if it makes you feel any better, I hate it too. I've posted a few really thought out and interesting and conversational posts and got zip for it. I've also posted 4 or 5 stupid funny 1-liners within the first 20 posts and gotten (+5, Funny) for it. Whenever I get mod points I make sure to read "Newest First, Threaded, -1" and give points to people who make points, not stupid one liners =)
Moderate away... I have karma and I know how to use it!
Re:Keep your priorities straight....
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Who the hell rated this "insightful"?? maybe "inciteful"...
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holy shit... my university gives 25MB/DAY AVERAGE (Max 150MB/day, if you exceed that you get pushed down to 10MB/day max until you're under 25MB/day again). That's it. Yeah, it *really sucks*. We literally had people selling their extra bandwidth, it was pretty pathetic. I just called ma Bell and got a DSL line in my room, DAMN were people jealous then...
so let me get this straight...
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The bigger the project, the more people should be writing it?
WOAH! Where'd that truck come from? I always thought that the bigger the project, the fewer people should work on it...
And all *my* story submissions get rejected...
Moderate away! I've got Karma and I know how to use it!
Funny that, didn't realize that you're running in 640x480 mode. I'd suggest that a better idea is to have the little text-boxes set to wrap=physical which means that it'll wrap at the end of the box, regardless of the size of your screen.
BTW - I've been an admin here for 2 years, and at most companies that I have been at before that, and most other companies that I know right now, give users "Local Admin" access on their own machines so that when they want to install their own CuteFTP or ICQ or anything they don't have to come yelling to me. It saves me and my team a lot of time. The basic deal is this: you get admin access, and if you fuck things up, all that we will do is swap your hard drive with one with a fresh install on it, and that's it. Takes us 5 minutes if they seriously fuck up their machine (which rarely happens), and if they're spending too much time dicking around themselves their managers will usually find out and yell at them. In either case, it saves us a lot of time in the long run. And, if you know anything about PCs, giving someone physical access to a machine means that they have admin access. Plain and simple. Give me physical access to (just about) any machine running any OS and I can get admin access, not a very difficult task. Sure, it is possible to tie down machines so tight that you can't get in, even with physical access, but it's simply not worth the hassle. So I am not "full of shit", and, by your response, I can see that you've never been an admin.
And the facts are, as you so quaintly put it, very simple, yes. Largo is using thin clients and in an environment where using something like linux is not a problem. They don't have complicated requirements, and their hardware is limited, so yes, a low-requirement OS with a few apps is all that they need. Try asking a large company that needs all those complicated applications and diversity to use linux, in which the applications aren't there, and you'll find it's not an easy feat.
And if you think I talk to much, don't read my posts!
And my post is only Pro-microsoft because/.tters usually tear down MS at every opportunity. They take things that show how MS is decent, find one tiny little discrepency in the post, and use that to tear them down. Then they'll take a post about how linux has something wrong, and just say "Hey, not a big deal. Look at how everything else is good!" Pot and kettle guys... You'll notice that I was also Pro-Linux in that posting as well. I like linux, but unfortunately it just isn't where it needs to be right now to be a mainstream OS.
There is something seriously seriously seriously swrong with the moderation system used here.
I am no expert on metals or blades, however this looks like an extremely intelligent and useful post, with a lot of information. However as of now it's rated +3, Informative, and on either side (with my filter set to a minimum of 3) there are +5, Funny one liners that aren't really all that funny.
So someone intelligent gets +2, and someone spitting out a silly 1-liner gets +4.......
