I wonder how many of the slashdot readers read the comments on articles to find out which ones are just plain wrong? Slashdot's approval of blatant lies and reverse-FUD is embarrassing and immature.
"My company now has some server side software that allows Exchange to be accessed through IMAP, and I switched to Thunderbird with Lightning."
Exchange has supported IMAP4 out of the box since at least Exchange 5.5. See "IMAP4 Connectivity" on this page. I think your company finally made a business decision to allow IMAP access.
You can't use SMB, but you can use the Windows Media Connect software that is free for download for Windows users. Should Coca Cola start including a can of Pepsi with every case of Coca Cola sold? Wait, don't think too hard about where lines should be drawn. It's more fun to fabricate epic levels of evil adversity to make things seem more black and white.
Which system will get the most developer support post launch isn't that big of a mystery. Just look at sales figures. Developers are out to make money, so they'll make their game either multi-platform or for the system with the highest numbers.
I swear, you people need to get over the whole MCSE bashing thing. Today's tests for MCSE are much more difficult than the tests of 5+ years ago. You might as well be bashing 68k developers that never switched to the PPC architecture. Personally, I found the Networking portion of the W2K MCSE tests to be much more technical and difficult than the Cisco CCNA. I've talked with a CCIE or two that didn't know much outside of what they were required to know to pass the test, yet I never hear anyone bash Cisco certs.
Certifications aren't undisputible proof of skill, but they definitely show that someone has a certain amount knowledge and a desire to progress their career. Both of those can be much more important than taking someone who used to commit identity theft, credit card fraud, web site defacement, and DDoS attacks. Of course, if you've got someone that did "Mostly harmless" blackhat stuff in their teens, 5+ years ago and they've got certifications, I'd see in them a goldmine of talent and a desire for an honest, successful career as an adult.
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So as long as you're using a smart charger, this is a non-issue.
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I thought NiMH likes the fast charging? Check out this wikipedia article.
I'm in the IT department for a large ISO and give the security lecture during new hire orientations. We have to follow PCI compliancy and are aware of the dangers on the Internet. Insider jobs are a threat, but not yet. Right now, most of the crime is organized out of European countries and the most they use outsiders for is as a mule. The list they gave along with social engineering is actually quite acurate. CardSystems, an ISO with some 119k merchants was compromised last year due to a SQL injection attack and the storing of track 2 data of failed transactions on their processing hosts in plain text. Part of PCI compliancy is to only store that data in a strongly encrypted form (They give examples) and it's common practice to only store it during standin (When the upstream processor is down) and after standin until all the transactions run through successfully. They really f*ed up! The debit card fraud that happened earlier this year is still under investigation, but rumors have it that the POS system that Sams Club and/or OfficeMax use to send all the transactions to their processor was compromised. Of course, we won't know the story until the feds either give up or find the criminals.
Exactly. Sending a bunch of email to one person is known as "email bombing". Another trick along the same lines is to sign someone up to thousands of mailing lists. Of course that was mostly popular before verification was routinely done. Once you're on a few thousand mailing lists, your email address is pretty much f*ed.
Man that brings back memories. Back before the Internet was criminalized. It was just a bunch of smart kids going through a phase that was pretty much the equivalent of wreaking havoc with a bb gun.
You're 14, huh? I'm assuming your parents let you get this game? When you grow up and become a parent yourself, you'll find that it's not so easy to maintain a decent relationship with your son when he's the ONLY kid in his school with parents that restrict what he can be entertained by. That relationship is the most important thing because without it, your child won't listen and may even do things damaging to themselves out of spite.
That big M on the box is a liability safetynet and a way for politicians to win some votes. Even though the rating accomplishes little more than classification, responsible parents see it as some sort of action and pressure on the entertainment industry instead of none.
It's true that parents have responsibility for their children, but if you think about how much time children spend in society, outside of their parents watch, it's obvious that society has an even greater responsibility.
