I find it ironic that Net2Phone would be trying to claim any patent/invention ownership of thier software, considering the fact that they stole the source code for VocalTec and called it Net2Phone....
If you have WiFi (802.11b/g), you can make outbound long distance using any SIP client (i.e. X-Lite) communicating to any SIP provider (i.e. Voxee) at 1.1 cents per minute... Why would you want to use cellular ($0.07/min - $0.20/min) when you can make calls via WiFi ($0.01/min)?
I had an iPod and returned it after I realized the DRM on that thing prevents you from doing almost anything you would normally want to do with an mp3 player. Its ironic they get caught in this fiasco "locking in" their customers.. haha They design their products to lock you in.
On his development box, he used to keep the source code to unpublished exploits in his home directory that effected the current version of sendmail. You would think he puts these problems in the source tree himself for his own benefit.
I second that notion. Writing portable code, or using cross-platform libraries remove the need for using WineLib. It is lazy. They might as well release it as a VMWare image hehehe.
The spec seems overly complicated and, if judging by previous implementation work performed by Microsoft, will most likely introduce hundreds of new attack vectors by which 13-year old script kiddies can remotely exploit MS Windows systems. WMF all over again!
I thought it was funny that the article mentions "high-performance" and "Java" in the same sentence. IMHO, it's inappropriate to be writing "high-performance" applications in an interpreted language like Java. For the same amount of keystrokes, I can do it right the first time and write it in C and not have to worry about performance issues.
I really don't think Redhat or Jboss has anything to do with Oracle or any pressure that might be put on them forcing change in their business. If anything, MySQL is largely responsible for this... When you have a database that a) is faster than Oracle and b) supports all the features of Oracle and c) can be clustered easier than Oracle and best of all d) it does not cost $200,000 per copy. I would be concerned too.. Their market share is fading away. I think Redhat is only referencing this to make themselves feel like part of the game, when in fact I'm not sure that they are even involved in any of this. Does Redhat write database server software? Not the last time I checked...
These are pretty common video chipsets put out many years ago by intel. Drivers have been available for many years. The forums specify that its a known issue, with a stated fix, but its not put in the mainline tree for some reason... According to http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-13 594.html , its been known for over a year.
The bottom line is this stuff should just work, and it doesn't. Dell laptops are pretty standard and common. Its just not a good answer to say "oh its broken, go here to fix it"... Its a major bug and should be fixed, put in the mainline tree where it belongs.
It really appears buggy.. I installed it on a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, and the screen resolution was set to 640x480 and could not be changed... It had to do with a DRI video driver for x11 (xorg) that was not included with the cd.. It had to be manually downloaded, compiled and installed. They really should work on this stuff, because its stuff like this that realy not only frustrates people, but also makes them not want to work with linux. Its just not ready for prime time.
In 2000, I worked on a project that was doing voip soft switch software for company that was funded by Cisco and some of the most obvious things I noticed about the protocol was that being UDP based it was trivial to do things like make the phone ring, spoof caller ID, etc... Most large firms really don't care about security until it directly effects them... Security is like this wrapper that gets put on later after weaknesses are found, when in reality security is something that should be thought of in the design stages, especially when you're talking about network protocols that you're expecting to have user supplied data being delivered to the client/server.
It should also be pointed out that technically the French now control about 75% of every telephone switch in the United States (5ESS, 4ESS, etc). I can't wait till they start playing the man-in-the-middle games with our trunks;)
If anything, google will take an already existing public resource and make it easier to digest and search. If anything, it will increase the ability for people to get their work done.
Check out:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817083826/http://w ww.c-3d.net/press23.html
Constellation 3D's Year 2000 Press Release announcing the availability of their "product" the following year. What happened to them? They got infusion capital investment and then declared bankruptcy with all the founders running away with the money. Classic pump and dump scam.
I respect Solar Designer, even though at the time of the initial development of these patches, most of these features were available as seperate patches from various groups of hackers -- Solar Designer is credited for integrating them into one jumbo patch.. That being said, he never put out patches for Linux 2.6, maybe due to his own stubborness towards the difference between a "production" and "beta" kernel release -- who knows.