Man what type of crack are you on? I've been a sysadmin here for 2 years, and tried to push out linux to users who wanted it on several occasions. And guess what? Linux is great -- that is if, and only if, you have perfect hardware and perfect setup and a standalone system. The minute that something is out-of-spec, linux goes AWOL and the poor desktop user is SOL because they don't know the difference between KDE and dd. OTOH, I've plopped in the install CD for W2K, filled in a few simple details, walked away, came back 30 minutes later and had a system up-and-running without any problems. Sure back in the day of WinNT4 (I humbly agree that Win9X was a POS, but don't get me started on why those existed and why customers demanded Win98SE and WinME...) there were a bunch of problems, but I have had very few problems installing windows 2000 systems (and *zero* on reputable machines (i.e. Dell), well there was that 1 problem, traced to a defective HD)... And secondly, as soon as the user wants to do something new with their system, they're SOL again, not only because installing isn't as simple as "click here to download, run setup.exe and you're installed" (albiet lately in linux it has gotten a LOT better), but also because the apps simply aren't out there.
Oh BTW -- check out my W2K Server, up for 131 days without a reboot, and also survived CodeRed without a scratch because I set up security properly from the day that I installed the server. There's a cool realtime stats program up on the CodeRed attacks and other neat things: here.
To recap, simply, I like linux. I think that it has a lot of potential but it simply isn't anywhere close enough yet to be a mainstream system. Remember this, and the fact that it's manhours spent with linux as well. I hate to be the harbinger of news here, but windows is much easier to use, period. There's no debate about that one, and with XP it just gets easier. Try putting your mother down in front of a linux machine, and then do the same with a windows machine. There is a reason why windows is used on 90% of desktops, and why Microsoft is the software giant that they are (reasons beyond the typical slashdottery about squishing competition and cheating and crap), more than just "being in the right place at the right time".. It's because, for better or worse, they have the best set of software products out there. Office and Windows are extremely successful because they're good, and people like them and use them a lot. That's a fact, hard to dispute.
I don't think that linux will make it as a mainstream OS anytime soon, or at least until most of the linux users (BTW, I think that part of the reason of linux non-acceptability is because of the typical i-love-linux-and-hate-windoze attitude and immaturity, not everyone, but just enough are immature and slander and swear and yell and scream and kick and fuss and act like children to give linux a bad name. Don't believe me? read our very own CmdrTaco. I think that he made some really good points there, the thermostat in hell must have broken that day...:> ) are part of the reason.
Oh well. I think that until linux users give up the I-want-everything-for-free-as-in-beer-as-my-god-gi ven-right (what IS UP with that slashdot auto-spacing-long-lines-because-they-must-be-evil- and-would-confuse-the-reader-so-we-have-to-insert- spaces??-) mentality and start paying for things again (yes, I know a lot of linux users pay for distros, but VERY FEW do compared to the manhours put in to develop and sustain it, and VERY FEW do compared to the number of people who USE it.. Actually, it costs more to put out a distro because of the costs of the bandwidth that you must provide to allow people to download the thing) so that businesses will start to develop seriously for linux, things will not change. With the yelling from business about wanting a "profitable internet", do you think they're going to sink developmental funds into something that they're not going to earn any money at, much less turn a profit? Sure, volunteers and the occasional corporate sponsorship does work occasionally, but look at how long it has taken to get here, and how slowly it works.
Ahh... I'd seriously like to see a competetor to Windows and Microsoft products, but unfortunately right now I just don't see it, and... maybe ? is that it, that dot on the horizon? dunno... only time will tell.
because I was using base standard c calls at the time, which use 32-bit params. I was just futzing around trying to see how fast I could access things, etc, and porting some code that already used malloc, so I said "hmm, I wonder" and tried it with malloc(-1). Fun!