How much would viewship go down if they had to be subject to ads?
Probably not at all. Slashdot/OSDN has some of the most anti-ad customers. I consider some of their ads to be one step more elegant than "Punch the monkey", which isn't saying much. You didn't see them back out with their tail between their leg, did you?
Sigh. Ever think that it's the unfixed holes that make the difference?
Many of the unpatched vulnerabilities aren't too serious as they are minor components that could be used in phishing attacks. That's not to say they shouldn't be fixed, but they're a far cry from execution of arbitrary code. Don't forget about the unfound or unreported vulnerabilities out there. Firefox is a relative newcomer to security and blackhat researchers. Fresh meat so to speak. If I were a company or government, I'd avoid it like the plague. However, as a consumer with zero hack factor, this consideration is mostly moot.
So, if I capture an ntlm hash, and run it through a rainbow table, how in the hell is 3 checks on bad logon attempts or parallel computing going to do anything? Excuse me mr expert, but I think you need to STFU.
Rainbow tables are way overhyped. First off, good luck capturing an NTLM hash. Being the man in the middle isn't practical on modern, switched networks. If you did get an NTLM hash and the password policy is like most companies, it'll have upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols. The password space for an eight character password of this type is 6.8 quadrillion, requiring a database 17.4 Petabytes in size (For NTLM hashes). In Wikipedia's entry of petabyte, the largest store mentioned is a 6PB robotic tape store. In other words, good luck with rainbow tables unless you're a governement trying to crack 8 character passwords and want to build something 3x larger than the current known storage facility. If you're dealing with an environment using passphrases averaging 12 characters...well, you do the math.
I was working for Microsoft doing NT Server networking support. I was on the phone with a customer when my grandmother IMed me about the first plane. I'd be willing to bet that she was faster than your network monitoring . In all seriousness though, I had an open case with someone who died. I left it open for a month, knowing that he worked at the WTC. I would call and leave messages that I hoped he'd return. Eventually, I spotted his name on the victim list. He was a really nice guy. Not one of the ones I'd put on punishment hold.:(
I appreciate the fact that someone outside the US chimed in (From Australia, right?). I definitely respect your opinion and understand where you're coming from. However, that being said, I do resent the remark that we go to war on little more than a whim. That's exactly what I meant about oversimplifying and being cynical.
I do see your point that we shouldn't be a father to the rest of the world. In fact, I agree. However, a father figure so to speak is needed these days. No matter what boundaries we draw, the world is getting smaller each and every day. The way we separated countries for thousands of years isn't working and fails at bigger levels as the world gets smaller. Simply drawing borders isn't going to prevent the issues of sovereign nations from bleeding over to the rest of the world. I would honestly prefer the UN to be restructured and become more effective. We need it to take the father figure role and hopefully, some day it will. Until then, would we really prefer to have nobody "steering the ship"? Should we all just shut our eyes and tell ourselves that we can all live on our own little islands and ignore what is going on in the rest of the world? Isn't that how World Wars get so large in scope?
I see the worst case scenario that has a likelihood of occurring for Iraq being that it gets divided into two countries and they constantly wage war against each other. There would be the occasional radical going off and bombing a European or American target in an act of retribution for what "Westerners have done". As I said before, what Bush did was desperate. There was a lot of risk in what he did and we would be ignorant to think that he didn't know the risks. I'd guess he had mathematicians, foreign affairs experts and several other advisers trying to predict outcomes of various actions both short term and long term. Before the war, I saw the biggest risk being the consequences that would come. We all knew that many people in the world would see the situation as America the Bully pushing around other countries. What would all the consequences of that mentality be, I thought. That's the risk Bush knowingly took when he invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam, thereby attempting to speed up their civilization's growth. I'm sure it's even more complicated than I see it.