It is because of this that other projects were allowed to flourish, namely the grsec jumbo patch. I think most people for the last several years have pretty much abandoned using (or even thinking of using) the openwall set of patches when other more feature-rich, updated patches exist and have existed for many years now.
You are assuming that C/C++ development libraries do not exist and you are writing code "from scratch". This is simply not the case. Development libraries and frameworks do exist for C/C++ development, cross platform ones too, that can be used to design GUI apps which become portable to Linux, MacOSX, handheld devices, etc... IMHO, it simply does not make sense to write one line of code in.Net (or Java for that matter) when you spend *the same amount of time* writing it in C or C++ and its portable..Net and Java are the flavor of the week, and slow as hell, not to mention any intellectual property protection is thrown out the window because all this stuff can be decompiled directly to commented source code. Also, if you want your app to work on Win98 or any other platform that doesnt have.Net installed (which is a 25MB download), writing it in of these languages just is not an appropriate option. I dont want to require my users to have to lug around some 25MB download that does not come preinstalled with the operating system.
I dont know about you, but when I write code, I'd rather do it in a portable language all the time, rather then have to sacrifice performance, portability, and intellectual property protection by doing it in one of these other languages.
Come on lets be real here. The only reason Microsoft is paying its developers to write VM-based rootkits is because they intent to deploy these exploits against their competition, foes, etc. I think its a load of bullshit that this is done as "proof-of-concept".
I cancelled Vonage a few years ago in favor of using an ATA connected to an Asterisk box. I pay $0.01 cent per minute for outbound through voxee.com. I paid them $5.00 about six months ago and have yet to use all of it. I have an incoming 10 digit telephone number from stanaphone.com so I can get inbound for free, and have a several vanity 800 numbers from nufone.net for my business at $0.02/min inbound.
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Sounds like a good class action to me.
I find it ironic that Net2Phone would be trying to claim any patent/invention ownership of thier software, considering the fact that they stole the source code for VocalTec and called it Net2Phone....
If you have WiFi (802.11b/g), you can make outbound long distance using any SIP client (i.e. X-Lite) communicating to any SIP provider (i.e. Voxee) at 1.1 cents per minute... Why would you want to use cellular ($0.07/min - $0.20/min) when you can make calls via WiFi ($0.01/min)?
I had an iPod and returned it after I realized the DRM on that thing prevents you from doing almost anything you would normally want to do with an mp3 player. Its ironic they get caught in this fiasco "locking in" their customers.. haha They design their products to lock you in.
On his development box, he used to keep the source code to unpublished exploits in his home directory that effected the current version of sendmail. You would think he puts these problems in the source tree himself for his own benefit.
I second that notion. Writing portable code, or using cross-platform libraries remove the need for using WineLib. It is lazy. They might as well release it as a VMWare image hehehe.
The spec seems overly complicated and, if judging by previous implementation work performed by Microsoft, will most likely introduce hundreds of new attack vectors by which 13-year old script kiddies can remotely exploit MS Windows systems. WMF all over again!
I thought it was funny that the article mentions "high-performance" and "Java" in the same sentence. IMHO, it's inappropriate to be writing "high-performance" applications in an interpreted language like Java. For the same amount of keystrokes, I can do it right the first time and write it in C and not have to worry about performance issues.
Hmm... bistbuy.com doesnt resolve. Also, the only reference on archive.org from bistbuy.com was in Apr 06, 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040406094329/http://w ww.bistbuy.com/ ... Not sure where they are getting their information from...
Their two other examples, rearthlink.net and dearthlink.net, also don't resolve. At least their pages at archive.org offer a little more evidence: http://web.archive.org/web/20040331061435/http://w ww.dearthlink.net/
I really don't think Redhat or Jboss has anything to do with Oracle or any pressure that might be put on them forcing change in their business. If anything, MySQL is largely responsible for this... When you have a database that a) is faster than Oracle and b) supports all the features of Oracle and c) can be clustered easier than Oracle and best of all d) it does not cost $200,000 per copy. I would be concerned too.. Their market share is fading away. I think Redhat is only referencing this to make themselves feel like part of the game, when in fact I'm not sure that they are even involved in any of this. Does Redhat write database server software? Not the last time I checked...
