could care less what happens to the public school system because they send their kids to private schools.
Whenever something happens were "EXTRA" money goes to the school system, the schools never see it. The state will use that money as an excuse to withhold that amount during the next years budget. And the state wonders why they have one of the worse public school systems in the world....