Regardless of what I think, I can understand and even sympathize with the opposing opinions. I'm either seeing the truth and it's pretty damn scary or I'm totally wrong. I actually hope I'm wrong and globalization isn't a big issue. I hope that there isn't so much growth the world will have to endure regarding the way countries interact. It would be so much easier and all the growing pains wouldn't be necessary.
I'm probably going to get modded down by those that this applies to, but here it goes anyway.
Why is it that I rarely read comments like the parent post from outside the US and people convinced we're in a holy war? Note the parent poster is from Wisconsin. I've basically come to the conclusion that it's not even about hating America. It's about cynical people looking for authority figures to blame so they can point a finger as if everything is black and white or good and evil. There are plenty of Canadians that talk trash about their own government. Same goes for Australia, the UK, France, Germany, and just about any other country that doesn't brainwash their population into thinking the rest of the world is out to get them. I'd be willing to bet that the same people blamed their teachers for any stumbles in their education. They go to work, blaming their boss for their own lack of progress. As the only remaining superpower though, not only do America's cynics blame the government for everything that happens in our country, but also for things that happen to the rest of the world.
Let me repeat what I said and expand. We are the only remaining superpower. We have a huge responsibility to set an example for the rest of the world and to help mature all of our societies. We have to try and steer the whole damn world into globalism at a pace that isn't threatening and is respectful to all of our cultures. We don't have a choice because it's happening organically. When there's a culture that believes westerners are the devil, peaceful integration is very difficult to accomplish. We can't just exclude certain parts of the world and expect them to live in their own "Islands". Bush is trying to rush the integration of Islamic nations with Western nations. He had a very difficult decision to make. He could either let things continue to happen organically and knowingly face more 9/11 incidents or he could make a desperate attempt to speed up the integration. I definitely wouldn't have wanted to be in his shoes because it isn't an easy decision to make. It's not as simple as many make it out to be.
I'd like to expand on Iraq in particular because it seems to bring out the most cynical of viewpoints. There are so many people blaming us for the current state of Iraq. I can understand blaming us for Iraq no longer being under Saddam's control and therefore introducing freedoms that the people never had. Nobody seems to want to put any responsibility on the Iraqis themselves. They have many more freedoms that they never had before. Unfortunately, some of them decided to go to war against each other due to different religious beliefs and an established bloody history. If we Americans all started putting roadside bombs in each others neighborhoods, is it really right to blame the government? No, it isn't. The governments we have are made of people like you and me and there's only so much they can do to assist us in getting along. The rest is up to us as the people. We have our own responsibilities in society to make it work. Paying taxes isn't where our responsibility ends. In Iraq, we dropped a huge bomb of democracy and now we can only help as the Iraqis themselves use it as a tool to build something that works for them. Hopefully, it will grow into a society that doesn't see westerners as evil by membership and a strong relationship will form. It's not up to us though. Ultimately, it's up to them. Of course, you could always oversimplify things and in the end make statements like "Iraqis all hate us because we bombed their homes and schools". Whatever helps you reach a simple conclusion I guess.
While you nerds are busy with barbie, I'm going to be patching the kernel of my girlfriend....if you know what I mean. Oh that's right, it's slashdork you probably don't know what I mean.
Spoken like a true adolescent/young adult trying to find a balance between the geek within and the perceived need to gain the acceptance of those he believes to be his peers. Poor guy.
They didn't discontinue support. They changed it so that a paid account is required to use it. It's weird though because it didn't happen to everyone at once. It took up until about a month ago for it to happen to me. I paid the yearly fee because it's worth it to be able to move messages into a pst file. My account is now 10 or 11 years old. It was the first email address I ever had and I still get emails on it from people I haven't heard from in ages.
The 20th Anniversary macintosh was awesome with the exceptiont hat they with with a 603 CPU instead of the then popular 604e. The design was sleek, upgrades were easy and the Bose sound system was amazing. I was working at an Apple retailer and the three owners each got one after I demod it to them.