C is very very limited... For example, the single most important thing when coding math is using the carry flag, and there is NO WAY to use the carry flag in C... For example, to add 2 32-bit values together in C:
boolean add32 ( UINT32 a, UINT32 b, UINT32 &res)
{
*res = a + b;
return ( *res > a );
}
whereas in assembly, you can just use the flag... This results in **at least** twice the speed of your application, just for adds... C is way too inspecific to be used effectively for math routines. That's why I had to resort to assembler. Even on the kickass IA64 with wacky crazy assembler that's very very wierd to use, and we are told by intel that "you should never need to use assembler, we have spent millions of dollars optimizing our compilers for it!", they specifically instructed us to NOT USE ASSEMBLER in our ports of our crypto code, citing that it'd be faster to use C... Well I did that, and then later on ported it to assembler myself, by hand, and showed them that the asm code was 3x faster than the C code... Why? Just because of the things that I could access in ASM that I couldn't access in C. The people at intel were not too happy about this, and couldn't understand why it'd be faster. (sigh). Oh well... (end rant)
I had an opportunity to work on them about a year ago (the first one we received was a doorstop, literally... The sucker weighed 73 pounds in it's shipping package (I'm NOT KIDDING... They reeled the box in on a trolly, and I laughed at the guy cuz it looked small enough to carry, but then I tried to pick it up...) and didn't even boot, but intel shiped them with 2GB of ram and a kickass SCSI system, so let's just say that my desktop became a SWEEEEEET machine.), but once we got ones that did work, they were sweet machines. I was porting bigint libraries for encryption that I had hand-coded in assembly for the x86 platform, and going from 8 general purpose registers with 1 predicate register (i.e. only 1 carry flag) to having 128 general purpose registers, and 63 predicate registers was a GODSENT.. AMAZING... For anyone who's coded math routines in assembly, you know how much of a PITA it is having only one carry register. This was simply amazing. I could do 1024-bit RSA purely in registers, no memory access outside of the initial read of the data and the final write. Needless to say it flew. It was interesting because literally you wouldn't need a hardware crypto card if you have an Itanium system. So basically Intel really put in a lot of good effort into designing this new platform to avoid the pitfalls of the problems that they experienced with their x86 architechture.
The machines also had 4GB of ram, so it was fun to do:
char * myStr = (char *)malloc(-1);
and have it succeed! (that's a 4GB memory allocation)
We have the same thing at my company, but (quite literally) I read through the document, inserted "NOT" a bunch of places, and crossed out a few (like (-N-O-T- represents the NOT that I crossed out) "you agree to -N-O-T- to install any personal programs on your computer" "you agree _NOT_ to abstain from working for a competetor within 12 months following your termination of employment from the computer)... Quite funny really! I went and handed it to our HR person, who promptly looked at the signature, said "Thanks", and shoved it in my employment folder, and it's there like that to this day =)
if ( random(10) >= 9 )
      acceptStory();
else
      sendStory("/dev/null ");
Ok so maybe I'm lying, but it seriously seems like it. I totally agree with what you said... I've made 8 story submissions (about 6 in april/may,then I gave up, then I tried again of late) and had them all denied, and it wasn't because someone else posted the story either. I've submitted new stuff on 2600 vs DeCSS (or at the time), new stuff on cloning that I've never seen here, and articles about how 802.11 is dying, all to no avail. WTF is going on here? Is there just a
DELAWARE -- ROUTERS: Man from Delaware Patents the process of making a patent. He was quoted as saying "you can either work with me, or work around me". When asked how that would be possible because there was no way around him, he responded with "yeeeeeeessssssss" and an evil grin. He also started to say something about "All your patents are", but seemingly thought better of it and stopped.
(pardon the caps, but I'm pissed)
AND I AM SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYBODY BLAMING MICROSOFT AND THEIR PRODUCTS FOR PROBLEMS THAT ARE NOT ALWAYS THEIR FAULT. Yes yes yes, every software is going to have problems, *nix'es have all had theirs. The problem here lies in the fact that the majority of servers that have been compromised are either (a) small personal-type sites or (b) don't even realize that they are running a server. It's hard to tell people to protect their systems when they don't even think that it's their system that they need to protect. And before you go bashing MS about this one (i.e. that it's installed by default) keep in mind that if the user knew what they were doing, they'd either disable it or would know to secure it. People who use *nix tend to be technosavvy and therefore will be very consciencous about what software they're running and apply the patches at the proper times, whereas W2K admins aren't always "on the ball". But stop blaming microsoft for everything here.