These are pretty common video chipsets put out many years ago by intel. Drivers have been available for many years. The forums specify that its a known issue, with a stated fix, but its not put in the mainline tree for some reason...3 594.html , its been known for over a year.
According to http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1
The bottom line is this stuff should just work, and it doesn't. Dell laptops are pretty standard and common. Its just not a good answer to say "oh its broken, go here to fix it"... Its a major bug and should be fixed, put in the mainline tree where it belongs.
It really appears buggy.. I installed it on a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, and the screen resolution was set to 640x480 and could not be changed... It had to do with a DRI video driver for x11 (xorg) that was not included with the cd.. It had to be manually downloaded, compiled and installed. They really should work on this stuff, because its stuff like this that realy not only frustrates people, but also makes them not want to work with linux. Its just not ready for prime time.
In 2000, I worked on a project that was doing voip soft switch software for company that was funded by Cisco and some of the most obvious things I noticed about the protocol was that being UDP based it was trivial to do things like make the phone ring, spoof caller ID, etc... Most large firms really don't care about security until it directly effects them... Security is like this wrapper that gets put on later after weaknesses are found, when in reality security is something that should be thought of in the design stages, especially when you're talking about network protocols that you're expecting to have user supplied data being delivered to the client/server.
It should also be pointed out that technically the French now control about 75% of every telephone switch in the United States (5ESS, 4ESS, etc). I can't wait till they start playing the man-in-the-middle games with our trunks ;)
If anything, google will take an already existing public resource and make it easier to digest and search. If anything, it will increase the ability for people to get their work done.
Check out: http://web.archive.org/web/20000817083826/http://w ww.c-3d.net/press23.html
Constellation 3D's Year 2000 Press Release announcing the availability of their "product" the following year. What happened to them? They got infusion capital investment and then declared bankruptcy with all the founders running away with the money. Classic pump and dump scam.
It is because of this that other projects were allowed to flourish, namely the grsec jumbo patch. I think most people for the last several years have pretty much abandoned using (or even thinking of using) the openwall set of patches when other more feature-rich, updated patches exist and have existed for many years now.
I think we need to look no further than this video to understand why doing what we do is so important.
You are assuming that C/C++ development libraries do not exist and you are writing code "from scratch". This is simply not the case. Development libraries and frameworks do exist for C/C++ development, cross platform ones too, that can be used to design GUI apps which become portable to Linux, MacOSX, handheld devices, etc... IMHO, it simply does not make sense to write one line of code in .Net (or Java for that matter) when you spend *the same amount of time* writing it in C or C++ and its portable. .Net and Java are the flavor of the week, and slow as hell, not to mention any intellectual property protection is thrown out the window because all this stuff can be decompiled directly to commented source code. Also, if you want your app to work on Win98 or any other platform that doesnt have .Net installed (which is a 25MB download), writing it in of these languages just is not an appropriate option. I dont want to require my users to have to lug around some 25MB download that does not come preinstalled with the operating system.
I dont know about you, but when I write code, I'd rather do it in a portable language all the time, rather then have to sacrifice performance, portability, and intellectual property protection by doing it in one of these other languages.
Come on lets be real here. The only reason Microsoft is paying its developers to write VM-based rootkits is because they intent to deploy these exploits against their competition, foes, etc. I think its a load of bullshit that this is done as "proof-of-concept".
I cancelled Vonage a few years ago in favor of using an ATA connected to an Asterisk box. I pay $0.01 cent per minute for outbound through voxee.com. I paid them $5.00 about six months ago and have yet to use all of it. I have an incoming 10 digit telephone number from stanaphone.com so I can get inbound for free, and have a several vanity 800 numbers from nufone.net for my business at $0.02/min inbound.
How does this protect against an rm -rf against the filesystem... I guess it would trash the backup on the other side.
Lets be real here for a second. Snort is a hacked up version of tcpdump with a config file.
anyone with asterisk running can do this... the only reason its easier to do today is because asterisk is so easy to ./configure && make.
Maybe it will pay off for them, frivilous lawsuits haven't.