I agree. I'm calling shenanigans on this. Also shenanigans on the comment that snmp requires help and that help requires IE. Worst case scenario is that everything insalls just fine, but help files don't open.
"Windows has shipped with an SMTP server installed since Windows 2000. It's off by default in Server 2003 and in all client versions, and, I think, in 2000 Server, but it's there."
Okay, so if clients are left out, then that leaves Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003. If it's off by default in 2003, that leaves 2000. If it's off by default in 2000 Server, that leaves nothing. What kind of statement was that?
To set the record straight, server versions of Windows 2000 were the only versions of Windows to install IIS with the SMTP subcomponent by default and it is set to automatic. Kinda retarded, but whatever.
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I wonder how many of the slashdot readers read the comments on articles to find out which ones are just plain wrong? Slashdot's approval of blatant lies and reverse-FUD is embarrassing and immature.
Exchange has supported IMAP4 out of the box since at least Exchange 5.5. See "IMAP4 Connectivity" on this page. I think your company finally made a business decision to allow IMAP access.
You can't use SMB, but you can use the Windows Media Connect software that is free for download for Windows users. Should Coca Cola start including a can of Pepsi with every case of Coca Cola sold? Wait, don't think too hard about where lines should be drawn. It's more fun to fabricate epic levels of evil adversity to make things seem more black and white.
Which system will get the most developer support post launch isn't that big of a mystery. Just look at sales figures. Developers are out to make money, so they'll make their game either multi-platform or for the system with the highest numbers.
Certifications aren't undisputible proof of skill, but they definitely show that someone has a certain amount knowledge and a desire to progress their career. Both of those can be much more important than taking someone who used to commit identity theft, credit card fraud, web site defacement, and DDoS attacks. Of course, if you've got someone that did "Mostly harmless" blackhat stuff in their teens, 5+ years ago and they've got certifications, I'd see in them a goldmine of talent and a desire for an honest, successful career as an adult.
So as long as you're using a smart charger, this is a non-issue.
I thought NiMH likes the fast charging? Check out this wikipedia article.
I'm in the IT department for a large ISO and give the security lecture during new hire orientations. We have to follow PCI compliancy and are aware of the dangers on the Internet. Insider jobs are a threat, but not yet. Right now, most of the crime is organized out of European countries and the most they use outsiders for is as a mule. The list they gave along with social engineering is actually quite acurate. CardSystems, an ISO with some 119k merchants was compromised last year due to a SQL injection attack and the storing of track 2 data of failed transactions on their processing hosts in plain text. Part of PCI compliancy is to only store that data in a strongly encrypted form (They give examples) and it's common practice to only store it during standin (When the upstream processor is down) and after standin until all the transactions run through successfully. They really f*ed up! The debit card fraud that happened earlier this year is still under investigation, but rumors have it that the POS system that Sams Club and/or OfficeMax use to send all the transactions to their processor was compromised. Of course, we won't know the story until the feds either give up or find the criminals.
Exactly. Sending a bunch of email to one person is known as "email bombing". Another trick along the same lines is to sign someone up to thousands of mailing lists. Of course that was mostly popular before verification was routinely done. Once you're on a few thousand mailing lists, your email address is pretty much f*ed.
Man that brings back memories. Back before the Internet was criminalized. It was just a bunch of smart kids going through a phase that was pretty much the equivalent of wreaking havoc with a bb gun.
You're 14, huh? I'm assuming your parents let you get this game? When you grow up and become a parent yourself, you'll find that it's not so easy to maintain a decent relationship with your son when he's the ONLY kid in his school with parents that restrict what he can be entertained by. That relationship is the most important thing because without it, your child won't listen and may even do things damaging to themselves out of spite.
That big M on the box is a liability safetynet and a way for politicians to win some votes. Even though the rating accomplishes little more than classification, responsible parents see it as some sort of action and pressure on the entertainment industry instead of none.
It's true that parents have responsibility for their children, but if you think about how much time children spend in society, outside of their parents watch, it's obvious that society has an even greater responsibility.