I don't know about you, but I would RATHER have multiple signons for my bank accounts, stock accounts, etc, etc. And if I wanted ease of use, I'd get a smartcard (woah concept)... Other than that, I'd use a single sign-on for things that aren't that important, but I would want MYSELF to be the only person that knows the keycode to my bank card or stock portfolio...
After all, I use unique 15 character random base64 passwords for all my major accounts =)
So first people yell at Microsoft because they package a shitty VM with their OS that they don't maintain and doesn't stick with the standards, and they get sued for it as well, and everyone bitches about it.
Now they remove it, and they're obviously only doing it to kill Java, of course. Couldn't have ANYTHING to do with the court case, or the fact that people didn't want it in there, or that it wasn't being maintained, or that it was causing problems because it's in the system32 directory so it's in the path. Nope, MUST be just another Microsoft lets-try-to-take-over-everything maneuver, right?
When I first installed my server, I decided to tie it down, and here's what I did:
Changed the user that IIS ran under to a dummy user that only has READ access to the scripts directory and any other directory that it needs access to, and specifically granted WRITE access to places that it needed to write to, and NO access to the rest of the system
Removed all mappings that I wasn't using
placed a fake CMD.EXE in the scripts directory that I wrote that SMS'ed me with information whenever it was executed (and the directory was read only anyways so you couldn't overwrite it). This was fun, because as soon as someone tries to execute the cmd.exe, it fails and emails me about the attempt).
So after the code-red and the other one a while back came out, I found out about it as soon as the first attack hit my system (via email) and then checked my logs and was pleased to see many attempts, but no change at all. I'm not trying to be arrogant here, I just wanted to point out that it is possible to secure your IIS (or any system for that matter) so that stupid bugs won't compromise your system.
They originally wanted to do this.. Actually, don't you remember the "driver signing" issue with 2K? Or the 'this site is insecure' warning from IE? Users habitually ignore warnings, and then blame the OS anyways. Since the only software that they will put on this list are things that they _know_ will cause issues (i.e. because they access internals that HAVE CHANGED), why would you go "oh, ok, I know that this driver will crash my machine immediately, but I want to run it anyways"? "Ahh fsck, goddam microsoft my OS just crashed!"... I'm sure that you can understand why they made this the way that it is.
And besides, with a little bit of futzing, you can easily disable specific drivers from being on the list.
For starters, if you read the NYT article (and if you happen to have used this software in beta) it is not NEARLY as good as they're making it sound.
And besides, do you think that you will SERIOUSLY be able to, after some tweaking, make a sensibly long trail of words and have a professional compare that to the real person saying it and NOT KNOW which one was the original? I **seriously** doubt that we're anywhere close to that yet.
Quite seriously though, I have *never* bought a computer book in my 12 years with computers. Why would I spend upwards of $100 on a book when I can hit F1 or surf on the internet for 5 minutes to find everything I ever wanted to know about (insert topic here). If you want a library to have a resource for computer information, I'd seriously suggest finding some way to set up an ELECTRIC repository for this information. Have a set of computers set up that easily indexes and gives information on all of the latest topics in computing. I think that would have a much more effective model. Allow people to have this stuff "burned" to a CD or to a disk for a charge. Now wouldn't that be a neat idea? Go to a library, and get a copy of all the information you could possibly want on a topic for $5 on CD. That's a lot easier than carrying around a set of huge clunky books, and you don't have to worry about the shelf life expiring 5 days after the book is bought, especially when these books cost as much money as they do.
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if it makes you feel any better, I hate it too. I've posted a few really thought out and interesting and conversational posts and got zip for it. I've also posted 4 or 5 stupid funny 1-liners within the first 20 posts and gotten (+5, Funny) for it. Whenever I get mod points I make sure to read "Newest First, Threaded, -1" and give points to people who make points, not stupid one liners =) Moderate away... I have karma and I know how to use it!
