Microsoft has been having problems with the OS Detection portion of the WindowsUpdate code. The solution is to remove the/thanks.asp from the end of the redirected URL so that it just reads something like:
Publicly-funded projects are kept confidential all the time. Just look at the various military projects such as the Skunkworks and such. Sometimes secrecy (for a time) is a good thing. Of course, some years later, nearly everything is unclassified and the world is a happy place. My point is, keeping the products of publicly-funded projects secret, at least for a time, is not inherently bad.
What I personally would love to see, but know will never happen, is the recouperation of some of the cost by selling portions of map data to various salvaging companies. That money could then be used to put money -back- in taxpayers' pockets and make the project less wasteful.
I have what I call my "three song rule", which means I'd never buy a CD unless there are -at least- three songs on it I know I really like. There are just too many one-hit-wonder CDs out there to go around spending $15-$18 for just one good song. If I could download individual tracks that I -knew- I liked for $1 each in MP3 (or even better, OGG) and burn a CD that way, I would. That alone would be worth saving the time it takes to find a high quality and complete MP3 from WinMX or Kazaa.
However, even the MP3 format isn't quite non-proprietary. MP3 requires licensing for both playing and encoding. I would like to see the OGG/Vorbis codec increase its saturation, but it will be a -long time- before OGG gains enough popularity to even come close to taking over MP3's market share.
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But the point is that standard syslog still runs over the unreliable UDP transport and has no authentication to prevent forged log entries.
If the UDP packet happens to be dropped along the way (perhaps flooding a router or network with traffic to hope for packet loss), it won't make it into the logs.
Also, since there is no authentication and it's easy to forge a UDP packet, it would be possible for an attacker to carry out a DoS attack against your log server by filling it with useless data and filling up the disk.
AT&T permits its users to run servers. From the service agreement at http://broadband.att.com:
(b) FTP/HTTP Service Setup. Customer should be aware that when using the Service to access the Internet or any other online network or service, there are certain applications, such as FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server or HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) server, which may be used to allow other Service users and Internet users to gain access to Customer's computer. If Customer chooses to run such applications, Customer should take the appropriate security measures. Neither AT&T nor @Home Network shall have any liability whatsoever for any claims, losses, actions, damages, suits or proceedings resulting from, arising out of or otherwise relating to the use of such applications by Customer, including without limitation, damages resulting from others accessing Customer's computer.
That's incorrect. My AT&T subscriber agreement explicitly states that users -are- permitted to run servers although it's discouraged due to security threats against the individual's PC. Look for yourself, it's at http://broadband.att.com
Where did the $27k price tag as listed in the article summary come from? I didn't see anything on the page about pricing. Did the contributer call for pricing?
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Umm, 'FCC' in the previous post was referring to Flight Control Computer, not Federal Communications Commission.
Microsoft has been having problems with the OS Detection portion of the WindowsUpdate code. The solution is to remove the /thanks.asp from the end of the redirected URL so that it just reads something like:
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/
Publicly-funded projects are kept confidential all the time. Just look at the various military projects such as the Skunkworks and such. Sometimes secrecy (for a time) is a good thing. Of course, some years later, nearly everything is unclassified and the world is a happy place. My point is, keeping the products of publicly-funded projects secret, at least for a time, is not inherently bad.
What I personally would love to see, but know will never happen, is the recouperation of some of the cost by selling portions of map data to various salvaging companies. That money could then be used to put money -back- in taxpayers' pockets and make the project less wasteful.
Absolutely.
I have what I call my "three song rule", which means I'd never buy a CD unless there are -at least- three songs on it I know I really like. There are just too many one-hit-wonder CDs out there to go around spending $15-$18 for just one good song. If I could download individual tracks that I -knew- I liked for $1 each in MP3 (or even better, OGG) and burn a CD that way, I would. That alone would be worth saving the time it takes to find a high quality and complete MP3 from WinMX or Kazaa.
However, even the MP3 format isn't quite non-proprietary. MP3 requires licensing for both playing and encoding. I would like to see the OGG/Vorbis codec increase its saturation, but it will be a -long time- before OGG gains enough popularity to even come close to taking over MP3's market share.
But the point is that standard syslog still runs over the unreliable UDP transport and has no authentication to prevent forged log entries.
If the UDP packet happens to be dropped along the way (perhaps flooding a router or network with traffic to hope for packet loss), it won't make it into the logs.
Also, since there is no authentication and it's easy to forge a UDP packet, it would be possible for an attacker to carry out a DoS attack against your log server by filling it with useless data and filling up the disk.
AT&T permits its users to run servers. From the service agreement at http://broadband.att.com:
(b) FTP/HTTP Service Setup. Customer should be aware that when using the Service to access the Internet or any other online network or service, there are certain applications, such as FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server or HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) server, which may be used to allow other Service users and Internet users to gain access to Customer's computer. If Customer chooses to run such applications, Customer should take the appropriate security measures. Neither AT&T nor @Home Network shall have any liability whatsoever for any claims, losses, actions, damages, suits or proceedings resulting from, arising out of or otherwise relating to the use of such applications by Customer, including without limitation, damages resulting from others accessing Customer's computer.
That's incorrect. My AT&T subscriber agreement explicitly states that users -are- permitted to run servers although it's discouraged due to security threats against the individual's PC. Look for yourself, it's at http://broadband.att.com
Where did the $27k price tag as listed in the article summary come from? I didn't see anything on the page about pricing. Did the contributer call for pricing?