Nice quote. I just watched that movie for the first time last night. :)
Probably not at all. Slashdot/OSDN has some of the most anti-ad customers. I consider some of their ads to be one step more elegant than "Punch the monkey", which isn't saying much. You didn't see them back out with their tail between their leg, did you?
Many of the unpatched vulnerabilities aren't too serious as they are minor components that could be used in phishing attacks. That's not to say they shouldn't be fixed, but they're a far cry from execution of arbitrary code. Don't forget about the unfound or unreported vulnerabilities out there. Firefox is a relative newcomer to security and blackhat researchers. Fresh meat so to speak. If I were a company or government, I'd avoid it like the plague. However, as a consumer with zero hack factor, this consideration is mostly moot.
Rainbow tables are way overhyped. First off, good luck capturing an NTLM hash. Being the man in the middle isn't practical on modern, switched networks. If you did get an NTLM hash and the password policy is like most companies, it'll have upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols. The password space for an eight character password of this type is 6.8 quadrillion, requiring a database 17.4 Petabytes in size (For NTLM hashes). In Wikipedia's entry of petabyte, the largest store mentioned is a 6PB robotic tape store. In other words, good luck with rainbow tables unless you're a governement trying to crack 8 character passwords and want to build something 3x larger than the current known storage facility. If you're dealing with an environment using passphrases averaging 12 characters...well, you do the math.
n00b.
I was working for Microsoft doing NT Server networking support. I was on the phone with a customer when my grandmother IMed me about the first plane. I'd be willing to bet that she was faster than your network monitoring . In all seriousness though, I had an open case with someone who died. I left it open for a month, knowing that he worked at the WTC. I would call and leave messages that I hoped he'd return. Eventually, I spotted his name on the victim list. He was a really nice guy. Not one of the ones I'd put on punishment hold. :(
With that much storage, you could store a peta file!
-Lucas
I guess you didn't read the article. The capitalization started with the buns in Europe and most advancements were made there as well.
If they're not my sisters, I could have fun in that situation for about two weeks.
I do see your point that we shouldn't be a father to the rest of the world. In fact, I agree. However, a father figure so to speak is needed these days. No matter what boundaries we draw, the world is getting smaller each and every day. The way we separated countries for thousands of years isn't working and fails at bigger levels as the world gets smaller. Simply drawing borders isn't going to prevent the issues of sovereign nations from bleeding over to the rest of the world. I would honestly prefer the UN to be restructured and become more effective. We need it to take the father figure role and hopefully, some day it will. Until then, would we really prefer to have nobody "steering the ship"? Should we all just shut our eyes and tell ourselves that we can all live on our own little islands and ignore what is going on in the rest of the world? Isn't that how World Wars get so large in scope?
I see the worst case scenario that has a likelihood of occurring for Iraq being that it gets divided into two countries and they constantly wage war against each other. There would be the occasional radical going off and bombing a European or American target in an act of retribution for what "Westerners have done". As I said before, what Bush did was desperate. There was a lot of risk in what he did and we would be ignorant to think that he didn't know the risks. I'd guess he had mathematicians, foreign affairs experts and several other advisers trying to predict outcomes of various actions both short term and long term. Before the war, I saw the biggest risk being the consequences that would come. We all knew that many people in the world would see the situation as America the Bully pushing around other countries. What would all the consequences of that mentality be, I thought. That's the risk Bush knowingly took when he invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam, thereby attempting to speed up their civilization's growth. I'm sure it's even more complicated than I see it.
Regardless of what I think, I can understand and even sympathize with the opposing opinions. I'm either seeing the truth and it's pretty damn scary or I'm totally wrong. I actually hope I'm wrong and globalization isn't a big issue. I hope that there isn't so much growth the world will have to endure regarding the way countries interact. It would be so much easier and all the growing pains wouldn't be necessary.