Who the hell rated this "insightful"?? maybe "inciteful"...
holy shit... my university gives 25MB/DAY AVERAGE (Max 150MB/day, if you exceed that you get pushed down to 10MB/day max until you're under 25MB/day again). That's it. Yeah, it *really sucks*. We literally had people selling their extra bandwidth, it was pretty pathetic. I just called ma Bell and got a DSL line in my room, DAMN were people jealous then...
The bigger the project, the more people should be writing it?
WOAH! Where'd that truck come from? I always thought that the bigger the project, the fewer people should work on it...
And all *my* story submissions get rejected...
Moderate away! I've got Karma and I know how to use it!
Funny that, didn't realize that you're running in 640x480 mode. I'd suggest that a better idea is to have the little text-boxes set to wrap=physical which means that it'll wrap at the end of the box, regardless of the size of your screen.
/.tters usually tear down MS at every opportunity. They take things that show how MS is decent, find one tiny little discrepency in the post, and use that to tear them down. Then they'll take a post about how linux has something wrong, and just say "Hey, not a big deal. Look at how everything else is good!" Pot and kettle guys... You'll notice that I was also Pro-Linux in that posting as well. I like linux, but unfortunately it just isn't where it needs to be right now to be a mainstream OS.
BTW - I've been an admin here for 2 years, and at most companies that I have been at before that, and most other companies that I know right now, give users "Local Admin" access on their own machines so that when they want to install their own CuteFTP or ICQ or anything they don't have to come yelling to me. It saves me and my team a lot of time. The basic deal is this: you get admin access, and if you fuck things up, all that we will do is swap your hard drive with one with a fresh install on it, and that's it. Takes us 5 minutes if they seriously fuck up their machine (which rarely happens), and if they're spending too much time dicking around themselves their managers will usually find out and yell at them. In either case, it saves us a lot of time in the long run. And, if you know anything about PCs, giving someone physical access to a machine means that they have admin access. Plain and simple. Give me physical access to (just about) any machine running any OS and I can get admin access, not a very difficult task. Sure, it is possible to tie down machines so tight that you can't get in, even with physical access, but it's simply not worth the hassle. So I am not "full of shit", and, by your response, I can see that you've never been an admin.
And the facts are, as you so quaintly put it, very simple, yes. Largo is using thin clients and in an environment where using something like linux is not a problem. They don't have complicated requirements, and their hardware is limited, so yes, a low-requirement OS with a few apps is all that they need. Try asking a large company that needs all those complicated applications and diversity to use linux, in which the applications aren't there, and you'll find it's not an easy feat.
And if you think I talk to much, don't read my posts!
And my post is only Pro-microsoft because
There is something seriously seriously seriously swrong with the moderation system used here.
......
I am no expert on metals or blades, however this looks like an extremely intelligent and useful post, with a lot of information. However as of now it's rated +3, Informative, and on either side (with my filter set to a minimum of 3) there are +5, Funny one liners that aren't really all that funny.
So someone intelligent gets +2, and someone spitting out a silly 1-liner gets +4.
Something's not right with this picture.
Have you ever tried to get NT running?
i ven-right (what IS UP with that slashdot auto-spacing-long-lines-because-they-must-be-evil- and-would-confuse-the-reader-so-we-have-to-insert- spaces??-) mentality and start paying for things again (yes, I know a lot of linux users pay for distros, but VERY FEW do compared to the manhours put in to develop and sustain it, and VERY FEW do compared to the number of people who USE it.. Actually, it costs more to put out a distro because of the costs of the bandwidth that you must provide to allow people to download the thing) so that businesses will start to develop seriously for linux, things will not change. With the yelling from business about wanting a "profitable internet", do you think they're going to sink developmental funds into something that they're not going to earn any money at, much less turn a profit? Sure, volunteers and the occasional corporate sponsorship does work occasionally, but look at how long it has taken to get here, and how slowly it works.
... maybe ? is that it, that dot on the horizon? dunno... only time will tell.
Man what type of crack are you on? I've been a sysadmin here for 2 years, and tried to push out linux to users who wanted it on several occasions. And guess what? Linux is great -- that is if, and only if, you have perfect hardware and perfect setup and a standalone system. The minute that something is out-of-spec, linux goes AWOL and the poor desktop user is SOL because they don't know the difference between KDE and dd. OTOH, I've plopped in the install CD for W2K, filled in a few simple details, walked away, came back 30 minutes later and had a system up-and-running without any problems. Sure back in the day of WinNT4 (I humbly agree that Win9X was a POS, but don't get me started on why those existed and why customers demanded Win98SE and WinME...) there were a bunch of problems, but I have had very few problems installing windows 2000 systems (and *zero* on reputable machines (i.e. Dell), well there was that 1 problem, traced to a defective HD)... And secondly, as soon as the user wants to do something new with their system, they're SOL again, not only because installing isn't as simple as "click here to download, run setup.exe and you're installed" (albiet lately in linux it has gotten a LOT better), but also because the apps simply aren't out there.
Oh BTW -- check out my W2K Server, up for 131 days without a reboot, and also survived CodeRed without a scratch because I set up security properly from the day that I installed the server. There's a cool realtime stats program up on the CodeRed attacks and other neat things: here.
To recap, simply, I like linux. I think that it has a lot of potential but it simply isn't anywhere close enough yet to be a mainstream system. Remember this, and the fact that it's manhours spent with linux as well. I hate to be the harbinger of news here, but windows is much easier to use, period. There's no debate about that one, and with XP it just gets easier. Try putting your mother down in front of a linux machine, and then do the same with a windows machine. There is a reason why windows is used on 90% of desktops, and why Microsoft is the software giant that they are (reasons beyond the typical slashdottery about squishing competition and cheating and crap), more than just "being in the right place at the right time".. It's because, for better or worse, they have the best set of software products out there. Office and Windows are extremely successful because they're good, and people like them and use them a lot. That's a fact, hard to dispute.
I don't think that linux will make it as a mainstream OS anytime soon, or at least until most of the linux users (BTW, I think that part of the reason of linux non-acceptability is because of the typical i-love-linux-and-hate-windoze attitude and immaturity, not everyone, but just enough are immature and slander and swear and yell and scream and kick and fuss and act like children to give linux a bad name. Don't believe me? read our very own CmdrTaco. I think that he made some really good points there, the thermostat in hell must have broken that day...:> ) are part of the reason.
Oh well. I think that until linux users give up the I-want-everything-for-free-as-in-beer-as-my-god-g
Ahh... I'd seriously like to see a competetor to Windows and Microsoft products, but unfortunately right now I just don't see it, and
{/end rant}
because I was using base standard c calls at the time, which use 32-bit params. I was just futzing around trying to see how fast I could access things, etc, and porting some code that already used malloc, so I said "hmm, I wonder" and tried it with malloc(-1). Fun!