Why is it that I rarely read comments like the parent post from outside the US and people convinced we're in a holy war? Note the parent poster is from Wisconsin. I've basically come to the conclusion that it's not even about hating America. It's about cynical people looking for authority figures to blame so they can point a finger as if everything is black and white or good and evil. There are plenty of Canadians that talk trash about their own government. Same goes for Australia, the UK, France, Germany, and just about any other country that doesn't brainwash their population into thinking the rest of the world is out to get them. I'd be willing to bet that the same people blamed their teachers for any stumbles in their education. They go to work, blaming their boss for their own lack of progress. As the only remaining superpower though, not only do America's cynics blame the government for everything that happens in our country, but also for things that happen to the rest of the world.
Let me repeat what I said and expand. We are the only remaining superpower. We have a huge responsibility to set an example for the rest of the world and to help mature all of our societies. We have to try and steer the whole damn world into globalism at a pace that isn't threatening and is respectful to all of our cultures. We don't have a choice because it's happening organically. When there's a culture that believes westerners are the devil, peaceful integration is very difficult to accomplish. We can't just exclude certain parts of the world and expect them to live in their own "Islands". Bush is trying to rush the integration of Islamic nations with Western nations. He had a very difficult decision to make. He could either let things continue to happen organically and knowingly face more 9/11 incidents or he could make a desperate attempt to speed up the integration. I definitely wouldn't have wanted to be in his shoes because it isn't an easy decision to make. It's not as simple as many make it out to be.
I'd like to expand on Iraq in particular because it seems to bring out the most cynical of viewpoints. There are so many people blaming us for the current state of Iraq. I can understand blaming us for Iraq no longer being under Saddam's control and therefore introducing freedoms that the people never had. Nobody seems to want to put any responsibility on the Iraqis themselves. They have many more freedoms that they never had before. Unfortunately, some of them decided to go to war against each other due to different religious beliefs and an established bloody history. If we Americans all started putting roadside bombs in each others neighborhoods, is it really right to blame the government? No, it isn't. The governments we have are made of people like you and me and there's only so much they can do to assist us in getting along. The rest is up to us as the people. We have our own responsibilities in society to make it work. Paying taxes isn't where our responsibility ends. In Iraq, we dropped a huge bomb of democracy and now we can only help as the Iraqis themselves use it as a tool to build something that works for them. Hopefully, it will grow into a society that doesn't see westerners as evil by membership and a strong relationship will form. It's not up to us though. Ultimately, it's up to them. Of course, you could always oversimplify things and in the end make statements like "Iraqis all hate us because we bombed their homes and schools". Whatever helps you reach a simple conclusion I guess.
Spoken like a true adolescent/young adult trying to find a balance between the geek within and the perceived need to gain the acceptance of those he believes to be his peers. Poor guy.
They didn't discontinue support. They changed it so that a paid account is required to use it. It's weird though because it didn't happen to everyone at once. It took up until about a month ago for it to happen to me. I paid the yearly fee because it's worth it to be able to move messages into a pst file. My account is now 10 or 11 years old. It was the first email address I ever had and I still get emails on it from people I haven't heard from in ages.
The 20th Anniversary macintosh was awesome with the exceptiont hat they with with a 603 CPU instead of the then popular 604e. The design was sleek, upgrades were easy and the Bose sound system was amazing. I was working at an Apple retailer and the three owners each got one after I demod it to them.
I agree. I'm calling shenanigans on this. Also shenanigans on the comment that snmp requires help and that help requires IE. Worst case scenario is that everything insalls just fine, but help files don't open.
Okay, so if clients are left out, then that leaves Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003. If it's off by default in 2003, that leaves 2000. If it's off by default in 2000 Server, that leaves nothing. What kind of statement was that?
To set the record straight, server versions of Windows 2000 were the only versions of Windows to install IIS with the SMTP subcomponent by default and it is set to automatic. Kinda retarded, but whatever.
-Lucas