***EXACTLY*** my point....
C is very very limited... For example, the single most important thing when coding math is using the carry flag, and there is NO WAY to use the carry flag in C... For example, to add 2 32-bit values together in C:
boolean add32 ( UINT32 a, UINT32 b, UINT32 &res)
{
*res = a + b;
return ( *res > a );
}
whereas in assembly, you can just use the flag... This results in **at least** twice the speed of your application, just for adds... C is way too inspecific to be used effectively for math routines. That's why I had to resort to assembler. Even on the kickass IA64 with wacky crazy assembler that's very very wierd to use, and we are told by intel that "you should never need to use assembler, we have spent millions of dollars optimizing our compilers for it!", they specifically instructed us to NOT USE ASSEMBLER in our ports of our crypto code, citing that it'd be faster to use C... Well I did that, and then later on ported it to assembler myself, by hand, and showed them that the asm code was 3x faster than the C code... Why? Just because of the things that I could access in ASM that I couldn't access in C. The people at intel were not too happy about this, and couldn't understand why it'd be faster. (sigh). Oh well... (end rant)
I had an opportunity to work on them about a year ago (the first one we received was a doorstop, literally... The sucker weighed 73 pounds in it's shipping package (I'm NOT KIDDING... They reeled the box in on a trolly, and I laughed at the guy cuz it looked small enough to carry, but then I tried to pick it up...) and didn't even boot, but intel shiped them with 2GB of ram and a kickass SCSI system, so let's just say that my desktop became a SWEEEEEET machine.), but once we got ones that did work, they were sweet machines. I was porting bigint libraries for encryption that I had hand-coded in assembly for the x86 platform, and going from 8 general purpose registers with 1 predicate register (i.e. only 1 carry flag) to having 128 general purpose registers, and 63 predicate registers was a GODSENT.. AMAZING... For anyone who's coded math routines in assembly, you know how much of a PITA it is having only one carry register. This was simply amazing. I could do 1024-bit RSA purely in registers, no memory access outside of the initial read of the data and the final write. Needless to say it flew. It was interesting because literally you wouldn't need a hardware crypto card if you have an Itanium system. So basically Intel really put in a lot of good effort into designing this new platform to avoid the pitfalls of the problems that they experienced with their x86 architechture.
The machines also had 4GB of ram, so it was fun to do:
char * myStr = (char *)malloc(-1);
and have it succeed! (that's a 4GB memory allocation)
We have the same thing at my company, but (quite literally) I read through the document, inserted "NOT" a bunch of places, and crossed out a few (like (-N-O-T- represents the NOT that I crossed out) "you agree to -N-O-T- to install any personal programs on your computer" "you agree _NOT_ to abstain from working for a competetor within 12 months following your termination of employment from the computer)... Quite funny really! I went and handed it to our HR person, who promptly looked at the signature, said "Thanks", and shoved it in my employment folder, and it's there like that to this day =)
actually there isn't a "non executable" flag for windows.... changing the extension is good enough.
if ( random(10) >= 9 )l ");
      acceptStory();
else
      sendStory("/dev/nul
Ok so maybe I'm lying, but it seriously seems like it. I totally agree with what you said... I've made 8 story submissions (about 6 in april/may,then I gave up, then I tried again of late) and had them all denied, and it wasn't because someone else posted the story either. I've submitted new stuff on 2600 vs DeCSS (or at the time), new stuff on cloning that I've never seen here, and articles about how 802.11 is dying, all to no avail. WTF is going on here? Is there just a
This just in...
DELAWARE -- ROUTERS: Man from Delaware Patents the process of making a patent. He was quoted as saying "you can either work with me, or work around me". When asked how that would be possible because there was no way around him, he responded with "yeeeeeeessssssss" and an evil grin. He also started to say something about "All your patents are", but seemingly thought better of it and stopped.
try this:
/scripts/root.exe?/c+echo+ren+root.exe+badrootexpl oit+>+fixme.cmd HTTP/1.0
/scripts/root.exe?/c+echo+echo+^>+root.exe+>>+fixm e.c md HTTP/1.0
/scripts/root.exe?/c+echo+attrib.exe+root.exe+%u00 2Br+>>+fixme.cmd HTTP/1.0
/scripts/root.exe?/c+echo+dir+>>+fixme.cmd HTTP/1.0
/scripts/root.exe?/c+type+fixme.cmd HTTP/1.0
/scripts/root.exe?/c+fixme.cmd HTTP/1.0
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this way it renames the old root.exe, creates a new dummy one, and write protects it so it can't be overwritten by a simple copy command.
(pardon the caps, but I'm pissed) AND I AM SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYBODY BLAMING MICROSOFT AND THEIR PRODUCTS FOR PROBLEMS THAT ARE NOT ALWAYS THEIR FAULT. Yes yes yes, every software is going to have problems, *nix'es have all had theirs. The problem here lies in the fact that the majority of servers that have been compromised are either (a) small personal-type sites or (b) don't even realize that they are running a server. It's hard to tell people to protect their systems when they don't even think that it's their system that they need to protect. And before you go bashing MS about this one (i.e. that it's installed by default) keep in mind that if the user knew what they were doing, they'd either disable it or would know to secure it. People who use *nix tend to be technosavvy and therefore will be very consciencous about what software they're running and apply the patches at the proper times, whereas W2K admins aren't always "on the ball". But stop blaming microsoft for everything here.
folders get their dates updated when files in them get updated, so this is not necessarily a new installation...
Yup, forgot the :) at the end. I just thought that the program name was rather ironic...
I don't know about you, but I would RATHER have multiple signons for my bank accounts, stock accounts, etc, etc. And if I wanted ease of use, I'd get a smartcard (woah concept)... Other than that, I'd use a single sign-on for things that aren't that important, but I would want MYSELF to be the only person that knows the keycode to my bank card or stock portfolio...
After all, I use unique 15 character random base64 passwords for all my major accounts =)
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So first people yell at Microsoft because they package a shitty VM with their OS that they don't maintain and doesn't stick with the standards, and they get sued for it as well, and everyone bitches about it.
Now they remove it, and they're obviously only doing it to kill Java, of course. Couldn't have ANYTHING to do with the court case, or the fact that people didn't want it in there, or that it wasn't being maintained, or that it was causing problems because it's in the system32 directory so it's in the path. Nope, MUST be just another Microsoft lets-try-to-take-over-everything maneuver, right?
Christ folks, make up your minds!
Why in god's name would I want to run a program called CODERED.EXE on my server?!
So after the code-red and the other one a while back came out, I found out about it as soon as the first attack hit my system (via email) and then checked my logs and was pleased to see many attempts, but no change at all. I'm not trying to be arrogant here, I just wanted to point out that it is possible to secure your IIS (or any system for that matter) so that stupid bugs won't compromise your system.
They originally wanted to do this.. Actually, don't you remember the "driver signing" issue with 2K? Or the 'this site is insecure' warning from IE? Users habitually ignore warnings, and then blame the OS anyways. Since the only software that they will put on this list are things that they _know_ will cause issues (i.e. because they access internals that HAVE CHANGED), why would you go "oh, ok, I know that this driver will crash my machine immediately, but I want to run it anyways"? "Ahh fsck, goddam microsoft my OS just crashed!"... I'm sure that you can understand why they made this the way that it is.
And besides, with a little bit of futzing, you can easily disable specific drivers from being on the list.
For starters, if you read the NYT article (and if you happen to have used this software in beta) it is not NEARLY as good as they're making it sound.
And besides, do you think that you will SERIOUSLY be able to, after some tweaking, make a sensibly long trail of words and have a professional compare that to the real person saying it and NOT KNOW which one was the original? I **seriously** doubt that we're anywhere close to that yet.
Quite seriously though, I have *never* bought a computer book in my 12 years with computers. Why would I spend upwards of $100 on a book when I can hit F1 or surf on the internet for 5 minutes to find everything I ever wanted to know about (insert topic here). If you want a library to have a resource for computer information, I'd seriously suggest finding some way to set up an ELECTRIC repository for this information. Have a set of computers set up that easily indexes and gives information on all of the latest topics in computing. I think that would have a much more effective model. Allow people to have this stuff "burned" to a CD or to a disk for a charge. Now wouldn't that be a neat idea? Go to a library, and get a copy of all the information you could possibly want on a topic for $5 on CD. That's a lot easier than carrying around a set of huge clunky books, and you don't have to worry about the shelf life expiring 5 days after the book is bought, especially when these books cost as much money as they do.